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Vol.1 Issue 26, December 2020 ELITE

where did the boycot of french

goods reach?

Rahma Khaled Abdul Nabi Souad Atta Muhammad
Muhammad Ibrahim
3rd level, economics 3rd level;, economics

Recently, social networking sites witnessed the news of a On October 16, 2020, the French police announced that they
boycott of French products by Arab countries due to French had killed a young man who had cut off the neck of his
President Macron's abuse of the Messenger of Islam, teacher because of his showing his pupils offensive drawings
Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, and of the Prophet of Islam in a lesson on freedom of expression,
that boycott was in response to the re-publication of French and Macron indicated that this student ’ s behavior was a
newspapers of cartoons offensive to the Prophet of Islam on terrorist act and did not take into account the religion of
the front of French hotels in the cities of Toulouse And Muhammad and did not respect the Islamic religion. There
Montpellier, in addition to the French President ’ s pledge not are some Arab countries that have taken a stand against that
to abandon the cartoons, during a memorial service for abuse, headed by Turkey.
teacher Samuel Bate, who was killed by a Muslim student on
October 16, 2020, after this teacher showed him cartoons Rajap Erdogan - President of Turkey - attacked the President
offensive to the Messenger in a lesson on freedom of of France, describing him as needing psychological
expression. Then there was an uprising by the pioneers of treatment, and Kuwait also had a role in that boycott, where
social networking sites in most Islamic and Arab countries, the Consumer Cooperative Association in Kuwait boycotted
and hashtags demanding Muslims to boycott French French products, as well as Al-Wajbah Dairy Company in
products varied. Qatar announced its boycott of French products, and a pledge
to provide other similar and alternative products. The
Many tweets demanded the revenge of Islam and Muslims reactions were not limited to Turkey, Qatar and Kuwait only,
by boycotting French products, so it issued a hashtag (# as the Islamic Action Front in Jordan called for a boycott of
boycott_products_french) Twitter has garnered more than French products, in addition to calling many merchants in
190,000 tweets, according to the BBC. The tweeters also Algeria to boycott French products, and a number of shops in
published a list of French products available in the Arab Amman called for the necessity to boycott French products.
market and demanded to boycott it, and social and economic Likewise, Egypt, where the sale of France's products was
globalization had a prominent role in this boycott, as prohibited in three commercial chains in different
globalization enabled individuals to be more aware of what governorates. Speaking of the volume of France ’s products
is happening in other countries, so that boycott has already exports within Arab countries, we find that the volume of
spread massively through social networking sites. . France ’ s exports in 7 Arab countries last year reached about
$ 29 billion, the most prominent of which was Morocco and
Algeria.
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