India has come out strongly in support of France which has risen
against radical Islamism following the beheading of a teacher by a Muslim
immigrant two weeks ago
India has come out
strongly in support of France
which has risen against radical Islamism following the beheading of a teacher
by a Muslim immigrant two weeks ago.
In an official statement on Wednesday, the government said that it
"strongly deplores the personal attacks in unacceptable language on
President Emmanuel Macron in violation of the most basic standards of
international discourse".
The Ministry of
External Affairs, also condemned "the brutal terrorist
attack that took the life of a French teacher in a gruesome manner that has
shocked the world".
The government
offered its condolences to his family and the people of France.
"There is no
justification for terrorism for any reason or under any circumstance," the
statement added.
Indians at home
and abroad have been expressing solidarity with France ever since the
middle-school teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by the 18-year-old Abdullakh
Anzorov inside a school near Paris on October 16.
President Macron
called it an act of Islamist terrorism after it emerged that the Muslim
immigrant had taken offence to Paty showing his students Charlie Hebdo cartoons
depicting the Prophet Muhammad, in a class on freedom of expression.
The teacher had
given Muslim students the option not to attend the class beforehand.
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