Massive protest of Muslims against him, Macro speaks of the Prophet's cartoons

Macro's comments about Al Jazeera come amid increased tensions between the French government and the Muslim world about caricatures, which Muslims view as blasphemy.

“caricators are not a government project, but came out of free and independent newspapers that are not related to the government”, Macron said.

He was referring to the recent reprint of cartoons from “Charlie Hebdo” that marked the start of the trial for the 2015 attack, where 12 people were left dead.

Macron has defended the right to blasphemy “under free speech at the time of the re-publishment in September, weeks before it caused reaction from Muslim activists on October 2nd, when he claimed in a speech that Islam was “globally crisis” and announced his plan “to reform Islam” in order to make it more compatible with the republican values of his country.

I understand the feelings that are expressed and I respect them. But you have to understand my role now, which is to do two things: promote calm and also protect these rights”, Macron said in the interview.

There are people in the world today who distort Islam and in the name of this religion that they claim to be protecting, killing, slaughtering... today there are violence practiced by some extremist movements and individuals in the name of Islam”.

This is certainly a problem for Islam because Muslims are the first victims. More than 80 percent of the victims of terrorism are Muslims, and this is a problem for all of us at”.