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Macron views the cartoon’s publication as proof of the right to free speech being protected in France.
Kadyrov is a close alliance of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kadyrov argued after France warned its citizens who live or travel in several Muslim-majority countries to be careful because of the dangers associated with the cartoon.
The problem has its roots in a knife attack outside a French school on October 16 where a man is from Chechnya beheading Samuel Paty, a teacher who shows cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his students in a lesson on free speech.
The caricature was first published by a satirical magazine whose office in Paris was attacked by gunmen who killed 12 people in 2015. The cartoon was deemed insulting the Prophet Muhammad and was criticized around the world.
Kadyrov is a former rebel who supported the Kremlin’s military campaign to crush an Islamic militant insurgency in Chechnya and Russian territory. (Read Also: Saudi Arabia Criticizes Cartoon Insulting Prophet Muhammad SAW)
He ignored the fact that attacker Paty was born in Chechnya. According to him, the perpetrators of the attack had grown up in France. (See Infographic: List of French Products Potentially Boycotted by the Muslim World)
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