Banned Terror Outfit Jaish Openly Threatens French President Macron, Calls Him "Blasphemer"

The UN-designated terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed has warned the French President Emmanuel Macron and "others like him" that they will be targeted by those ready to be "sacrificed for the honour of the Prophet".

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Calling Emmanuel Macron a "blasphemer", the terror group openly threatened the leader in an article published on the website of its online journal Al Qalam. The Jaish also threatened him for his support for the publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad by the Charlie Hebdo magazine. Raking up radical Islamist attacks in the past, the terror group warned the French leader against his recent crackdown on 'Islamist Separatism'.

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In an article which was unsigned, the Jaish said "if not today then tomorrow, if not tomorrow then day after¡± there will be "some Abdullah Checheni (the Chechen youth who killed a teacher in Paris last month), Mumtaz Qadri (who killed Pakistani politician Salman Taseer in 2011), and Ghazi Khalid (who shot dead Tahir Ahmed Naseem, an Ahmedi, in a Pakistan courtroom where Naseem was being tried for alleged blasphemy in July this year)."

The article was headlined 'Muslims: Sacrifice for the Honour of the Prophet'. It further stated, "if someone commits the sin of blasphemy, it gives birth to the Abdullah type of young men¡­ no Muslim will allow you to burn the Koran or blaspheme against the Prophet."

France's crackdown on extremism

This comes as Macron vowed on November 5 to shore up border control measures and crackdown on illegal immigration as part of the country's overall strategy to combat the ascending "terrorist threat." Earlier, Macron pledged to fight ¡°Islamist separatism¡±, which he said was threatening to take control in some Muslim communities around France. Following which, the Muslim world called for boycott of French goods across the world.

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Macron¡¯s staunch support of secular laws that the "Prophet Muhammad caricatures are protected under freedom of speech" had triggered many protests and also heightened tensions between the French government and the Muslim community. Protesters in countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Turkey and Gaza not only burned his effigies but also branded him a ¡®Satan-worshipper¡¯.

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France's outrage was triggered by a series of attacks in Nice and Paris, what French President said were "Islamist terrorist attack", which killed many civilians.

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JeM banned, but site still up

Even though JeM has been listed as a proscribed organisation by Pakistan¡¯s National Counter Terrorism Authority and the Deobandi JeM and its leader Masood Azhar are designated terrorist entities under the UN Security Council¡¯s Resolution 1267, its website Al Qalam continues to be available.

The date on the main page of the website is May 2019, but the articles in it are being updated regularly on a page called Madina Madina.