CAIRO- 2 November 2020- In a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi affirmed that there should be a vivid differentiation between Islam and terrorist acts that are being committed in the name of the religion, said Presidential spokesperson Bassam Radi in a statement on Monday. “President stressed the necessity to completely differentiate between the Islamic religion, which calls for peace, tolerance and the renunciation of violence, and between terrorist actions committed by those who claim that they belong t Islam,” said President Sisi, adding “[Islam] has no relation with such acts in all forms. French President Emmanuel Macron had said France would not renounce cartoons after a French teacher was killed for showing pupils cartoons distorting the image of Prophet Muhammad. He said that “we [as Muslims] consider offending prophets and messengers is undermining high religious values that many people believe in. The German Chancellor expressed the European Union’s support to cooperate with Egypt’s ancient religious institutions as a beacon of moderate Islam in the world, Radi said.

Source: Egypt Today November 02, 2020 19:18 UTC