Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seeking the removal of Islamophobic content on the social media platform. 

This came shortly after he accused French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron of ‘attacking Islam’ and ‘provoking Muslims’ in the European country.

In the letter shared by Khan on his Twitter handle, he said that “growing Islamophobia” is “encouraging hate, extremism and violence across the world and especially through the use of social media platforms, including Facebook.”

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He referred to the situation related to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in India, and Macron paying tribute to a French teacher beheaded by an Islamic radical. 

“Unfortunately, in some states, Muslims are being denied their citizenship rights,” Khan wrote, adding a reference to the CAA and NRC, which grants citizenship rights to immigrants of neighbouring states, except those of Muslim-majority countries.

He then referred to the situation in France, saying that the country had allowed “publication of blasphemous cartoons” related to Prophet Mohammed, and associated Islam with terrorism. He said that this will lead to further polarisation and marginalisation of Muslims in France.

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“I would ask you to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam for Facebook that you have put in place for the Holocaust,” he said.

Khan’s comments against Macron came after the French leader’s remarks against “Islamists”, following the beheading of a teacher in France who showed caricatures of Prophet Mohammed in his class.  

Macron said the teacher “was killed because Islamists want our future,” AFP reported.

Facebook has recently updated its hate policy banning content that justify or deny the Jewish Holocaust carried out by the Nazis.