French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Drian on Sunday visited
Egypt, hoping to ease tensions following the controversy regarding publishing cartoons
of prophet Mohammad and the following attacks in France, following which widespread
outrage engulfed the Arab world, AFP reported.

According to a diplomatic source, Le Drian would meet the Egyptian
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and the Grand Imam
of Egypt’s highest Muslim authority, Ahmed al-Tayeb.

The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Le
Drian “will pursue the appeasement process” initiated by President Emmanuel Macron.

Earlier in October, a teenager of Chechen origin attacked and
beheaded a history teacher in a suburb near Paris for allegedly showing the cartoons
to pupils during a lesson of freedom of expression.

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Following the incident, there have been widespread, and opposing
diametrically opposite around the world, including terror groups and momentarily, the former Malaysian Prime Minister, supporting the crime committed.

In October Tayeb denounced Macron’s remarks about “Islamist separatism”
as “racist” and “spreading hate speech”.

In several Muslim-majority nations, demonstrations and protests
have erupted after Macron defended the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet,
which many saw as a mockery of Islam.

An online campaign urging Muslims to boycott French products
started going viral at the same time.