⁍ Tens of thousands of Muslims protested in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Palestinian territories.

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⁍ French Interior Minister Gerald Damarnin said France was engaged in a war against Islamist ideology.

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⁍ Police briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad.

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– French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to protect France’s ” values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief,” as thousands of protesters took to the streets around the world to condemn Thursday’s attack on a church in Nice. “We will not give any ground,” Macron said outside Notre Dame Basilica in the French Riviera city of Nice, per Reuters. “France has been attacked over our values, for our taste for freedom, for the ability on our soil to have freedom of belief.” Demonstrators in Bangladesh burned effigies of Macron and carried cutouts of the president with a garland of shoes around his neck, a severe insult according to Islam. In Pakistan, police briefly fired tear gas at protesters who broke through security blockades in Islamabad in a failed attempt to demonstrate at the French Embassy against the printing in France of images depicting the Prophet Mohammad. In Lebanon, security forces fired tear gas to drive back some 300 protesters including supporters of a local Sunni Islamist party who marched from a mosque in the capital Beirut to the official residence of the French ambassador. Thousands of Palestinian worshippers rallied after Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, in Jerusalem’s walled Old City to condemn the republication of Mohammad caricatures in France. “A nation whose leader is Mohammad will not be defeated,” protesters chanted. “We hold the French president responsible for acts of chaos and violence that are taking place in France because of his comments against Islam and against Muslims,” said a preacher at the al-Aqsa Mosque.