⁍ Kuwait’s retail co-ops have pulled French products in boycott over the use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a French school class.

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⁍ Several co-ops visited by Reuters on Sunday had cleared the shelves of items such as hair and beauty products made by French companies.

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⁍ The move was in response to ‘repeated insults’ against the Prophet and had been taken independently of Kuwait’s government.

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– In the wake of the beheading of a French teacher over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Kuwait is pulling French products from its retail co-ops. Fahd Al-Kishti, head of the non-governmental Union of Consumer Co-operative Societies, tells Reuters that all French products, including hair and beauty products, have been removed from more than 70 co-ops in response to “repeated insults” against the prophet. Kuwait’s foreign minister met with the French ambassador on Sunday and condemned the Oct. 16 murder but stressed the need to avoid insulting religion in official and political remarks that “inflame hatred, enmity, and racism,” per Reuters.