Calls to boycott French goods are growing in the Arab world and beyond, after President Emmanuel Macron criticised Islamists and vowed not to "give up cartoons" depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
Mr Macron's comments, on Wednesday, came in response to the beheading of a teacher, Samuel Paty, outside his school in a suburb outside Paris earlier this month.
Mr Paty had shown cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a class he was leading on free speech.
The teacher became the target of an online hate campaign over his choice of lesson material.
There were the same images that unleashed a bloody assault by Islamist gunmen on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the original publisher, in January 2015.
Caricatures of Muhammad are forbidden by Islam.
Yesterday, Jordan's foreign ministry said it condemned the "continued publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad under the pretext of freedom of expression" and any "discriminatory and misleading attempts that seek to link Islam with terrorism".
It did not directly criticise Mr Macron, although the French president had on Wednesday also contended that Mr Paty was "killed because Islamists want our future".
But Jordan's opposition Islamic Action Front party called on the French president to apologise for his comments and urged citizens in the kingdom to boycott French goods.
Such boycotts are already under way in Kuwait and Qatar.
Dozens of Kuwaiti stores are boycotting French products, with images on social media showing workers removing French Kiri and Babybel processed cheese from shelves.
In Doha, workers stripped shelves of French-made St Dalfour jams and Saf-Instant yeast in a branch of the Al Meera supermarket chain.
Al Meera competes with French supermarket chains Monoprix and Carrefour for market share in the lucrative Qatari grocery sector.
Al Meera and another grocery operator, Souq Al Baladi, released statements late on Friday saying they would pull French products from stores until further notice.
They stopped short of explicitly naming Mr Macron or citing his comments, but the Al Meera statement said customer "comments guided our actions".
Neither operator responded to AFP requests for comment.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday slammed Mr Macron over his policies toward Muslims, saying that the French president needed "mental checks".
"What can one say about a head of state who treats millions of members from different faith groups this way: first of all, have mental checks," Mr Erdogan said in a televised address.
France said it was recalling its envoy to Turkey for consultations after the comments.
Before Mr Macron's comments on Wednesday, he had already sparked a backlash in early October when he said "Islam is a religion that is in crisis all over the world".
