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Pakistanis burn German flag in prison death protest
REUTERS AlertNet ^ | 06 May 2006 | Reuters

Posted on 05/06/2006 1:00:02 PM PDT by wolf78

Pakistanis burn German flag in prison death protest

MULTAN, Pakistan, May 6 (Reuters) - Students from an Islamic seminary in central Pakistan protested on Saturday against the death of a Pakistani in a Berlin jail by burning German flags and vowing to continue his jihad or holy war.

Amir Cheema, 28, died in custody after he was arrested in Germany on March 20 on charges of attempting to kill the editor of a German newspaper, Die Welt, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first published in Denmark last year.

Around 300 students of Jamiat Taliba Arabia, one of many seminaries run by Jamaat-i-Islami, a conservative Islamist political party, blocked traffic in the centre of Multan city, burned German flags and denounced Germany, Denmark and the United States as "infidel states".

The students chanted: "They are enemies of Islam, infidels" and "Amir Cheema is hero of Islam". They also called for the cartoonists to be hanged or handed over for punishment.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: amercheema; cartoons; cheema; flag; german; germany; islam; islamism; islamist; jihad; jyllandsposten; mohammed; muhammad; pakistan
Who would've thought...?

Flag-burning, how original... yawn.

1 posted on 05/06/2006 1:00:05 PM PDT by wolf78
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To: wolf78
Amir Cheema, 28, died in custody after he was arrested in Germany on March 20 on charges of attempting to kill the editor of a German newspaper, Die Welt, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad first published in Denmark last year.

Another riot in defence of murder..yawn..

2 posted on 05/06/2006 1:39:55 PM PDT by cardinal4 (Kerry-Mcarthy in 2008!)
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To: wolf78

That's all they do..Murder and burn.


3 posted on 05/06/2006 1:51:56 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: wolf78

Sounds like a good time to be in the flag business.


4 posted on 05/06/2006 1:57:18 PM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: wolf78

"death of a Pakistani in a Berlin jail"

You won't find any large Muslim riots in Germany. The Muslims know there would be bodies in the streets.


5 posted on 05/06/2006 2:51:15 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: wolf78
Here is a photo of this "cultural climax" in the middle east:

Cretinism seems to be a widespread disease in Pakistan.

6 posted on 05/06/2006 7:07:07 PM PDT by Atlantic Bridge (De omnibus dubitandum.)
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They ought to set themselves on fire..


7 posted on 05/06/2006 11:30:05 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: P-40

Unfortunately, not. The problem is, these fellows burn self-painted flags. :-( I wished they´d buy US- (or in this case: German-)made flags. That would bring some money!


8 posted on 05/08/2006 12:13:15 PM PDT by Michael81Dus
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