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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Flag-burning, how original... yawn.
Another riot in defence of murder..yawn..
That's all they do..Murder and burn.
Sounds like a good time to be in the flag business.
"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.

Cretinism seems to be a widespread disease in Pakistan.
They ought to set themselves on fire..
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!
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