Posted on 03/02/2008 4:26:56 PM PST by forkinsocket
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - About 1,000 Afghans, incensed by the republication of a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers, marched on Sunday demanding withdrawal of Danish and Dutch troops.
The protesters, mostly religious clerics in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, also condemned plans by a right-wing Dutch politician to broadcast a film on the Koran.
Afghanistan's Religious Affairs Ministry has called the reprinting of the cartoon as an attack against Islam. Several other Islamic countries have demanded that the film by the Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders must not be released.
The cartoons were first printed in a Danish paper in 2005. They gained little initial attention but were later reprinted outside Denmark, sparking protests across the Muslim world in which dozens of people, some in Afghanistan, were killed.
Danish newspapers reprinted one of the images again last month in protest at what they said was a plot to murder the cartoonist who drew it. At least two Dutch papers published pictures of the Danish newspapers, with the cartoon visible.
"We demand the ... withdrawal of Danish and Dutch soldiers from Afghanistan," said Mawlavi Shoaib, a religious figure and one of the organizers.
"Down with Denmark and Netherlands. We will not let anyone insult the Prophet and the Koran. We urge the Muslim community to voice their concerns," the protesters chanted.
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Why do Muslims read Danish cartoons? It seems as though they are continously protesting Danish cartoons....I don’t get it...if it’s so offensive don’t read it. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of women who are yet to be stoned or suicide bombers to be trained instead of these silly protests.
It is the sign of a very weak and insecure movement that waxes indignant at any criticism of its founder. But, that’s islam in a nutshell, isn’t it?
Because cartoons and jokes are muuuuuch funnier in Danish. :-)
En præst en rabbiner og en minister indmelder en bar. Bartenderen siger, "Hvad der er dette? En vittighed?"
wouldn’t it be nice to see a thorough review of ARAB political cartoons reprinted here?
The US population certainly is having its views on this topic managed by the media’s intentional refusal to address this in any balanced fashion.
Seems like all “they” do is demand. And all the weenies just give in to them. WTF has come over the western world? Did we lose all the good genes in WW II? Here is an interesting statement from a Brit.
http://www.dotsub.com:80/films/moredemands/index.php?autostart=true&language_setting=en_1618
NOBODY should listen to ANYTHING these sub-retarded vermin say.
Every single one of these dirt eating protestors should be forced to live in a cave and use only stone tool technology... permanently. That’s where they belong.
“Nothing a little napalm couldn’t cure.”
“Napalm sticks to Ji-hadis, doo-dah, doo-dah...”
Afghanistan amazes me. Their people are suffering in poverty, women are treated worse than animals, terrorists run all over the place blowing each other up, corruption abounds, etc. etc. — Yet the government and people only focus on ridiculous petty things like Danish cartoons and movies, reporting news in Dari or Pashtu, journalists downloading things from the internet, etc.
Rome burns while Caesar fiddles.
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