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Afghans Protest Cartoons, Film

Posted Mar 22, 08 7:16 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Thousands of Afghan protesters burned Dutch and Danish flags yesterday in a protest against a Danish cartoon and a Dutch film said to insult Islam. They called for the Dutch and Danish embassies to be closed and for their troops serving with NATO in the country to be expelled, Reuters reports. The 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb in his turban was recently reprinted in Dutch newspapers after the cartoonist received death threats.

The film by Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders has not been screened, but Wilders days it criticizes the Koran for inciting violence. Riot police were stationed outside the Danish embassy and at intersections throughout Kabul as the demonstration grew after Friday prayers. Clerics chanted, "Death to Denmark. Death to the Netherlands. Death to America. Death to Jews."

Sources Reuters, AFP

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Afghan demonstrators gather around a mosque during a rally against the reproduction of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Koran.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghan demonstrators burn a Dutch flag during a protest against the reproduction of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Koran.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghan demonstrators struggle to get the Dutch flag during a protest against the reproduction of cartoons depicting Mohammad in Danish newspapers and an upcoming Dutch film criticizing the Koran.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghans demonstrators hold Danish and Dutch flags before setting them on fire.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan demonstrator holds an effigy of a Dutch politician during the demonstration.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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