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Protests are spreading across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
One of the cartoons shows the Prophet wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb. In another he says paradise is running short of virgins for suicide bombers. Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet or Allah.
Protests are spreading across the Muslim world over the publication in Europe of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.
One of the cartoons shows the Prophet wearing a headdress shaped like a bomb. In another he says paradise is running short of virgins for suicide bombers. Islamic tradition bans depictions of the Prophet or Allah.
Mass Muslim protests have continued across the world in response to the publication of cartoons in some European newspapers caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, criticised the papers for being "disrespectful" to Islam and praised UK newspapers for their restraint in not publishing the images.
He said freedom of speech did not mean an "open season" on religious taboos.
As he spoke, dozens of Muslims protested in central London.
There has been fierce debate as to whether the cartoons are an insult to Islam or an exercise in free speech.
One of the cartoons shows the Prophet Mohammed wearing what looks like a bomb as a head-dress, while another shows him saying paradise is running out of virgins.
They were defiantly reproduced by many newspapers in Europe including France, Italy and Spain, although not the UK.
In Indonesia, hundreds of people stormed the Danish embassy in Jakarta shouting "Allahu Akbar" - God is Greatest.
They smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs to show their fury at the cartoons first published by a Danish daily newspaper.
Demonstrations in Jakarta In Gaza, gunmen held hostage and later released a German man.
Protests erupted in the Middle East after Friday prayers. "We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible," one preacher told worshippers at the al-Omari Mosque in the Gaza Strip.
Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution condemning the cartoons as "blasphemous and derogatory".
The editor of a Norwegian magazine which reprinted the Danish cartoons said he had received 25 death threats.
A Jordanian editor was sacked for reprinting them, despite saying his purpose had been only to show the extent of the Danish insult to Islam, while in Iraq Christians said they feared a new wave of attacks by Muslims.
Gunmen surrounded a French cultural centre in Gaza to demand an apology - Hamas gunmen carried out similar actions around the EU office on Thursday.
Muslims have also boycotted Danish goods such as Lurpak butter and there have been bomb threats against Danish facilities in Arab countries.
The BBC, along with ITV and Channel 4 News, ran images of the cartoons in its output, prompting demonstrations outside its London HQ.
Islamic tradition bars any depiction of Mohammed.
Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, criticised the papers for being "disrespectful" to Islam and praised UK newspapers for their restraint in not publishing the images.
He said freedom of speech did not mean an "open season" on religious taboos.
As he spoke, dozens of Muslims protested in central London.
There has been fierce debate as to whether the cartoons are an insult to Islam or an exercise in free speech.
One of the cartoons shows the Prophet Mohammed wearing what looks like a bomb as a head-dress, while another shows him saying paradise is running out of virgins.
They were defiantly reproduced by many newspapers in Europe including France, Italy and Spain, although not the UK.
In Indonesia, hundreds of people stormed the Danish embassy in Jakarta shouting "Allahu Akbar" - God is Greatest.
They smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs to show their fury at the cartoons first published by a Danish daily newspaper.
Demonstrations in Jakarta In Gaza, gunmen held hostage and later released a German man.
Protests erupted in the Middle East after Friday prayers. "We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible," one preacher told worshippers at the al-Omari Mosque in the Gaza Strip.
Pakistan's parliament passed a resolution condemning the cartoons as "blasphemous and derogatory".
The editor of a Norwegian magazine which reprinted the Danish cartoons said he had received 25 death threats.
A Jordanian editor was sacked for reprinting them, despite saying his purpose had been only to show the extent of the Danish insult to Islam, while in Iraq Christians said they feared a new wave of attacks by Muslims.
Gunmen surrounded a French cultural centre in Gaza to demand an apology - Hamas gunmen carried out similar actions around the EU office on Thursday.
Muslims have also boycotted Danish goods such as Lurpak butter and there have been bomb threats against Danish facilities in Arab countries.
The BBC, along with ITV and Channel 4 News, ran images of the cartoons in its output, prompting demonstrations outside its London HQ.
Islamic tradition bars any depiction of Mohammed.
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