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Denmark's PM has described the row over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad as a "global crisis", as he called for Muslims to refrain from violence.

In Afghanistan at least three demonstrators died as they tried to storm a Norwegian-led base.

Protests have also spread in Africa.

Lawmakers in mainly-Muslim Kano, in northern Nigeria, burnt Danish flags.

Tens of thousands of Muslims protested peacefully in Niamey, the capital of Niger, waving placards reading "Down with Denmark and her allies".

In other tension:

* About 5,000 people take to the streets in Peshawar in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province

* Several hundred Muslims protest in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir

* Hundreds of Muslims gather in Cotabato, in the southern Philippines, demanding Denmark punish the newspaper that initially published the cartoons

* Norway demands compensation from Syria after its embassy in Damascus is set on fire on Saturday

* In Indonesia, protesters target the Danish and US consulates in Surabaya, the country's second-largest city. Protests are also held in the capital, Jakarta

The anti-Danish movement managed to build up across Muslim countries at such an impressive speed: grassroots collective action and decisive political moves led by various governments -- with Libya and Saudi Arabia on the helm -- quickly turned into determined diplomatic efforts. Arab League missions in Denmark and across Europe united in one of the most coordinated campaigns organized by Arabs since the 1973 War, heaping even more pressure on both Denmark and Norway. Meanwhile, a serious economic boycott campaign is rapidly translating into empty shelves in grocery stores that once offered Danish products across Saudi Arabia and other countries.

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While one must commend such a unified Arab and Muslim stance -- hoping that it would remain confined to legitimate forms of protest -- one cannot help but wonder where was such collectiveness when it was needed the most?... if Arabs can be so efficient in organizing such popular (and effective) campaigns that utilize economic, political and diplomatic leverage to extract concessions, then why the utter failure to carry out such campaigns protesting against the US war on Iraq, its unconditional support of Israel and its condescending foreign policy and grand democracy charades it wishes to impose on everyone?

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

phantasmagoria wrote:http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18066746-1702,00.html?from=rss

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Giraffe }{unter wrote:Anyone have the cartoon that started it all, My wife is interrested in seeing what this is all aboot

pissinacan wrote:lol, none of those are even funny. useless crappy danes. cheese and women is all those fucks are good for

S@M wrote:if u do, post em up

seremtan wrote:lol, none of those are even funny. useless crappy danes. cheese and women is all those fucks are good for

phantasmagoria wrote:http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,18066746-1702,00.html?from=rss

IRAN'S largest selling newspaper announced today it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

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