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Muslims in South Asia, Malaysia Continue Anti-Cartoon Protests
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=10E97C0:3919ACA First major
Indian protest erupted on streets of New Delhi after Friday prayers
with Muslims chanting "Death to Denmark"





Muslims in Kuala Lumpur hold up banners, protesting against the
publication of cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper

Thousands of Muslims in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Malaysia and the Middle East have continued protests against
controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

The first major Indian protest erupted on the streets of New Delhi
after Friday prayers with Muslims chanting "Death to Denmark."
Protests also were held in Srinagar, Lucknow, Kanpur, Bhopal, Aligarh,
Ahmedabad and Hubli.

In Pakistan, thousands of people demonstrated in Islamabad, Karachi,
Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta.

Several thousand Muslims gathered outside Dhaka's main mosque, Baitul
Mukarram and burned makeshift coffins designated Denmark, Italy,
France and Norway.

In Afghanistan, the protesters gathered at several places in Kabul.

Similar protests also were staged in several Middle Eastern cities.



Police in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, say about 2,000 protesters marched
from a mosque to the nearby Danish embassy, chanting slogans against
Israel and the West.

The protest came as Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
told an international conference the Muslim world and the West must
stop demonizing each other and "accept one another as equals."




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