Hundreds demonstrated in Pakistan on Thursday, chanting "Death to Denmark" and burning Danish and French flags.
Palestinian gunmen briefly surrounded EU offices in Gaza to demand an apology over the cartoons.
Norway has closed its mission in the West Bank to the public in response to threats from two militant groups against Norwegians, French and Danes.
Hundreds of students demonstrated in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Multan, burning flags and effigies of the Danish prime minister.
The offices of Jyllands-Posten had to be evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.
In Beirut, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbollah said the dispute would never had occurred if a 17-year-old death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie been carried out. “Had a Muslim carried out Imam Khomeini’s fatwa against the apostate Salman Rushdie, then those low-lifers would not have dared discredit the Prophet, not in Denmark, Norway or France,” Hizbollah head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday night.
Must be a bummer for Danish exports of bacon and beer.
Palestinian gunmen briefly surrounded EU offices in Gaza to demand an apology over the cartoons.
Norway has closed its mission in the West Bank to the public in response to threats from two militant groups against Norwegians, French and Danes.
Hundreds of students demonstrated in the Pakistani cities of Lahore and Multan, burning flags and effigies of the Danish prime minister.
The offices of Jyllands-Posten had to be evacuated on Tuesday because of a bomb threat.
In Beirut, the leader of Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbollah said the dispute would never had occurred if a 17-year-old death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie been carried out. “Had a Muslim carried out Imam Khomeini’s fatwa against the apostate Salman Rushdie, then those low-lifers would not have dared discredit the Prophet, not in Denmark, Norway or France,” Hizbollah head Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Wednesday night.
Must be a bummer for Danish exports of bacon and beer.
Comment