Niamey (AFP) – Thousands of people demonstrated across the Muslim world after Friday prayers against the publication by Charlie Hebdo a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed, enamel protest violence in Niger and Pakistan.
Four people died and 45 were injured Friday in Zinder, Niger’s second city, in the protests against caricatures of Mohammed in a recent issue of Charlie Hebdo, published by colleagues of the victims a jihadist attack on 7 January in Paris.
Still Zinder, the French Cultural Centre was set on fire and three churches ransacked by protesters.
In Karachi (southern Pakistan ), the event turned into a confrontation with the police when the protesters tried to approach the consulate of France and a Pakistani photographer of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) was seriously injured.
Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, East Jerusalem ..: protests against the cartoons affected several Muslim countries, five days after the “republican march” which attracted more than a million people and about fifty heads State or Government in Paris under the slogan “I’m Charlie.”
Nouakchott and Dakar, a French flag was even burned. Speaking to the crowd of several thousand people, the head of the Mauritanian state Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has condemned both the “terrorism” and “vile caricatures.”
In Dakar, a thousand people chanted slogans in praise of the Prophet Muhammad and against Charlie Hebdo.
In Mali, several thousand people have denounced an “insult to Islam”, while the Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita aka IBK, expressed Sunday in Paris with François Hollande.
“IBK is Charlie, I’m not Charlie,” “Islam victim of international terrorism”, “The prophet is not be caricatured, “were the slogans chanted the crowd.
” France helped, that’s true. But she has no right to despise my religion, “said Almahoud Touré, 36, referring to the military involvement of France in Mali since January 2013 to expel jihadist groups linked to Al Qaeda
-. ‘I’m Kouachi’ –
In Algiers, 2,000 to 3,000 protesters gathered, according to an AFP journalist. Diverting the slogan “I’m Charlie,” some chanted “We are all Muhammad” or “I am Kouachi”, named Kouachi brothers jihadists who attacked the French satirical magazine.
Clashes erupted when the protesters tried to force a line of police armed with batons that protected the seat of the National Assembly. Several arrests took place.
Kouachi brothers killed by French police two days after killing twelve people at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, were also honored in Istanbul. A hundred people gathered outside the mosque in the Fatih district, in front of a banner flying their portrait and that of the leader of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
In Amman, 2,500 demonstrators marched under high monitoring and calm, sporting banners on which one could read such “interference with the great Prophet succession of global terrorism.”
In the “one” out of the number after the shooting that killed his writing, Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday released a drawing of Muhammad tear to the eye and holding a sign “I’m Charlie.”
King Abdullah II of Jordan, who had participated in the march Sunday in Paris , on Thursday called Charlie Hebdo “irresponsible and unconscious.”
The sensitive site of the Esplanade of Mosques in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the holy city annexed by Israel, was the held a demonstration of several hundred Palestinians. “French cowards,” chanted protesters
-. ‘No excuse for killing’ –
In Tunis, the faithful left the al-Fath mosque to mean disagreement with an imam, a former minister of religious affairs. “We are against any attack on our Prophet but this is not an excuse to kill people,” he preached, what they retorted that journalists Charlie Hebdo “deserved to be killed.”
In Khartoum, hundreds of faithful have expressed briefly after prayers, demanding an apology from the French government.
The World Union of Ulema, headquartered in Qatar and is led by preacher Youssef al-Qaradawi, considered the eminence grise of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for “peaceful demonstrations” and criticized the “shameful silence” of the international community on this “insult to religion”.
The authorities of that country, who had strongly denounced the attack against Charlie Hebdo, has “condemned the republication of offensive cartoons”, noting that it fed “hatred and anger.”
In Iran a protest planned for Saturday by Islamist students was canceled without official explanation.
According to Fars news agency, the organizers announced, however, that the gathering would be held Monday at the Embassy of France in Tehran, subject to obtaining regulatory approval.
In Syria, thousands of people took to the streets in areas controlled by the rebels and jihadists asking that stop “offending the religious sentiment,” said a Syrian NGOs.
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