Four people were killed and 45 injured Friday in Zinder, Niger, in demonstrations against a new issue of Charlie Hebdo : a new caricature of Mohammed. Among the dead three civilians. The French Cultural Centre in Zinder was also burned, and three churches ransacked by protesters.
Thousands of protesters throughout the Arab world
Thousands demonstrated Friday prayer day throughout the Arab world.
Rallies also marked by violence in Pakistan, where thousands of worshipers marched in major cities of Pakistan, where Parliament has unanimously condemned the publication of “blasphemous caricatures”. In Karachi, the event turned into a confrontation with the police when the protesters tried to approach the French consulate.
In Mauritania, several thousand people marched in Nouakchott, burning a French flag witnesses said. Addressing the crowd, the Head of State, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, condemned both the “terrorism” and “vile caricatures.” A French flag was also burnt in Dakar, where a thousand people protested. While many governments in Muslim countries have condemned the attack against Charlie Hebdo 7 January, protesters and praised its authors.
“I Kouachi”
In Algiers 2000 3 000 protesters gathered. Diverting the slogan “I’m Charlie” used by the defenders of freedom of expression, some chanting “We are all Muhammad” or “I am Kouachi”, named Kouachi brothers jihadists who attacked the satirical newspaper French. 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 12 people at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, were also honored in Istanbul. A hundred people gathered outside the mosque in the district of Fatih very religious in front of a banner flying their portrait and that of the leader of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
In Amman, 2500 protesters marched under surveillance and calm, sporting banners which could include reading “The great prophet affect the responsibility of global terrorism”
Prophet
<. p> In the “one” out of the number after the shooting that killed his writing, Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday released a drawing of Mohammed with a tear in the eye and holding a sign “I’m Charlie,” the slogan millions of protesters who marched in France and abroad to condemn jihadist attacks that killed 17 victims in three days in Paris.
King Abdullah II of Jordan, who had participated in the march Sunday of Paris, Charlie Hebdo Thursday described as “irresponsible and unconscious.”
The sensitive site of the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, the Palestinian part of the holy city annexed by Israel, was the site of a demonstration of several hundred Palestinians.
“Islam is a religion of peace” and “Mohammed will always be our guide,” could be read on banners. “French cowards,” chanted the protesters.
“No excuse for killing”
In Tunis, the faithful left the al-Fath mosque to show their 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, based in Qatar, led by the 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”.
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 of the areas controlled by the rebels and jihadists asking that stops the ” ‘insulting religious sentiment, “said a Syrian NGO
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