Reply #242: CBS -Muslim Outrage At Cartoon Spreads

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/04/world/printable1281404.shtml


Muslim Outrage At Cartoon Spreads

DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 4, 2006(AP) Rage against caricatures of Islam's revered prophet poured out across the Muslim world Saturday, with aggrieved believers calling for executions, storming European buildings and setting European flags afire.

Faced by the spreading violence and international concern, top religious officials in Syria urged calm.

In Gaza, Palestinians marched through the streets, storming European buildings and burning German and Danish flags. Protesters smashed the windows of the German cultural center and threw stones at the European Commission building, police said.

Iraqis rallying by the hundreds demanded an apology from the European Union, and the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas called the cartoons "an unforgivable insult" that merited punishment by death.

Pakistan summoned the envoys of nine Western countries in protest, and even Europeans took to the streets in Denmark and Britain to voice their anger. .........