(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hundreds of demonstrators have poured into the streets in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province to protest against a US-made anti-Islam movie and a French magazine’s recent publication of cartoons insulting Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Shouting anti-US slogans, the angry protesters on Monday called on the government to sever diplomatic ties with the US and France in response to the blasphemous acts.
“Some 500 to 1000 people took to the streets in Keshm district of Badakhshan Province, chanting anti-US and anti-France slogans,” provincial spokesman Abdul Maroof Rasekh said.
Also on Sunday, Afghans blocked a main highway in Nangarhar Province to voice their outrage against the recent anti-Islam moves in the West.
The Muslim world has been boiling with anti-Western sentiments over the movie and the sacrilegious cartoons printed in the French weekly Charlie Hebdo.
Anti-blasphemy demonstrations have been held across the Muslim world and several non-Muslim countries, with protesters in some countries marching on the US embassies and torching US flags.
Protesters demand that Washington apologize to the Muslim world over the film, which was reportedly financed by more than 100 Zionist Jews. They also call for the punishment of the perpetrators of such insults.
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25 September 2012 - 06:57
News ID: 350762
Hundreds of demonstrators have poured into the streets in Afghanistan's northeastern Badakhshan Province to protest against a US-made anti-Islam movie and a French magazine’s recent publication of cartoons insulting Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
