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Four dead in Niger as Charlie Hebdo cartoon sparks protests
Depiction of prophet Muhammad in French magazine also leads to violent reaction in Pakistan, Jordan and Algeria
The decision by Charlie Hebdo to publish a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad this week prompted angry protests in several Muslim countries on Friday leading to violence and in one case deaths.
Four people were reported killed and dozens injured at a demonstration in the West African country of Niger, and violent clashes broke out between demonstrators and police in Pakistan, Jordan and Algeria.
In Niger, a former French colony, a protest turned violent as demonstrators set fire to churches and raided shops run by Christians. A French cultural centre was set ablaze in the southern town of Zinder, and one security officer and three demonstrators were killed in the melee, said interior minister Hassoumi Massaoudou. Another 20 security officers and 23 civilians were injured, he said.
A photographer was shot and others were injured during the protests by radical religious parties in Pakistan on Friday. The move by the French satirical magazine to feature the prophets image gave Pakistans religious right a chance to demonstrate its street power with a so-called Black Day of protests on exactly the same day civil-society activists were attempting to channel popular anger at the massacre of more than 130 school boys by the Taliban in December.
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Four dead in Niger as Charlie Hebdo cartoon sparks protests (Original Post)
Donald Ian Rankin
Jan 2015
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Augustus
(63 posts)1. Can anyone in the "but" brigade defend this?
Draw a cartoon ->Set fire to buildings.
Makes sense?
QC
(26,371 posts)5. Stop mocking their sincere beliefs!!!
I think that's the new talking point, since "I believe in free speech but" has run its course.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. All these deaths and terror, because of a cartoon!
It's all so tragic and stupid, imo.
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)3. Because of a religion, not because of a cartoon. N.T.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)4. It's still the cartoons, seen through the filter of a religion.
I cannot understand such insanity, regardless of the source.