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Pakistan extremists: no letup in cartoon protests
I've been saying for a week or more that the protests in Pakistan are aimed at bringing down Musharraf
The leader of Pakistan's main Islamic alliance has said there will no let up in protests against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad.

Qazi Hussain Ahmed, the leader of six-party MMA, made the comments after being released from house arrest. In a separate incident 23 people were arrested after two churches were burned down by a mob.

The cartoons, first published in Denmark in September, have angered Muslims across the world. Islamic tradition prohibits any depiction of Allah or the Prophet.
not so WRT Mohammed, BBC dhimmis (ptui be upon you)
Several people have died in protests, including five in Pakistan.

Qazi Hussain said his group will carry out a series of rallies in the run-up to US President George W Bush's visit to Pakistan next month.
"Our protests will continue. The European countries should realise the sentiments of Muslims. They should apologise to the Muslim world," another senior MMA leader, Liaqat Baluch, is quoted as saying by the Associated Press.

Qazi Hussain also called for a nationwide strike on Friday and said his campaign was also aimed at President Pervez Musharraf for his "pro-western policies".
well, it's overt now isn't it
On Monday, protests took place in more than a dozen Pakistan towns and cities. In another incident, police in the city of Sukkur in the southern province of Sindh, police arrested 23 people after two churches were burned down by a mob apparently enraged by reports that a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, had been desecrated.

Troops were called in to assist the police in restoring order after the incident which took place on Sunday.

"We have asked religious leaders to keep people under control and exercise tolerance," Sindh Inspector General of Police Jahangir Mirza told the BBC.

Correspondents say the protests led by Islamist opposition groups in Pakistan against the cartoons have recently broadened into an attack on President Musharraf.
Took you long enough to figure this out. But then BBC correspondents aren't known for being all that smart on these sorts of things.
Gen Musharraf has condemned the cartoons, which include one portraying the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban.
Posted by: lotp 2006-02-20
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