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Afghan protesters demand closure of French embassy in Kabul
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Hundreds of Afghans protested in Jalalabad city, the picturesque provincial capital of eastern NangarharThe unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province against a French satirical magazine which published a caricature of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!). The protesters demanded closure of the French embassy in Kabul while chanting "Death to La Belle France" and burning the French flag. They also called on the government of La Belle France to apologize from the Moslems regarding the desecrating act by the Charlie Hebdo ...  A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...magazine for re-publishing Prophet Muhammad's (PTUI!) caricature. President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. also strongly condemned the re-publishing of the latest caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) by Charlie Hebdo and called the move as irresponsible. The latest issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo hit newsstands on Wednesday which depicts a drawing of Prophet Muhammad, with a tear rolling down his cheek and a placard that reads "Je Suis Charlie". The issue was created by the surviving staff with supporters saying the cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo is a defiant expression of free speech following a terrorist attack on the publication's Gay Paree offices that killed 12 people on January 7. Posted by: Fred 2015-01-20 |
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