Thursday, February 02, 2006

Flag burning

(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)



Militants from Islamic Jihad burn a Danish flag during a protest in Gaza City on Tuesday Jan. 31, 2006. About 5,000 members of the militant Islamic Jihad group, including several gunmen, marched in Gaza City on Tuesday demanding Denmark apologize for a caricature published in a local newspaper they said mocked the Muslim prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Iraqi Shi'ite clerics burn a flag of Denmark in Baghdad February 1, 2006. More than a dozen Iraqis protested against newspaper cartoons published in a local Danish daily showing Prophet Mohammad wearing a turban shaped as a bomb with a burning fuse. REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud


REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini

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Pakistani religious students burn an effigy of Denmark's Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in Multan, Pakistan, Thursday Feb. 2, 2006. Demonstrators held nation-wide rallies and burnt Danish and French flags and effigies of their leaders to condemn the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in France and Denmark. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

Pakistani religious students burn the Danish flag in Multan, Pakistan, Thursday. Demonstrators held nation-wide rallies and burned Danish and French flags and effigies of their leaders to condemn publication of cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in France and Denmark. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)

Pakistani Islamists shout anti Danish slogans as they hold a burning Danish flag during a demonstration in Lahore. Islamic militants threatened to kill European nationals as the crisis over cartoons of Mohammed intensified, while in Europe more media rallied in support of freedom of expression and refused to give way to Muslim anger.(AFP/Arif Ali)

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