“Charlie Hebdo” Protests Erupt Across Southern Asia
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mjbs/iStock/Thinkstock(ISLAMABAD) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets throughout several countries on Friday in anger with the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for publishing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad.
In the western Afghan city of Herat, an estimated 20,000 people protested the magazine’s anti-Islam satire.
Police on Friday also clashed with thousands of demonstrators in India-controlled Kashmir, while some 15,000 protesters denounced Charlie Hebdo, and France, burning the French flag in protest in the streets of Pakistan’s capital.
Earlier this month, two gunmen stormed the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris killing a total of 12 people, prompting international condemnation of Islamic extremism.
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