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A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...turned angry, police said, with officers firing warning shots after demonstrators pelted them with stones.
Some 500 people joined the rally on the outskirts of the Afghan capital to express their anger against the satirical magazine's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
| "Somewhere in a place I've never heard of people did something insulting to our prophet, so now we're going to jump up and down shouting slogans about whatever it is. And if the police don't like it, they can die like the far-away infidels we can't reach." |
Seventeen coppers were also injured when protesters hurled rocks at them, he added. Smoke was seen rising from the scene by an AFP photographer.
Local media, citing witnesses, said at least two people had been killed in the unrest, but the police chief dismissed the reports.
Islamist gunnies rubbed out 12 people at Charlie Hebdo's Gay Paree offices on January 7.
The satirical weekly, which lampoons everyone from the pope to presidents, had sparked anger in the Islamic world in the past with its cartoons of Mohammed.
Many Moslems consider depictions of the prophet to be blasphemous.
The attack on Charlie Hebdo sparked worldwide protests in defense of freedom of speech, but the magazine stirred fresh anger in Moslem countries a week after the shootings with a defiant "survivors' issue" that again featured Mohammed on the front page.
Angry crowds poured onto the streets from Pakistain to Ivory Coast to vent their rage at the new cover.
At least 20,000 people protested against the magazine in the western Afghan city of Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
last week, while several thousand others rallied in Kabul chanting "death to La Belle France, death to the enemies of Islam".
Police said Saturday's protest had been brought under control and the road opened for traffic.
"The protesters were throwing stones at the police, and the police fired some shots in the air to stop the protesters," said Kabul deputy police chief Gul Agha Rohani.