Muslims protest against a US-made anti-Islam movie in India, September 23, 2012.
Fri Sep 28, 2012 4:25AM GMT
Thousands
of Muslims have staged a demonstration in India to express their
outrage at a blasphemous movie produced in the United States and a
French magazine’s publication of cartoons that insult Islam and Prophet
Mohammad (PBUH).
On Thursday, over 15,000 protesters gathered in front of the US consulate in the city of Kolkata, the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.
“The protesters threw stones at the police who blocked the marchers from approaching the US consulate nearby… The police brought the situation under control and the crowds dispersed later in the evening,” said RK Mukherjee, a local police officer.
Over the past days, the Muslim world has been outraged by the blasphemous movie and the French weekly Charlie Hebdo’s September 19 publication of the insulting cartoons.
Demonstrations against the anti-Islam moves have been held across the Muslim world and several non-Muslim countries, with protesters in some countries marching on the US embassies and torching US flags.
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