Hundreds of Azerbaijanis rally to protest Charlie Hebdo cartoon
Hundreds of angry Azerbaijanis have taken to the streets in a town near the capital, Baku, to protest against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its publication of a blasphemous cartoon of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
On Wednesday, demonstrators gathered in the town of Nardaran, holding banners that read “Islam is not defenseless” and “France is afraid of Islam,” and burning flags of the US, France, and Israel.
Demanding respect for their religion, the protesters called on the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry to take a position regarding the publication of the cartoon.
In a similar move in other parts of the world, on Wednesday, Muslims also took to the streets in the besieged Gaza Strip, Iraq, and Kashmir to show their anger at Charlie Hebdo’s publication of a cartoon of the Prophet.
A wave of protests has spread since the magazine once again printed a cartoon of the Prophet, only days after a January 7 attack on its offices in Paris, which left 12 people, including its editor, dead.
Charlie Hebdo has a history of insulting Islamic sanctities, repeatedly provoking Muslim anger by publishing sacrilegious cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
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