Afghan Protests Continue Over European Assaults On Symbols of Islam

In Afghanistan on Saturday and Sunday, peaceful demonstrations were staged to protest the reprinting in Denmark last month of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb-shaped turban. (See prior posting.) They were also protesting the planned release of a video critical of the Koran by right-wing Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. (See prior posting.) On Saturday thousands attended a rally at a sports stadium in Herat. (CNN). On Sunday, thousands of students chanted slogans and burned Danish and Dutch flags in Jalalabad. (AP).