I-SHARIF, Afghanistan, March 2, SPA -- About 1,000 Afghans, incensed by the republication of offensive Prophet Mohammad's caricatures in a Danish paper, marched in a northern city on Sunday demanding withdrawal of Danish and Dutch troops from the country. Accoring to Reuters,The protesters in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, also condemned plans by a right-wing Dutch politician to broadcast a film on the Holy Quran. Afghanistan's religious affairs ministry has called the reprinting of Prophet Mohammad's cartoons as an attack against Islam. Several other Islamic countries have demanded that the film by the Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders must not be released. The cartoons were first printed in Danish papers in 2005 and sparked violent protests across the Muslim world and reprinted by several other Western publications in 2006.
