Thousands of Afghans demonstrated Saturday in western Afghanistan, shouting angry slogans against Denmark and the Netherlands for insults against Islam, AP quoted police sources as saying. Thousands of people walked through the city of Herat on their way to its main sports stadium, where speakers denounced Denmark for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and the Netherlands, where a lawmaker plans to release a short film about Islam, police spokesman Noor Kahn Nekzad said. He estimated that more than 10,000 people took part in the protest. Demonstrators shouted «Death to Denmark for insulting our prophet» and Last month, in a gesture of solidarity, Denmark's leading newspapers reprinted a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad after Danish police said they had uncovered a plot to kill the artist, whose drawing was one of 12 cartoons that sparked deadly riots across the Muslim world in 2006.
