Five dead in Afghanistan is one "highlight." There have also been protests in India, Thailand, Iran, Gaza and Somalia.

A few excerpts from the BBC story:

"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra (in Afghanistan) told the BBC.

"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said. ...

I take it that would be a 'yes.'

Afghan President Hamid Karzai reiterated his condemnation of the cartoons and called on western nations to take "a strong measure" to ensure such cartoons do not appear again. "It's not good for anybody," he told CNN.

Anyone come across a condemnation by Karzai of anti-Western or anti-Semitic cartoons? No? Oh well, one step at a time.

Here's something from The Globe and Mail:

The Muslim response has gone beyond calls to boycott Danish products. Iraq's Transport Ministry, for example, said it is freezing its contracts with Denmark and Norway in protest against the cartoons.

Iran, a major oil producer, said yesterday it had recalled its ambassador from Denmark and is reviewing its trade ties with countries whose newspapers have published the cartoons. They have been reprinted in Norway, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Jordan (where two newspaper editors have been arrested), Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, New Zealand and Poland.

The Philadelphia Inquirer, which also printed the images, defended its decision yesterday. "When a use of religious imagery that many find offensive becomes a major news story, we believe it is important for readers to be able to judge the content of the image for themselves," editor Amanda Bennett said.