Muslims across the world have reacted angrily to the reprinting of political cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad by Danish newspapers, which they claim are offensive.
A Kuwaiti politician on Thursday called for a boycott of Denmark after 17 Danish newspapers ran an illustration of the prophet wearing a turban shaped like a bomb, with a lit fuse."We must impose a total political and economic boycott of Denmark," Waleed al-Tabtabai told the Kuwaiti parliament.
"This is a provocative and insulting act and we must take a strong reaction."In the Gaza Strip, Hamas joined in the condemnation, saying the cartoon was an "offence to the feelings of tens of millions of Muslims".
There were also protests in Karachi, Pakistan. Iran summoned Denmark's ambassador to express its displeasure.
However, the story didn't report whether Hamas, Iran and the Karachi protesters also disapproved of the alleged plot to kill the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard of Jyllands-Posten, which first published the cartoons in 2005.
Plotting to kill someone over a cartoon seems a bit much, but I guess that's the secular humanist in me.