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AFGHAN protestors have warned that they would attack foreign troops in response to the reprinting of the Danish blasphemous cartoon. Protestors in Jalalabad blocked on Sunday the highway to Pakistan a day after violent demonstrations in Herat against the reprinting of the blasphemous cartoon insulting the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) by Danish newspapers as well as a film about the holy Koran by a right-wing Dutch politician.
Chanting anti-Western slogans, the protestors burned Danish and Dutch flags and demanded that the cartoonist and the politician, who plans to release his film this month, be put on trial, Reuters reported.
"If the embassies of Denmark and the Netherlands do not close and their troops do not leave Afghanistan we students are ready for jihad (holy war) against them," said Ibrahim khan, one of the protestors.
The demonstrators also demanded that Kabul freeze its ties with the Dutch and Danish governments and expel their soldiers operating in Afghanistan under NATO command.
The Afghan government has called the reprinting of the cartoon an attack against Islam.
The reprinted cartoon is one of 12 that sparked outrage among Muslims in 2006.
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