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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Muslim anger spreads to South Asia

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Extremists called yesterday for an Islamic army to march on Rome because of remarks by Pope Benedict XVI, while a well-known Muslim firebrand said in London that the pontiff should face "capital punishment."

Elsewhere, Iran's supreme leader called for more protests over the pontiff's remarks and protests broke out in South Asia and Indonesia, with angry Muslims saying Benedict's statement of regret a day earlier did not go far enough. In southern Iraq, demonstrators carrying black flags burned an effigy of the pope.

In London, police increased patrols near churches and began an inquiry into remarks by Anjem Choudhary, a well-known extremist who had called at a rally outside Westminster Cathedral on Sunday for the pope to be "executed."

The 39-year-old lawyer also had organized a rally earlier this year sparked by cartoons in a Danish newspaper at which some protesters carried placards declaring "Behead Those Who Insult Islam."

"Non-Muslims must ... understand that there may be serious consequences if you insult Islam and the prophet," Mr. Choudhary was quoted as saying on Sunday by the Daily Mail. "Whoever insults the message of Muhammad is going to be subject to capital punishment."

In Iraq yesterday, the extremist group Ansar al-Sunna challenged "sleeping Muslims" to prove their manhood by doing something other than "issuing statements or holding demonstrations."

"If the stupid pig is prancing with his blasphemies in his house," the group said of the pope in a Web statement, "then let him wait for the day coming soon when the armies of the religion of right knock on the walls of Rome."

The protests over the pope's comments have been smaller than those that broke out over cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, but there have been several instances of violence.

Attackers hurled firebombs at seven churches in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the weekend. The fatal shooting of a nun Sunday in Somalia also could be linked to the dispute.

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