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Although not widely reported, anti-Denmark protests have continued in Pakistan (“We condemn the reprinting of the blasphemous cartoons which hurt Muslim sentiments across the world”), Copenhagen (“Yes to freedom of expression that does not call for hatred and contempt”), and Afghanistan (“Death to America”).

In Iran, a cleric urged Islamic countries to cut economic ties with Denmark, noting that insulting the “prophet” is a plot to prevent the spread of Islam in the world.

And in Jordan an Islamic group has announced its intention to sue all the Danish newspapers who printed the Turbomb Motoon, as well as the editor in chief of the Jyllands-Posten. The group says it will file the suits in Jordanian courts because the country’s penal code says it is an offence to slander religious figures. It is not explained why they think Jordan’s laws apply within the state of Denmark.

Meanwhile, the creator of the iconic Turbomb Motoon – which, thanks to all the international attention Muslims are bestowing upon it, is on its way to replacing the crescent moon as the symbol of Islam – has urged the Geert Wilders to show his anti-Koran film. Kurt Westergaard said

In Denmark, we have criticism of everything: the Queen, politicians, religion… provoking debate is the job of the newspaper and so also of the cartoonist. Muslims have to accept that.