After the Jyllands-Posten posted the muslim caricature cartoons, waves of muslim protests emerged around the country of Denmark, the news reverberated around the world, thousands of Muslims by solidarity with their Muslim brothers joined in the protest, they marched in the streets of Hamastan in Pakistan and Gaza in Gaza, Palestine.
Meanwhile, the Danish police reported several incidents involving youth of muslim immigrants gathering together to protest, the police tried to broke them from gathering into larger mobs, several of the protestors arrested carried Molotov cocktails and firecracker.
In the neighboring countries of Sweden, Norway and Germany, youths of similar background held sympathy protest.
The riots included burning cars and trash containers, throwing petrol bombs at schools and municipal buildings, and throwing stones at police and emergency services.
The worst hit was the Værebroskolen in the Copenhagen suburb of Bagsværd, where ten classrooms were burned down. The fire brigade was called in to deal with at least 20 fires in the city. Berlingske Tidende offers a picture gallery of the fires in Greater Copenhagen.
Meanwhile, Chief Inspector, Henrik Olesen of the Copenhagen police told AFP that at least 11 cars were torched in different Copenhagen neighborhoods and 10 in the nearby town of Kokkedal. This is while 17 youths were arrested on Thursday for rioting.
Olesen said that they had no idea why the youths were rioting. He said, “I think it’s because they’re bored. Some people say it’s because of the cartoons but that’s not my opinion.”
Copenhagen’s chief inspector was referring to the reprinting of a blasphemous cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad in 17 Danish newspapers on Wednesday.
The reprinting led to protests in several Muslim countries including Kuwait and Pakistan. The Palestinian movement Hamas has also condemned the publication.
The blasphemous cartoon was reprinted this week when Danish police discovered a plot to kill the cartoonist.
This was followed by the apprehension of three people for planning the murder, including two Tunisians who have lived in Denmark for more than seven years.
Denmark then decided to expel the men without a trial which has been strongly condemned by human rights associations and some politicians and legal experts in Denmark.
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