Obama burned in effigy in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan-AFP

"Afghan demonstrators torch an effigy of Barack Obama in the Ghanikhail district of Nangarhar province" (AFP, Noorullah Shirzada)

9/14/12, "Afghans burn Obama effigy at film demo," AFP

KABUL, "Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets on Friday, setting fire to an effigy of US President Barack Obama and demanding the death of a film-maker who they say insulted the Prophet Mohammed.

The demonstration in Nangarhar province, which borders Kabul to the west and Pakistan to the east, saw clerics in the Shinwari tribe call for a $100,000 bounty on the head of the producer of the film, "Innocence of Muslims".

An Obama effigy was also torched, said Zaher Ali, deputy chief of Ghanikhail district's council of clerics, but the protest passed off peacefully and fears about demonstrations in the capital Kabul were not realised.

"Death to America", and "death to the enemies of Islam", shouted the crowd, according to an AFP photographer, in what are fairly routine chants at anti-US protests in Afghanistan."...via Free Republic

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