Muslims Decry New Charlie Hebdo's Cartoons Of The Prophet

There is fresh protest by the Muslim communities everywhere, even as the "survivors" issue of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was released.

Outside the French Consulate in Karachi on Friday, clashes began between the police and protesters. Four of them had gunshot wounds, of which two were journalists. Demonstrations erupted across Pakistan against the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and its publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, according to nytimes.com.

The protest in Karachi was led by the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's biggest religious party. Protestors threw stones at riot police officers, who fired tear gas, water cannons and gunfire.

An AFP photo journalist got wounded. Earlier, protesting Pakistani lawmakers went on a march near the parliament in Islamabad, calling for "death to blasphemers."

"All political parties are with us... All Muslim countries should condemn these blasphemous cartoons," Pakistani Religious Affairs Minister Sardar Yousaf said, according to rt.com.

Pakistani Sunni Muslim supporters of the pro-Taliban party Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Nazaryati (JUI-N) were shouting slogans in a protest in Quetta on January 15.

The Muslim brotherhood in Jordan is gathering its forces for a rally in Amman. The spokesman Murad Adaileh said the group "condemned both the killings and the "offensive" against the prophet".

Egypt's top religious institution, the Al Azhar mosque, was also outraged by the cartoon, and called it a "blatant challenge to the feelings of Muslims who had sympathized with this newspaper."

However, the deputy to the mosque's grand sheikh, Abbas Shumann, injected some moderation with an injunction to all to show tolerance, warning that wrath "will not solve the problem but will instead add to the tension and the offense to Islam."

In the southwestern Syrian city of Aleppo on Thursday, protestors took a march burning a "Je suis Charlie" poster.

"Mohammed is our leader for ever. We will sacrifice ourselves for you, God's prophet," protesters shouted.

"We are on the street today to support our prophet and to protest against the offensive drawings that Western governments are spreading, while hurting Muslims' feelings all over the world," demonstrator Abu Mudar told AFP.

"These drawings increase enmity, hatred and feelings of hostility among Muslims toward these governments and these countries," he said.

The marches are extended in Lebanon, where the Shiite Muslim militant group Hezbollah accused the magazine of providing "a provocation to the feelings of more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, and directly contributes to supporting terrorism, fanaticism and extremists."

In the Philippines too, protestors took a protest in the southern town of Marawi, burning images of the magazine's new cover. Organizers stated that "freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the noble and the greatest prophet of Allah," The Guardian reported.

Indian Muslim activists from the Majlis Bachao Tahreek (MBT) were marching and shouting slogans in Hyderabad on January 16, 2015.

Turkey was just one of the Muslim nations where some media outlets published Charlie Hebdo images, but left out the caricatures.

Yet, Turks took two sides. One had pro-Islamist students in Cumhuriyet's office in Ankara, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.

There was more security outside the newspaper's headquarters and printing center.

Even in Europe, there were protesting Muslims. Hence, one group of leading UK imams appealed to its devotees to protest "justified displeasure at the mockery that is made of our faith," but in a peaceful manner.