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Kurdish Protesters clash with ant-riot police in front of Kurdistan Parliament building in Erbil, north of Baghdad, Iraq on 08 May 2012. Hundred rallied in front of the Kurdistan parliament against the article by Norwegian Kurdish expatriate writer Halmat Goran published on 02 May in a local magazine Chrpa. The article is said to be offensive to Islam and to Muslims.
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Kurdish demonstrators destroy a store that sells alcohol during a protest denouncing a Kurdish magazine that published last week an article they say offended Islam, outside the Parliament building in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil.
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Hundreds of Kurdish demonstrators surround a police vehicle as they take part in a protest denouncing a Kurdish magazine that published last week an article they say offended Islam, outside the Parliament building in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil on May 8.
In other news from Iraq, Reuters reports that Interpol is calling for the arrest of fugitive Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashemi:
Hashemi, a Sunni Muslim politician with the Iraqiya bloc, fled Baghdad in December when the Shi'ite-led government accused him of running death squads, a dispute that risked upsetting a delicate power-sharing agreement.
The vice-president, who is in Istanbul, has denied he was involved in murdering six judges and other officials. He says the charges are politically motivated and has refused to stand trial in Baghdad.
"My defense lawyer will present an appeal to Interpol in the next few days," Hashemi said in a statement. "I won't submit to pressure and blackmail."
More images of Iraqi Kurdistan in PhotoBlog.
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These people will never be able to peacefully co-exist with anyone. Total waste of our time.
Erbil was the one city in Iraq that never saw any problems because the Kurds appeared to be more rational and responsible than their counterparts in central and southern Iraq. There goes that theory. It always makes me shake my head when people loot / destroy someone elses property because they are mad at a supposed slight on their religion from someone else. Its like me robbing my neighbor because my wife made fun of my football team. Have fun over there Iraqis, its your turd hole now.
Reconcile "Islam is a religion of peace" with the photos above. I can't believe that God would be impressed by self serving jerks beating their chests, destroying property, and hurting people suposedly on his behalf.