BEIJING, Feb. 4 -- The anger over the cartoon drawings of Prophet Muhammad continue to spread across the Muslim world.

An Indonesian Muslim militant throws a plastic traffic marker in front of a building housing the Danish embassy in Jakarta Feb. 3. (Reuters)

    In the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, hardline Muslims barged into a high-rise building housing the Danish Embassy on Friday. The protesters then tore down and burned the country's white and red flag.

    The protest by about 70 people was one of the first in the world's most populous Muslim nation against the publication of caricatures.

    Earlier, Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai condemned the publication in European newspapers of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

    Karzai said the printing of insulting cartoons about Islam must stop.

Muslim demonstrators burn a Norweigian flag in the West Bank town of Nablus where Muslims during a protest against the countries who published cartoons representing the Prophet Mohammed. (AFP)

    "As Muslims, we have big hearts to forgive, but that does not mean that insulting cartoons about Islam must continue to appear. They must definitely, definitely stop," Karzai said. 

    Islamic tradition bars any depiction of the prophet, favourable or otherwise, to prevent idolatry.

    The 12 drawings first ran in a Danish newspaper in September and have now been reprinted in several European countries, including Norway and France. They have prompted boycotts of Danish goods, bomb threats, and demonstrations against Danish facilities in the Muslim world.

(Source: CRIENGLISH.com)