Thousands have demonstrated in the Middle East and clashes have broken out in Pakistan as a new cartoon of Islam's prophet Mohammed published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo angered Muslims.
In Zinder, Niger's second city, around 50 furious protesters smashed the entrance door to the French cultural centre and set fire to the cafeteria, library and offices.
In Karachi, Pakistan, at least three people were injured when protesters clashed with police outside the French consulate, officials said.
Among them was an AFP photographer, who was shot in the back.
As Muslims raged, with protesters in Dakar torching a French flag, Qatar and Bahrain warned that the cartoon published Wednesday by the French satirical weekly could fuel hatred.
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The largest protests took place in the capitals of Algeria and Jordan.
In Amman, around 2500 protesters set off from Al-Husseini mosque under tight security, holding banners that read "insulting the prophet is global terrorism."
In Algiers, 2000-3000 marchers chanted "We are all Mohammed," though some shouted their support for the Islamist Kouachi brothers who carried out the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
Around 100 protesters rallied in Istanbul in response to a call by a group calling itself the Fraternal Platform of the Prophet's Companions, with some holding pictures of the Kouachis.
The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo features a cartoon of Mohammed on its cover holding a "Je Suis Charlie" (I am Charlie) sign under the headline "All is forgiven."
It was the first edition since Cherif and Said Kouachi gunned down 12 people in an attack on the magazine's Paris offices on January 7 over such cartoons.
The image has angered many Muslims as depictions of Mohammed are widely considered forbidden in Islam.
Algerian protesters chanted: "Kouachi martyrs" or "I am Kouachi" as the demonstration wound its way to the National Assembly, and some clashed with riot police deployed around the building.
AFP photographer Asif Hassan, a policeman and a local TV cameraman were injured in Karachi when clashes also broke out between police and protesters.
A police official said the violence began when police prevented some 350 protesters from approaching the French consulate, in the sprawling metropolis.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, protesters in Peshawar and Multan burnt French flags on the streets, while rallies were held Islamabad and Lahore.
A French flag was also set on fire outside the embassy in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where 1000 protesters rallied.
"To hell with you Charlie," said one message scrawled on a banner.
In Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated peacefully, some with banners reading "Islam is a religion of peace!"
In Khartoum, hundreds poured out of the Grand Mosque and marched across the adjacent square, chanting "Expel the French ambassador. Victory to the Prophet of God!"
In Lebanon's flashpoint city of Tripoli, 70 people marched with banners bearing the name of the prophet and chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest).
In Baddawi, on the outskirts of the city, prayer leader Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahimi addressed hundreds of worshippers saying: "May God punish this newspaper and those who back it".
A protest in Tehran was cancelled, with no official reason given, as senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ali Movahedi Kermani told worshippers the cartoon's publication amounted to "savagery."
Saudi Arabia's top religious body, the Council of Senior Ulema, also criticised the new cartoons that it said "have nothing to do with the freedom of creativity or thought."
Its secretary general, Fahd al-Majid, warned that publishing such images would only "serve extremists who are in search of excuses for killing and terrorism."
