Thai Muslims protest Danish cartoon

BANGKOK—About 800 Thai Muslims protested outside Denmark’s embassy Wednesday against Danish newspapers’ reprinting of a cartoon perceived as insulting to Islam. Members of an organization called the Muslim Group of Peace demonstrated peacefully outside the Bangkok embassy for about two hours and called on all Thai Muslims to boycott Danish products. The group condemned the “villainous behavior” of the newspapers and criticized Denmark’s government for failing to stop the cartoon’s publication, according to a written statement. Last month, Denmark’s leading newspapers reprinted one of the cartoons after Danish police said they had uncovered a plot to kill the cartoonist, whose drawing was among 12 cartoons that ignited deadly riots across the Muslim world in 2006.

—Agencies