Muslim violence spreads over Mohammed cartoons

MUSLIM rage over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed spilled out of Syria yesterday into neighbouring Lebanon where thousands of protesters torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighbourhood.

Muslim clerics denounced the violence, with some wading into the mobs trying to stop them. Copenhagen ordered Danes to leave the country or stay indoors on the second day of Middle East violence against its diplomatic outposts.

The Danish and Norwegian missions in Syria were set ablaze yesterday in what until then had been the most violent in a string of angry demonstrations across the Muslim world.