CNN) — Thousands of Afghans packed a sports stadium in the western Afghanistan city Herat Saturday to protest the reprinting of the same Danish cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked rage in the Muslim world two years ago.

Afghan protesters burn a Danish flag during a demonstration last month in Kabul.

Several newspapers in Denmark reprinted the controversial drawing last month after Danish authorities arrested several people who allegedly were plotting a “terror-related assassination” of the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard.

The protesters shouted slogans in their native Dari language that, translated into English, included “death to enemies of Islam” and “death to Denmark and Holland and the insulters of Islam.” Anti-American slogans were also heard.

“We have gathered here to express our anger against this inhuman act of the Danish paper that insulted our Holy Prophet,” said Faqir Ahmad Herawi, a scholar who helped organize the protest.

Herawi said they were also demonstrating against a Dutch movie that is expected to be released soon “that will insult our holy book of Koran.”

“We want to tell them that it is not acceptable for the Muslim people of Afghanistan,” Herawi said.

Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders has said that he will soon release an anti-Islam film in the Netherlands that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI has warned may spark global protests and riots.

Herawi said that the protesters were demanding the Afghan government expel Dutch and Danish soldiers who are part of the NATO-led ISAF forces in Afghanistan.
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