Peace, love, and forgiveness,” eh?

Close to 3,000 students in Mauritania marched through the streets of the capital Nouakchott on Thursday in protest at the reprinting of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad by Danish newspapers this month.

Some shouted demands for a boycott of Danish products, while others carried banners with slogans such as “We will protect the Prophet Mohammad and we will sacrifice ourselves for him.”

“We are against those Westerners who insult the Islamic world with these cartoons,” said one of the demonstrators, 25-year old student Mohamed Ould Abderrahmane.

“We should wage jihad on them,” added one of his fellow students, Alpha Sow, 27.

Lee ADDS: Well, so much for the thought of Islam being a religion of peace!