Muslim reaction around the world to Bin Laden's death

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Muslims hold placards as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in London May 6, 2011. The Muslim group staged a funeral prayer service ...outside the embassy for Osama Bin Laden, and demanded the release of his body to his family for burial. Europe's Muslims expressed anger or disbelief on Friday over the killing of Osama bin Laden but praise for the late al Qaeda chief was in short supply. (Reuters Pictures)

Islamists hold a picture of Osama bin Laden during a protest in Cairo, May 6, 2011. Al Qaeda confirmed Osama bin Laden was dead on Friday, dispelling some of the fog around the killing of the "holy warrior", and vowed to mount more attacks on the West. (Reuters Pictures)

Salafist Palestinians hold pictures of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a protest against his killing, in Gaza City May 7, 2011. Al Qaeda has acknowledged that Osama bin Laden is dead, dispelling the doubts of some Muslims over whether the militant group's leader had really been killed by U.S. forces, and vowed to mount more attacks on the West. (Reuters Pictures)

Palestinian Sunni Muslim fundamentalists hold up images of the late Osama bin Laden and a copy of the Koran during a protest in Gaza city on May 7, 2011, denouncing the US Navy SEALs operation in which al-Qaedaâs Bin Laden was killed in the city of Abbottabad in northeastern Pakistan on May 1. (Getty Images)

Lebanese Sunni Muslims attend a special prayer honouring al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, headed by Sheikh Omar Bakri, a Lebanese Sunni cleric and Islamist preacher, at a mosque in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, May 6, 2011. Bakri, who described bin Laden as a martyr, gave a short sermon before leading the 'prayer for the absent', conducted when mourners are unable to pray over the body of the deceased. (Reuters Pictures)

Kashmiri Muslims offer funeral prayers for Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden in Srinagar, India, Friday, May 6, 2011. (AP Photo)

Pakistani Islamists gather against the killing of Osama bin Laden during a protest outskirt of Quetta on May 6, 2011. Al-Qaeda confirmed the death of its leader Osama bin Laden but warned that those rejoicing his killing would have their 'blood mixed with tears,' while vowing the jihadist network would live on. (Getty Images)

A Supporter Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam burn chants anti-U. S. slogans at rally to condemn the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, seen in portrait at top right, in Kuchlak, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, May 6, 2011. One of three wives living with Osama bin Laden has told Pakistani interrogators she had been staying in the al-Qaida chief's hideout for six years without leaving its upper floors, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday. (AP Photo)


Pro-Islamic demonstrators set fire flags of (L-R) U.S. , Israel and Britain following a special prayer for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul May 6, 2011. (Reuters Pictures)

Philippine Muslim cleric Jamil Yahya (C) gestures as he leads a march towards the US embassy for a prayer rally after Friday prayers in Manila on May 6, 2011, to honor Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. A radical Philippine Muslim cleric on May 6, hailed Osama bin Laden as a 'martyr' as he led a rally in Manila to denounce the al-Qaeda leader's killing by US forces in a Pakistan raid. (Getty Images)

Muslims shout slogans after offering funeral prayers for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden outside a mosque in Kolkata May 6, 2011. This is the first Friday prayers after bin Laden was killed early May 2 in a U.S. special forces assault on a Pakistani compound, then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the long manhunt for the al Qaeda leader who had been the guiding star of global terrorism. (Reuters Pictures)

Masked Indonesian Muslims take part in a protest condemning the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, Friday, May 6, 2011. (AP Photo)

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