http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/anti-islam-film-protests_n_1883474.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=091412&utm_medium=email&utm_content=FeaturePhoto&utm_term=Daily%20Brief
BY the by, if anyone has seen the video that has started all this (I have) it is both amazing anyone who has seen it could be influenced by the blatant misinformation, manipulation and disinformation about Islam and the pathetically poor production quality AND it is sad people in positions of religious and political authority in the Islamic world are manipulating the ignorance (i.e. lack of proper secular and religious education) of so many of their people, encouraging violence, hatred, racism and religious intolerance against non Muslims, all for political and religious power. Those who are encouraging and allowing violence over this video are as evil as those who produced this video. IF you want to see the video go to my post THE INNOCENCE OF MUSLIMS (COMPLETE VIDEO) http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-innocence-of-muslims-complete-video.html It is so revolting, so pathetic and disgusting I'll bet you won't be able to watch the whole thing.....
* Egyptian demonstrators clash with police before mass protest
* Protests in Malaysia, Bangladesh, Yemen, expected in Sudan
* Western embassies tighten security
By Edmund Blair
CAIRO Sept 14 (Reuters) - Demonstrators, furious at a film they say insults the Prophet Mohammad, clashed with police near the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Friday before a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood which propelled Egypt's Islamist president to power.
Protesters also clashed with police in Yemen, where one person died and 15 were injured on Thursday when the U.S. embassy compound was stormed, and crowds gathered against the California-made film in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Iraq.
The film was blamed for an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans on Tuesday, the anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 al Qaeda attacks on the United States.
In Nigeria, where radical Islamist sect Boko Haram has killed hundreds this year in an insurgency, the government put police on alert and stepped up security around foreign missions.
State-backed Islamist scholars in Sudan called a mass protest after Muslim prayers on Friday and an Islamist group threatened to attack the U.S. embassy in the capital Khartoum. The government also criticised Germany for tolerating criticism of the Prophet.
Security forces in Yemen fired warning shots and used water cannons against hundreds of protesters near the U.S. embassy in Sanaa. "Today is your last day, ambassador!", and "America is the devil", some placards read.
The embassy told U.S. citizens it expected more protests against the film. "The security situation remains fluid," it said in a statement posted on its website.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said the video was "unspeakable" but should not be used as an excuse for violence. He also appealed to nations affected by the protests to strengthen protection of diplomatic missions.
U.S. and other Western embassies in other Muslim countries had tightened security, fearing anger at the film may prompt attacks on their compounds after the weekly worship.
The protests present U.S. President Barack Obama with a new foreign policy crisis less than two months before seeking re-election and tests Washington's relations with democratic governments it helped to power across the Arab world.
Obama has vowed to bring those responsible for the Benghazi attack to justice, and the United States sent warships towards Libya which one official said was to give flexibility for any future action.
DELICATE BALANCE
Cairo protesters threw rocks at police, who threw them back and fired tear gas. A burnt-out car was overturned in the middle of the street leading to the fortified embassy from Tahrir Square, focus of protests that ushered in democracy.
Egypt has said the U.S. government, which has condemned the film, should not be blamed for it, but has also urged Washington to take legal action against those insulting religion.
President Mohamed Mursi, an Islamist who is Egypt's first freely elected president, is having to strike a delicate balance, protecting the embassy of a major donor while also showing a robust response to a film that angered Islamists.
"What happened a few days ago was a pernicious attempt to insult the Prophet Mohammad. It is something we reject and Egypt stands against. We will not permit that these acts are carried out," said Mursi, on a visit to Italy, adding:
"We cannot accept the killing of innocent people nor attacks on embassies. We must defend diplomats and tourists who come to visit our country. Killing people is forbidden...by our faith."
The Muslim Brotherhood called for a peaceful nationwide protest on Friday. Mursi was the Brotherhood's presidential candidate, although he formally resigned his membership on taking office saying he wanted to represent all Egyptians.
In Libya, authorities said they had made four arrests in the investigation into the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens. U.S. officials said it may have been planned in advance - possibly by an al Qaeda-linked group.
Pope Benedict arrived in Lebanon on Friday for a religiously sensitive visit, especially given anger over the film, which depicts the Prophet Mohammad in terms seen as blasphemous by Muslims, although the only protests in Lebanon against it were due to take place far from the capital.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Washington had nothing to do with the crudely made film posted on the Internet, which she called "disgusting and reprehensible", and the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff called a Christian pastor in Florida to ask him to withdraw his support for it.
About 300 people protested in Cairo, some waving flags with religious slogans. State media reported 224 injured since violence erupted on Wednesday night after a protest in which the embassy walls were scaled on Tuesday.
"Before the police, we were attacked by Obama, and his government, and the Coptic Christians living abroad," shouted one protester, wearing a traditional robe and beard favoured by some ultraorthodox Muslims, as he pointed at the police cordon.
Egypt's Coptic Orthodox church has condemned what it said were Copts abroad who had financed the film.
GERMANY CRITICISED
Sudan's Foreign Ministry also criticised Germany for allowing a protest last month by right-wing activists carrying caricatures of the Prophet and for Chancellor Angela Merkel giving an award in 2010 to a Danish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet in 2005 triggering protests across the Islamic world.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is under pressure from Islamists who feel the government has given up the religious values of his 1989 Islamist coup.
The official body of Sudan's Islamic scholars called for the faithful to defend the Prophet peacefully, but at a meeting of Islamists, some leaders said they would march on the German and U.S. embassies and demanded the ambassadors be expelled.
"Tomorrow we will all get out to defend Prophet Mohammad ... We will do this peacefully but with strength," Salah el-Din Awad, general secretary of the scholars' body in Khartoum state told reporters after meeting government officials on Thursday.
The Foreign Ministry said in its statement: "The German chancellor unfortunately welcomed this offence to Islam in a clear violation of all meanings of religious co-existence and tolerance between religions."
Sudan used to host prominent militants in the 1990s, such as Osama bin Laden, but the government has sought to distance itself from radicals to improve ties with the West.
Protesters in Afghanistan set fire to an effigy of Obama and burned a U.S. flag after Friday prayers in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Directing their anger against the U.S. pastor who supported the film, tribal leaders in province also agreed to put a $100,000 bounty on his head.
12:04 PM – Today
Nigeran Troops Fire Live Rounds To Disperse Protesters
| @ BreakingNews : Nigerian troops fire live rounds in city of Jos to disperse Muslims protesting against anti-Islam film - @Reuters |
12:01 PM – Today
Al Jazeera Streaming Footage From Tunis, Tunisia
11:56 AM – Today
U.S. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney:"[The violence] is in response not to United States policy, not, obviously, to the administration, not to the American people -- it is in response to a video, a film, that we have judged to be reprehensible, disgusting. That in no way justifies any violent reaction to it. But this is not a case of protest directed at the United States writ large or U.S. policy -- this is in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims."
11:55 AM – Today
White House: No 'Actionable Intelligence' Before Libya Attack|
| @ BreakingNews : White House says there was no 'actionable intelligence' in advance about attack on US Consulate in Libya - @Reuters |
11:54 AM – Today
Scenes from Tunis:
Demonstrators protest
outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 as police
responded to protestors throwing stones with tear gas. Angry
demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent
yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries Friday, as
protesters smashed into the German Embassy in the Sudanese capital and
security forces in Egypt and Yemen fired tear gas and clashed with
protesters to keep them away from U.S. embassies. (AP Photos/Hassene
Dridi)
11:26 AM – Today
Protests Against Film Similar To Danish Cartoon Reaction
Politics professor Jytte Klausen argues in Foreign Affairs
that the protests sweeping the Arab world mirror those that followed
the dissemination of Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in a Danish
newspaper in 2005.
Those cartoons, too, had gone relatively unnoticed when they were first published. But when mysterious text messages and posts in Internet chat rooms alerted Muslims to the insult they had suffered and the Egyptian government started publicizing the Danes' sacrilege, people started to pay attention. And even then, the streets remained calm until Gomaa condemned the cartoons and encouraged denunciations during Friday prayers across the Middle East.Klausen writes that President Morsi's response to the anti-Islam film is similar to Hosni Mubarak's ploy to consolidate power by provoking protests after the Danish cartoons were published.
11:23 AM – Today
PHOTO: Smoke Rises From U.S. Embassy In Tunisia
| @ weeddude : Photo: U.S. Embassy in Tunis http://t.co/vIzDVP1a (@Sarah_bh) |
11:14 AM – Today
'Large Cloud Of Black Smoke' At U.S. Embassy In Tunis
| @ kasie : TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Large cloud of black smoke seen coming from around US embassy in Tunis. |
11:08 AM – Today
Report: 3 Killed During Sudan Protests
| @ TheStalwart : RT @jakebeckman: THREE KILLED DURING SUDAN U.S. EMBASSY PROTESTS: ARABIYA |
11:02 AM – Today
Photo From Cairo
An Egyptian protester throws back a tear gas canister toward riot
police, unseen, behind cement blocks that are used to close the street
leading to the U.S. embassy during clashes in Cairo, Egypt, Friday,
Sept. 14, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world
about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Nasser
Nasser)
10:46 AM – Today
Al Jazeera Live Feed
Al Jazeera has a live feed from outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis. Black smoke can be seen rising into the sky.
10:37 AM – Today
Protesters Jump Over U.S. Embassy Wall In Tunis|
| @ BreakingNews : Protesters jump over wall into US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia's capital, Reuters witness says - @Reuters |
10:33 AM – Today
German Embassy In Sudan Burns
10:24 AM – Today
50 U.S. Marines arrive in Yemen
| @ julianbarnes : @WSJ reports: Marine FAST platoon dispatched after protesters in Yemen breached compound walls Thursday. 50 Marines now on ground. |
10:20 AM – Today
Protesters Breach U.S. Embassy Compound In Tunis|
| @ BreakingNews : Protesters jump over wall into US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia's capital, Reuters witness says - @Reuters |
10:10 AM – Today
German Foreign Minister Says Embassy In Sudan 'Partially In Flames'|
| @ BreakingNews : German foreign minister says German embassy in Sudan is partially in flames after protests - @AP |
| @ ionacraig : #Yemen soldiers pose for a photo by a burning tyre at the USEmbassy in Sana'a, #Yemen yesterday: http://t.co/S9ieaPWw |
| @ SherineT : Protest getting smaller in #Tahrir and much calmer at #USEmbassyCairo |
9:50 AM – Today
Update: Lebanon Official Says One Killed, 25 Wounded In Clashes|
| @ BreakingNews : Update: Lebanese official says 1 killed, 25 wounded during protest over anti-Islam film - @AP |
9:48 AM – Today
Reuters Witness: Sudanese Protesters Converging On U.S. Embassy
| @ Reuters : FLASH - Sudanese protesters moving in cars, buses towards U.S. embassy outside Khartoum: Reuters witness |
9:29 AM – Today
Protests Spread To Lebanon
Palestinian Islamists burn an effigy portraying U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh near Sidon, Lebanon, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
9:28 AM – Today
One Protester Killed In Lebanon
Reuters reports that one
protester was killed in Lebanon during a demonstration against the
anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims" and the pope's visit to the
country.
From Reuters:
From Reuters:
Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans. Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, "We don't want the pope" and "No more insults (to Islam)".
|
| @ Reuters : FLASH -One person killed, two wounded as protesters clash with security forces in Lebanon’s Tripoli: security source |
9:11 AM – Today
Protesters Reportedly Attack Embassies In Sudan
The BBC reports
that protesters have attacked the German and British embassies in the
Sudanese capital of Khartoum. Demonstrators reportedly tore down the
German flag and raised an Islamist banner.
According to an AFP reporter, more than 5,000 protesters hit the streets in the Sudanese capital on Friday to protest.
Read the full story here.
According to an AFP reporter, more than 5,000 protesters hit the streets in the Sudanese capital on Friday to protest.
Read the full story here.
8:34 AM – Today
Front Pages From Around The World
Front pages from newspapers around the world show international reaction to the U.S. Consulate attack in Libya.
See the full story here.
See the full story here.
8:32 AM – Today
Protests Spread To AfghanistanThe U.S. Embassy in Kabul warned of possible demonstrations in the capital and issued a reminder that past demonstrations have resulted in violent attacks in Afghanistan.
| @ USEmbassyKabul : Due to recent events, the Embassy alerts US citizens in Afgh. that there is the possibility of protests in Afgh. in the coming days 3/5. |
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| @ USEmbassyKabul : We wish to remind US citizens past demonstrations in Afghanistan have escalated into violent attacks on Western targets of opportunity. 4/5 |
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