Libya Alhurra TV via Facebook
Just like not all Americans are like the people who made the weird anti-Islam movie that
is sparking protests in Muslim nations, not all people in Libya are
like the ones who killed U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens. Some of the
people of Benghazi, where Stevens was killed, held a demonstration against terrorism and to show sympathy for the U.S. Libya Alhurra TV, an Internet TV channel founded
at the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, posted Facebook photos of a
rally there showing support for America and sympathy for Stevens. Here
are some of those pictures:
Update: With the help from The Atlantic's multilingual Heather Horn and some Facebook commenters, we have a few translations of the Arabic signs.
Update: In the photo above, the sign held by the man on the far left says "No to al Qaeda, no to violence, this is a youth revolution." The middle one says, "No No No to Al Qaeda." The sign held by the boy on the right is hard to read at this angle, but says something against killing.
From the Facebook page of The Libyan Center for Documentation, more images of the demonstration:
Update: The Supreme Security Committee Interim Tripoli has more photos of pro-American demonstrations in Tripoli. The Arabic phrase below "Islam against terrorism" says "No to violence." That's on a lot of the signs.
Twitter user @2011feb17 says these photos are from a counter-protest in Algeria square in Tripoli:
Update: With the help from The Atlantic's multilingual Heather Horn and some Facebook commenters, we have a few translations of the Arabic signs.
Update: In the photo above, the sign held by the man on the far left says "No to al Qaeda, no to violence, this is a youth revolution." The middle one says, "No No No to Al Qaeda." The sign held by the boy on the right is hard to read at this angle, but says something against killing.
From the Facebook page of The Libyan Center for Documentation, more images of the demonstration:
Update: The Supreme Security Committee Interim Tripoli has more photos of pro-American demonstrations in Tripoli. The Arabic phrase below "Islam against terrorism" says "No to violence." That's on a lot of the signs.
Twitter user @2011feb17 says these photos are from a counter-protest in Algeria square in Tripoli:
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