HUFFPOST blog on the spreading violence across the Islamic world, click the link to update....
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.
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Nigerian troops fire live rounds in city of Jos to disperse Muslims protesting against anti-Islam film - @Reuters
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Screen-grab from streaming footage from Tunis, Tunisia, on Al Jazeera:
Watch Al Jazeera
here.
"[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."
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White House says there was no 'actionable intelligence' in advance about attack on US Consulate in Libya - @Reuters
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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.
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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) - Large cloud of black smoke seen coming from around US embassy in Tunis.
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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)
Al Jazeera has a live feed from outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis. Black smoke can be seen rising into the sky.
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Protesters jump over wall into US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia's capital, Reuters witness says - @Reuters
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@WSJ reports: Marine FAST platoon dispatched after protesters in Yemen breached compound walls Thursday. 50 Marines now on ground.
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Protesters jump over wall into US Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia's capital, Reuters witness says - @Reuters
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German foreign minister says German embassy in Sudan is partially in flames after protests - @AP
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Protest getting smaller in #Tahrir and much calmer at #USEmbassyCairo
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Update: Lebanese official says 1 killed, 25 wounded during protest over anti-Islam film - @AP
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FLASH - Sudanese protesters moving in cars, buses towards U.S. embassy outside Khartoum: Reuters witness
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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)
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:
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)".
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FLASH -One person killed, two wounded as protesters clash with security forces in Lebanon’s Tripoli: security source
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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.
Front pages from newspapers around the world show international reaction to the U.S. Consulate attack in Libya.
See the full story
here.
A protest in Jalalabad,
Afghanistan, has drawn hundreds angered by the anti-Islam film that sparked attacks on several U.S. embassies.
The
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.
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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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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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