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Angry protests spread over anti-Islam film
Demonstrations over US-made film said to insult Islam are spreading across Middle East and North Africa.
Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, as similar demonstrations have spread to several countries across the Middle East and North Africa.
The protesters on Thursday removed the embassy’s sign on the outer wall and brought down the US flag and burned it, according to witnesses.
A number of diplomatic vehicles were torched as security forces used water cannons and warning shots in a bid to drive them out.
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, up to 500 people protested over the issue chanting “Death to America!” and death to the movie’s director, an AFP photographer at the scene said.
The rally, near the Swiss embassy that handles US interests in the absence of US-Iran diplomatic ties, ended peacefully two hours later.
US flags burned
Meanwhile, Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi has condemned the film that has sparked an outcry in his country.
“We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who… insult our prophet,” Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels, said in remarks broadcast by Egyptian state television.
“[But] it is our duty to protect our guests and visitors from abroad… I call on everyone to take that into consideration, to not violate Egyptian law… to not assault embassies,” he added.
| “We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet. I condemn and oppose all who… insult our prophet.“– Mohamed Morsi, Egyptian president |
Egyptians have clashed with police outside US embassy in the capital, Cairo, for the third day.
About 30 people have been injured, including more than 10 riot police in the overnight clashes, as the fallout from a film ridiculing Islam’s prophet continued to rage on Thursday.
Police have used tear gas to disperse the crowd, as interior ministry said at least 12 people have been arrested.
American flags were also burned in Tunisia, outside the US embassy in the capital, Tunis.
Police fired tear gas at demonstrators who shouted their opposition to the film, and chanted slogans against the US.
A small crowd also burned an American flag in Gaza City where Hamas, the elected government there, has condemned the film.
Despite the Egyptian government’s call for calm, protesters chanted in the streets and fires burned.
Innocence of Muslims, the film that mocked Prophet Muhammad, was allegedly produced in the US by a filmmaker with ties to Coptic Christian groups, and excerpted on YouTube with dubbing in Arabic.
On Wednesday, about 200 demonstrators took part in protests in the Egyptian capital.
They rallied into the night chanting “leave Egypt” but there was however no repeat of the previous day’s events when angry crowds climbed the walls of the complex and tore down an American flag, which they replaced briefly with a black, Islamist flag.
YouTube block
Meanwhile, YouTube, the video website owned by Google Inc, has said it will not remove the film clip, but it has blocked access to it in those countries.
The Afghan government has ordered an indefinite ban on YouTube to prevent access to the film deemed offensive to Muslims, officials said on Thursday.
The US prosecutor-general said on Wednesday that four people were being questioned after Tuesday’s events.
Nine Coptic Egyptian-Americans were also put on an airport watch list. They are believed to have contributed to the production of the anti-Islam film that led to the embassy protest.
The man behind the protests told Al Jazeera he just wanted to combat insults against Islam through legal and peaceful means. Wesam Abdel Wareth, the protest organiser, said his group was not happy that young people who joined their protest brought down the US flag.
He also said there was no co-ordination with protesters in Libya, and he condemned the violence there.
On Tuesday, Egypt’s prestigious Al-Azhar mosque condemned a symbolic “trial” of the Prophet organised by a US group, including Terry Jones, a Christian pastor who triggered riots in Afghanistan in 2010 by threatening to burn the Quran.
But it was not immediately clear whether the event sponsored by Jones also prompted the embassy events.
Egypt ‘neither enemy, nor ally’
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama has called the leaders of Egypt and Libya to discuss security co-operation following the violence in Cairo and Benghazi, the White House has said.
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| Iraqi supporters of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr burn Israeli and US flags in the Iraqi city of Kut [AFP] |
Obama urged Egypt to uphold its commitments to defend US diplomatic facilities and personnel and called on Libya to work with US authorities to bring those behind the deadly attack on the US consulate to justice.
Morsi promised Egypt “would honour its obligation to ensure the safety of American personnel”, the White House said.
Obama told Morsi that while “he rejects efforts to denigrate Islam … there is never any justification for violence against innocents”.
Whatever the cause, the events appeared to underscore how much the ground in the Middle East has shifted for Washington, which for decades had close ties with Arab dictators who could be counted on to crush dissent.
Obama’s administration in recent weeks had appeared to overcome some of its initial caution after the election of an Islamist Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, offering his government desperately needed debt relief and backing for international loans.
Egypt is neither an ally nor an enemy of the United States, Obama said on Wednesday.
“I don’t think that we would consider them an ally, but we don’t consider them an enemy,” Obama said in excerpts of an interview with Telemundo aired by MSNBC.
12 Comments on "Angry protests spread over anti-Islam film"
dsula on Thu, 13th Sep 2012 5:23 pm
When is food expensive enough so those tards starve and can’t multiply anymore?
DC on Thu, 13th Sep 2012 6:55 pm
Why should anyone there go out of there way to insure amerikans ‘safety’ in the ME? Amerika violates the safety of people over there every single day, with its illegal drone strikes, air-raids, invasions and arming and supporting its Arab-Foreign legion, Al-CiA-da(currently trashing Syria, fresh from doing same in Libya).
Plantagenet on Thu, 13th Sep 2012 7:34 pm
Obama is very confused. First, he bombed Libya and pushed Mubarek out of Egypt to install their current governments. Then, after the governments stand by as our embassies are attacked, he says Egypt isn’t a US ally at the same time he is asking Congress for 2 billion dollars to give to Egypt.
Why does Obama want to give Egypt 2 billion dollars if they aren’t our ally?
Arthur on Thu, 13th Sep 2012 7:49 pm
That’s easy, because the Lobby ruling the foreign policy of the US wants to buy the ‘friendship’ of Egypt, to keep pressure from Israel. For the small change of 2B$ Egypt will be nice to Israel.
Plantagenet on Thu, 13th Sep 2012 9:36 pm
A “lobby” doesn’t rule the foreign policy of the US—Obama does. AND he doesn’t even know if Egypt is an ally or not, but he still wants to give them 2 billion dollars.
BillT on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 12:57 am
Planet..you have a very naive view of the Presidency. NO President is the decision maker. NONE! They follow the dictates of your real Masters, the other powerful interests in the world. Kneel serf!
As to the killing and ‘riots’, I suspect our very own CIA is behind it all. After all, we would have had 60 years of peace after WW@ if the CIA had not been out doing the work of the Empire and causing trouble all over the world to sell weapons.
ken nohe on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 1:00 am
No, the reason for giving money to Egypt is to prevent it from blowing apart. The country is on the edge of the abyss with a booming population and virtually no resources. It is also strategically placed both geographically and culturally. If and when Egypt explodes, we all have a problem. The real question is: How long can we delay the explosion?
Mike on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 3:09 am
Some A-hole. makes a movie and all of a sudden it’s the fault of the United States? What’s wrong with this picture? Libya was’t complaining that loudly when we covered their ass with air cover during their revolt. You know what “F” them! Why does every US citizen get blamed for every damn time a muslim doesn’t like a movie? Do my neighbors and I start a lynch mob and throw fire bombs at the local consolate when a muslim disparages Jesus or christian religions? Something that we in America hold so dearly, freedom of the press I guess means nothing to these mongrols. Because one asshole makes a movie thats taken to be against their profit that’s the fault of all us american infidels?
I say you know what? Lets go back to some form of isolationism! Screw the rest of the world. Libya doesn’t the 2 Billion dollars we were going to give them? Lets take every single penny of our foreign aid budjet for these backwards countries and put to use for our own education system, or our infrastructure or budget deficet. That’s enough money to make a difference. Were dealing with scum here. Why give them one penny when our own mothers need to go to food banks to help feed their families. We’re dealing with tribal warfare here, we need to think more as a global conciencnous, not like savage tribes that kill each other over nonense. Religion and governments should not be one, we found that out about the catholic church in the dark ages and the inquisitions, maybe it’s time the muslims came out of the dark ages. I’m sure all this meant nothing at all to the wife and the little boy of the ambassador that was killed in Libya. All they know is that their father is dead because someone made a movie and somone else blamed the United States and they thought it was right to kill that man because he was an ammerican. A bunch of god damn savages. organized religion is the worst thing that ever happened to this world.
Frank on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 3:28 am
That’s it burn our flag you M-F ‘er blame the american people for something a filmmaker made. Reality means nothing to these tribes. of course if given the oppurtunity to get a US visa and move here, you couldn’t move fast enough, and I guarentty you wouldn’t be burning any american flags in my town. These damn fanatics make me want to vomit, what a waste of a life to some piece of dirt.. I tell you want if there were a possible thing like aliens looking down on us, no wonder they would want nothing to do with us, all they can see is tribal warfare with no regard for humaan like. How dispicable!
LSmith on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 5:28 am
Ken nohe you are spot on! That is the problem in a nutshell
Arthur on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 11:03 am
Plant, that’s not how politics works in the US. Policies are made in zionist dominated bodies like CFR, AEI, JINSA, JWC, AIPAC, FED, ADL and the rest of the alphabet soup. The outcome of that process is channeled to the president via jewish ‘advisors’. The last time I looked it were Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod. Too lazy to check who it is now. Obama, the community worker from Chicago, is a total nobody. He was born in a hospital in Kenya, three days later his mother, with Barry on her lap, flew to Hawaii and registered the toddler. His youth and education is a total mystery. All tracks are removed. He ‘volunteered’ to have his lawyer license removed, just like his wife. Obama was promoted into becoming the president by a gang of four jewish wealthy businessmen from Chicago. The gangsters that rule the US have a lot of incriminating material in reserve just in case Barry gets obstinate. He won’t. Bush the alcoholic same story. The US presidency is a facade; presidents are hired to read aloud and sign what is written on a piece of paper, shoved under their nose by these ‘advisors’. The Likud handles Romney. The reluctance of Obama to go to war is a reflection of a split within ‘the zionist world’ (as former Italian president Cossiga called it when he identified the true perps of 9/11) what is wisdom with regards to Iran. Obama is for the photo-ops and nothing else. And if you resist, like JFK, your fate is sealed.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/wailing-wall-obama.jpg
Once you understand that, you get a better understanding of what happened in Russia between 1917-1938 and in Germany between 1933-1945.
You’re next America.
Arthur on Fri, 14th Sep 2012 3:41 pm
Meanwhile riots are spreading all over the Islamic world, even the poor Germans are targets (Sudan).lol:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/krawalle-in-aegypten-libanon-iran-protest-gegen-mohammed-video-a-855883.html
Ah, wish I was young again and in a post-carbon world could register on one of those Dutch sail ships and fight the muslim pirates in the Mediterranean, just like in the good old days of 1600. The world is going to be large again and I love it. No MacDonalds in the Maghreb but Kebab shops and Mosques instead.