Anti-Islam film protests hit most Muslim countries

15 September, 2012

In most Muslim countries, demonstrations after their weekly Friday prayers were staged to express anger against the anti-Islamic film and the US - with clerics reportedly denouncing the movie 'Innocence of Muslims' in their sermons and urging Muslims to defend their faith by holding protest rallies, led to violent clashes between the protesters and security forces at many places.

THE FILM "Innocence of Muslims" was produced in the United States and denigrates the Prophet Muhammad, and has been dubbed offensive, immoral and anti-Islam by Muslims all around the world. The protests have been held in Pakistan and Afghanistan also.

Demonstrations and clashes near Western embassies in more than 20 countries have been reported, however U.S. Embassy personnel have been reported safe. In most protests, a black banner with the Islamic profession of faith, "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet", was carried and planted outside the US embassy compounds.

Most violent protests were witnessed in Sudan and Tunisia with protesters in thousands clashed with security forces. In Sudan, people were incited by calling 'America an enemy to Islam and to Sudan' and urged to march to the U.S. Embassy to protest the film. Several thousand then moved in a convoy of buses to the U.S. Embassy on Khartoum's outskirts to ransack it. Chanting anti-Us slogans, the protesters clashed with Sudanese police, who fired on some who tried to scale the compound's wall.

In Tunis, several thousand people clashed with the police outside the U.S. Embassy. The protesters threw stones and bricks on the police. In return, the police started firing tear gas shells and shooting into the air to disperse the crowd.

President Barack Obama has vowed to 'stand fast' against attacks on U.S. embassies around the world and blamed Islamic militants and terrorists for trying to reverse the gains of Arab Spring.

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Brenda

Mohammed is a false prophet. Mohammed is nothing like Jesus Christ. Jesus had no? sin but Mohammed had sin. Jesus never went around with false teaching But Mohammed went around with false teaching. Mohammed went around killing people for not converting to Islam. Jesus never went around forcing people to serve him or die. Mohammed is not for peace.