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The independent
| 8 months ago
France was braced last night for an eruption of anti-French fury in the Muslim world after a satirical magazine published provocative cartoons of a naked prophet Mohammed in sexually-suggestive positions. Paris ordered all of its embassies and...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Islam film, is that some kind of desperate act for publicity? Barry Lando: I suppose their motives are mixed, I'm sure publicity has something to do with it, definitely their circulation has gone up every time they've done it; so they risk...
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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 8 months ago
We strongly protest and disapprove of making of the controversial film Innocence of Muslims by an individual in the United States, expressing solidarity with Muslim community of the country the forum said in a statement. The Christian community of...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
Islamic scholar Moataz al-Khateeb explains what is behind a wave of recent protests over an anti-Islam video. Last Modified: 19 Sep 2012 14:27 Islamic scholars have forbidden any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad [AP] A recent YouTube clip produced...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
KFC fast-food restaurant in Lebanon in a pre-dawn attack, just days after another one was torched and a demonstrator killed in a protest over a US-made film mocking Islam, a security official said. The US chain's restaurant was not open when the...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
Associated Press Pakistani officials say they have opened an investigation into a businessman who has been accused of blasphemy after refusing to join protests over an anti-Islam video and allegedly trying to convince others also not to take part.
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Tabsir
| 8 months ago
Wed 19 Sep 2012 The violence that erupted in the wake of the YouTube on the Prophet Mohammed is a wake-up call to all who care about the future of human civilization and, particularly, that of Arabs and Muslims living in Muslim-majority nations. (...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
A Muslim demonstrator holds up a sign during a protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Bangkok September 18, 2012. Demonstrators staged a peaceful protest against the anti-Islam film on Tuesday Reuters video Supporters of Islamic political movement...
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
Off and on, some mischievous non-Muslims, particularly from the West keep testing barometer of Muslim tolerance by their blasphemous speeches, writings, cartoons & films about the greatest Benefactor of Humanity, the last of the Messenger of Allah,...
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The Jakarta Post
| 8 months ago
The lawyers who protested in Islamabad shouted anti-US slogans and burned an American flag after they pushed through a gate, gaining access to the diplomatic enclave before police stopped them. They called for the US ambassador to be expelled from...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
The Pakistani government has decided to join demonstrators on Friday to protest against the American anti-Islam that has caused an outrage throughout the Muslim world...The cabinet decided that the government will show solidarity with the public in...
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Ansa
| 8 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI said on Wednesday that Muslims and Christians should join forces to stop violence and war. "It seems to me that the time has come for Christians and Muslims to express together a determined stance against violence and war," the...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Another exceptional development in her case is that her accuser faces forgery and blasphemy charges. Does this represent a change in how the state and the society are viewing blasphemy cases in Pakistan? On September 19, Wednesday, from 8 pm to 9 pm,...
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Vail Daily News
| 8 months ago
Religion of peace used as pawn for violence against those who disagree!...How long until the rest of the civilized world finally realizes that this oxymoronic verbal tactic is threatening our entire species and begins treating it like the...
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
At least 30 people have died since an amateurish trailer for the Innocence of Muslims anti-Islam film, produced by Christians in the United States, was posted on the Internet.
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Arab News
| 8 months ago
Sami Al-Nwaisir sami@alsamigroup.com Wednesday 19 September 2012 THE recent reaction of Muslim protesters to the Internet film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) is, to many Muslims, as legitimate as American's reaction to the terrorist...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rai called on the United Nations to prevent the insulting of religions, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday. Rai, who was speaking to reporters before heading to India on a pastoral visit, also said that...
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CNN Blog
| 8 months ago
Egyptian authorities have charged seven Coptic Christians living in the United States and a Florida pastor of insulting Islam and inciting sectarian strife for their alleged links to an online video that has enraged much of the Muslim world. Egypt's...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
The Russian government is threatening to ban YouTube entirely unless the company takes down a controversial anti-Islamic film that has led to violent protests across the Muslim world. Communications Minister Nikolai Nikiforov wrote on Twitter...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
What Muslim teachings say about retribution for blasphemy Protests and riots broke out across the Middle East and Asia over the past week, rejecting an anti-Muslim video's portrayal of the prophet Muhammad. What does Islamic theory condone? By...
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Times of India
| 8 months ago
The front page shows a photo of angry Muslim protesters shouting and putting their hands in the air, under the headline "Muslim Rage" and a sub-headline "How I survived it, how we can end it." The cover story is written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali , a well-...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
About 400 Muslim people protested peacefully against an anti-Islam video produced in the United States that has sparked demonstrations in many Muslim countries. US Embassy in Bangkok against an anti-Islam video produced in the United States that has...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A court in Egypt jailed an Egyptian Christian for six years on Tuesday for mocking the Prophet Mohammed and for insulting Islamist President Mohamed Morsi on social networking sites, a judicial source said. Beshoi al-Beheiry, from the province of...
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Fox News
| 8 months ago
FoxNews.com Burning an American flag proved fatal for a Pakistani protester, who reportedly died from inhaling fumes from the ignited icon of independence. Some 10,000 people rallied this week in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab province, to protest...
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Xtra News
| 8 months ago
Bangladesh has blocked YouTube after the video-sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world, government officials said Tuesday. The country's telecommunications regulator blocked the...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
The government in Bangladesh has blocked YouTube to prevent people from seeing an anti-Islam video produced in the U.S. ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad. Independent and Somoy television stations said the government blocked the popular video search...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Islam film, torching an American flag and tyres outside the US consulate in the country's third largest city of Medan. About 200 people from various Islamic groups gathered on Tuesday. Some unfurled banners saying, "Go to Hell America," while others...
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The Globe & Mail
| 8 months ago
Story Supporters of Islamic political movement Hizb ut-Tahrir protest outside the US Embassy in London against the US made anti-Muslim film mocking the Prophet Mohammad, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012 The Associated Press video But I was stunned when the U.S.
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
Video-sharing website YouTube was blocked across Pakistan on Monday flowing orders by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf. Taking cognisance of the blasphemous film uploaded on YouTube, the PM issued strict instructions to the Ministry of Information...
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The Hutchinson News
| 8 months ago
The rioting by Muslims supposedly "inflamed" by a cheaply produced YouTube film about the Prophet Muhammad was cited as the reason, but we have learned the attacks may have been planned in advance, some to coincide with the anniversary of Sept. 11...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
The move came hours after police fired in the air to disperse a crowd headed towards the U.S. Consulate in the city of Karachi to protest against the amateurish film. Ashraf's office said in a statement that the Ministry of Information had been...
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The Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
And many Islamic leaders seek peaceful protest but not censorship. This may be a sign that free speech has gained as a universal right...An Internet service such as YouTube can quickly span the globe, carrying a video that belittles Islam, while in...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
38 Zeenews Bureau Beirut: The leader of Hezbollah made a rare public appearance Monday at a rally in Beirut, calling for sustained protests against a film deemed offensive to Islam that already has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
YouTube on Monday after the video sharing website failed to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked furious protests across the Muslim world. Attempts to access YouTube met with a message saying the website had been classed as containing...
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
30 Supporters of Hezbollah carry banners and flags as they march during rally to denounce the anti-Islam film [EPA] Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, has made a rare public appearance to address tens of thousands of supporters who took to...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 8 months ago
But this interpretation relies on only a handful of sources and ignores Islamic authorities with a far more humane view...Under Islamic law, or sharia, it is a crime to insult the prophet Muhammad but the seriousness of the blasphemy crime is up for...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
With Muslim leaders in many countries calling for a global law barring what they call insults to Islam, the main non-Catholic world Christian grouping on Monday said just such a law in Pakistan is used to persecute other religions. Pakistan's...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Around 100 U.S. citizens have been evacuated from Tunisia since an attack on the embassy in Tunis by angry Muslim protesters that left four people dead, several sources said Monday. "The American nationals were evacuated on Sunday," a diplomatic...
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Mail Online UK
| 8 months ago
17 September 2012 In a move that could escalate tensions around the Arab world, the leader of the Hezbollah militant group called for protests against the movie and said the U.S. must be held accountable for the film. In a televised speech, Hezbollah...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Indonesia (AP) Indonesians enraged over an anti-Islam film hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on Monday, marking the first violence in the world's most populous Muslim country since outrage exploded last week in the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
The United States said Monday it would close its embassy in Bangkok in response to a planned protest by "several hundred people" over an anti-Islam film. The consulate, on a main road in the business district at the heart of the Thai capital, will...
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
PhilippinesThe outrage of Muslims over an incendiary anti-Islam video making the rounds in cyberspace should not translate to violence, a Muslim lawmaker said Monday. Sulu Rep. Tupay Loong appealed for sobriety from his fellow Muslims even as he...
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Sudan Tribune
| 8 months ago
Sudanese authorities have banned the video-sharing website Youtube in what appears to be an attempt to prevent people from watching an anti-Islam film that has been sparking protests across the Muslim world. Several sources confirmed to Sudan Tribune...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of Afghans burned tires and pelted police and buildings with stones on a thoroughfare leading east out of Kabul on Monday in the first significant spasm of violence in Afghanistan over an anti-Islam film that has inflamed mobs in other parts...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| 8 months ago
More than 75 members of the Dallas-area Muslim community held a candlelight vigil Saturday night in honor of Ambassador Chris Stevens and the other Americans killed earlier this week during an attack at the U.S...Organizers of the vigil said the acts...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for first protest to be held in Beirut's southern suburb of Dahiyeh at 5 p.m. on Monday. (AFP/Manar TV) Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Sunday called for protests...
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Epoch Times
| 8 months ago
Embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum during a protest Sept. 14 against an amateur film mocking Islam. Two protesters were killed as security forces used tear gas against thousands of demonstrators angered by the anti-Islam film. (STR/AFP/...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Muna Al-Fuzai The last week was marked in our life here in Kuwait and in many other Arab countries around the world with bloodshed, hatred and violence, all in the name of defending Islam and the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him). As a Muslim I do...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
This video is not suitable for children nor for those of a nervous disposition...At first I couldn't watch it, then I made myself do so in order to hear the words...You want freedom? the torturee is forced to declare that Bashaar al-Asad is his lord'...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah's leader blamed the United States Sunday for a recent anti-Islam film that has led to outrage in countries where Muslims live and said the offensive production posed a grave threat that aimed to sow strife between Christians and the...
