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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The opposition March 14 coalition Wednesday slammed Hezbollah's organization of protests across the country against a film insulting the Prophet as an attempt to divert attention from the crisis in Syria. Hezbollah's call to organize demonstrations...
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Open Democracy
| 8 months ago
Pope Benedict XVI had barely departed from Beirut International Airport at the end of an historic, three-day Lebanon visit before Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah took to the airwaves. In an address to supporters on Hezbollah's satellite...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The spokesperson for the US Embassy in Beirut told NOW on Wednesday that Hezbollah's political manipulation of the genuine disgust felt by many Lebanese due an anti-Islam film was transparent and will not fool the Lebanese people. Hezbollah Secretary...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The March 14 General Secretariat said in a statement on Wednesday that Hezbollah's call for demonstrations to denounce the movie mocking Islam was an attempt to divert attention from the crimes of the Syrian regime. Hezbollah's calls for organizing...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Seven Egyptian Coptic Christians living abroad and a U.S. pastor will be tried by a criminal court for insulting Islam over a film made in California which mocks the Prophet Mohammad, Egypt's public prosecutor said on Tuesday. The Egyptians include U.
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Lebanese security officials said two people were wounded by gunfire during a demonstration organized by Hezbollah in southern Beirut. Thousands of people turned up in southern Beirut to attend a rally organized by Hezbollah.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Change and Reform bloc leader MP Michel Aoun rejected statements criticizing Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's recent speeches on the anti-Islam movie and said the Hezbollah chief enlightened public opinion about the intentions of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea criticized on Monday evening the manner in which Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah voiced his stance on the anti-Islam film that has triggered deadly protests across the globe. However, the Christian leader...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
A breakdown of events since the diffusion of a film considered offensive to Islam which prompted violent anti-US protests around the Muslim world. At the US consulate in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three more...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
Stormy Week Ahead Stormy Week Ahead In Film Protest Story Updated: 12:46pm UK, Monday 17 September 2012 The strength of the anti-American hurricane which blew through the Muslim world may have peaked but the signs are that a stormy week lies ahead.
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Los Angeles Times
| 8 months ago
The head of Lebanon 's powerful Hezbollah movement appeared Monday at a massive rally assailing the United States and warning that broadcast of a film produced in California mocking Islam could have grave consequences. America must understand that...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah warned the United States Monday against broadcasting the full version of an anti-Islam film, in a rare public speech at a rally attended by tens of thousands in Beirut's southern suburbs...Embassy in Lebanon...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
A supporter of Lebanon's Hezbollah group holds a sign as she marches with others during a rally in southern Beirut to denounce a film mocking Islam yesterday. Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah warned yesterday of very dangerous global repercussions if an...
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GMA News
| 8 months ago
Fearing assassination, the Hezbollah leader has seldom appeared in public since 2006, when the powerful Shi'ite group's militant wing fought a month-long war with Israel. "The world should know our anger would not be a passing outburst but it would...
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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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United Press International
| 8 months ago
State Department issued a travel alert Monday advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to Lebanon because of heightened security concerns. Conflict in neighboring Syria has threatened to spill into Lebanon. Also, anti-American sentiment in the...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others in Benghazi, Libya on September 12, 2012. The gunman were protesting a little known film by an American amateur filmmaker that angered Muslims as it was deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammad. Libya,...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Kataeb party leader Amin Gemayel slammed Monday Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah's call for a series of protests against a film insulting Prophet Mohammad and questioned Hezbollah's ability to ensure the protests remained peaceful...We saw what happened in...
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War In Context
| 8 months ago
Police fired in the air to break up a crowd marching on the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Karachi while in Afghanistan and Indonesia people burnt U.S. flags and chanted Death to America. Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to...
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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
Middle East editor, in Benghazi and in Islamabad Bodyguards surround Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah as he denounces the anti-Islam film to protesters in Beirut. Photograph: Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Rioting demonstrators battled with police outside a U.S. military base in Afghan istan and the U.S. Embassy in Indonesia Monday as violent protests over an anti-Islam film spread to Asia after a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide.
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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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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
45 Biggest-ever rally over an anti-Islamic film has brought scores to the center of Beirut, Lebanon, following a call for mass demonstrations by Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Most of the marchers are wearing green and yellow headbands, indicating...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday to warn the United States that it faced further anger and repercussions across the Muslim world unless it suppressed a video that mocks the Prophet Mohammad. "The world...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 8 months ago
The leader of Hezbollah made a rare public appearance Monday at a rally in Beirut, calling for sustained protests against an anti-Islam film that already has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries worldwide. Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has rarely...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The United States on Monday updated its travel warning to Lebanon amid a convulsion of anti-US outrage in the Middle East, and suspended grants to Americans wishing to study in the country. Urging Americans to avoid all travel to Lebanon, the State...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Thousands of people marched in the streets of Beirut's southern suburb Monday, complying with a call by Hezbollah to demonstrate against a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad. Men, women and children carried Lebanese and Hezbollah flags, chanting:...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Daily Star A Lebanese army soldier sits on his armored personnel carrier, as he stands guard outside the Burger King as part of stepped up security measures, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Saturday Sept. 15, 2012. Security forces in...
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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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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Amal Movement said Monday it would participate in protests called for by Hezbollah against a film insulting the Prophet Mohammad as Lebanese authorities said they would protect U.S...In an Amal statement following a meeting by its political...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Fresh protests are taking place around the Muslim world over an amateur anti-Islam video produced in the US. One protester was killed in violent protests in Pakistan and thousands attended an angry demonstration in the Philippines city of Marawi.
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Libya announced the arrest of 50 suspects over the killing of the US envoy and three other Americans, blaming the Benghazi attack on foreign extremists and claiming it was pre-planned. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said the US military did not plan...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of demonstrators attacked the security personnel and burned cars early Monday during protests in the Afghan capital against an anti-Islamic film that has been creating ripples in the Middle East, North Africa and some parts of Asia...Embassy...
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The Herald
| 8 months ago
Pakistan Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the U.S. Consulate in the southern city of Karachi on Sunday, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.
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Inquirer.net
| 8 months ago
Nasrallah called for series of protests in Lebanon over an amateur US-made film that mocks Islam. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah called for a week of protests across Lebanon over a film mocking Islam, as symbols of US influence were targeted by...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Reuters Within days after the Yemeni-based al-Qaida urged the Muslims to take revenge for the film, Hezbollah's leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has called for fresh protests in Lebanon. The head of the militant group said Muslims should let the world...
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Sky News
| 8 months ago
The head of Hezbollah has called for days of protests in Lebanon over a video mocking the Prophet Mohammed, saying that the US must be held accountable for creating "strife" between Muslims and Christians. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the Shi'ite...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
The leader of the Shia Muslim militant group, Hezbollah, has called for fresh protests in Lebanon on Monday over a film deemed offensive to Muslims. The world needed to know Muslims "would not be silent in the face of this insult", Sheikh Hassan...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah called Sunday for more protests in Lebanon against a film produced in the U.S. that insults the Prophet Mohammad. Nasrallah also accused the White House of seeking to sow strife between Christians and Muslims.
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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
05 Nasrallah, head of the powerful Shia movement, called for massive protests against an anti-Islam video [EPA] Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has called for a week of protests against a video mocking the prophet Muhammad that has triggered...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
The US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were killed when local militia assaulted Washington's consulate in Benghazi...Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Lebanese political party Hezbollah, has called for a week of mass protests to express...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Pakistanis protesting an anti-Islam film have broken through a barricade near the US Consulate in the southern city of Karachi, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured. In a move that could...
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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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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
The leader of Hezbollah has called for protests against an anti-Islam video starting on Monday but says Muslims must not attack embassies. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said Sunday that the Shiite militant group will organize demonstrations against the film...
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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...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Authorities stepped up security measures Sunday around the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, north of Beirut, amid reports of planned mass demonstrations in the southern suburb of the capital over the anti-Islam film that has fueled protests against foreign...
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National Public Radio
| 8 months ago
September 16, 2012 Pope Benedict XVI said Mass in Lebanon Sunday during his first visit to the Middle East, which is seeing dwindling Christian numbers and where Christians fear Islamists will gain power now that secular dictators have fallen.
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Hezbollah said Sunday that the anti-Islam U.S.-made film Innocence of Muslims is evidence of Washington's hostility toward Arabs and Muslims. American insults against the Prophet Mohammad are further evidence of the U.S. aggression toward Arabs and...
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BDNews24
| 8 months ago
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that she would urge the US to ban screening or publicity of the film 'Innocence of Muslims', which 'mocks' the Prophet Mohammad and portrays him as a 'buffoon'. "I came to know that a film has been made...
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International Business Times
| 8 months ago
Reuters Trying to capitalise on the ongoing protests , Al-Qaida's branch in the Arabian Peninsula said the killing of US ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya was the best example to emulate for Muslims. "What has happened is a great event, and these...
