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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Agencies Protesters torch a cinema in Peshawar, Pakistan in protest against an anti-Islam film. Muslim protests against insults to the Prophet Mohammad turned violent in Pakistan, where at least 15 people were killed Friday, but remained mostly...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Pakistan's "Day of Love for the Prophet" turned into a deadly day of gunfire, tear gas and arson. Thousands angered by an anti-Muslim film ignored pleas for peaceful rallies and rampaged in several Pakistani cities Friday in battles with police that...
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Kuwait Times
| 8 months ago
Fresh protests erupted across the Muslim world yesterday against a US-made film and French cartoons mocking Islam, with violent demonstrations in Pakistan leaving at least 17 people dead. In Middle Eastern and Asian countries tens of thousands took...
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Zee News
| 8 months ago
Petersburg Prosecutor's office Friday warned popular Russian social networking site VKontakte against the spread of an anti-Islamic film which has sparked riots across the Islamic world. "The St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office has issued a warning...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
Nearly 20 people were killed and hundreds injured today when thousands of angry demonstrators during government-sanctioned protests over an anti-Islam film turned violent in several cities across Pakistan on a day being observed as 'Love the Prophet...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
President Barack Obama and pastor Terry Jones during a rally in Peshawar, Pakistan as a part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 8 months ago
Two people have been killed and dozens injured as violence broke out across Pakistan on Friday, as protests against the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims gather force. The Pakistani government has called Friday "a day of love for the Prophet [...
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Chicago Tribune
| 8 months ago
Pakistan shut down Friday in a government-sanctioned protest over a film made in the United States that mocks the Prophet Mohammad, highlighting the power of religious parties to shape the political agenda. Protesters incensed by the film and...
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Star Tribune
| 8 months ago
Pakistani police opened fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against an anti-Islam film Friday, and security forces clashed with demonstrators in several other cities in Pakistan on a holiday declared by the government so...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
The Pakistani government, after a day of violent protests over an anti-Islam film, Friday blocked mobile phone services in 15 cities. The government had declared Friday a national holiday for Yaum-i-Ishq-i-Rasool --Love for Prophet Muhammad --...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
The unrest came as governments and Western institutions in many parts of the Muslim world braced for protests after Friday prayer an occasion often associated with demonstrations as worshipers leave mosques. In Tunisia, the authorities invoked...
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The independent
| 8 months ago
News in pictures From the blogs We knew September wouldn't fail us when it comes to delivering pure awesomeness in the form of event... It's restaurateur, designer, writer and philanthropist Sir Terence Conran's 81st birthday next month... Goals...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 8 months ago
Much of the anger has been directed at the US government even though the film was privately produced in the US and American officials have criticised it for insulting Muslims. Pakistan has experienced nearly a week of violent rallies against the film...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Pakistan as the country shut down for mass protests against a US-made anti-Islam film that has fanned global Muslim anger, inflamed further by French cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Western missions across the Islamic world went on high alert,...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
Angry demonstrators set fire to two cinemas in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Friday, police and witnesses said, as the country began a day of protests against an anti-Islam film. One protester was wounded when a cinema guard opened fire...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Friday said that the anti-Islam film had hurt his sentiments but that of Muslims across the world, DawnNews reported. Addressing a large gathering at the PM Secretariat to mark the Youm-i-Ishq-i-Rasool to protest...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
The government has called for observing the day as "Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool" (Love the Prophet Day) and Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has asked the people to protest peacefully. Authorities put in place strict security arrangements across the...
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Sacramento Bee
| 8 months ago
Muhammed Muheisen / AP Photo A Pakistani protester reacts to tear gas fired by police, during clashes erupted as protestors tried to approach the U.S. embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-...
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The Daily Telegraph
| 8 months ago
Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur to protest a US-made video that insults Prophet Mohammed. Prime Minister Najib Razak condemned the video and described it as "deeply offensive" to Islam, but he urged fellow Muslims to remain calm and not resort to...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
Pakistan has blocked cell phone service in major cities to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during a national day of protest against an anti-Islam film produced in the United States. An Interior Ministry official says the service...
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International Herald Tribune
| 8 months ago
The ads, a public relations effort to tamp down anti-American sentiment, featured clips of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizing the YouTube video, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizing buffoon. The...
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Taiwan News
| 8 months ago
Embassy seal, advertisements condemning an anti-Islam video appeared on Pakistan i television on Thursday in an apparent attempt to undercut anger against the United States, where the film was produced. Hundreds of youths, however, clashed with...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
The United States warned its citizens Thursday to avoid travel to Pakistan amid ongoing protests in the country against a US-made anti-Islam film. The warning from the State Department updates an August 27 advisory, which warned of the risks of...
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USA Today
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet clashed with police in the Pakistani capital Thursday, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and...
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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
An Ishq-e-Rasool Conference would be held tomorrow morning to convey a message that sentiments of Pakistani people were hurt by the anti-Islam film, Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told the reporters after the cabinet meeting,...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Up to 100 people protested in front of France's embassy in Tehran on Thursday over a French satirical weekly's publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, an AFP correspondent said. The protesters chanted "Death to France," as well as Iran's...
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Indian Express
| 8 months ago
The federal cabinet set aside its agenda during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to condemn the film that has triggered protests across the Muslim world. The cabinet decided to observe September 21 as "Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool" (...
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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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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 8 months ago
WTA rankings on Monday (last week's positions in brackets): 1. (1) Victoria Azarenka (Belarus) 10265 points 2. (2) Maria Sharapova (Russia) 8435 3. (3) Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 8295 4. (4) Serena Williams (United States) 7900 5. (5) Petra Kvitova...
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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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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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News 24
| 8 months ago
A French magazine is set to increase Muslim ire by printing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday a day after 12 died in an Afghan suicide bombing, the deadliest attack linked to an anti-Islamic film. A female suicide bomber killed 12 people...
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SF Gate
| 8 months ago
In this file Friday, Sept. 14, 2012 photo, Pro-Assad supporters chant slogans during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. For the embattled Syrian...
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Education News
| 8 months ago
Samsung (005930) is looking to build on the success of its Galaxy S III smartphone and will reportedly unveil a sequel to the popular device in February 2013, according to a rumor from The Korea Times. Samsung is ready to unveil the next Galaxy...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 8 months ago
Wednesday Sep 19, 2012 A Russian Cabinet minister says authorities will block access to YouTube if it refuses to take down an anti-Islam film that has sparked violence around the world. Prosecutors have already asked a Moscow court to outlaw the "...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Saudi Arabia has threatened to block YouTube in the kingdom if Google does not respond to a request to deny access to an anti-Islam film produced in the United States, the official SPA news agency reported Tuesday. "Saudi Arabia's Communications and...
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United Press International
| 8 months ago
Russia may block access to YouTube beginning next month so an inflammatory anti-Muslim video cannot be seen, a communications ministry official says. Tass reported Tuesday. "Funny or not, but because of this video, we may block fully YouTube in the...
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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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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
The minister tweeted that the ban could come into force as early as November 3-5 as a new law on protecting children protection from dangerous information comes into force. The new law authorizes bocking websites that contain information recognized...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of more than 2,000 protesters trying to reach the US consulate in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, as fresh demonstrations erupted against an anti-Islam film...Around 2,000 people marched through the country's...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
A controversial new Russian media law could be used to block YouTube in the country over postings of the anti-Islam film that has sparked deadly rioting, the communications minister warned Tuesday. "It sounds like a joke, but because of this video...
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The Jakarta Post
| 8 months ago
My ministry and YouTube have been engaged in cooperation since Thursday, last week. I submitted the request in the morning, in the afternoon YouTube blocked 16 links to the clip, Tifatul told the press at the State Palace on Tuesday. He added the...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
The Pakistan government has blocked popular video-sharing website, YouTube, in its entirety across the country after a recently released anti-Islam film created furor across the Muslim world In addition, Interior Minister Rehman Malik weighed in with...
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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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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Youtube said it will not remove the clip which has offended millions around the Muslim world, however, it has blocked access in countries such as Libya, Egypt and most recently, India and Indonesia where violent protests have remained unabated. In...
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Newsbusters
| 8 months ago
While Google has turned down a request from the Obama Administration to withdraw the low-budget movie "Innocence of Muslims" from YouTube in the United States, the company has begun blocking access to the controversial film in certain Muslim...
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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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Pak Tribune
| 8 months ago
Two protesters died in the country on Monday as a violent backlash against the anti-Islam film spread across the region and angry demonstrators clashed with police, hurling stones and shouting slogans. Thousands of students burned US flags and...
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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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Salem News
| 8 months ago
Bangladesh has blocked the video sharing website YouTube for hosting an anti-Islam movie that insults the Prophet Muhammad on Monday. Visitors from different parts of Bangladesh has confirmed and reconfirmed that they are unable to access you tube...
