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United Press International
| 8 months ago
About 30,000 people turned out Saturday in northern Israel for a protest against an anti-Islamic film, organizers said. The rally in Umm al-Fahm was directed at the movie "Innocence of Muslims," Ynetnews reported. The movie, apparently made by Coptic...
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Sacramento News
| 8 months ago
Saturday 22nd September, 2012 The Grand Mufti of Egypt Ali Gomaa spoke to CNN as Muslims staged yet more passionate protests Saturday in yet more locales, from Germany to Lebanon to Bangladesh, as they have since September 11. Demonstrators railed...
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News 24
| 8 months ago
A Pakistani government minister on Saturday offered a $100 000 bounty for the death of the maker of the anti-Islam film produced in the US that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer who has abused...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
About 500 Palestinians on Saturday staged what banners proclaimed a "Festival of the followers of Mohammed" in East Jerusalem in protest against French cartoons and a US-made film offensive to Islam. "We are all faithful to Mohammed" and "Mohammed...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Nigeria's second city of Kano, burning images of US President Barack Obama and stomping on the American flag to denounce an anti-Islam film made in the US. A crowd that included men, children and veiled women stretched for several kilometres through...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The employees of the KFC restaurant that had been vandalized by protesters demonstrating against the anti-Islam movie which mocked the Prophet Mohammad held a sit-in in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, the National News Agency reported on...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
Paris to enforce a ban on protests over an anti-Islam film or against a French magazine that published cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed. Riot police were deployed in several areas of Paris Saturday to enforce a ban on protests over an anti-Islam...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Bangladesh authorities on Saturday said they fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of Islamist protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations against a US-made anti-Islam film and hurled stones at police. The clash erupted after the protesters from an...
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Sudan Tribune
| 8 months ago
Sudanese Islamist and student groups cancelled a protest against anti-Islam cartoons they were calling for in Khartoum after failing to obtain the necessary authorisation from the police. Riot police stand guard behind barbed wire placed around the...
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Six people were killed and 67 others, among them 11 policemen, wounded in firing, brick-batting and arson attacks as protesters enraged over the anti-Islam film clashed with police in different areas of the provincial capital on Friday. The...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Some 200 Moroccans protested on Friday outside a mosque in Rabat's twin city of Sale after weekly prayers, chanting anti-US slogans and denouncing US President Barack Obama, an AFP photographer reported. "Death to Obama!" "Down with the West!" and "...
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Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 8 months ago
Lebanese Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites, took to the streets on Friday to vent their anger over a US-made film and French cartoons mocking Islam. In the southern port city of Sidon, Sunni clerics called "a day of rage" against insults to the Prophet...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
About 10,000 Bangladeshis took to the streets of Dhaka on Friday to demonstrate against an anti-Islam film made in the US and cartoons in a French satirical magazine caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed. The protesters, many carrying banners from half a...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Thousands of people protested against an anti-Islam film on Friday in Basra in South Iraq, burning American and Israeli flags and carrying pictures of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The protesters marched for more than an hour in...
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BBC South Asia
| 8 months ago
Eight die in Karachi and Peshawar At least eight people were killed as violent protests erupted on the streets of Pakistan's main cities in anger at an anti-Islam film made in the US. Five people were killed in the port city of Karachi and a further...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
French schools were closed in Lebanon on Friday and the army on alert outside French institutions ahead of protests against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed in a French magazine. "Due to current international tensions and the...
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B92
| 8 months ago
Germany postponed at the last minute a campaign promoting a hotline to fight against radical Islam, fearing that it could incite acts of violence of extremists. (B92, file) As is the case with governments of other Western countries, Germany fears...
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B92
| 8 months ago
A protest gathering against an American film deemed to be insulting to Muslims has been announced for Friday afternoon in the town of Novi Pazar. A view of Novi Pazar (parlament.gov.rs, file) This southwestern town and region is home to Serbia's...
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BBC
| 8 months ago
Tensions high for day of anti-Islam film protests 21 September 2012 Last updated at 01:47 ET Adverts have been broadcast on Pakistani TV showing President Barack Obama condemning an anti-Islam film made in the US, as security forces in several Muslim...
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CNN Blog
| 8 months ago
Several diplomatic facilities were shuttered Friday as many brace for intensified protests over the anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims," as well as recently published cartoons in a French publication of a figure resembling the Prophet Mohammed.
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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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Al Jazeera
| 8 months ago
02 The US embassy in the Pakisani capital has become the latest target of protesters angry at an anti-Islam video that triggered protests in the Arab and Muslim world. Hundreds of students from various colleges and educational institutions in...
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BBC South Asia
| 8 months ago
Clashes in Islamabad There have been chaotic scenes as police try to gain control of the area The authorities in Pakistan have called on the army to control protesters demonstrating against an amateur video mocking Islam outside the US embassy in the...
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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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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Police fired live rounds and tear gas Thursday to break up a crowd of around 1,000 students, many armed with wooden clubs, protesting in Islamabad against an anti-Islam film. The demonstrators were driven back by police as they tried to reach...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon said the offensive anti-Islam Internet video that ignited worldwide protests was "disgraceful and shameful." Calling freedom of expression and assembly "inalienable" rights, Ban said Wednesday that they "must be guaranteed and...
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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Hundreds of Afghans on Thursday protested for the first time against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed published in France and staged fresh rallies against a U.S.-made anti-Islam film. About 300 students chanted "death to France, death to America" in...
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Russia Today
| 8 months ago
Pakistani police arrested an Imam on Sunday over accusations he had planted evidence on a Christian girl accused of burning a Koran, allegedly to frame her. Witnesses say the cleric tore pages from the Koran and planted them in the girl's bag.
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Channel NewsAsia
| 8 months ago
All US diplomatic missions in Indonesia will be closed on Friday amid the threat of "significant demonstrations" on the day over an anti-Islam film, the American Embassy said on Thursday. The low-budget American film, "Innocence of Muslims", has...
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Xtra News
| 8 months ago
Google on Thursday blocked YouTube users in Singapore from viewing clips of an anti-Islamic film that has incited violent protests across the Muslim world, acting on a request by city authorities. Attempts to access the low-budget "Innocence of...
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
46 Reported News Brief 9/20/2012, Tishrei 4, 5773 Lebanon: Hizbullah Supporters Protest in Tyre Thousands of supporters of Hizbullah protested Wednesday in the southern Lebanon city of Tyre against a U.S.-made film mocking Islam and cartoons of the...
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Seattle Times
| 8 months ago
Several European countries beefed up security at their embassies a week after angry crowds began assaulting a string of U.S. diplomatic missions in the Mideast.
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
French schools and cultural centers in Egypt will close on Thursday as a precautionary measure after the publication in France of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed, the consulate said. "Although there has been no specific threat in Egypt, it has...
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The Courier-Mail
| 8 months ago
S ruling party says Muslims have "the right to protest" against the publication in France of cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed as long as they do so peacefully. "Ennahda backs the right of Muslims to protest and calls on the use of peaceful and...
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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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The Guardian
| 8 months ago
We've gathered every verified protest and created a timeline from the violent protest in Benghazi up to events today...Get the data behind the timeline More data journalism and data visualisations from the Guardian
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DAWN
| 8 months ago
Up to 500 Pakistani lawyers managed to break through a gate to Islamabad's heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave on Wednesday in a fresh protest to denounce an American-made anti-Islam film. Wearing headbands inscribed with Lovers of Prophet, Death to...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
French schools in Tunisia will close from Wednesday afternoon until Monday morning due to security concerns, after a French weekly published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the embassy in Tunis said. "It's a preventative measure. We have not...
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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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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 8 months ago
They chanted, "Hang the producer and director of the film." (AP)
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Israel National News
| 8 months ago
Free Daily Israel Report Latest News Briefs "+arr[i][1]+" 12:39 Reported News Brief 9/19/2012, Tishrei 3, 5773 New Cartoon: Jew Pushes Mohammed in Wheelchair New satirical cartoons of Mohammed in a French magazine on Wednesday show its cover with...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 8 months ago
A female suicide bomber killed nine foreign airport workers, including eight South Africans, in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan on Tuesday claimed to be in revenge for an American-made anti-Islam film. The woman rammed a car packed with explosives...
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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Lebanese Democratic Party leader MP Talal Arslan said on Wednesday that the anti-Islam movie which mocked the Prophet Mohammed was part of an Israeli campaign aimed against the Muslim civilization. The attacks against the Prophet Mohammed are part of...
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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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The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, billionaire nephew of Saudi Arabia's king, said Tuesday only a minority were involved in violent anti-U.S. protests over a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad and Islam was too strong to warrant such an uproar over the matter.
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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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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
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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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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NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
The Future bloc on Tuesday condemned the statements of Iran's top Revolutionary Guard commander Mohammad Ali Jafari that guards were present in Lebanon, and said Hezbollah's weapons only served Iranian interests. [Jafari's] statements are condemned...
