Associated Press
| 8 months ago
The urge to defend to Islam's most unifying figure, the Prophet Muhammad, wasn't enough to bring together Lebanon's divided Sunni and Shiite Muslims. The two sects, which have been locked in a sometimes violent political rivalry, held separate...
NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Salafi Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir greeting protesters in downtown Beirut during rally against the anti-Islam movie. (NOW Lebanon) Salafi Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir said during a rally against the anti-Islam movie which ridicules the Prophet Mohammad that it...
NOW Lebanon
| 8 months ago
Around a hundred Muslim protesters gathered outside the French embassy in London on Friday, shouting slogans against a French magazine that published cartoons portraying the Prophet Mohammed naked. The protest came as at least 15 people died on...
The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
Tripoli's police chief said Friday that 14 people have been arrested over last week's attack on the American fast food restaurants KFC and Hardee's during protests in the northern city against a U.S.-made anti-Islam. According to the National News...
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...
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...
Reuters
| 8 months ago
Topics Libyan women hold pictures of their loved ones killed in last year's war during a national ''Martyrs' day'' in Tripoli September 16, 2012. The guns are silent and fighters have disappeared from the streets of the north Lebanese city of Tripoli...
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...
The Daily Star
| 8 months ago
The Future Movement demonstrated Friday outside Electricite Du Liban in the southern coastal city of Sidon and blocked area roads in protest at harsh electricity rationing. Around 100 protesters blocked the road near EDL offices in the city for 30...