2 killed as anti-Bush protests turn violent:(Muslim protestors attack Hindu shops which didn't shut)

Rediff ^ | March 03, 2006 18:38 IST | Rediff

[CarrotAndStick]

Two persons were killed and more than 10 injured as violence erupted Friday during anti-Bush demonstrations with protestors fighting pitched battles with shopkeepers and police in several areas of Lucknow.

The protestors went around trying to force closure of shops in Latouche Road, Aminabad, Kaiserbagh, Nazirabad, Maulviganj and Hazratganj areas and "indulged in heavy brickbatting", Inspector-General of Police (Lucknow zone) O P Tripathi said.

He confirmed that one person died on the spot due to a bullet injury in Latouche Road area while another succumbed to injuries in hospital.

The injured were admitted to KGMU Trauma Centre and Balrampur hospital.

The IG said 10 companies of the PAC had been deployed and claimed that the situation was now under control.

The processionists, who were protesting the visit of US President George W Bush, damaged shops and vehicles in stone-pelting and set several two-wheelers ablaze in various parts of the city, he said.

Police deployed on security duty for visiting President A P J Abdul Kalam were relocated and patrolling roads and lanes of the affected areas.

The trouble erupted after the protestors attended Friday prayers and marched through the streets of the city trying to force closure of shops, which was opposed by the locals.

All the main markets in Lucknow closed down following the incident.

[CarrotAndStick]

The (Muslim) protestors went around trying to force closure of (Hindu-owned) shops in Latouche Road, Aminabad, Kaiserbagh, Nazirabad, Maulviganj and Hazratganj areas and "indulged in heavy brickbatting", Inspector-General of Police (Lucknow zone) O P Tripathi said.

The trouble erupted after the protestors attended Friday prayers and marched through the streets of the city trying to force closure of shops, which was opposed by the locals.

[indcons]

Is it time for another Gujarat?

[SusaninOhio]

i dispise the moslem religion

[goodwithagun]

The religion of peace strikes again!

[CarrotAndStick]

The Bush visit went largely successful in India, barring the Muslim-Commie protests.

[CarrotAndStick]

Hope not. It will turn extremely bloody if it does.

[indcons]

Same here.....ma'am. I would leave them alone if they left me alone. However, common sense has never been a characteristic of the pedophile prophet or his followers.

[Uncle Miltie]

Islam is tiring.

My patience is running out.

[Red Badger]

Those peaceful and tolerant Muslims again.........

[ILS21R]

Here's a good one...ooops wrong president:

14th March 1997

Indian Express

Srinagar: Groups of angry demonstrators took to streets in the various localities of Srinagar city and protested against the display of the "imaginary portrait"of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) in the U.S. Supreme Court. Early morning, the protesting youth burnt the effigy of Clinton in a number of localities including ABI Guzar. The protesters pelted stones on the police, when the latter tried to dispense them. However, police used tear smoke shells and resorted to lathicharge in Batmaloo, Maisuma, Abiguzar in civil lines area and most of the down town localities. Pitched battles between the police and demonstrators intensified after the Friday prayers and continued for hours. Police also arrested some miscreants from different parts of the city.

[CarrotAndStick]

Image: US President George W Bush surrounded by women at a discussion group during a visit to the Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University.

[Frenetic]

You Wrote: "Islam is tiring. My patience is running out."

- Couldn't have said it better myself. The only consolation is that Islam is in its death throes and will cease to exsist as a major religion for very long, humiliated and scorned.

[capecodconservative]

The practitioners of the "religion of peace" are at is again. Muslims trying to force non-belivers to do what they want? I am shocked, shocked.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Image: US President George W Bush surrounded by women at a discussion group during a visit to the Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University. ****

And Bill Clinton remarked, "That SOB is luckyer than a dog with two d!*ks!" Sarcasm/off.

[Uncle Miltie]

"The only consolation is that Islam is in its death throes and will cease to exsist as a major religion for very long, humiliated and scorned."

I like your optimism. On what is it based?

[CarrotAndStick]

Some more pictures of Bush's visit to India:

[voletti]

"The only consolation is that Islam is in its death throes and will cease to exsist as a major religion for very long, humiliated and scorned."

I wish I shared your confidence.
Dya know something I don't? Pls share!

[Rummyfan]

The only consolation is that Islam is in its death throes and will cease to exsist as a major religion for very long, humiliated and scorned.

But at what cost to the rest of the world? I wish we were being more proactive. Call it proselytizing if you wish but.....

[Rummyfan]

Any religion that punishes conversion with death, which has to riot in response to harmless cartoons published a world away, and which constantly and vociferously touts its supremacy despite the fact that said believed supremacy is in direct contradiction of fact, is not a healthy religion. It is weak and vulnerable and yes, dying. Followers of Islam do not fear death that is true - what they really fear is LIFE!

[weegee]

This is not a protest. This is Islamonazi brownshirts using violence to force non-muslims to bow to their whims.