Posted on 02/19/2006 8:07:38 AM PST by janetjanet998
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad tried to storm the U.S. Embassy on Sunday, smashing the windows of a guard post but failing to push through the gates. Several people were injured.
Pakistani security forces, meanwhile, sealed off the capital of Islamabad to block a planned mass demonstration and fired tear gas and gunshots to chase off protesters. In Turkey, tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul chanting slogans against Denmark, Israel and the United States.
Protests over the cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper in September and have been republished in other European publications and elsewhere, have swept across the Muslim world, growing into mass outlets for rage against the West in general, and Israel and the United States in particular.
Christians also have become targets. Pakistani Muslims protesting in the southern city of Sukkur ransacked and burned a church Sunday after hearing accusations that a Christian man had burned pages of the Quran, Islam's holy book.
That incident came a day after Muslims protesting in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri attacked Christians and burned 15 churches in a three-hour rampage that killed at least 15 people. Some 30 other people have died during protests over the cartoons that erupted about three weeks ago.
In Jakarta, about 400 people marched to the heavily fortified U.S. mission in the center of the city, behind a banner reading "We are ready to attack the enemies of the Prophet."
Protesters throwing stones and brandishing wooden staves tried to break through the gates. They set fire to U.S. flags and a poster of President Bush and smashed the windows of a guard outpost before dispersing after a few minutes.
The U.S. Embassy called the attacks deplorable, describing them as acts of "thuggery."
A protest organizer said the West, and particularly the United States, is attacking Islam.
"They want to destroy Islam through the issue of terrorism ... and all those things are engineered by the United States," said Maksuni, who only uses one name.
"We are fighting America fiercely this time," he said. "And we also are fighting Denmark."
In Pakistan, where protests last week left five people dead, police put up roadblocks around Islamabad to keep people from entering the capital for a planned mass protest called by a coalition of six hard-line Islamic parties, the Mutahida Majlis-e-Amal — United Action Forum.
Authorities also detained several lawmakers and Islamic leaders during raids in three cities and announced they would arrest anyone joining a gathering of more than five people to prevent the demonstration.
Opposition leader Maulana Fazlur Rahman, a senior figure in the Islamic coalition, was eventually given permission to lead a small rally through a square in the city center. The protesters chanted "God is great!" and "Any friend of America is a traitor."
But when about 100 other protesters tried to reach the square, officers fired tear gas and at least one gunshot to chase them off. More gunshots were heard later in the city, but it wasn't clear who fired them. At least two policemen were injured, one bleeding from the head. Several demonstrators also were hurt.
A crowd of 700 people, some throwing stones at police, tried to march toward Islamabad's heavily guarded diplomatic enclave about 1.3 miles from the square but with blocked by troops in armored personnel carriers.
Police also blocked about 1,500 protesters from reaching Islamabad from the city of Peshawar by putting shipping containers and sandbags on a bridge along a highway leading to the capital, said Mohammed Iqbal, a key member of the religious alliance.
Elsewhere in Pakistan, about 600 people staged a protest in Chaman, a town near the Afghan border, burning Danish flags and an effigy of the Danish prime minister.
Such protests prompted Denmark on Sunday to temporarily recall its ambassador to Pakistan, Bent Wigotski, because it was impossible for him "to perform his job duties during the present circumstances," the Danish Foreign Ministry said in a statement
I say we close all embassy buildings immediately if not sooner, and we cut off ALL the aid to these fruit loop countries.
Not one dollar more.
Not one bushel of wheat more.
Not one bandage more.
Not one more "doctors without borders".
Not one more bottle of medicine.
I am totally sick and tired of saving fools who cannot pour pee out of a boot with the directions written on the heel, who then turn on us and complain about all we do for them, and complain about our culture, which produces EVERYTHING which is given to them for free.
UNGRATEFUL doesn't begin to cover their behavior.
Cut them off...NOW and FULLY.
I just hope our leadership is taking careful note of these protests, and all the riots in Europe as well. Most of the West is seems scared s**tless in general of offending the islamics, we constantly make sure as few innocent civillians are killed when we fight terror oversears and in Europe their leaders are choosing to ognore the war on terror.
Yet islamics are rioting all over Europe and assualting western embassies. The islamics were rioting in France over a war their country had no part in and because two muslim teenagers were accidentally killed. Does the west really see these as legitimate excuses to cause such horrific riots, (and against a nation that has treated them like royalty)?
No, the cartoons and the Iraq War and the two muslim teenagers are not excuses to riot and kill and strom embassies. These people could not care less when muslims and non-muslims, from Algeria to Sudan to Iraq to Indonesia are murdered en mass by islamists; they mind when muslims are being offended and killed in war when its done by the inferior kaffir. Many muslims, especially those in the west, are tyrants who are trying to get control of kaffir territory, trying to claim all of planet earth as muslim property. The moral of the riots and mass protests? Any excuse will serve a murderous tyrant.
Next time a Tsunami hits NO USA aid to these muslims. let islam nations rescue them, not the USA!
At room, or ground temoerature, peace will be assured..
The problem of islam will have to be addressed at some point, all we are doing is plugging holes in the dam that is holding this problem back which is springing bigger and bigger leaks every day. At some point we will have to get to the point and attack the real problem....islam. The longer we wait the bigger the weapons islam has an opportunity to obtain.
We let no other religion that calls for the murder of others survive, there is no reasoning that should allow this one survive unless we were wrong to wipe out the other murdering religions.
The planet is not big enough for these lunatic savages and the rest of humanity.
Mow them down, then reload and call in the USAF.
Whatever you do, don't post any pictures! You never can tell who will be in them.
There's a very good reason why the muzzie world doesn't f%ck with Russia.
They know they'll be wiped off the face if they do. We're simply to damn soft on these parasites.
These islamic radicals just run around in the ticked off position. They pick any excuse to rail against anything.
It seems that if a mosque were wiped out for each of these attacks, they might have stopped by now.
By saying that Islam is a "religion of peace" long ago, President Bush co-opted a slew of problems both abroad and here at home. Don't think there's not enough radical Muslims in this country, including the Black Muslim followers of Calypso Louie, to stage riots, window smashings and car burnings if they were called what they really are by our most prominent leaders.
One can find a lot of fault with the President, but this is not one of them. Remember he's a pretty good master of strategery in the WOT. Calling this phony "religion" (it's a cult) what it is definitely NOT is part of GWB's poker game.
Leni
Not one barrel of oil more. To do as you advocate, cut off all muslim countries, will collapse the world economy.
That beautiful land has some of the most barbaric and absolutely blood drenched Muslims in the world.
Come to think of it, they may be no different from the rest of the Religion of Peace, but somehow their deeds are more disturbing.
I'm going to provide links to some photos of their "work" there and consider this a warning Do NOT click on these links if you are easily offended by such things.
So far his stratagy is cowtowing to these psycopaths! Wipe them off the face of the earth! Its the ONLY thing they understand!
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Exactly right. One of the way to swell the numbers of the Islamofascists, the ones that do full-time terror work, is to start the whole religion of Islam names.
Right now it's a small fraction of the huge population of Muslims that plant bombs. We really don't ALL the Muslims to start planting bombs, do we?
.........."In other news today, 220 million Indonesian Muslims didn't storm the U.S. Embassy and didn't smash the windows of a guard post and also didn't fail to push through the gate.
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Good point, so why do all 220 million of them sit on their hands while the rabble trash their cities??
Who was it who said: "You're either with us, or against us??"
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