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Muslims Assault U.S. Embassy in Indonesia
yahoo/ap ^ | ALI KOTARUMALOS

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: actofwar; cartoons; globaljihad; indonesia; islam; jihad; shootthemnow; us; usembassy
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To: janetjanet998
I don't know about everyone else here, but I think it's about time we opened that great big can of Whoop-ASS. Amen.
121 posted on 02/19/2006 12:07:13 PM PST by gakrak ("A wise man's heart is his right hand, But a fool's heart is at his left" Eccl 10:2)
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To: ncountylee
do you really think our leaders will cut off aid over this?

lol

more than likely they will INCREASE AID to show the muslims we mean no harm, and respect their religion!

*sigh*

Oh! and they will be sure to continue apologizing!
122 posted on 02/19/2006 12:10:52 PM PST by conservative physics
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To: aShepard
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??"

Most of the 4.5 billion people on this planet don't go out and do something about every protest/riot in the streets.

We had Muslim protests here in the U.S.. Did you go out and do something about that?

123 posted on 02/19/2006 12:13:52 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: Brilliant

Soon, hopefully.


124 posted on 02/19/2006 12:17:46 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Tancredo for President.)
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To: hershey

It's about Indonesia and Pakistan.


125 posted on 02/19/2006 12:19:14 PM PST by TheBrotherhood (Tancredo for President.)
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To: Brilliant
Fight back? Our media has already chosen to submit to tyranny.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

126 posted on 02/19/2006 12:20:57 PM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: FreeReign

....."We had Muslim protests here in the U.S.. Did you go out and do something about that?".......

Gee, I didn't hear about the US muslim protests fire bombing buildings, killing people.

I did hear about a bunch of muslims crashing planes into our buildings.

I think that we reacted to that one!


127 posted on 02/19/2006 12:21:54 PM PST by aShepard (Have Gun, Will Travel)
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To: bill1952

We need to "go Roman" on these monsters asap.


128 posted on 02/19/2006 12:25:12 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: TeddyCon
guess you never heard of the Afghanistan war or Chechnya rebels.
129 posted on 02/19/2006 12:27:45 PM PST by conservative physics
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To: conservativewasp
there is plenty of oil in the rest of the world, the enviro-wackos just haven't been letting us go get it.
130 posted on 02/19/2006 12:29:33 PM PST by conservative physics
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To: Casekirchen

don't forget the 'few' militant muslims who were stoning a french (I think) reporter in Turkey.

Yes they surely do get around.


131 posted on 02/19/2006 12:29:44 PM PST by SusaninOhio
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To: MikeinIraq
"Those same people COULD BE roaming other parts of the world (and they would be too) but we took the fight to them in Iraq and THEY are losing it, despite what some will say."

I'm with you on that.

132 posted on 02/19/2006 12:30:52 PM PST by blam
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To: conservative physics
Would Afghanistan have been the USSR's vietnam without our help? Or would the muzzies have had the asses handed to em?

As for Chechnya, well, their expolding, say, a suitcase nuke in Gronzy, wouldn't be quite same as their doing so Moscow, now would it?

So IMO, we're seen as a lot weaker to muslims than are the Russians and Russia.

133 posted on 02/19/2006 12:39:05 PM PST by TeddyCon
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To: janetjanet998
Liberals SCREAM:
"Bush lied and people died"
"There were NO Weapons of Mass Destruction"

ISLAM is a weapon of Mass Destruction..
Mohammed (Piss be upon him) is the murderous bastard who LIED and people died.
DUMB ASSES.


134 posted on 02/19/2006 12:39:53 PM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: bill1952
Send these to Michelle Malkin and the rest of the "right wing" radio folks.

Maybe one of them can show these to Dubya, Condi Rice, etc.

Not that they'll listen, but it is our duty to warn them.

Full Disclosure: No, I'm not a "naif" ; but I feel that many in the Republican leadership are under tremendous pressure to pretend a lot of this stuff away. If they know that there is a political groundswell of people who KNOW better it might make it easier for them to do what is right...

No cheers, unfortunately.

135 posted on 02/19/2006 12:40:02 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: TeddyCon
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.

Actually when it comes to taking care of radical Islam, Putin and Russia are a disaster.

There solution is to indiscriminately destroy Chechnya while at the same time coddle terrorist supporting countries such as Iran, Syria and Oman.

Putin is a disgrace.

136 posted on 02/19/2006 12:45:04 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: dfwgator

And a growing "peace" in the UK.

Someone needs to stop this ... .


137 posted on 02/19/2006 12:47:26 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: janetjanet998

Would someone post those cartoons again? It's the best way we can tell them to shove it. :o)


138 posted on 02/19/2006 12:53:23 PM PST by NRA2BFree (All I ask is a chance to prove that money can*t make me happy.)
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To: ExcursionGuy84
When the President gives the order, Natch!

The Rapture will happen before he gives the order! He would hate to offend the ROP. Great tagline, btw. :o)

139 posted on 02/19/2006 12:57:02 PM PST by NRA2BFree (All I ask is a chance to prove that money can*t make me happy.)
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To: navysealdad
Such tactics have been in use among Indonesians for the past sixty years. Such activities were stoked by the Japanese prior to WWII, and they worked effectively (did I say murderously?) to rid the East Indies of Dutch "oppression".

Sixty years ago my family, too, lived well in what is now Indonesia.

HF

140 posted on 02/19/2006 12:58:49 PM PST by holden (holden on'a'na truth, de whole truth, 'n nuttin' but de truth)
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