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Written by Brother Andrew
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
So far his stratagy is cowtowing to these psycopaths! Read his Ramadan quote again and then imagine FDR saying the same about the Japanese or the NAZI's. Now run away from the facts! Your good at that!
You're right that Bush's numbers were highest when he was kicking ass and taking names - and also talking the talk. As he softened, Hawks have become disillusioned; and moderates, who knows what they're doing (or thinking).
Good to hear from a conservative w heavy-metal hard science inclinations - my man, Physics!
Yes it does. And the sooner their jaws drop in awe, the better.
I HAVE all the facts..........I just don't draw bizarre conclusions from them, nor do I engage in histrionics and hyperbole.
But you're exceptionally good at it, so do carry on......... don't let my reasoned opinion interfere with your emotional outbursts.
No he doesn't. There isn't anything stopping him from saying to America that islam has gotten out of control and is no longer in the hands of the peaceful and to be very vigilant because things will be getting nastier.
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Written by Brother Andrew
Wait. Weren't these cartoons Danish cartoons? They couldn't find a Danish Embassy so decided to go after the American one?
To stifle communication of this reality is foolish and anti-American IMO.
You're right. Can you imagine FDR or Truman EVER praising the German people or Japanese as peaceful?
They found the nearest cliff and jumped...
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.
I hope people understand that this is the Muslim's way of thinking - the majority of them -
Let's start with this statement (I won't bother to correct your spelling). It's entirely false, so it negates the reality of anything else you're trying to 'teach' me.
You can take direct quotes til the cows come home, but if you draw conclusions from them that don't jibe with the reality of what has been done to fight Islamofascism by this administration, you aren't offering 'enlightenment'...........you are offering poppycock.
But thanks for trying. Now, if you don't mind, I have a conversation going on another thread with a nice, rational freeper, who is also disagreeing with President Bush..........as I myself do on several issues.
So carry on with your hyperbole and leaps in logic. Don't let me get in your way, Bom.
If they don't after this incident, triggered by Danish cartoons, they never will. And lots never will till it's on their doorstep.
It started to scare me about your mental health...........and was especially funny as I work directly on the Ken Blackwell campaign to replace him with a real conservative.
Bye!
There never has been. The administration has chosen not to define clearly the ideological enemy, driven by Islam.
Wow! Thank goodness for that. Now maybe editorial newspapers and cartoonist won't be afraid to show Mohammad's face in their papers...i mean since were so safe and all! Ahhh the world of poppycock in the sea of facts! Its funny how most poppycock can be refuted, but mine can't!
Thanks for that cogent insight. And good-bye.
....and brave WOhio ran away! She bravely ran away away! When facts raised their truthful head, she ran away instead..."
Your logic is improving, Bommer. Stick with your therapist......she's helping you.
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