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
Let the whole world see that Islam is NOT a religion of peace an dtolerance first.
Well, that's what I'd do if I was president, just as I was rounding up and deporting all moslem aliens and eliminating every mosque in the land.
But I'm not president.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5c02%5c20%5cstory_20-2-2006_pg1_2
Monday, February 20, 2006
Curfew in northern Nigeria : Protesters attack US Embassy in Jakarta
JAKARTA: Demonstrators angry at depictions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) attacked the US embassy in Jakarta on Sunday, beating on the gate with sticks and pelting the building with tomatoes, eggs and stones.
More than 200 white-clad members of Indonesia’s militant Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were protesting over Danish cartoons lampooning the Prophet (pbuh) as well as his depiction in a sculpture at the US Supreme Court in Washington which shows him holding a Koran in one hand and a sword in the other.
Maksuni, an FPI deputy leader, told reporters after the protests: “This is not the last warning. This is only the beginning. There will be bigger actions against them.”
An embassy statement read to Reuters by a spokesman said the US government deplored the violence, and believed the event “was staged for television by a small group which seeks to disrupt the relationship between the US and Indonesia”.
Troops enforced a curfew in parts of northern Nigeria on Sunday after protests over the cartoons triggered riots in two cities that left 16 people dead and 11 churches burned. agencies
(--as well as his depiction in a sculpture at the US Supreme Court in Washington which shows him holding a Koran in one hand and a sword in the other.
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how do they know this unless they read http://michellemalkin.com/. It's been up there how long, but now it's a problem?!
I think the 7th century tards will allah fubar that one also! Like a wokplace accident that takes out Damascus, as they are attempting to commit genocide!
Then the sheet for brains will do what they always do........ Blame da Joooooooosssss!!!!!
I have lost allah my patience for these followers of the son of satan (porcine excrement be in him)!
It is indeed time for allah to DIE!
Sura 9:5 of the “Koran,” “Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.”
Very creative. Madmo waving the Israeli flag eating a whole piglet. That should make any mooselimb lurker burst a blood vessel.
Fat chance. Muslims look for ANY excuse to go on a rampage. It's more like a cult of violence than a religion of peace.
I was wondering when we were going to start treating them like children...dangerous children. That is how muslims worldwide are acting.
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when EVERY limp-wristed , muzzlie butt-kissing LIBERAL in the U.S. has moved to france or canada. In other words NEVER!
They blame America and the Jews for these cartoons. This is true idiocy.
Bruce C. Fryar here.
Make them very, very angry and perhaps they will destroy themselves in the process. I do not want to leave this problem for my children and grand children to have to face. This is not Social Security, this is life, as we know it or, death.
He's late.
Thank you.
I doubt the Muzzies will destroy themselves from anger. They are always angry, anyhow, and they presently destroy themselves with some regularity.
There's so many zillions of them scattered all over the globe, how can they "destroy themselves"? Our President told us this would be a war unlike any war before and different tactics must be used.....and that's exactly what he's doing.
Home-grown Muslims have not created any major problems here on the home front. They've been quiet. Too quiet as far as speaking out is concerned, but blessedly quiet as far as rioting and arson like in countries around the world.
One of the reasons is that neither Bush 1, Clinton or Bush 2 were or has been dumb enough to attack their "religion" with direct insulting appellations no matter how deserved. I'm sure they each have their private feelings on the murderous joke that is the Islamic cult, but they can't express it openly. Right now, we don't need to be in a shooting or sabotage war with another front here in our midst.
Leni
Muslims retreat faster than the French. Thy practice false bravado and cover their faces to protest. They prefer to attack unarmed and unaware innocent citizens. They have no shame and are under demonic control.
We are fully engaged in a world war.
Respectfully, that will change when they gain a purchase point. Specifically, their religious goal is world domination. The Muslims in the United States share that intent, but are not in an advantageous position. Their passivity would change in a moment - given an safe opportunity to express their religious belief.
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