Protesters Stone Nepal Mosque After Iraq Killings(Big Anti-Muslim Riot)

Reuters via Yahoo! News ^ | 09/01/04 | Gopal Sharma

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Protesters Stone Nepal Mosque After Iraq Killings

Nepalese protesters shout slogans as they stand on the dome of a mosque during a demonstration in Kathmandu to protest against the killijng of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq (news - web sites). Around 4,000 people set Kathmandu's biggest mosque ablaze and smashed up private job recruitment agencies in response to the killing of 12 Nepalese jobseekers in Iraq, witnesses said(AFP/Devendra M. Singh)

Nepalese protester (R) shouts slogans as he stands beside a burning tyre during a demonstration in Kathmandu. The government clamped a curfew on the city after mobs ransacked a mosque and an Arab airlines office in protest at the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq (news - web sites)(AFP/Devendra M. Singh)

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Dozens of people threw stones at a mosque in Kathmandu and tried to set it on fire on Wednesday to protest against the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq (news - web sites).

Nepali police lobbed teargas shells as more than 1,000 demonstrators, some carrying Buddhist flags, burned tires at a main intersection 200 yards from the Jame Masjid mosque in the heart of the capital, Kathmandu.

Police cordoned off the mosque, which was obscured from afar by thick clouds of smoke rising from burning tires on roads leading to the building while riot police put up barricades on nearly empty streets.

"Demonstrators entered the mosque, threw stones and partially damaged it," police official Binod Singh told Reuters.

"They tried to set the building on fire but police intervened and prevented them. The building has been cleared. No one was injured."

A militant Iraqi group said on Tuesday it had killed the 12 Nepali hostages, who went to Iraq to work as cooks and cleaners for a Jordanian firm, and showed pictures of one being beheaded and the others with bullet wounds to the head and back.

Impoverished Hindu Nepal does not allow its nationals to travel or work in Iraq because of security concerns but many go to the country from other nations in the Middle East.

About 3.5 percent of Nepal's 27 million people are Muslim.

"This inhuman act is against Islam," a Nepali Islamic group said in a statement on the killing of the 12, the largest number of foreign captives killed at one time by militants in Iraq.

Groups of protesters took to the streets of Kathmandu late on Tuesday after news of the killing spread. They targeted manpower recruitment companies that send laborers to Iraq.

In other parts of the city, groups of about 150 protesters burned tires at intersections, disrupting traffic on Wednesday. Relatives accused the government of not doing enough to help the victims.

"The government did not do enough to get their release," said Sudarshan Khadka, the brother of Ramesh Khadka, one of the victims, in his village about 16 miles outside Kathmandu.

About 800,000 Nepalis work as laborers, drivers, guards, cleaners and cooks in different countries -- 200,000 of them in the Middle East.

They send about $800 million home to their families each year, a major source of income in one of the world's 10 poorest countries.

Nepal's embattled government is struggling to contain an insurgency by Maoist rebels seeking to replace the constitutional monarchy with one-party communist rule.

The government's mainstream political opponents have staged months of protests in a campaign for the revival of a parliament dissolved by King Gyanendra two years ago.

Nepalese riot policemen stand in front of a burning mosque after it was set alight by a rampaging mob in Kathmandu to protest against the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages in Iraq (news - web sites). Around 4,000 people set Kathmandu's biggest mosque ablaze and smashed up private job recruitment agencies in response to the killing of 12 Nepalese jobs

An ambulance passes a bonfire in Kathmandu during a demonstration against the killing of 12 Nepalis in Iraq (news - web sites) September 1, 2004. More than 1,000 demonstrators burned tires at a main intersection 0.12 miles from the Jame Masjid Mosque in the heart of the capital. (Gopal Chitrakar/Reuters)

[MonroeDNA]

Good.

We should have the same response here, IMHO.

[coconutt2000]

*grin* But the only large collection of bigots capable of justifying violence on that level are the communists, liberals, socialists, environmentalists, and anarchists... And they're siding with the terrorists.

[risk]

Oooops. No lightening bolts, I see.

[Jammz]

Hmmm, does anyone start to get the feeling that maybe, just maybe, we're going to have some world unification on terrorism at this rate? Pretty soon terrorists and Islamic Militants will not be welcome anywhere except their own countries which will be getting bombed into rubble on a daily basis by all of those they've pissed off. One could only hope!!

Let's see who's had bombings/attacks/beheadings/threats for executions... USA, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Israel, India, Italy, Nepal, Russia, Phillipines, Bulgaria, Egypt, France... Yes, even France!! Forget the list, it's too big to list...

[blanknoone]

This highlights how little America reacted compared to how the rest of the world would have reacted to 9/11.

You know what is going to be the 'worst'...when france finally turns against their Muslim minority, it will get VERY ugly.

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Picture from the Islamist Army of Ansar al-Sunna website shows the bodies of Nepalese men. Fears mounted for two French journalists held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq (news - web sites) as Nepal was plunged into mourning by reports 12 of its citizens were brutally murdered by their kidnappers.(AFP/HO)

Riot Policemen, right, try to prevent protestors from entering into a burning mosque in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept.1, 2004. Thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the Nepalese capital to protest the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi militants. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

Protesters attack a burning mosque in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004. Thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the Nepalese capital to protest the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi militants. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

Protesters attack a mosque in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept.1, 2004. Thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the Nepalese capital to protest the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi militants. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

Riot Policemen block the road to prevent protestors from proceeding towards a burning mosque in Katmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Sept.1, 2004. Thousands of demonstrators ransacked a mosque and clashed with police in the Nepalese capital to protest the killing of 12 Nepalese hostages by Iraqi militants. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

[kinghorse]

They are well within their rights to raze that sob.

[Indie]

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our apathy is OBSCENE.

[JudgemAll]

*grin* But the only large collection of bigots capable of justifying violence on that level are the communists, liberals, socialists, environmentalists, and anarchists... And they're siding with the terrorists.

You know... we all owe muslims a big debt of appologies and mea culpas.... (arggh barf)

When is America going to wake up and tell the rest to go JFnK themselves, in Kerry's own words....

[JudgemAll]

You know what is going to be the 'worst'...when france finally turns against their Muslim minority, it will get VERY ugly.

YEp, I still cannot figure why the French protest about workers' debts to management, but still pay debts to mousseline mooslims.

Ah, the day people will wake up.... hopefuly... and it will be a bloodbath... in the meantime the bloodbath is on us.

[GeorgiaYankee]

looks like the terrorists picked on the wrong country,
If they don't want counterattacks, they should stick to France!

[MrPerfect]

If muslims claim that it has been asked in Kuran to decapitate the innocents in the name of so called allah,then their religion is the religion of terrorists and Allah is their 'leader of terrorism'.
No religion on Earth can encourage such barbaric killings.The question now is,is Islam a religion or terrorism?Enough is Enough.
The Islamic barbarians will be the initiators of the World War III and beyond any doubt they will suffer a sucking loss the future will remember forever.
They touched the "Zone of Peace".The tears of the family members of those killed in Iraq will bring a rain of fire in the Islam world,wait and see.