Posted on 02/10/2006 2:30:36 PM PST by jmc1969
Around 200 mainly Muslim protesters marched to the Danish Embassy in Caracas on Friday and burnt a Danish and an American flag, as protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad spread to Latin America.
The demonstrators left a prayer session at a Caracas mosque and marched together, chanting in Arabic, to the embassy where they doused a Danish and an American flag with gasoline and set them alight on the building's steps.
It was the first such demonstration in Latin America in a sweeping global protest over the cartoons that has brought tens of thousands of Muslims to the streets from Jakarta to Nairobi, killing at least 11 people so far.
The drawings, considered blasphemous by many Muslims, were first published in a Danish newspaper, but have since appeared in a number of other publications in Europe.
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Wow. Its like they are everywhere!
This, of course, plays right into the hands of Hugo Chavez. Pat Robertson was exactly right about that commie bastard.
They are!
Even here!
What'd we do?...LOL
morons
If they're burning flags -- not buildings - it's fine with me. Westerners aren't going to give up their free speech rights, but they have the right to a peaceful protest. On some level it's probably healthy.
Mathilda she take me cartoon and run venezuela....
I think it's time we recycled the old bumper sticker from the Iran Hostage Crisis days. You know, the one with Mickey Mouse flipping Iran the bird?
Yep, just like road apples.
Somehow this makes me think of the March Of The Winkies music in The Wizard of Oz.
"green-skinned sentinels march and chant the dirge-like "March of the Winkies"
Who is that man behind the ~green~ curtain?
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