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Protests over Mohammad cartoons reach Venezuela
Reuters ^ | February 10 2006

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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1 posted on 02/10/2006 2:30:38 PM PST by jmc1969
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To: jmc1969

Wow. Its like they are everywhere!


2 posted on 02/10/2006 2:31:39 PM PST by samadams2000 (Remember our Founding Fathers were REAL men- Unlike today's Rinos)
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To: jmc1969

This, of course, plays right into the hands of Hugo Chavez. Pat Robertson was exactly right about that commie bastard.


3 posted on 02/10/2006 2:33:20 PM PST by bassmaner (Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
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To: samadams2000

They are!

Even here!


4 posted on 02/10/2006 2:33:35 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: jmc1969
burnt a Danish and an American flag

What'd we do?...LOL

morons

5 posted on 02/10/2006 2:34:14 PM PST by hattend (Muslims are the only people who make feminists seem laid-back. - Ann Coulter)
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To: jmc1969

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.


6 posted on 02/10/2006 2:40:05 PM PST by GOPJ (Radical Muslims want women covered. Will cowardly newspapers drop lingerie ads?)
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To: GOPJ

Mathilda she take me cartoon and run venezuela....


7 posted on 02/10/2006 2:41:13 PM PST by fizziwig (Democrats: so far off the path, so incredibly vicious, so sadly pathetic.)
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To: jmc1969

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?


8 posted on 02/10/2006 2:47:33 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque
Maybe we could adopt the Tazmanian Devil:


Hey Islamofascists!!

9 posted on 02/10/2006 2:53:21 PM PST by Reaganesque
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To: samadams2000

Yep, just like road apples.


10 posted on 02/10/2006 2:56:48 PM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: jmc1969
chanting in Arabic,

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?

11 posted on 02/10/2006 3:03:00 PM PST by LurkedLongEnough (It isn't easy being Green.)
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