Posted on 09/14/2012 7:09:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Around 5,000 protesters in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum angry over an anti-Islam film on Friday stormed the embassies of Britain and Germany, which was torched and badly damaged, an AFP reporter said.
Police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters as several of them scaled the roof of the German embassy and others attacked its facade and tore down the flag to replace it with a black Islamist one, the reporter said.
The mob, furious over an anti-Islam film produced in the United States that has triggered similar violence in other parts of the Arab world, then set fire to the building.
They blocked the road to prevent the arrival of firefighters, prompting the security forces to fire more tear gas.
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said staff at the country's embassy in Sudan were safe.
"The German embassy in Khartoum is currently the target of attacks by violent demonstrators. The embassy staff are safe. The crisis cell at the foreign ministry (in Berlin) is meeting and is in contact with the embassy," he said in a statement.
Demonstrators also attacked the British embassy nearby, as the British Foreign Office said it was monitoring the situation.
"We can confirm an ongoing demonstration outside the British embassy in Khartoum, and Sudanese police are at the scene," a Foreign Office spokesman told AFP in London.
Also on Friday, Reuters reported that hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.
Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, "We don't want the pope" and "No more insults (to Islam)".
The incident came as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon and as anger over a film which Muslims have said is blasphemous to Islam spread across the region.
Protests over a trailer for the anti-Islam film on YouTube first broke out Tuesday in Egypt and Libya, where the US consulate in Benghazi came under attack by an armed mob which killed the US ambassador and three other Americans.
The protests have since spread across other Arab and Muslim countries.
The low-budget movie "Innocence of Muslims," in which actors have strong American accents, portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
It pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of paedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as "the first Muslim animal."
“Would you like Baked Kibbeh with that”?
Were they pissed about the “pink slime” or perhaps the thick burgers?
Sharia, baby. Global Caliphate. Dhimmitude. Get your prayer rug ready. And don't forget to stock up on burqas for your women.
Of that I have no doubt.
I think it’s because Big Media reported Hussein personally insisted on adding Jerusalem back into his campaign.
“a strong sense of self preservation doesn’t appear to be part of the job description.”
There’s obviously some sense or they wouldn’t have made a “popemobile” and given him a security detail
I thought they loved us for electing Obama..??
confused..
I wonder, if “Church’s Chicken” expanded to a Muslim country would they call it “Mosque’s Chicken”? A name like that might protect them from the peace loving rioters. /s
The choices before the West are submission or live ammunition, lots of it; which will the West choose? Rhetorical question.
No kidding. An attack on the Pope would be an attack on the spiritual side of Western Civilization. It would be too tempting an opportunity to pass up.
I’m sure the Pope’s security detail are not unprepared.
“Bravo Sierra on the “movie” reasoning.
FU Big Media!”
Agree! Link Obama touting “HE” killed OBL! 9/11 anniversary!
Intentional (international) agitators purposely stirring the formant pot to intensify Middle East muslim unrest!
Connect the dots...what did Chris Stevens know? Who would not want that info released?
“Islam itself is the problem and eradicating islam will need to be the goal.”
BRAVO! BRAVO!
This truly is the most fundamental, inescapable truth of the age, friend, even if it’s now only recognized by a few who choose to actually believe their “lying eyes,” and not the unmitigated bullshit spewing from the apologists, of which there is no shortage.
Ooh, if the did that, Mr. Tagline sez they’d better like nuggets, ‘cuz that’s all that’s gonna be left...
I doubt they’re prepared for an RPG
You cannot reason with evil. When will people admit this?
For some inexplicable reason, my decade-old tagline took a hike...
It went like this:
“Wherever mosques and JDAM’s meet, civilization benefits.”
Gone, but certainly not forgotten!
A lot of people think the Swiss Guards just walk around with cute uniforms and carry pikes. I’m quite sure there is a lot more to it.
I think that creepy Burger King guy was responsible for this egregious attack on the KFC.
I like that line.
I do worry about that. I know the Popemobile has ballistic glass, but that won’t do much against roadside bombs or RPGs.
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