CNN and MSNBC are reporting that the cause of the blaze is likely a chicken recipe that is too hot.
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."
If I had time, I’d photoshop that picture of Obama as Urkel in front of these burning buildings and saying, “Did I do that?”
What a bunch of dumb asses. Those franchises are owned by ME businessmen.
+1. LOL
Close, but no, he went there to collect money. He's the type that would go through a brick wall to get at a liquor store cash register.
That's what I was thinking but also there could be some irony depending on how good a muslim owned this franchise.
To think we are sending these psychopathic animals billions of dollars really makes you wonder what that motive is all about. There is no appeasing these nutjobs. Are the leftists that stupid or do they really want their own destruction or can’t the see the forest from the trees?
I just saw Obama's America 2016 and it is mentioned how a younger Obama used that strategy of people wanting to help him and how he would garner Republican and Democrat support and basically lie to both sides to get his ultimate goal of becoming president. Sounds like this is his foreign policy as well. Only problem is there will be more murders because of his doing and his way of manipulating people for his own political gain.
Valerie Jarrett, not Obozo..................
They carry Uzis under their tops.........
CNN and MSNBC are reporting that the cause of the blaze is likely a chicken recipe that is too hot.
the more i read and hear about this situation i find it extremely unsettling, and frightening to realize that the people at the top are loving every minute of what is going on in the world right now. they are so good at manipulating people on every side of the conflict to push their evil agenda that they almost deserve praise for being that damn good at it. god help us.
He hasn't signaled his "weakness". He gave them the "go" signal. And this "outrage" over a movie is entirely bogus. IMHO it's he start of a worldwide intifada, no doubt coming to our shores soon. DBA 0bama is a Muslim, said he'd side with them, helped arrange the overthrow of Mubarak to usher in a Muslim Brotherhood run Egypt - what more evidence does anyone need? Huma Abedin being Hitlery's right hand woman for 15 years? Huma from a radical Islamic Muslim Brotherhood family!
Well, we wouldn't want anything to happen that might perpetuate that stereotype, would we? /s
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