Muslim World Outraged by Insulting US-"Israeli" Anti-Islam Film
Local Editor
Source: News Agencies, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
US crossed all limits and the hate crime represented by anti-Islam film insulting the Holy Prophet Mohammad outraged anger all around the Muslim world.
The Zionist-US financed film made thousands of people demonstrate outside the US diplomatic mission in the Egyptian capital for the second consecutive day.
The Egyptians scaled the walls of the American Embassy in Cairo, burned the US flag, and called for the closure of the embassy.
The health ministry said 13 people were injured during clashes with protesters outside the embassy.
Meanwhile, Egypt's government on Wednesday called for restraint while denouncing the film, which also sparked fury in Libya where four Americans including the ambassador were killed when a mob attacked the US consulate in Benghazi.
"The film is offensive to the Prophet and is immoral," the Egyptian government said in a statement read by Prime Minister Hisham Qandil at a news conference.
The country's largest political force, the Muslim Brotherhood, has called for peaceful protests to be held across Egypt on Friday in response to the film.
Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has asked diplomats in Washington to pursue legal action in the US against the movie's producers, according to state news agency MENA.
Similarly, protests against the film were also held outside US missions in Morocco, Sudan, Yemen and Tunisia. In Tunis, police fired tear gas to disperse a protest denouncing the US act.
An Associated Press photographer present Wednesday witnessed demonstrators burning and trampling a number of American flags. Protesters were kept back from the embassy by reinforced security.
In response to the film, Yemeni protesters stormed the complex of the US embassy in Sanaa, defying efforts by riot police to hold them at bay, an AFP correspondent said.
"O, Allah's messenger... O, Mohammed," protesters chanted.
In parallel, the Afghan government has blocked people watching short clips on the internet. The Afghani President Hamid Karzai also condemned the film, raising fears that his words would be seen as a green light for violence.
In Gaza, angry protesters flood to the streets chanting anti-American slogans and calling for the death of the filmmaker behind it.
In Algeria, the US Embassy cautioned Americans to avoid its building and other official government buildings Wednesday afternoon, sending an emergency message to US citizens after calls for protests went out on social media.
Moreover, Iranians angered by the film planned to protest Thursday in front of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents US diplomatic interests in the country. As calls to protest went out Wednesday, an Iranian official faulted the US for not stopping insults to Islam.
"The US government's systematic and continued silence on such repulsive acts is the fundamental reason that they keep happening," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast was quoted as saying by state media.
Moving to Jordan, the Muslim Brotherhood party denounced the film, calling for official and popular Islamic move in addition to the boycott of US goods.
In this context, the party's top official the Muslim Brotherhood Hamam Said urged the Islamic governments to take a firm position against the new racist US action."
In Iraq, thousands of the Sadrist movement supporters protested Thursday in the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad, in rejection of the anti-Islam film.
The demonstrators gathered at the Revolution Twenty Square at the invitation of Sayyed Muqtada al-Sadr, in protest against insulting Islam and the its Holy Prophet.
The demonstrators chanted slogans such as "No No America ...No No "Israel"" "Down, Down with America .. Down Down "Israel"."
During the demonstration, a statement from Sayyed Sadr's office called "the Iraqi government to summon the US ambassador in Baghdad and discuss what happened and not to receive guests or any American visitor in Iraq."
