Anti-Islam Film Protests in Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia
Protests broke out over the anti-Islam film in Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Friday. In Jakarta, two-hundred fifty riot police have been put on alert. (Sept. 14)
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Weeks before U.S. election, Mideast gives Obama perfect storm
(Reuters) – An eruption of violent unrest across the Middle East is confronting President Barack Obama with the most serious challenge yet to his efforts to keep the Arab Spring from morphing into a...
German and UK embassies in Sudan attacked
Protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum angered by a film mocking Islam are clashing with police firing tear gas outside the US embassy. Demonstrators have attacked the German and British embassies. They started fires...
Violent protests across Middle East target embassies: “We Have 1.5 Billion bin Ladens”
Anti-American protests erupted across the Middle East on Friday, following week-long demonstrations outside of several U.S. embassies and a Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya that left the U.S. ambassador and...
Muslim Brotherhood website demands that West criminalize ‘assaults’ on Islam
Statement condemns violence against US interests, says free speech should not extend to acts of ‘barbaric aggression’ that ‘humiliate’ all Muslims. Without the “criminalization of assaults on the sanctities of all heavenly religions,” the...
US Afghan Amb.: Don’t reward disrespect
The U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan James Cunningham discusses embassy security in Kabul and his message to Afghans.
Islamist: “If the UN does not mobilize to stop this erosion, it will be Armageddon.”
About 100 people protested outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv Thursday, as anger over an anti-Islam movie continued to swirl around the Arab world. The demonstration, which was peaceful, was led by the...
American people are warming to Islam: Franklin Lamb
Muslims take to the streets in Egypt and Libya to denounce an anti-Islam film produced in the United States as anti-US sentiments boil across the Muslim world. Angry protesters have stormed the American Embassies...
Protesters angry over anti-Islam film storm US Embassy in Yemen
Protesters angered by a film they consider blasphemous to Islam have stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in the most recent attack on U.S. diplomatic posts in the Middle East. Protesters smashed...
Embassies in 7 countries warn of possible attacks
(AP) WASHINGTON – U.S. embassies in at least seven countries in the Middle East, Africa and the Caucasus are warning of possible anti-American protests following the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya that...
