NYT: Anti-American Protests Over Film Expand to More Than a Dozen Countries
[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Anti-American Protests Over Film Expand to More Than a Dozen Countries[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]CAIRO — The violently anti-American rallies that have roiled the Islamic world over a video denigrating the Prophet Muhammad expanded on Friday to more than a dozen countries, with demonstrators storming the American Embassy in Tunisia in a deadly clash and protesters in Sudan’s capital broadening the targets to include Germany and Britain.
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Germany’s foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, told reporters at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin that the country’s embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, had been “stormed and in part set aflame” in an attack by “demonstrators capable of violence.” According to Mr. Westerwelle, embassy employees were safe. German missions in Muslim countries had already strengthened security measures because of the unrest.
The police fired tear gas to drive off the attacks in Khartoum, where about 5,000 demonstrators massed on the German and British Embassies, a witness told the Reuters news agency.
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In Lebanon, one person was killed and 25 injured as protesters attacked restaurants. There was also turmoil in Yemen, Bangladesh, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq, and demonstrations in Malaysia. In Nigeria, troops fired into the air to disperse protesters marching on the city of Jos, Reuters reported.
State media in Egypt said more than 220 people had been injured in the clashes since Tuesday.
Freedom of Speech!
Those of you who've been riding that horse should probably stop and think about just how much longer you want to ride it. This problem is getting more serious than "Fuck the rest of the world if they get upset! I will draw Mohammed fucking a goat right now!" is gonna fix. If this film was propagating Jewish stereotypes there wouldn't have been a peep out of you about Free Speech, so don't even start pretending now.
Keep it up and eventually the only people who are still going to be tossing logs into that fire with you are going to be people and things you don't recognize, like this dude:
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