Tue Sep 11, 2012, 01:47 PM

Bosonic (1,413 posts)

Protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo

Source: Reuters

Egyptian demonstrators have climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today and pulled down the American flag to protest a film allegedly being produced in the United States that they say in insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, Reuters reports.

The news agency's reporter also says that the protesters tried to raise a black flag carrying the slogan: "There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger"

Reuters about 2,000 protesters have gathered outside the embassy and about 20 have scaled the walls.

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/09/11/cairo-us-embassy-protesters-prophet-mohammad/70000126/1#.UE94WVH2aMt

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13 replies	Author	Time	Post
Protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo (Original post)	Bosonic	Sep 2012	OP
Example number one of why --	Hell Hath No Fury	Sep 2012	#1
religion - the gift that keeps on giving nt	msongs	Sep 2012	#2
Yep. nt	enlightenment	Sep 2012	#6
I would prefer...	levp	Sep 2012	#3
Why doesn't somebody ask old Rev. Terry Jones if he's behind this film?	sinkingfeeling	Sep 2012	#4
The article says he is -- did you read it or was that a lucky guess?	starroute	Sep 2012	#8
Give them another billion dollars in aid for guns and tanks	Baclava	Sep 2012	#5
Religious extremism obviously contributed to this	rachel1	Sep 2012	#7
Yeah, good old 'Christian ' religious extremism with their belief that every other religion is	sinkingfeeling	Sep 2012	#11
Where the hell are our marines defending the embassy? nt	NutmegYankee	Sep 2012	#9
Didn't that get outsourced	BlueToTheBone	Sep 2012	#13
Stupid obscurantists.	David__77	Sep 2012	#10
Well, I oppose the total 'Christian' system of culture and jurisprudence proposed by the	sinkingfeeling	Sep 2012	#12

Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:14 PM

Hell Hath No Fury (14,255 posts)

1. Example number one of why --

the US was so comfortable with Mubarack in power for all those years.

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:15 PM

msongs (30,486 posts)

2. religion - the gift that keeps on giving nt

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Response to msongs (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 03:34 PM

enlightenment (6,227 posts)

6. Yep. nt

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:23 PM

levp (16 posts)

3. I would prefer...

...the shorter version of the flag: "There is no god."

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:41 PM

sinkingfeeling (27,815 posts)

4. Why doesn't somebody ask old Rev. Terry Jones if he's behind this film?

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Response to sinkingfeeling (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 06:34 PM

starroute (10,387 posts)

8. The article says he is -- did you read it or was that a lucky guess?

Al Ahram online says the film is reportedly being produced by U.S.-based Coptic-Christian Egyptians, including Esmat Zaklama and Morees Sadek, with the support of the Terry Jones Church in the United States.

Jones is the evangelical pastor who stirred controversy last year by threatening to burn a Quran in public.

CNN says the film in question is a Dutch production.

The AP says clips of the film available on YouTube show the prophet having sex and question his role as the messenger of God's words.

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 02:43 PM

Baclava (4,260 posts)

5. Give them another billion dollars in aid for guns and tanks

that should quiet them down

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 03:56 PM

rachel1 (538 posts)

7. Religious extremism obviously contributed to this

but I wouldn't be surprised if this incident was also used by some as an opportunity to vent their anger towards US foreign policy.

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Response to rachel1 (Reply #7)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 08:22 AM

sinkingfeeling (27,815 posts)

11. Yeah, good old 'Christian ' religious extremism with their belief that every other religion is

the plot of the devil.

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 08:38 PM

NutmegYankee (4,824 posts)

9. Where the hell are our marines defending the embassy? nt

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Response to NutmegYankee (Reply #9)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 09:12 AM

BlueToTheBone (2,333 posts)

13. Didn't that get outsourced

to Blackwater?

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Response to Bosonic (Original post)

Tue Sep 11, 2012, 09:55 PM

David__77 (14,115 posts)

10. Stupid obscurantists.

Islamism, in the sense of a system of total Islamic jurisprudence and subjugation of non-Muslims politically, must be completely opposed. Instead, the US has been continually supporting Islamist (which is different than Islamic) movements throughout the Middle East. Bad idea...

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Response to David__77 (Reply #10)

Wed Sep 12, 2012, 08:24 AM

sinkingfeeling (27,815 posts)

12. Well, I oppose the total 'Christian' system of culture and jurisprudence proposed by the

American Christian Taliban like 'Rev.' Jones.

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