Hundreds protest in front of US embassy in Kuwait – Kuwaiti clergymen ask MPs to leave

Source: Kuwait Times

KUWAIT: Hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens answered the call for a sit-in in front of the American embassy in Bayan yesterday in protest against a US-made movie that insults Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The crowd chanted slogans against the heinous act and rejected the whole content of the movie. The security authorities placed barricades around the embassy to keep the crowd from reaching the embassy gates.

The protest was held amidst news about the evacuation of diplomats from American embassies across the Middle East following the death of the American envoy to Libya Christopher Stevens who was killed after a mob angered by the movie mocking Islam stormed the Consulate in Benghazi. Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry sent special forces to the area to stop protesters from reaching the American embassy as the number of protesters increased.

Several clergymen including Nabil Al- Awadhi, Hajaj Al-Ajmi and MP Falah Al- Sawagh addressed the crowd condemning the movie. Verbal exchanges also took place between protesters and some MPs who attended the sit-in. The clerics rejected the comments made by MPs and requested them to leave. Scholar Nabil Al-Awadhi tweeted that those who gathered in front of the embassy were well-organized and disciplined and that they wanted simply to deliver a message to the US embassy. In the meantime, there were few who attempted to mute the microphone and prevent the crowd from hearing ...

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13 September 2012 - 21H40

AFP - About 500 demonstrators gathered Thursday near the US embassy in Kuwait waving a black Al-Qaeda flag in protest at a film mocking Islam.

President Barack "Obama, we are all Osama," they chanted referring to Al-Qaeda's former leader Osama bin Laden who was killed by US forces last year, an AFP photographer at the site of the demonstration reported ...

http://www.france24.com/en/20120913-kuwaitis-stage-anti-us-demo-wave-qaeda-flag