Lebanese demonstrators set fire to the building housing the Danish in the latest violent protest against cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Furious crowds stormed and set ablaze the building housing the Danish consulate in Beirut in violent protests that left almost 30 people wounded.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

Lebanese firefighters extinguish the blaze at the Danish consulate building during violent protests in Beirut against the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers. Furious crowds stormed and set ablaze the building housing the Danish consulate in Beirut in violent protests that left almost 30 people wounded.(AFP/Joseph Barrak)

Thousands of demonstrators, waving Islamist banners, shout slogans as they protest in Beirut against the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad. Furious crowds stormed and set ablaze the building housing the Danish consulate in Beirut in violent protests that left almost 30 people wounded.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)

Angry demonstrators set ablaze the Danish embassy in Damascus on 04 February. The United States blamed the Syrian government for fires set to the embassies of Denmark and Norway by crowds protesting newspaper cartoons perceived as anti-Islamic, saying such events cannot take place in Damascus without "government knowledge and support."(AFP/File/Louai Beshara)

Whether you've posted the photos to "deter" would-be Westerners or boast at this outcome (as if those "angry" Lebanese "taught" the Danes a "lesson"), you won't get aplause.

At Al-Masakin...we don't make the news, we just report it.

hey, when I went there white power people would leave flyer droppings around the campus.

Look who was running a bunch of the roomming houses north of that campus - Keith Gilbert: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/212249_fedarrests16.html

Fuck all of your gods and prophets. If you don't like free speech, move to some fucking shithole.

More Photo's of todays events in Lebanon.

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Demonstrators wave green and black Islamic flags as they walk past a Lebanese army vehicle set on fire by demonstrators in front of the building housing the Danish mission during a protest against publication of caricatures of Islam's revered prophet in European newspapers, in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006. Muslim rage over caricatures of the prophet spilled out of Syria on Sunday into neighboring Lebanon where thousands of rampaging protesters _ undaunted by police tear gas and water cannons _ torched the Danish mission and ransacked a Christian neighborhood. (AP Photo)

Syria steps up security after attacks on embassies
Protests against cartoons continue across region


Compiled by Daily Star staff



Syria stepped up security at Western embassies on Sunday after being criticized for failing to protect the Danish and Norwegian embassies from attacks. Crowds protesting against the publication by newspapers in Denmark and Norway of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad set fire to their embassies in Damascus on Saturday. The demonstrators also damaged the Swedish Embassy and tried to storm the French mission but were held off by riot police. No one was hurt in the violence.

"More protection has been placed on diplomatic missions. Syria is committed to international conventions regarding the protection of foreign embassies," the Syrian Foreign Ministry said.

"The Foreign Ministry expresses its regret regarding the violent acts which accompanied the protests and caused material damage at some embassies," it said in a statement.

Western countries said the responsibility lies with the Syrian government. The French ambassador toured the site of the two burned embassies on Sunday and the United States blamed Syria for not protecting the complexes.

"The United States condemns in the strongest terms the burning of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, Syria ... which also damaged the Chilean and Swedish embassies," White House spokes-man Scott McClellan said.

"The government of Syria's failure to provide protection to diplomatic premises, in the face of warnings that violence was planned, is inexcusable," he said.

The world's leading Islamic body condemned the burning of the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus.

"Overreactions surpassing the limits of peaceful democratic acts ... are dangerous and detrimental to the efforts to defend the legitimate case of the Muslim world," the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) said in a statement.

OIC Secretary General Ekmaleddine Ihsanoglu "expresses his disapproval over these regrettable and deplorable incidents," the body said.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said there was no justification for the violence. "We stand in solidarity with the Danish government in its call for calm and its demand that all its diplomats and diplomatic premises are properly protected. It's incumbent on the Syrian authorities to act in this regard."

Fearing for their safety, scores of Danish and Norwegian citizens left Damascus by plane on Sunday. They were driven to the airport in buses and escorted by Syrian police. Both Denmark and Norway have urged their nationals to leave Syria.

"I am horrified to see the way violence and attacks are spreading throughout the Middle East," Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller told reporters.

"The actions in Lebanon and Syria yesterday are beyond comprehension and totally unacceptable," he said

The demonstrations in Damascus began peacefully with protesters gathering outside the building housing the Danish Embassy. But they began throwing stones and eventually broke through police barricades. Some scrambled up concrete barriers protecting the embassy, climbed into the building and set a fire.

"With our blood and souls we defend you, O Prophet of God!" the demonstrators chanted. Some replaced Danish flag with a green flag printed with the words: "There is no god but God and Mohammad is the messenger of God."

Demonstrators moved onto the Norwegian Embassy, about 6 kilometers away, also setting fire to it before being dispersed by police using tear gas and water cannons.

Hundreds of Syrian police and troops barricaded the road leading to the French Embassy, but protesters were able to break through briefly before fleeing from the force of water cannons.

Syria's grand Mufti Badreddine Hassoun, told the government newspaper Al-Thawra that the attackers did their country harm.

"We feel sorrow that these people who were driven by passion reached the stage where they have undermined our dialogue with the Norwegian and Danes," he said.

Protests against the cartoons continued across the region.

Iraq's Transport Ministry said it will freeze contracts with Denmark and Norway and announced it "will not accept any reconstruction money" from either countries.

A spokesman on behalf of Transport Minister Salam al-Malaki said he did not know the value of contracts between Iraq and Norway and Denmark, which has more than 500 troops in Iraq.

Earlier on Sunday, militant groups called for attacks on Danish troops in Iraq and people from all countries where cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been published.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his commerce minister to study canceling all trade contracts with European countries whose newspapers have published the caricatures, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. - Agencies

Vatican condemns cartoons

05-02-2006


VATICAN CITY, Zenit: The Holy See condemned the publication of caricatures of Mohammed in the Western press, as well as the violent reaction of the Muslim world.

Today in Damascus, Syrian, Muslim demonstrators torched the Norwegian Embassy and the building housing the Danish Embassy. This follows the publication in a Danish newspaper of what the protesters deemed to be 12 blasphemous cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.

Thousands of angry Muslims protested in other cities, including Islamabad, Pakistan; Baghdad, Iraq; Khartoum, Sudan; Jakarta, Indonesia; and the Palestinian territories.

In an unsigned statement released by the Vatican press office Saturday, the Holy See stated: "The freedom of thought and expression, confirmed in the Declaration of Human Rights, can not include the right to offend religious feelings of the faithful. That principle obviously applies to any religion."

"This principle applies obviously to any religion," the Vatican said in response to several requests for the Church's position.

Provocation

Coexistence, the statement continued, calls for "a climate of mutual respect to favor peace among men and nations."

The statement continued: "Moreover, these forms of exasperated criticism or derision of others manifest a lack of human sensitivity and may constitute in some cases an inadmissible provocation.

"A reading of history shows that wounds that exist in the life of peoples are not cured this way."

The Vatican clarified that the government cannot be held responsible for the actions of the press in its country, but the "authorities might and should intervene eventually according to the principles of national legislation."

The statement also acknowledges that "violent actions of protest are equally deplorable."

"Reaction in the face of offense cannot fail the true spirit of all religion," the Vatican said. "Real or verbal intolerance, no matter where it comes from, as action or reaction, is always a serious threat to peace."

A fire set by Syrian demonstrators angered over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed burns at the building housing the Chilean, Swedish and Danish embassies in Damscus. Mohammed spiralled out of control. Furious crowds stormed and set ablaze the building housing the Danish consulate in Beirut in protests against the Prophet Mohammed cartoons that left almost 30 people wounded.(AFP/Louai Beshara)

To view the cartoons, go to
http://www.di2.nu/files/Muhammed_Cartoons_Jyllands_Posten.html

Supporters of the Islamic group Hamas burn a French flag during a demonstration in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. Demonstrations against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers took place throughout the Gaza Strip and West Bank following noon prayers.(AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Pakistani earthquake survivors chant slogans during a rally in the devastated town of Balakot, 176 km (110 miles) from Islamabad February 5, 2006. The rally was organised by the Jamat-e-Islami party to condemn the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in European newspapers and to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day. Pakistan summoned diplomats of several European countries on Saturday to protest against the reprinting of 'derogatory and blasphemous' cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. REUTERS/Ibrar Tanoli

Jordanians protest against the publication of cartoons in European newspapers depicting the Prophet Mohammad, in Amman 03 February. Two Jordanian tabloid editors have been arrested after their newspapers were the only Arab-based publications to print controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, a source said.(AFP/File/Khalil Mazraawi)

Syrian demonstrators protest outside the burning Danish embassy in Damascus February 4, 2006. Several thousand Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. (Khaled al-Hariri/Reuters)

Iraqi Sunni Mulsims burn the Danish flag as well as Danish products following Friday noon prayer in Baghdad. Canadian newspapers defended their European brethren embroiled in a controversy over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, citing freedom of the press, yet most chose not to reprint them to avoid possible confrontation(AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Protestors demonstrate in front of the French Embassy, over the publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad in London February 3, 2006. The cartoons, which are due to be re-published in French newspapers on Saturday, have sparked outrage across the Islamic world, although Britain's normally provocative newspapers have so far refused to publish them. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

A veiled Muslim protester, holding a placard, marches towards the Danish embassy during a demonstration in London, Friday Feb. 3, 2006. Hundreds of people protested against the publication of cartoons in nespapers around Europe depicting the Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Iraqis looks at an effigy of a Dane with a title reading 'Danish journalist' waiting to be used in a protest against Denmark for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, at the revered Abu Hanifa Mosque, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has condemned the Danish publication of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, but suggested that militant Muslims were partly to blame for distorting the image of Islam. Anti-Danish protests took place in several cities following Friday prayers. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Angry protesters hit the Danish embargo in front of the embassy during a demonstration in Jakarta. Europe and the Middle East were on high alert as millions of Muslims attended weekly prayers at what appeared to be a critical moment in the international furore over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.(AFP/Adek Berry)

Iraqis burn boxes with made in Denmark labels during a protest against cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammad, published in several European newspapers, in Baghdad February 3, 2006. Muslim anger erupted across the Middle East after Friday prayers, as crowds emerged from mosques burning European flags and vowing revenge for 'blasphemous' cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad printed in European newspapers. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen

Bahraini women demonstrate against Denmark, calling for boycott of all Danish products, in the streets of the capital Manama. Clerics around the Gulf expressed fury over the publication of cartoons "ridiculing" Prophet Mohammed and mobilized Muslims to boycott the goods of European states where newspapers ran the caricatures.(AFP/Adam Jan)

Egyptian women walk on a Danish, right, and Norwegian flags, during a protest against the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers, in Alexandria, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 3, 2006. Egypt's ambassador said Friday that Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's response to the Muhammad drawings controversy has been inadequate, and that the country should do more to 'appease the whole Muslim world.' (AP Photo/Nasser Nouri)

Nupe, 'fraid not. The cartoons alone are not the cause of this outburst, as much as you'd have me believe all Moslems are insane. The cartoons are simply one more insult piled on top of the tens of thousands the West has heaped on the Middle East over the decades, Israel being the main irritant. If you were born into their world, you'd be right there torching embassies too.

I think this cartoon speaks volumes:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/Denmark-cartoons.jpg

Protesters burn the effigy of Danish PM Rasmussen following a gathering by members of Muslim Shi'ite minority for the religious festival of Ashura, in the suburbs of Istanbul February 5, 2006. Over a thousand nationalist protesters shouted slogans near the Danish consulate in Istanbul on Sunday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad. REUTERS/Stringer

A Lebanese Islamist throws a stone at soldiers during a demonstration in front of the Danish consulate in Beirut February 5, 2006. Angry demonstrators set the Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze on Sunday and the violent turn in protests over publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad drew condemnation from European capitals and moderate Muslims. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj Email Photo Print Photo

You do realize this is some zionist nut eating up your bandwidth with anti-Moslem propaganda, don't you?

Thousands of angry Syrian protestors carrying flags and banners break into the Danish Embassy in Damascus, Syria on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006. Thousands of outraged Syrians protesting offensive caricatures of Islam's prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday but were blocked by hundreds of security guards when they tried to approach the French Embassy. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).

Sleep tight

Jolly good show!

Outrage leading to the destruction of property and fights with cops?! So as long as a black bloc or some oppressed minorities do it, it's okay. But as soon as some darkies half a world away do it, it becomes an affront to "freedom of speech"? On the other hand, people getting their panties in a bunch because of "blasphemy" reeks of a new Dark Ages. Hoorah for religion! (As long as it's not Judaism or Christianity, and maybe Bahai and Zoroastrianism...)

Women of the Algerian Islamic Party gesture during a demonstration in Algiers, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, protesting against the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad published in European newspapers. Protests, some violent, swirled through the Muslim world Monday while politicians sought diplomatic solutions to the growing and increasingly violent crisis surrounding the published caricatures. (AP Photo/Ouahab Hebbat)

A masked Palestinian burns the Danish flag in front of the Nativity Church during a protest against the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Protests, some violent, swirled through the Muslim world Monday while politicians sought diplomatic solutions to the growing and increasingly violent crisis surrounding the published caricatures. (AP Photo/Ma'an News Agency, Magnus Johansson)

Protesting students of Jamia Milia Islamia University burn copies of an Indian weekend magazine, which published a photograph of a Koranic verse tattooed on a womans bare back, in New Delhi, India, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Monday at hundreds of protesting students in the Indian capital, while a strike called by Islamic groups shut down the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Both groups were protesting the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

Feb. 6 (Telluride Daily News)--Johnny Sunshine Designs of Denver, Colorado is preparing to release offensive Muhammad is Gay merchandise just in time for Telluride's Gay Ski Week. The merchandise, ranging from t-shirts to coffee mugs, are to be released this week and feature the Islamic prophet engaging in Sodomy.

http://skimall.net/skitelluride/TellurideOfficialGuide/tob/index.html

Iranian police stands guard at the Austrian embassy after students, members of the Basiji militia, attacked it as a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Tehran.(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

An Iranian student holds a slogan during a protest in front of the Austrian embassy against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Tehran. The US urged Muslims angered by newspaper cartoons of the Islamic prophet Mohammed to also condemn frequent anti-Semitic and anti-Christian "hate speech" in the Islamic world(AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

Afghan demonstrators shout during a protest in Kandahar. Fresh protests against newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed have erupted across Afghanistan, with three demonstrators killed and up to nearly 20 wounded in gunfire, officials said.(AFP/Ahmed Zalmi)

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Mr. President of U of W Muslim Students Association:

Leaflets depicting the graphic insult to Islam created by a well known
Danish "journalist" have surfaced on the University of Washington
campus on the bulletin board on the north side of the Suzzallo and
Allen libraries. I was wondering if you are aware of this? What your
student group intends to do about it, if anything?

Cf. coverage of this event on Indybay:
http://indybay.org/news/2006/02/1800319.php

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Uh, looks to me like all the frickin' nuts are wearing veils and blowing people up for a made up prophet. My take is, fuck em! Let them trash their countries, not to mention how they're lifting their status with the civilized world. You know, the part of the world where women aren't objectified whores and the men aren't brainwashed, bouncing koran readers? I always love to see the real "tough" guys with their faces covered just in case they change their mind about how tough they really are.
If a religion causes you to act like this, your religion is a farse and your god is a coward!

Gee, who's your deity, Tony?

Lemme guess

All the idiots who fall for this line have one just a very few: the zionist "only Jews matter" god, or the Christian "I'm a drooling moron" god, or...

Glad to see that not all of the students on our college campuses have been beaten into simpering acquiescence by political correctness. Funny, however, how the "oh-we're-so-tolerant-and-all-for-free-speech" liberal crowd refuses to take a stance against a bunch of violent totalitarian fanatics. Not sure whether this is motivated more by their hatred for America or cowardly fear of people that might actually hurt them (they never have a problem protesting against the US because there's no risk involved in that), but it would sure be amusing to hear their excuses... :O(

All the world should know that one's freedom ends at the begining of my freedom . And the least percentage of respect ratio of respect is 2 care 4 others feelings and believes .
Civilized woman