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Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Protesters throw stones at riot policemen during clashes along a road leading to the U.S. embassy, near Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, on September 14, 2012.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Riot policemen collect stones during clashes with protesters in Cairo on September 14, 2012.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters
Protesters run as riot policemen clear Tahrir Square and a road leading to the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 14, 2012.
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A protester throws a rock toward riot police during clashes near the U.S. Embassy and Tahrir Square on September 14, 2012 in Cairo.
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A boy who was overcome by the effects of tear gas is carried away in Cairo on September 14, 2012. Over two hundred people have been injured in clashes between protesters and security forces.
Updated at 7:25 a.m. ET: NBC News staff and wire reports — Egyptian protesters angry at a film offending the Prophet Muhammad hurled stones at police near the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Friday, as American missions across the Arab world and beyond tightened security in expectation of anti-U.S. demonstrations on the Muslim day of prayer.
Why films and cartoons of Muhammad spark violence
"God is greatest" and "There is no god but God," one group near the front of the clashes chanted, as police in riot gear fired tear gas and threw stones back in a street leading from the fortified embassy to nearby Tahrir Square, the locus point of massive demonstrations that led to the ouster of pro-American dictator Hosni Mubarak last year.
NYT: Egypt leaders caught in the middle in anti-US protests
The Islamist group the Muslim Brotherhood said on Twitter that it was canceling its call for nationwide protests, but that it would still be present in Tahrir Square "for a symbolic protest against the movie." Read the full story.
Protests that led to the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador in Libya and three other Americans at the consulate in Benghazi spread across the region. NBC's Richard Engel in Egypt and NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin in Libya report on what might have triggered the attacks and the United States' history in the region.
Zoubeir Souissi / Reuters
Protests that led to the deaths of the U.S. Ambassador in Libya and three other Americans at the consulate in Benghazi spread across the region, ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
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Israel wants us to attack Iran. An American movie so enrages Muslims that they attack us. Wow, that's clever work even by Netanyahu's standards. The denials are way too many and too powerful. No did way all the usual suspects (Israel, AIPAC, Mossad, Jewish money) not make this happen.
what are you an absolute MORON. did you get irradiated when you were a chold. WHere did your hate come from??????
Why call him a moron when it's the truth. We are in this mess because we side and fund the land stealing Zionists. So stop calling people names it's the truth. You can collapse all the anti- Israel vines all you like but people know the truth. If we go to war over this wait and see how many more people go against the Jews. The saying goes ( You made your bed and now you have to sleep in it ). P.S learn to spell you moron.
why we do not leave them alone,cut off B$ financial help,technological ,medical,etc.....assistance.If they want to leave in prehistorical condition it is ok with us.They forgot we were the one who freed them ,Islam is a cancer and even if we leave them alone they start eating each other from inside.
Your full of @!$%#. We give weapons and billions to the land stealer's known as Israel and all they use it for is murder and land grabbing. You really think that the world doesn't see what Israel is trying to do? Go back to your make believe world if it gets you through the day.
Egypt's government is the only one who's trying to stop their "protesters" from attacking our embassy. I just love how O said they weren't our ally. Surely he could have worded that differently.
“I called him [President Obama] to ask him to put an end to such behavior,” said Egyptian President Morsi -- confirming that he does not fully understand that our government cannot limit speech.
Let's go over it again: The government cannot stop people from making offensive films. And since the government cannot stop people from making offensive films, it also cannot be blamed by Muslims when those films offend them.
But what good is free speech if it protects films that are offensive or false?
Even such films have value, according to John Stuart Mill: They give us a “clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.”
Let me reverse the situation, what if, this happened the other way around? What if a Muslim creates a film offensive to Christians, he then posts it on youtube; are Christians then justified in thrashing Muslim businesses and lynching Muslim diplomats. This whole situation shows how utterly bereft of reason some Muslims have become. Is Islam a religion of violence and intimidation? Actions speak louder than words, as moderate Muslims keep on talking on the TV that their religion is one of peace, while their brothers are out on the streets killing innocents in its name.
First off it was a Jew that was behind this movie. Good try to blame this on non Jews.
Facts of Islam : The Prophet Muhammad married Aisha at the age of 6 years and he consummated the marrage when little Aisha turned 9.
" Narrated 'Aisha: that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death)."
Sahih Bukhari 7:62:64
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Ishmael's Sons of Ignorance see some 3rd rate indie movie that defiles their beloved Pediphile and they decide to throw it an advertizing campaign that Bill Gates couldn't afford. Ya gotta love em !