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Lebanese protesters attack American fast food restaurants after Friday prayers in the northeastern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Sept. 14.
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Lebanese men ransack American fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they protest against the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sept. 14.
Farooq Khan / EPA
Protests ignited by a controversial film that ridicules Islam's Prophet Muhammad spread throughout Muslim world.
NBC News staff and wire reports -- Protesters in a number of countries across the Muslim world vented anger against the West on Friday as the controversy over an anti-Islamic film raged, with a KFC restaurant torched in Lebanon, violent attacks on U.S. embassies in Sudan and Tunis and fierce protests in Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan.
U.S. embassies and consulates are braced for trouble on the Muslim day of prayer, when demonstrations are often held, following the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
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Lebanese security forces fire shots to disperse men ransacking American fast food chains Hardee's and KFC as they protest against the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sept. 14.
Reuters
Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken and a Hardee's restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Sept. 14, witnesses said, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.
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this was just excuse to get rid of these places, for thye were tired of crappig their pants all the time....
If Ghadaffi was a Colonel then Colonel Sanders should have been been a General.
Sigh... what most of these ignorant haters don't know is these franchised stores most likely not owned by American corporation but by local Franchisees. Local business man just like them, they aren't really damaging and hurting Americans but their own business ppl.
Maybe Israel should NUKE Tehran TODAY! As long as they are "protesting" anyway, why waste a good crisis?
NUKE the TODAY show! I'm 3 thumbs up for that.
Kentucky Fried Chicken and Hardees attacked!
Hmm. I'm sure that has nothing to do with the anti-Muslim film.
It's probably a sneak attack by the Slow Food Liberation Front or the Real Food Martyr's Brigade.
Surely this has the potential to unite all warring ethnic groups and religions in the area: We all hate America fast food franchises! Except of course the wonderful In 'n Out Burger! Now there's something that could make us friends everywhere. Obama and Romney can have that piece of advice for nothing.
All this over some stupid You Tube video that noone would ever have watched if they hadn't made such a crazy big deal out of it.
Infants! (but infants with guns unfortunately!)
If you could just harness the stupidity the world's energy needs would be met for centuries...
Dumbasses.
No fried chicken and burgers for you.
How many Muslims does it take to torch a KFC restaurant?
1 to issue a fatwa
1 to find a box of matches
3 to tell the second one how to light a match
5 to declare jihad on the coleslaw
4 to douse the second one who held the lighted match too long and set himself on fire
1 to issue a fatwa against lighting yourself on fire
2 to declare jihad on Colonel Sanders
1 to call someone who knows how to start a fire
1 to be the scooter driver for the one who knows how to start a fire
1 to call Al Jezeera and blame it on the Jews . . .
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And all twenty to shoot their stolen automatic weapons into the air as they shout their disgusting "I have a load of poop in my mouth" chants, and all the bullets rain back down on their heads and kill their souless asses.
As a healthy eater, I've waited all my life to see this! Let's hope the anti-fast food wave spreads to America!
Here's The REAL NEWS Folks Straight From NBC Itself....Americans killed in US consulate attack honored at Andrews By POMPUS Obama The Same Wall Street Neurotic Anorexic Psychopath Who Has Been Secretly Supporting Al-Qaeda In Libya All Along.
Now Has BO Has Al-CIAda Start Another Not War Because Odumba Can't Get The Starting Syria Or Iran Not Wars Past The American People!
Just Another Magical Coincidence? Not Hardly!
Back Door Barry Has Known All Along He Was Supporting Al Qaeda In Libya & Syria....Yet Here The Obomination Is "Honoring Billary's Dead" With A Personal Mega Media Appearance While He Robo-Signs The Letters Of Regret Sent To The Families Of Our War Dead?
Oh but Back Stabbing Barry looks SOoooo Sad.....GET REAL.....POMPUS Obama Is Just Milking His Self Made 911 Al-Qaeda Crisis For All He Can Get Out Of It!
Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links....http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8407047/Libyan-rebel-commander-admits-his-fighters-have-al-Qaeda-links.html
Libya Rebel Leader Reportedly Has Al Qaeda Ties....http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/libya-rebel-leader-al-qaeda_n_941752.html
Libyan rebel's story shows links to Taliban, Al Qaeda, NATO....http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/17/world/la-fg-libya-qaeda-20110417
They can call a Cow Patty A Roast Beef Sandwich But That Doesn't Make It So....Back Door Barry Knows EXACTLY Who & What He Has Been Doing Supporting Al Qaeda In Libya & Syria and the Real Question Should Be Why?
Last Time Bush-Wacker Barry Killed bin NOBODY To Get Out Of Impeachment Over Libya (but Provided No Proof Of The Deed) and Now He Is Attempting To Generate A Crisis To Get Re-Elected To Cover-Up More Of His Failures! Since Syria And Iran Are No Starters He'll Just Make A New One Through His CIA & Al-Qaeda Contacts!
And Bingo.....Out Magically Pops Al Qaeda Once Again Terrorizing America With Another Of Their Manufactured Crisis and Odumba Profiteers For All Our Dead Are Worth!
Psst At Least Watch This PBS Documentary If You Really Want To Know The Who What & Why Of Al-Qaeda!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1l-8PFk8j5I
"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad." ~George Orwell, 1984
You sound as radical and angry at the Muslims rioting
Hahahaha.... And You Sound Like You Are Sadly Lacking In Common Sense!
I Just Call The AL-QAEDA SUPPORTING CRIMINALS As I See them!
Psst Did You At Least Watch That Documentary? It Is PBS Don't You know.....
so easy to throws rocks isnt it!
refering to the muslim weapon of choice?
I think we should arrest all those involved in the violence and rub raw pork chops all over their bodies.
Or perhaps do something else with those pork chops while their bending over to their false prophet. I'll bet all of the violated goats over there would cheer about that.
They just wanted to rob the freezer's and steal what they can and use the movie as a reason...I'm sure there are many people in Lebanon that are upset over what this gang has done..
Do these terrorists understand that the West supplies the clothes they wear, the phones they talk/text on, the computers they use to access the internet, the jobs they have (call centers) and the cars they drive?
I think it would be awesome to see how quickly the middle east would become one large dirtpile of a 3rd world country if we stopped providing any type of aid to these countries. They would be begging for help, and as soon as we would waste more money them they would turn around AGAIN and do exactly what they are doing right now.
Don't these imbeciles realize that the maker of the film is an Egyptian native Coptic Christian?? Is there NO WAY the destruction can be halted?? If they don't want our culture there, then we don't want the Islamic political-religious system in the USA! Let's understand that! These are ignorant, barbaric, medieval savages with NO life-adapting education or understanding.
Let's emphasize this! NO American native made the film! It was made by a native Egyptian!
Organized religion and a belief in a mythological fairy tale god/creator is the true root of all evil, hatred and wars in the world, both today and historically.
Organized religion was created to control the poor, the emotionally needy, and the less intelligent, while making religious leaders rich and powerful. To this extent it has been wildly successful.
These riots and destruction of property over an imagined insult to a fictional fairy tale god only shows andn underscores how dangerous and stupid organized religion is.
Organized religion is the biggest con job of them all, and makes Madoff and his con look like an inncocent lamb.
In the world of magical (religious) thinking, things are true unless proven false.
In the REAL world, things are false unless proven true.
The complete and total destruction of organized religion, along with stopping welfare and the breeding of the poor and uneducated, should be the number one priority of all governments worldwide.
Is that it? One free American makes a silly movie (I don't know whether or not the movie is true), so the entire American country is condemned! I'll have to see the movie, then I'll add another comment. They definitely need to get their country in order. They're acting like a bunch of "monkeys!" One more comment, "Is the movie true about what it said or shows?"