BBC News - Embassies burn in Syrian protest
Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great".
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BBC have picked it up;
BBC News - Embassies burn in Syrian protest
Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great".
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Martin Scorsese directed a film based on the book, titled The Last Temptation of Christ and released by Universal Pictures in 1988. It stars Willem Dafoe as Jesus, Harvey Keitel as Judas Iscariot, and Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene. David Bowie and Harry Dean Stanton also appear as Pontius Pilate and Paul, respectively. Most of the film was shot in Morocco.
Scorsese is a lapsed Catholic; nevertheless, he maintains a traditionally Christian faith in Christ. He had been wanting to make a film version of Jesus' life for many years. He first attempted to make one in the early 1980s, but the project had to be placed on hold. Finally in 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ was completed and released to theaters.
Protests against the movie from the religious community began before the film had even finished production. The studio was expecting a backlash due to the controversies revolving around any media treatment of Christ (see dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ), but the protests accompanying Last Temptation were unprecedented. Major religious leaders in the United States blasted the film in fiery sermons, and condemned its subject matter as pornographic.
On 1988, October 22, a French catholic fundamentalist group launched molotov cocktails inside the Parisian saint Michel movie theater to protest against the film projection. This terrorist attack injured thirteen people, four of them where severely burned.
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Some leaders in the Catholic Church including Mother Angelica predicted that California would sink into the ocean if the film was released.
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Having received a dozen death threats, the studio insisted Martin Scorsese be accompanied to the film's premier by four bodyguards. Paul Schrader, meanwhile, had to contend with the fact that the protest against the film in his home town was organised by his own father!
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Iran threatens to cancel European contracts in cartoons row
Iran’s president ordered his commerce minister today to study cancelling all trade contracts with European countries whose newspapers have published caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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Some stood on top of a fire engine, one of three damaged by protesters to prevent fire fighters putting the blaze out.
It was not immediately clear if the building was empty.
Lebanese security forces had fired tear gas at a crowd of about 20,000 as they marched toward the Danish consulate.
Witnesses said security forces also fired shots in the air and used water cannon to disperse the protesters, who burned two civil defense vehicles, a police car and an army jeep.
Mohammad Rashid Qabani, Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim cleric, urged restraint.
"We don't want the expression of our condemnation (of the cartoons) to be used by some to portray a distorted image of Islam," he said. "Today is a big test for us. Let our expression of condemnation be according to the values of Islam."
Originally posted by Riwka
Lebanese demonstrators torched the Danish consulate in Beirut
said at least seven wounded protesters were carried away in ambulances.
Reuters
Some stood on top of a fire engine, one of three damaged by protesters to prevent fire fighters putting the blaze out.
It was not immediately clear if the building was empty.
Lebanese security forces had fired tear gas at a crowd of about 20,000 as they marched toward the Danish consulate.
Witnesses said security forces also fired shots in the air and used water cannon to disperse the protesters, who burned two civil defense vehicles, a police car and an army jeep.
According to witnesses several Muslim clerics were on the streets trying to urge restraint:
Mohammad Rashid Qabani, Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim cleric, urged restraint.
"We don't want the expression of our condemnation (of the cartoons) to be used by some to portray a distorted image of Islam," he said. "Today is a big test for us. Let our expression of condemnation be according to the values of Islam."
Here are some of the reactions happened within the last days:
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More lies from Danish Imams
Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very offensive fashion, even though the pictures had never appeared on Jyllands Posten
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Abu Laban, in fact, was first shown speaking on Danish television condemning the boycott of Danish goods (in English), then shown interviewed on al Jazeera, cheerfully commenting on the effectiveness of the boycott (in Arabic).
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the English translation of the Arabic letter that the Danish Muslim delegation presented during their tour of the Middle East. To see the document, irrefutable proof of the delegation's intent to create animosity, click here: Download danish_letter.pdf
