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What’s Behind the US Embassy Protests in Egypt
The infamous anti-Islam film may have sparked the demonstrations, but wrangling between Egypt’s many political factions were what really drove them.
The main street leading to the United States embassy in downtown Cairo has been sealed by a twelve-foot-high wall of concrete blocks. The acrid scent of tear gas lingers in the air as hundreds of black-clad riot police roam the area in and around nearby Tahrir Square.
It was here that the first protests began on September 11 in response to an anti-Islam video that touched off demonstrations in some twenty countries across the Middle East and beyond. The protests in Egypt came to an end four days after they began with a decisive police crackdown. When the dust settled, at least one person was dead, more than 220 injured and over 430 arrested.
The distasteful and amateurish fourteen-minute video clip that ignited the unrest was first posted on YouTube in July, but it received scant attention until earlier this month, when Maurice Sadek, a Coptic Christian living in Washington DC, whose incendiary anti-Muslim campaigning led to the revocation of his Egyptian citizenship earlier this year, linked to a translated version of the film on an Arabic-language blog and highlighted it in an e-mail newsletter.
Al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite 9/11 Cairo protest
Several al Qaeda-linked jihadists helped incite the protest outside the US embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11. The jihadists include senior members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), a group that merged with al Qaeda, and a senior Gamaa Islamiyya (IG) leader who has longstanding ties to al Qaeda’s senior leadership.
Spontaneous anger over an obscure anti-Islam video titled “Innocence of Muslims” has been widely cited as the cause of the embassy protest in Cairo. But clear evidence shows that these al Qaeda-linked jihadists used clips from that film that were televised on Egyptian television as a pretext to incite a mob.
The most conspicuous of these jihadists is Rifai Ahmed Taha Musa, an IG leader who was named as a signatory on al Qaeda’s infamous February 1998 fatwa announcing an Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders. The fatwa justified terrorist attacks against American civilians and others. Musa would later disavow his participation in the Islamic Front, but his al Qaeda ties are well established.
On the afternoon of September 11, a far-right political party and its affiliated football club – spurred on by Salafist Leader Wesam Abdel-Wareth – stormed the Cairo embassy walls, ripped down the U.S. flag, and replaced it with an Islamic banner.
Many watched these developments with increasing trepidation – especially given the day of the attack – and worried about the effects it would have both in the United States and across the Arab world.
The source of the mob’s anger was Innocence of Muslims, a poorly-shot film featuring American actors in brown-face, and depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a "womanizer, pedophile and fraud." The few available clips are so patently absurd that the video could quickly be dismissed as laughable were it not for the realization that this crisis would almost certainly result in the loss of lives. www.aaiusa.org...
Ayman al-Zawahiri gave the orders. Others carried them out:
In Egypt, the protest was organized by Wesam Abdel-Wareth, a Salafist leader and president of Egypt’s Hekma television channel, who called for a gathering on September 11 at 5 p.m. in front of the United States Embassy, to protest against a film that he thought was named “Muhammad’s Trial” [actually, a scrappy crappy “trailer” made of short video clips titled Innocence of Muslims]. State-backed Islamic scholars in Sudan called for a mass protest after Friday prayers over a film [the same one] denigrating the Prophet Mohammed that originated in the United States, and an Islamist group threatened to attack the US embassy. theatheistconservative.com...
On September 11, 2001 Huma Abedin — Hillary Clinton’s aide for twenty years and co-chair of her current Presidential run — was working for an organization located in the offices of Saudi Arabia’s Muslim World League. www.thepoliticalinsider.com...
August 22, 2016: Hillary Clinton's top aid Huma Abedin worked at a 'Radical Muslim Journal'
"New York Post account reports Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin edited a 'radical Muslim publication' that opposed women’s rights and blamed the US for 9/11." www.snopes.com... "“A conjugal family established through a marriage contract between a man and a woman, and extended through procreation is the only definition of family a Muslim can accept,” the author, a Saudi official with the Muslim World League, asserted, while warning of “the dangers of alternative lifestyles.” (Abedin’s journal was founded and funded by the former head of the Muslim World League.)" nypost.com... "Since 1962, the Muslim World League has been *funded by the Saudi government*. ...the Muslim World League, a group formed and funded by the Kingdom to spread Islam throughout the world." www.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
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Three days after the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya came under attack and four men lost their lives while Hillary Clinton slept, top aide Huma Abedin made a joke about the “peaceful protests” that took place afterwards in Egypt.
The protests were not peaceful.
Here’s the email Huma sent to “H”.
“H” is Hillary Clinton.
Abedin wrote, “I’m giving you credit for inspiring the “peaceful” protests.”
WHAT?
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Okay I think I got it enough rolling. Thanks!
Honestly, I wasn't keeping up back then, and am playing catch up on this theatre right now. Maybe there's nothing here, maybe a lot more???
originally posted by: JinMI
Not sure what he's going with but I pulled this:
Three days after the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya came under attack and four men lost their lives while Hillary Clinton slept, top aide Huma Abedin made a joke about the “peaceful protests” that took place afterwards in Egypt.
The protests were not peaceful.
Here’s the email Huma sent to “H”.
“H” is Hillary Clinton.
Abedin wrote, “I’m giving you credit for inspiring the “peaceful” protests.”
WHAT?
www.youngcons.com...