Protesters storm U.S. Embassy in Cairo

[Donger]

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/11/world/...html?hpt=hp_t1

I suppose it's a good thing that "it doesn't have to be a good thing for us"....

Cairo (CNN) -- Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and hauled down the American flag, replacing it with a black standard with Islamic emblems, apparently in protest of the production of a film thought to insult the Prophet Mohammed.

The incident prompted a volley of warning shots to be fired as a large crowd gathered outside, said CNN producer Mohammed Fahmy, who was on the scene.

The replacement flag read, "There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger."

Others expressed more general grievances about U.S. policy, chanting anti-American slogans and holding up bits of a shredded American flag to television camera crews in front of the embassy.

An embassy operator told CNN that the facility had been cleared of diplomatic personnel earlier Tuesday, ahead of the apparent threat, while Egyptian riot police were called to help secure the area.

The U.S. Embassy said in a statement Tuesday that it "condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims -- as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions."

"Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy," the statement said. "We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others."

The incident occurred on the 11th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, as crowds gathered in somber remembrance of the nearly 3,000 people killed that day.

It is not clear which film upset the protesters in Cairo.

In 2008, an anti-Muslim and anti-immigration parliamentarian from The Netherlands sparked international outcry when he produced a film that portrayed Islam as a violent religion.

Geert Wilders' film "Fitna," which he released online, featured images of terrorist acts superimposed over verses from the Quran.

[qabbaan]

Originally Posted by HonestChieffan

Krauthammer Rips Obama Regime For Issuing Apology To Muslims In Egypt After Embassy Attack, Tells Mob To “Go To Hell”…


“That statement is an embarrassment. That is a hostage statement. That’s a mob of al-Qaeda sympathizers in Egypt, forcing the United States make a statement essentially of apology, on 9/11 of all days, for something we’re not responsible. I would issue a statement saying to the mob, ‘go to hell.’ The way America works, the way democracy works is that everybody has a right to express themselves. We don’t police our speech. And you ought to apologize to the United States for storming the embassy and the violation of the ultimate sacred principle of democracy, which is protecting embassies and missions abroad. For the U.S. to essentially issue a veiled apology, I think is disgraceful.”

Yep.

Weak and disgraceful. A diminishing president for this country,

[PornChief]

I see that you give these Egyptians 1.5 billion in aid, so why don't the world's greatest orator and nobel prize winner use that as leverage to get the Egyptian gov to send their own goons around to un**** things a little?

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by PornChief

I see that you give these Egyptians 1.5 billion in aid, so why don't the world's greatest orator and nobel prize winner use that as leverage to get the Egyptian gov to send their own goons around to un**** things a little?

Modern German made u-boats are expensive toys

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

THIS.

You might want to wait on forming your own opinion. More news to follow.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

You might want to wait on forming your own opinion. More news to follow.

Is there any bumbling, fumbling Obama cluster**** you won't make excuses for?

[AustinChief]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

You might want to wait on forming your own opinion. More news to follow.

I don't have to wait on this.. Even if we take the right actions and rhetoric from here forward... the comments from the State Dept were out of line and disturbing. You know the Middle East better than most and you KNOW that they aren't swayed by appeasing rhetoric.

It came across as weak and apologetic and that is not how I want my country represented in this situation. Period.

[HonestChieffan]

Well....it seems the embassy made the first apology.

That was then disavowed by the White House....No real reason given but clearly they didnt clear this with the campaign.

The White House is disavowing a statement from their own Cairo embassy that apologized for anti-Muslim activity in the United States.

“The statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government,” a senior administration official told POLITICO.

The U.S. embassy in Cairo put out a statement early Tuesday that apologized for an anti-Muslim film being circulated by an Israeli-American real estate developer.

“The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions,” the embassy said in a statement published online.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the film depicts the Muslim prophet Muhammed as a “womanizer, pedophile and fraud” — depiction bound to offend many Muslims.

The embassy came under widespread criticism for failing to defend free speech in the face of threats of violence. Egyptian protesters rioted anyway, breaching the embassy walls and tearing down the American flag.


and that was followed by Hillary doing a tap-dance ....

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has confirmed that a State Department officer was killed Tuesday in Libya during an attack on the U.S. consulate.

Clinton said in a statement Tuesday night that she condemned the attack in the strongest terms and has called the Libyan president to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya. She says that some are trying to justify — quote — “this vicious behavior” as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. She says the U.S. deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.



So, what we have here is a failure to communicate. Meanwhile fund raising continues and one US Citizen is dead in Libya.And Muslims will still be butthurt for no clear reason over something else.

[KCtotheSB]

Islam seems to be the only mental illness that is contagious.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by AustinChief

I don't have to wait on this.. Even if we take the right actions and rhetoric from here forward... the comments from the State Dept were out of line and disturbing. You know the Middle East better than most and you KNOW that they aren't swayed by appeasing rhetoric.

They actually don't give a shit about our rhetoric in general.

They care about our actions, which is why they're pissed off.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

They actually don't give a shit about our rhetoric in general.

They care about our actions, which is why they're pissed off.

They're pissed off because we allow people to say things they don't like.

**** em.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Brock

They're pissed off because we allow people to say things they don't like.

Uh, no.

They're pissed off because we bomb the shit out of brown people, prop up and finance their dictators, station troops in Saudi Arabia and support Israel as if they're infallible.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

Uh, no.

They're pissed off because we bomb the shit out of brown people, prop up and finance their dictators, station troops in Saudi Arabia and support Israel as if they're infallible.

Oh, so they're not rioting over a film like all the newpapers are saying. Thanks for clearing that up.

**** 'EM.

[Brock]

We should have left the dictators in power. that's apparently the only kind of government these backward, primitive, ignorant, brutish pieces of shit understand.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Brock

Oh, so they're not rioting over a film like all the newpapers are saying. Thanks for clearing that up.

They haven't seen the film. They don't even know if it exists.

It's just an excuse for these thugs to act like jerks about the stuff we do that pisses them off.

[Direckshun]

Originally Posted by Brock

We should have left the dictators in power. that's apparently the only kind of government these backward, primitive, ignorant, brutish pieces of shit understand.

...said the French in the late 1700s.