Protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall in Cairo

[Bosonic]

Source: Reuters

Egyptian demonstrators have climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today and pulled down the American flag to protest a film allegedly being produced in the United States that they say in insulting to the Prophet Mohammad, Reuters reports.

The news agency's reporter also says that the protesters tried to raise a black flag carrying the slogan: "There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger"

Reuters about 2,000 protesters have gathered outside the embassy and about 20 have scaled the walls.

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/09/11/cairo-us-embassy-protesters-prophet-mohammad/70000126/1#.UE94WVH2aMt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

1. Example number one of why --

the US was so comfortable with Mubarack in power for all those years.

[msongs]

2. religion - the gift that keeps on giving nt

[enlightenment]

6. Yep. nt

[levp]

3. I would prefer...

...the shorter version of the flag: "There is no god."

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Why doesn't somebody ask old Rev. Terry Jones if he's behind this film?

[starroute]

8. The article says he is -- did you read it or was that a lucky guess?

Al Ahram online says the film is reportedly being produced by U.S.-based Coptic-Christian Egyptians, including Esmat Zaklama and Morees Sadek, with the support of the Terry Jones Church in the United States.

Jones is the evangelical pastor who stirred controversy last year by threatening to burn a Quran in public.

CNN says the film in question is a Dutch production.

The AP says clips of the film available on YouTube show the prophet having sex and question his role as the messenger of God's words.

[Baclava]

5. Give them another billion dollars in aid for guns and tanks

that should quiet them down

[rachel1]

7. Religious extremism obviously contributed to this

but I wouldn't be surprised if this incident was also used by some as an opportunity to vent their anger towards US foreign policy.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Yeah, good old 'Christian ' religious extremism with their belief that every other religion is

the plot of the devil.

[NutmegYankee]

9. Where the hell are our marines defending the embassy? nt

[BlueToTheBone]

13. Didn't that get outsourced

to Blackwater?

[David__77]

10. Stupid obscurantists.

Islamism, in the sense of a system of total Islamic jurisprudence and subjugation of non-Muslims politically, must be completely opposed. Instead, the US has been continually supporting Islamist (which is different than Islamic) movements throughout the Middle East. Bad idea...

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Well, I oppose the total 'Christian' system of culture and jurisprudence proposed by the

American Christian Taliban like 'Rev.' Jones.