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Tunisian protesters pushed back after U.S. Embassy breach
A pall of smoke rises above protesters after they set alight cars in the U.S. embassy parking lot in Tunis, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. / AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi
Updated 3:22 p.m. ET
(CBS\AP) TUNIS, Tunisia - Violent protests outside the U.S. embassy in Tunis were met with tear gas and gunshots Friday, leaving two people dead, 29 others injured and waves of black smoke wafting over the city.
Several dozen protesters briefly stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in Tunisia's capital, setting fire to cars and raising a flag with the Muslim profession of faith on it as part of the protests against an anti-Muslim film.
The U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia has not been evacuated and is still on the grounds of the large embassy compound, reports CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan.
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Earlier, several thousand demonstrators had gathered outside the U.S. embassy, including stone-throwing protesters who clashed with police, according to an Associated Press reporter on the scene. Police responded with gunshots and tear gas.
Muslim world protests anti-Islamic film
The state news agency TAP, citing the health ministry, said both of those killed were demonstrators, while the injured included both protesters and police.
A Tunisian employee of the U.S. embassy who had an injured leg was taken out on a stretcher to an ambulance. It wasn't immediately clear if there were any other injuries. Embassy spokespeople did not respond to calls and emails.
Reuters reports the protesters, many of who were Islamic Salafists, chanted, "Obama, Obama, we are all Osamas" in reference to the slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Protesters also set fire to an American school adjacent to the embassy compound and prevented firefighters from approaching it. Thick columns of black smoke wafted through the neighborhood.
The group that breached the U.S. embassy's outer wall was eventually pushed back outside by police and special forces. As night fell, the crowd of protesters outside the embassy dwindled to a handful.
Crowds angry over an anti-Muslim film ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad have assaulted U.S. embassies across the Middle East.
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Mohammad was a sex maniac who "married" a six year old. He had multiple wives, concubines and sex slave girls brought to him by his armies as they forced Islam "by the sword" throughout the Middle East. The Quran has passages authorizing physical abuse of wives (Quran 4:34). How could a prophet be worthy of following if he shows such disrespect for women-the mothers, sisters, wives & aunties of this world?? Islam is the ENEMY of women-all religions are; but God is not. God made us just as important as men!!
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Islam does not have a monopoly on misogynistic views of women.
A couple examples of influential Church Fathers:
Around 300AD Clement of Alexandria , " the consciousness of their own nature must evoke feelings of shame.." Shortly after, in Milan, St Augustine's Confession placed blame of the Fall on Eve - all women- and demonizing sex which helped classed women as the source of evil and temptation and therefore ensured women were viewed as negative human beings.
The sixth century Christian philosopher, Boethius, wrote in The Consolation of Philosophy, "Woman is a temple built upon a sewer." Bishops at the sixth century Council of Macon voted as to whether women had souls. In the tenth century Odo of Cluny declared, "To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure..." The thirteenth century St. Thomas Aquinas suggested that God had made a mistake in creating woman: "nothing [deficient] or defective should have been produced in the first establishment of things; so woman ought not to have been produced then."
Also in the 1500's radical Protestants debated if women had souls!!!!!!!!
As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for peace. If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the people inside will serve you in forced labor. But if they refuse to make peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town. But you may keep for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder. You may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.
What kind of God approves of murder, rape, and slavery?
2) Laws of Rape (Deuteronomy 22:28-29 NLT)
If a man is caught in the act of raping a young woman who is not engaged, he must pay fifty pieces of silver to her father. Then he must marry the young woman because he violated her, and he will never be allowed to divorce her.
What kind of lunatic would make a rape victim marry her attacker? Answer: God.
3) Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB)
If within the city a man comes upon a maiden who is betrothed, and has relations with her, you shall bring them both out of the gate of the city and there stone them to death: the girl because she did not cry out for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbors wife.
It is clear that God doesn't give a damn about the rape victim. He is only concerned about the violation of another mans "property".
3) David's Punishment - Polygamy, Rape, Baby Killing, and God's "Forgiveness" (2 Samuel 12:11-14 NAB)
Thus says the Lord: 'I will bring evil upon you out of your own house. I will take your wives [plural]while you live to see it, and will give them to your neighbor. He shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. You have done this deed in secret, but I will bring it about in the presence of all Israel, and with the sun looking down.'
Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the Lord." Nathan answered David: "The Lord on his part has forgiven your sin: you shall not die. But since you have utterly spurned the Lord by this deed, the child born to you must surely die." [The child dies seven days later.]
This has got to be one of the sickest quotes of the Bible. God himself brings the completely innocent rape victims to the rapist. What kind of pathetic loser would do something so evil? And then he kills a child! This is sick, really sick!
4) Rape of Female Captives (Deuteronomy 21:10-14 NAB)
"When you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD, your God, delivers them into your hand, so that you take captives, if you see a comely woman among the captives and become so enamored of her that you wish to have her as wife, you may take her home to your house. But before she may live there, she must shave her head and pare her nails and lay aside her captive's garb. After she has mourned her father and mother for a full month, you may have relations with her, and you shall be her husband and she shall be your wife. However, if later on you lose your liking for her, you shall give her her freedom, if she wishes it; but you shall not sell her or enslave her, since she was married to you under compulsion."
Once again God approves of forcible rape.
5) Rape and the Spoils of War (Judges 5:30 NAB)
They must be dividing the spoils they took: there must be a damsel or two for each man, Spoils of dyed cloth as Sisera's spoil, an ornate shawl or two for me in the spoil. (Judges 5:30 NAB)
When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
7) God Assists Rape and Plunder (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
Lo, a day shall come for the Lord when the spoils shall be divided in your midst. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem for battle: the city shall be taken, houses plundered, women ravished; half of the city shall go into exile, but the rest of the people shall not be removed from the city. (Zechariah 14:1-2 NAB)
For whoever are the vile, wretched creatures who thought it a good idea to produce this blatantly putrid attack on the most illustrious, magnificent, person to ever walk the earth, someone whose behavior and example have before and continue to bring about the very best in people and call them toward true self-realization and excellence. This magnanimous, perfect soul was none other than The Holy Last Messenger Muhammad (Upon him be God's blessings and peace).
For all those who seem to find it allowable or even commendable to insult such a person and his followers, then they should read the history. Not only the blessed life of The Holy Last Messenger (Upon him be God's blessings and peace), but also about their own history. Learn how this blessed, sacred being has affected you and your own ancestors and brought us all, from every corner of the globe, European, Asian, American, African, and other, out of the darkness of ignorance, corruption, selfishness and so on, and into the light of civility, dignity, education, good manners, and love and knowledge of God Almighty.
If you only knew who you were insulting, or turning a blind eye to those who insult him, you too would stand up with the greatest of spirit and condemn these so-called people and their disgraceful behavior. You would call on the entire world to stand up with you in condemnation as I am doing now.
There are limits to free speech. When speech is designed to incite violence and cause harm to innocent people, when it's given to provoke the uninformed, when it's spewed to achieve the violent aims of those bent on the unjustified destruction of life and property, then it falls into the categories of excess and abuse of rights that Socrates referred to.
Respect and civility and far more defensible than disrespect and fire-starting.
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You are kidding right? Please tell me you are.
For goodness sakes are you saying that if some one made a comedy of Black people hanging from trees and eating watermelon you would consider that funny. What about a satire on Jews in ovens? How about making fun of rape and female victims? But it isn't just about making fun of a group it is the fact the "film" solely focuses on negative prejudices, stereotypes and misinformation. If you really want to learn about Islam read authors who are trained theologians such as Karen Armstrong not some one who has an axe to grind.
No if you can't see it then you have no common sense nor prudence.
I live in the SF bay area, homeland defense has been flying around every single neighborhood with radiation detection gear low to the ground above homes and business...why do you think they are doing this?
One damn good reason could be they are looking for WMD.
I am scared. I am angry and I demand accountability.
Attack Iran.
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Wow, so you want to invade and start a war with Iran and the others like Sam want to bomb Libya and Egypt. Hell lets drop nukes on half the world's population!!!
I'm not even quite sure where to start.
Money? We are in a recession, so where is the money going to come from? Are you so damn angry you are willing to sacrifice all social and infrastructure and education monies to kill infidels?
Are you going to open a door for China to step in and make allies with these countries? Willing to throw away our political influence and give it to China...they already are getting a strong foothold in Africa why not the Middle East.
Should we shoot first and well oh, who cares? How close to a holocaust are you willing to go? You are willing to implement a Third World War based on the clash of civilizations? You really want to go down in history as Nazi Germany's twin?
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PLeeeeese!
Now you think that action won't provoke more riots. Come on these people, just like the "film makers" are itching for a fight and you are playing right into their hands. Are you that blind? You are so naive.
When is the rest of the world going to stop placating this society of terrorists?
Why are they not responsible for their own condition?
It would be nice if they would stop blaming others for their miserable existence!
I'm all for Freedom of Speech but when that Right's direct consequence is the murder of innocents then something is wrong. We were all taught not to shout fire in a crowded theater..this is no different...no...this much more serious.
According to the report, the attack is being planned by Global Jihad, the group suspected of killing 16 Egyptian border guards in Sinai on August 5.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reportedly obtained a copy of the September 4 letter, sent to all Egyptian security sectors, warning that Sinai- and Gaza-based Global Jihad cells were planning attacks on the two embassies.
Egypt's military is engaged in an ongoing campaign to root out Sinai-based terrorists.
Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told the Washington Post that the White House has "reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use."
Youtube's executives shut down videos that they deem "hate speech." But YouTube spokesperson said Sept. 12 that the video "is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube."
Obama's request complies with the Sept. 13 demand and threat by the brotherhood, which now governs the Arab world's largest country, Egypt.
Those words "We find them offensive. And we certainly understand why Muslims would find these offensive." came out directly from Bush in support of the Muslim protesters when they demonstrated against the cartoons. The State Department under Bush then sent out their own statement: "anti-Muslim images are unacceptable as anti-semitic images, ...."
Those words were as much as an "apology" as the words written by a press official from the American Embassy in Cairo.
What you guys and Romney keep going back to is a "apology" statement that went out through a press officer in Egypt who is serving under a veteran ambassador to Pakistan appointment by a Republican President before she moved to Epygt. The "apology" was not written or approved by her or Obama. It was written 6 hours before the storming occurred in Libya.
I guess it is okay for a Republican President to "apologize" but not Obama.
Finally, it was the GOP who wanted a more physical forceful intervention to help the rebels in Libya, Egypt and now Syria. It is still the GOP who is screaming about assisting the Syrian rebels with military support. Isn't anyone in the GOP afraid that the Syrian rebels may turn around and bite America?
Historically, if aggrieved took what the Muslim haters commenting here would call a calm approach, sending letters, signing petitions, staging protests, the NWO would simply ignore them. In the past some aggrieved have taken the hint that, if they attained some kind of prominence, they would be heard and paid attentionto. But, since they weren't "the kind of crook the NWO could work with", they saw to it that the aggrieved never succeeded or achieved any status to be listened to. The third route taken was violence, and, then, the New World Order simply labelled them "terrorists" and ordered their extermination, without being heard.
A challenge then, but don't expect the Muslim haters whose viciousness stems from displaced deep seated hatred of themselves for being losers and failures to answer.
Solve the problem, once and for all.
Tell the world, everyone, every where how to go about getting the New World Order's attention, to get an actual redress for grievances! Anger across the world is involving genuine aggrieved individuals who were mistreated by the criminal corporate machinations of the Fascist New World Order. They seek to be made whole for atrocities committed against them. What non violent means can they use to get a guaranteed hearing and to be reimbursed for the wrongs done them?
Answer the question!
Solve the problem!
Or else admit that the New World Order doesn't intend to make good for the damage they do to peoples across the planet and the wave of anger and violence will only increase, which is the NWO's design.
Of course it's easier to blame anyone other than your false god. Yep, worship the man who brought down America. The fact is, before Clinton we produced most of what the world consumed. After Bush and Obama, we produce nothing.