Muslim Mob Attacks Danish Embassy in Indonesia
Charles Johnson
Fri Feb 3, 2006 at 8:19 am PST • Views: 233
A Muslim mob swarmed the Danish embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia today, rampaging and smashing things to show their anger over being portrayed as “violent:” Muslims attack Danish embassy building in Jakarta.
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Militant Indonesian Muslims went on a rampage inside the lobby of a Jakarta building housing the Danish embassy on Friday in protest over cartoons that Muslims say insult Islam and the Prophet Mohammad.
Shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest), between 200 to 300 white-clad protesters from the Islamic Defender’s Front (FPI) smashed lamps with bamboo sticks and threw chairs around in anger at cartoons originally published by a Danish daily.
They threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at the Danish embassy symbol and tore up a Danish national flag. The embassy is on the 25th floor of the building and protesters were unable to get past police inside the lobby, a Reuters photographer said.
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