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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus9/14/2012 6:01:53 pm PDT

Most definitely back on topic:


86 arrested as US consulate attacked over anti-Islam film

Eighty-six people were arrested yesterday after a group of several hundred Muslim protesters threw stones and smashed windows at the US consulate in Chennai, police said.

“They smashed the window panes, surveillance camera and tried to scale the compound wall, but we dispersed them while exercising restraint,” a senior police officer said on condition of anonymity. We made 86 arrests.”

The violence flared during a protest organised by the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, an Islamist movement, against an anti-Islam film which has triggered similar protests in large parts of the Muslim world.

The protesters also burnt an effigy of US President Barack Obama and an American flag, police said.

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One of the organisers said that what had been planned as a peaceful protest was hijacked by militants.

“We wanted to organise a peaceful demonstration to express our dismay over the film, but the youngsters, who could not hold their nerves, ran and attacked the consulate office,” Gunangudi Hanifa said.

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Google announced earlier yesterday that its video-sharing website YouTube had blocked access in India to the film. The block was in response to a court order in Jammu and Kashmir, a company official said on the condition of anonymity.

“We do, at times, block content in response to a court order or other valid legal process,” a Google spokesman said.

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Hmmm… if they burnt an effigy of Obama will that now make it ok with the wingnuts?

Anyway, this article points out how a few young people are the one who went violent, and the organization which planned the protest has a long history of suspicious activity.