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Police Open Fire On "Prophet Protesters" In Pakistan, One Killed
The torching of US embassies across the Muslim world may have been put on the backburner, perhaps driven by the withdrawal of virtually all embassy personnel across the affected regions, but the anti-US sentiment, whether predicated by some movie or not - and oddly enough nobody appears to have set any French embassies on fire following the Prophet Mohammad cartoon which appeared earlier this week, continues. The latest affected country: Pakistan, where "police opened fire on rioters who were torching a cinema during a protest against an anti-Islam film Friday, killing one man on a holiday declared by the government so that people could demonstrate against the video." So, the government specifically creates a "holiday" to protest the video then shoots people who protest the video? Does anyone else get the feeling that all authorities here are urgently doing their best to preempt a war? Was there a secret G-50 meeting in which it was decided the world was too overpopulated and a war was desperately needed? Surely that is ludicrous: just look at the natural growth that the world experienced after the first great depression unaided and unabetted by such trivialities as world war.
More from AP:
Mohammad Amir, a driver for a Pakistani television station, was killed when bullets hit his vehicle in the northwest city of Peshawar, said Kashif Mahmood, a reporter for ARY TV who was also sitting in the car at the time. The TV channel showed footage of Amir at the hospital as doctors tried to save him. It also showed the windshield of the vehicle, shattered by several gunshots.
The film denigrating the Prophet Muhammad has sparked unrest in many parts of the Muslim world over the past 10 days, and the deaths of at least 31 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been linked to the violence. Much of the anger has been directed at the U.S. government even though the film was privately produced in the U.S. and American officials have criticized it for insulting Muslims.
Pakistan has experienced nearly a week of violent rallies against the film in which three people have died. The government declared Friday to be a national holiday and encouraged people to protest peacefully.
Police could not immediately be reached for comment about the death of Amir.
The cinema where police opened fire was one of two in Peshawar that several hundred protesters ransacked and set ablaze. A similar number of protesters also torched a toll booth on the outskirts of the capital, Islamabad. Police fired tear gas at the angry crowds in both cities.
On Thursday, the government was forced to call in army troops to protect the capital after more than 2,000 stone-throwing demonstrators tried to reach the U.S. Embassy inside a guarded enclave that houses foreign missions and government offices. Security was tight in Islamabad again Friday, as police set up scores of shipping containers to prevent protesters from reaching the diplomatic enclave.
The government also blocked cell phone service in 15 major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi, to prevent militants from using phones to detonate bombs during the protests, said an Interior Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Service is scheduled to be restored at 6 p.m. local time, he said.
U.S. officials have struggled to explain to the Muslim world how they strongly disagree with the anti-Islam film but have no ability to block it because of the freedom of speech in the country.
In other news, the remainder of the world is right now waiting in line for the latest and greatest Phonshion Accessory. Etc.
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All those US embassies destroyed will have to be rebuilt which means an additional 0.1% to final quarter GDP.
iRebuild
How dare you pick on my sensitive Prophet......we'll have to kill you.....cause he can't do it.
I wish they would have just made a youtube video of their own against Jesus or the US or whatever in retaliation. A war of religion-disparaging youtube videos might have actually been entertaining.
They have no free press.
Their muslim video on YT would have collected a few thousand viewers.
Nothing like the wave that the free press could unleash, that is millions and millions of viewers.
Asymetrical issue once again.
But hey, US citizens love to see symetry when asymetry is. It helps them keep the propaganda up.
the video is merely the trigger, the rage has been building for years. did anyone read the blog post?
Things that make you go hmmmmm....
Not really..
Looks like downtown Chicago after a Bulls championship win
they need to put Mohammed as a new character in the next Street Figher game. That way muslim kids will get hooked then not care so much. Americanize, bitchez...
Judging by their other retaliatory videos, you probably couldn't make anything out except their demands to allow snackbar... apparently they get sidetracked easily.
allow snackbar... Laughed out loud. Next time the State Run Media shows a muzzy protest, I'll be chanting right along with them.
Allow Snackbar - Allow Snackbar - Allow Snackbar
Oh yeah, I can see it, I can see it. Jesus gives Mohammad a two finger eye poke, then Mohammad kicks Jesus in teh shins. Complete with Three Stooges sound backing! But, who gets the "Nyyk, nyuk, nuyk..."?
Cast Iron Skillet gave us this well seasoned comment:
Do you mean a video like this one?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7TeMk7_Cpk
Muhammad didn't build that.
Quite right -- the prophet Kurgman (Piss Be Upon Him) did.
Broken windshields = more wealth.
If GS could call the Fuki destruction Bullish, this mayhem and destruction has to be somewhat Bullish, right?
We'll probably hire locals to do any rebuilding, so the only GDP we'll be helping will be that of those countries who trash our embassies. This is reminiscent of spending stimulus money to purchase solar panels made in China.
We'll probably hire locals to do any rebuilding
Can't tell whether <sarc> ... or just unfamiliar with how all these contracts go to Halliburton/Bechtel/Carlyle cronies.
There's no need to contain costs in Federal Gov't construction projects, so they all go to US contractors who buttsex the taxpayer.
Only iCrap for the masses gets outsourced.
Pakistan, fuck em.
Like there is a shortage of poor people.
Mayans..bitchez
Muslim Spring! Bitchez!
New_Meat
dude it's Autumn. Almost.
THIS IS OUTSTANDING (5 MINS)!!! "A WORD TO RIOTING MUSLIMS"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCXHPKhRCVg
running of the Bulls
You know what the Pakistani's need? Paul Krugman.
Send Paul.......why not?
Muslims don't eat pig.
Try putting lipstick and a dress on it.
IF THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ALL THE ISLAMIC TROUBLEMAKERS IN ONE PLACE TO KILL THEM IN ORDER TO AVOID A WAR, IS THAT SUCH A BAD STRATEGY?
What about you? You seem to be a troublemaker.
Great place to live; violent and poor with a super-rich elite. Land is being destroyed so less and less food, more and more people 190,291,129 (July 2011 est.). Infrastructure crumbling across the country and education imploding due to the rise of extremism.
However they have Nukes and as the pressure rises who are they going to use them on?
I dunno ... how far can the effectively shoot 'em?
I think their best missile has a range no more than about 1500km, others are shorter, or they could load 'em on a MirageIII. Either way they pose a regional threat and neighboring nuclear armed India has its own house to look after, and their arsenal and delivery systems are much more diverse and can extend to ranges of 3000km and are working on system beyond that range. If I want to pick a dance partner in this region it would be the predominately Hindu nation over the predominately Sunni nation.
I remember when that daft PAF instructor took his flight across the indian border, india had 4 planes in the air with one on each, SOP for their nuclear response doctrine.
Think of all the possibilities for an accident in those four takeoffs and landings, add in the mechanical state of their planes and bombs, plus the risk of having four nukes in the air over your own country.
F'ing crazy.
Not saying the USA way of accidently putting a nuke on a bomber, failing 11 different military safeguards to do so is better.
Even better is the way all your nukes sent over here are transferred by train to your east coast then put on a plane and flown over my country to land at an airbase here yet the usa bans all US military nuke flights in its own airspace.
Must be this 'special relationship' i keep hearing about.
IMHO.
Vegetius
DDDDUUUUDDDDEEEE! Quit dissing the US!
We're number one! We're number one!
pakistan is being destroyed because it has nukes.
Need more anti-Muslim flicks and cartoons.
kralizec
Skyone has been running twelve episode of Sinbad.
You could watch that.
There are some shocks are in store as Sinbad and the gang manage to gain entrance to the Land of the Dead.
Ahh, the land of the dead, awesome! Hope it has a happy ending!
Sinbad goes to Detroit?
LOL!
Temporalist
No, Black Dynamite goes to Motown.
I'm sure that happens this season.
No, Karachi.
Here's a good friend's first day there: it was still monsoon, and while out and about exploring the city, a downpour started. Trying to reach shelter, the poorly cured cement covering a sewer beneath the sidewalk gave way. He fell in up to his waist in a steaming stew of human filth and sidewalk run-off. A hand was offered to help pull him out. He looked up and saw a man with half a face. Leprosy.
There's only one chance to make a good first impression.
"My kind of town, Karachi is..."
kralizec
Happy ending?
No series two then.
Sinbad is reunited with his murdered brother. That will bring a tear to the eyes.
Meanwhile the season two opener of Rake was pretty cool and dealt with modern mid-eastern stereotypes.
The explanation for all that bleach was priceless.
More anti-Mohammad flicks?
Damn! What a great idea. Those dopes are so darn predictable who needs to spend billions of dollars on military interventions? Just jab them, goad them and egg them on into their own total psychic meltdown with Hollywood productions. I LIKE it!
I wonder what the cinema owner thinks of this?
That they have the freedom of thought and freedom of speech to protest is wonderful. That they are protesting someone else's freedom of thought and speech not so much so. Unfortunately abusing or degrading such freedom by associating it with criminal activity, (property destruction, assault upon persons) only gives excuse to evil powers that seek to undermine and restrict such freedoms. Freedom of thought and speech is simply to be cherished.
Just Ice
Dude, that theory is for the PDD (Poor Deluded Dupes).
Every secret agency whether it be US, Russian, Chinese, or Corporate are dumping money into the rabble rousers.
Angry people are easy to manipulate. Read some of the posts here.
The thing is all the covert types are working at cross purposes, as always. Eventually this shit comes apart and bites them all in the ass.
the megaphonies and hasbara crew are out in force today. they want their blood war, and muslims are the current emanuel goldstein. who is up next? black americans? white libertarians? wtfu people.
Gully:
If you are going to reply to my post, don't spin it into your own interpretation.
My point which you've missed, or wish to call pollyannaish, is that freedom of thought and speech are to be cherished and not abused.
In further elaboration, once these freedoms are abused, that abuse gives evil powers the excuse they seek to start placing restrictions on that freedom. A prime example is all the political correct B.S. people are expected to live up to in the U.S. (a restriction on free thought and speech)...or accusations of racism, etc. that also seek to control someone else's thoughts. And the tables are seldom turned on the illegitimate use of political correctness or accusations of bigotry or racism, that are merely used to shut one up from expressing what are perfectly acceptable thoughts or speech. E.g., labeling people as "fringe" or "far right" or something else as a way of silencing them. Or intimidating people from criticism for fear of being called a racist. And most of these happenstances found their excuse in a history of violence, (KKK for example)...such as the violence that is now occurring during these protests, muddying the distinction between free speech/protest by people versus rioter criminality.
No doubt. And no doubt Pakistan's gov likes it too. Why the holiday to protest?
Because the proles blow off steam and focus their rage outward.
That way they don't have time to think about how shitty their own government is.
SSDA. Same shit, different author.
The ME uses Orwell, the west uses Huxley.
pods
The two minutes of hate is now 11 days. They went from fighting Eurasia (70's 80's) to fighting Oceania without missing a beat.
Or maybe Oceania switch with out missing a beat. Can someone please hang the correct poster of who I should be mad at.
Maybe the French cartoon news hasn't reached them yet. :P
My original thought is the possibility of foreign influence inciting these protests.
fuck muhammad and islam, stupid fucks F. it's not a religion, it's an ethos!
stinkhammer
No one cares about your private life, and that of your lover.
We get it you like the swarthy types.
But we don't need to read about you fucking them.
you go die for the pigs then tard
kill all poor brown people fuck yeah. that will fix everything. /s
9 posts already by Guilty Foyle ... trying to stir up shit and disrupt the thread ... and all in bold! Hmmmm....
BOLD Bitchez
Maybe the muzzies like cartoons?
Happy Holidays, indeed.
"My original thought is the possibility of foreign influence inciting these protests"
Make that : "My original thought is the possibility of ISI influence inciting these protests"?
No religion is so ignorant to care of religious insults except Islam. Many Muslims are still uneducated and ignorant. Poverty is a cause for ignorance.
go to isreal and carry a sign stating that 'the talmud is satanic' see what happens.
My guess is: not much. I certainly doubt there would be rioting and wanton destruction of property.
"A spate of hate crimes against Christian places of worship in Israel has prompted usually reticent Roman Catholic officials to speak out, hoping that intervention by authorities might bring an end to the vandalism."
http://rt.com/news/catholics-christian-vandalism-hate-598/
Yeah, the person holding the sign will live, that is a big difference.
Allahu Ak--BANG!
you would think they would be more upset
about foreign bases and drone attacks on their
barbecue parties than a retarded video made
by an idiot? i guess they are differently
sensitized to narrative, the thing that controls
the minds and bodies of people today?
They are pissed off about that. And the fact that their leaders live like western kings, fat and happy on oil money.
So every now and again the leaders must let the proles let off some steam or the anger is turned toward the government.
Think of it as a longer "Two minutes Hate."
pods
They are also pissed of because that petro-dollar doesn't go as far as it used to. Thank you Ben.
this thing about controlling the narrative
as to direct the anger in such a way as to
protect or serve the authority is something
which empire has experience. it is their art,
they call it the art of governance i think.
after ww II when the borders and such were
set up in the middle east empire organized the
countries so that there would be, always, the
potential for internal conflict to distract
the masses from the foreign overlords.
a retired high school history teacher told me that,
or something like it and it makes sense.
maybe just divide and conquer ...? never allow the
people to come together, think clearly, tell their
own stories or feel safe. if you do they may
kick you out and thrive leaving no exploitative
benefit to the foreign overlords.
"Does anyone else get the feeling that all authorities here are urgently doing their best to preempt a war? Was there a secret G-50 meeting in which it was decided the world was too overpopulated and a war was desperately needed"?
It seems that alot of us are on the same page. I remember a lot of this same activity during the 70s. The CIA stirred up a lot of crap in the middle east in order to create a boogie man that they could blame the economic problems on and to distract the masses. They have fallen back to that same play book. I was a lot younger then and a little more gullible. It's funny how transparent it seems today.
To bad most of the people who were around during the 70's are still falling for the same shit.
Gully Foyle's
Sorry Gully I was only talking about Pakistan having been there back in the day
Now that you mention it
You didn't kill that ambassador ! You needed Russian weapons and US State Department stupidity and Libyan complicity! US ambassdor died of smoke inhalation .... after being tortured until he dropped and was left for dead .... after his Libyan "rescuers" dragged him through the streets to see a doctor ? Libyan PM tells CNN info-babes Stout and Damon that "about 8" people of interest have been detained ---- in Monedian Logic that would be 7 or 9 ? Monedas 1929 Comedy Jihad Security Assessment Audit Tour
One Killed. Just one?There's plenty of room left in Paradise...
Dr. Engali for the win!
US Ambassador to Libya told colleagues he feared he was on Al Qaeda "hit list" .... not too hard to imagine ? Hillary opines emphatically: "We have no evidence of that ! It was all about that hateful, amateur video on You Tube !" !
Does anyone have a link or the name of this offensive video? Someone told me it was "Beat Street". I sat through the whole thing, became offended, but didn't see a Muslim reference.
+1 on the beat street ref! I wanted to jihad when I first saw it...
I had it a couple of days ago .... does that help ?
///US officials have struggled to explain to the Muslim world how they strongly disagree with the anti-Islam film but have no ability to block it because of the freedom of speech in the country.///
US official have granted themselves the 'right' to block pretty much anything they choose to, and to jail the creators of pretty much anything that crosses them. without cause or trial...what country could they be referring to?
...somewhere alongs the way to that sorry state of suffocated sufferage, some of the strong-arm types who State sent to Pakistan to train and stir up Jihadists were instructed to make the only person of sufficent stature to stymie their PNAC plans pay the ultimate price for standing in their way....
When Benazir Bhutto died on the street at the hands of an assassin, so did most of the chance we had to avoid a manufactured showdown between east and west. She was brave, she was smart, and she wouldn't back down to those who bullied, threatened and intimidated her. On either side.
If there was just one politician left in the west who had the same c.v., we'd already be on the other side of the mess we're in. But there isn't...that's the shame of it.
The whole western 'freedom of speech" ruse as you pointed out is bogus. A similar video in Germany directed at Judaism would be a felony. And the video would have gone nowhere without it being allowed on youtube (owned by Google which in turn is owned by a joint venture between the CIA and the NSA). Youtube feels no reluctance to pull hundreds of videos it doesn't like for various reasons every week. As Clif High pointed out in considerable detail in his latest wojo, the powers that shouldn't be are determined to start WWW III before the end of October. Their problem is that they have to get the majority of Americans psyched up for it, and we are so dumbed down and tranqued out with prescription drugs and toxic, corporate food, that we don't give a rat's ass about anything except reruns of Happy Days.
These guys need more practice at the firing range
god
WW3 Checklist:
1. All governments around the world creating massive amounts of debt.
2. Massive inflation in all commodities.
3. High unemployment
4. Create instability in the Middle East and Asia.
5. False Flag terror or Military action.
Were just waiting for number 5 and the fuse will be lit.
In related news, Netanyahu seized upon these protests as still more evidence that Iran is vewy, vewy close to a bomb.
Just like they were 5 years ago.
And in 1992.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1108/Imminent-Iran-nuclear-threat-A-timeline-of-warnings-since-1979/Israel-paints-Iran-as-Enemy-No.-1-1992
Which is 9 years before Israel, and neocon elements in our own government [Cheney, Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, Zakheim, Cohen... basically all Likudnik Zionist Jews] did 9/11 for the insurance money, destruction of records, and a century of war on Israel's neighbors... and all the debt created by same.
http://www.takeourworldback.com/911whodunit.htm
Then the same Likudnik Zionist Jews lied us into Iraq - unconcerned with Al Qaeda because Iraq was more of a threat to Israel. That Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 as the official story went was little barrier to the steering of American policy.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/01/lie-factory
It's funny. The evidence is overwhelming. The racists and black helicopter crowd are less wrong than, say, Jeff Goldberg. Zionists - largely but not solely Jewish, have hijacked the American government and the apparatus of both parties.
And they will use the United States up, as sword and shield, as cannon fodder for 'Eretz Israel' which, as much or more than a bankster world government, is what this is all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFr4C2BPLeM
[parenthetically, the dead rebbe Bibi met with here said all sorts of racist/Jewish supremacist/batshit crazy and hateful things. Totally Zio-cleansed on wiki, and congress gave the guy an award.]
You'd think the American press would be reporting on it, no? And no, the media isn't controlled by some sinister cabal. It's basically 6 mega corporations. And they hate you.
http://www.freepress.net/ownership/chart
Fuck you if you aren't enraged.