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The arrest of a Bangladeshi immigrant Wednesday in New York on suspicions of attempting to blow up the US Federal Reserve building has reopened controversy about sting operations involving fake terror plots scripted and funded by the FBI.The arrest of a Bangladeshi immigrant Wednesday in New York on suspicions of... more
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The explosion of controversy
surrounding the “Innocence of Muslims” film and the supposedly “senseless” violence that ensued in Libya and elsewhere after its reception, point to a significant hole in the American worldview. That is, many Americans still cannot comprehend that their nation’s values are not universal, nor even entirely logically sound.The explosion of controversy
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Iran President Ahmadinejad condemns anti islam film innocence of muslims.
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Demonstrators in Peshawar burn down movie theatres over an anti-Islam film. Rough Cut
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Sept. 22 - Brazilians of all religious faiths hold peaceful march in protest of an anti-Islam film. Julie Noce reports.Sept. 22 - Brazilians of all religious faiths hold peaceful march in protest of an... more
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Sept. 20 - Anti-Japan demonstrators attack a car carrying U.S. ambassador Gary Locke outside the American embassy in Beijing on the 81st anniversary of Japan's invasion of northern China. Rough cut (no reporter narration). ( Transcript )Sept. 20 - Anti-Japan demonstrators attack a car carrying U.S. ambassador Gary Locke... more
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it was a "terrorist attack" that killed the American ambassador to Libya and three others, and she says the U.S. will not rest until those responsible are brought to justice.
Clinton told reporters Friday at the State Department that, quote, "what happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack." And she said the U.S. would track down, quote, the "terrorists who murdered four Americans."
Clinton was speaking ahead of a meeting with Pakistan's foreign minister.
The secretary of state also condemns the violence erupting throughout the Muslim world over the film produced in the U.S. that is offensive to Islam. She says the film is, quote, "offensive, disgusting and reprehensible," but says it cannot be used to justify violence.WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says it was a... more
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Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Friday declared that Muslims needed to “evolve” because they were “almost childlike” and would become enraged for almost any reason.
During a segment on Fox & Friends, Rivera explained that Muslim protesters in Libya and Egypt had reacted to an anti-Islamic film with violence because “there’s a big hunk of the Muslim world that’s a hundred years behind us in terms of political sophistication. These are folks easily enraged by something like this movie.”
“They have a hundred years to evolve to catch up to anything like the sophistication of the west,” the Fox News host later repeated. “We have to appreciate that in some ways, they are almost childlike, dare I say it?”Fox News host Geraldo Rivera on Friday declared that Muslims needed to... more
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The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans may have had an al Qaeda connection, a top U.S official told Congress. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans may have had... more
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At least two people were killed in violent anti-American demonstrations in Pakistan.
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Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and called for more attacks to expel American embassies from Muslim nations.
The statement, posted Saturday on Islamic militant websites, suggested al-Qaeda was trying to co-opt the wave of angry protests in the Muslim world over a film produced in the United States denigrating the Prophet Muhammad.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said the killing this week of Ambassador Chris Stevens in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was “the best example” for those attacking embassies.
It said protesters’ aim should be to “expel the embassies of America from the lands of the Muslims” and called on protests to continue in Muslim nations “to set the fires blazing at these embassies.”Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen has praised the killing of the U.S. ambassador in... more
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A filmmaker named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who is linked to the inflammatory film Innocence of Muslims, was interviewed today by federal probation authorities, according to the AP . The interview took place early this morning at a sheriff’s station in Nakoula’s hometown of Cerritos, Calif. The filmmaker was not arrested. In 2010, Nakoula pleaded no contest to bank fraud charges.
Authorities have identified Nakoula as the key figure behind the Innocence of Muslims. The movie lampoons the prophet Mohammed and inspired riots in many Middle Eastern countries, one of which led to the killing of the U.S ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, after a trailer for the film appeared on YouTube.
Yesterday, one of the film’s few supporters, Terry Jones, told EW that the movie’s producer was concerned for his safety. Jones is the founder of the Stand Up America organization and is himself an outspoken critic of Islam. Jones had talked with the producer — who he said did not reveal his name — about distributing the film and on Sept. 12 Jones uploaded the movie’s trailer to the Stand Up America Facebook page. “I spoke to him yesterday twice,” Jones told EW on Friday. “He is definitely very concerned, afraid, and is definitely not planning on coming public in any form.”
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/09/15/innocence-of-muslims/A filmmaker named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who is linked to the inflammatory film... more
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The circulation on the Internet of the trailer for a film, The Innocence of Muslims, sparked demonstrations across the world and resulted in the killing in Benghazi of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya and members of his entourage.The circulation on the Internet of the trailer for a film, The Innocence of Muslims,... more
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By not taking down the controversial Innocence of Muslims trailer from YouTube, Google is “defending freedom,” Judge Andrew Napolitano told Fox’s Megyn Kelly this afternoon during a segment of America Live.
Despite the White House asking the company to “review” the video the administration openly blames for last week’s anti-American violence in the Middle East, Google has opted to keep the 13-minute-long “trailer” available for viewing in the United States.
Napolitano applauded the decision.
“I’m very happy that Google didn’t take it down,” he explained, “not because I want to see the kind of riots that we’re seeing, but because mature, intelligent people should be able to view this thing and decide for themselves whether it is truly the cause of these riots or whether it is a pretext for the cause of these riots.”
“Taking this down would be a quick and down and dirty solution,” Napolitano said of the White House’s seeming desire to remove the video. “The reason I say ‘down and dirty’ is because the solution for bad speech, hate speech, junk speech, garbage speech, whatever you want to call this is not censorship, it’s more speech. But censorship is a lot easier for the White House.”
Napolitano also spoke of the free speech implications that would come from the White House successfully getting YouTube to remove the video: “The First Amendment governs the government, it doesn’t govern Google. So Google is free to take down what it wants on YouTube. But whenever the government puts a little pressure on somebody, tries to get them to do something it wants [...] with respect to speech the courts call that ‘chilling,’ meaning that Google would think twice in the future about doing something like this because, oh, we don’t want to have to deal with the government.
“The government is not permitted to chill speech,” he added. “It is not permitted to deter people from the free exercise of their speech because the government doesn’t like the speech or doesn’t like the reaction to the speech.”
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http://youtu.be/FvJ5ocacmGcBy not taking down the controversial Innocence of Muslims trailer from YouTube, Google... more
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Actors in anti-Muslim Film Weighing Options to File Lawsuit
Actors say they were duped by a man with a criminal past.Actors in anti-Muslim Film Weighing Options to File Lawsuit
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Fox News co-host Eric Bolling on Monday accused President Barack Obama of valuing the teachings of Islam over the U.S. Constitution.
Bolling noted on The Five that the alleged maker of a highly controversial anti-Islam film on YouTube had been interviewed by federal probation officers over the weekend.
“America changed at that moment,” he said. “To use what is being called a flimsy ploy to bring this guy in for questioning proves that the Obama administration, through all this appeasement and apologizing, answers to the Qu’ran first and to the Constitution second.”Fox News co-host Eric Bolling on Monday accused President Barack Obama of valuing the... more
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough created a controversy on Monday by suggesting Muslims and Arabs protesting the infamous, and infamously bad, anti-Islamic video hate America because of their religion and culture. "You know why they hate us?" he said. "They hate us because of their religion, they hate us because of their culture, and they hate us because of peer pressure. And you talk to any intelligence person, they will tell you that's the same thing, and all those people who think we're going to go over there and change them are just naive." Joe is specifically blaming Islamic religion and Arab culture, which isn't necessarily true, but there are some connections - just not the type he's suggesting. Before throwing his baby out with the bathwater, consider this:MSNBC's Joe Scarborough created a controversy on Monday by suggesting Muslims and... more
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Heightened security at Jewish Buildings
Security is heightened at Jewish houses of worship following anit American violence around the world.Heightened security at Jewish Buildings
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Violence in Afghanistan as NATO strike hits civilians and four NATO soldiers are killed in in suspected "insider" attack. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.Violence in Afghanistan as NATO strike hits civilians and four NATO soldiers are... more
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Violent anti-film protests in Afghan capital
Violent protests continue in Kabul over a film demonstrators say insults the Prophet Mohammad. Sarah Sheffer reports.
Kabul, Afghanistan -- Demonstrators in Afghanistan attacked police officers along a road leading to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as tensions remained high Monday in the Muslim world over a movie trailer that mocks the Prophet Mohammed.
U.S. embassies and consulates were on alert for further backlash over the anti-Islam video, which was produced privately in the United States.
At least 15 policemen were injured and two police vehicles burned when the protest of about 300 Afghans at an outer security perimeter several miles from the embassy turned into a melee, a senior Afghan police official said on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Protesters also clashed with police in Indonesia and in Pakistan.
The violence is the latest fallout from a low-budget, amateurish 14-minute movie trailer posted on YouTube that mocks the Prophet Mohammed as a womanizer, child molester and killer. Islam forbids any depictions of Mohammed, and blasphemy is taboo among many in the Muslim world.
Monday's incidents come six days after protests erupted in Egypt and Libya, and spread to more than 20 nations with sometimes violent results.
The attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead.
The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, meanwhile, called for renewed protests Monday over the trailer.
Speaking Sunday on Hezbollah's al-Manar television service, Hassan Nasrallah said the trailer, which has been posted online, "represents a dangerous turn in the war against Islam and the great prophet, peace be upon him."
"The people who should be accountable, and brought to justice as well as punished and boycotted, are those directly responsible for the film and those who support them and protect them," NasrallahViolent anti-film protests in Afghan capital
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