Cairo protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall, remove flag

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Egyptian demonstrators climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo today and pulled down the American flag to protest a film they say is insulting to the prophet Mohammad.

Update at 2:07 p.m. ET: CNN reports that U.S. security guards fired a volley of warning shots as the crowd gathered outside the embassy walls.

CNN adds that the embassy had been expecting a demonstration and cleared all diplomatic personnel earlier from the facility.

Original post: The Associated Press reports that embassy officials say there was no staff inside at the time.

Reuters reports that protesters tried to raise a black flag carrying the slogan: "There is no god but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger."

The news agency says about 2,000 protesters have gathered outside the embassy and about 20 have scaled the walls.

The AP says the protesters were largely ultra-conservative Islamists.

Iran's FARS news agency says the film is the work of a group of "extremist" members of the Egyptian Coptic Church in the United States.

Al Ahram online says the film is reportedly being produced by U.S.-based Coptic-Christian Egyptians, including Esmat Zaklama and Morees Sadek, with the support of the Terry Jones Church in the United States.

Jones is the evangelical pastor who stirred controversy last year by threatening to burn a Quran in public.

CNN says the film in question is a Dutch production.

The AP says clips of the film available on YouTube show the prophet having sex and question his role as the messenger of Godâ??s words.

After the protest, the U.S. Embassy issued this statement on its website:

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims â?? as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of other

The Grand Mufti of Egypt Sheikh Ali Gomaa strongly condemned the movie, AllAfrica.com reports.

"Freedom of speech does not warrant desecrating sanctities," Gomaa said in a statement Sunday.

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They are in need of a Hurt Feelings Report.

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They are in need of a Hurt Feelings Report.

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US Ambassador

Reported by CNN to have been murdered by those crazy lunatics.

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What will be the response of the death?

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The murder of the ambassador was an atrocity, an unexcuseable crime, and all people should condemn it. Any attacks on embassies are also unexcuseable crimes.

Now an update on this mysterious film - it seems the filmmaker is Israeli.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, where one American was killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/anti-islam-filmmaker-hiding-protests-042924045.html

The trailer was uploaded to YouTube by Sam Bacile, whom The Wall Street Journal Web site identified as a 52-year old Israeli-American real estate developer in California. He told the Web site he had raised $5 million from 100 Jewish donors to make the film. “Islam is a cancer,” Mr. Bacile was quoted as saying.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/anger-over-film-fuels-anti-american-attacks-in-libya-and-egypt.html?_r=1&hp

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The murder of the ambassador was an atrocity, an unexcuseable crime, and all people should condemn it. Any attacks on embassies are also unexcuseable crimes.

Now an update on this mysterious film - it seems the filmmaker is Israeli.

Great, they're trying to get us to join them in an offensive over there, by inciting violence against us.

I hope Obama has this in his Ipod and takes the words to heart:

the time has come for everyone to clean up their own backyard

Before they go knocking on their neighbour's door

Edited September 12, 2012 by kytwell

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Great, they're trying to get us to join them in an offensive over there, by inciting violence against us.

I hope Obama has this in his Ipod and takes the words to heart:

the time has come for everyone to clean up their own backyard

Before they go knocking on their neighbour's door

It would be interesting to learn who exactly gave him the $5 million.

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Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and that the 56-year-old intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion.

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Bacile, a California real estate developer who identifies himself as an Israeli Jew, said he believes the movie will help his native land by exposing Islam’s flaws to the world.

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The full film has been shown once, to a mostly empty theater in Hollywood earlier this year, said Bacile.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/12/anti-islam-filmmaker-in-hiding-after-protests/

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It would be interesting to learn who exactly gave him the $5 million.

I'd like to know too. The guy has went into hiding.

An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's prophet Muhammad

Though Bacile was apologetic about the American who was killed as a result of the outrage over his film, he blamed lax embassy security and the perpetrators of the violence.

Klein said he vowed to help Bacile make the movie but warned him that "you're going to be the next Theo van Gogh."

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=8807554

So he made movie, knowing that they may try and kill him, they then killed some Americans and now he's in hiding. I smell vag...