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Germany condemns film as mob burns embassy
Published: 14 Sep 12 14:50 CET | Print version
Updated: 14 Sep 12 17:13 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120914-44975.html
Germany condemned what the foreign minister called a hate video on Friday after thousands of protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum stormed the German embassy and set it on fire in fury.
- Germany boosts security at embassies after riots - National (14 Sep 12)
“I understand the fury in the Islamic world at the anti-Islamic hate video and I condemn this video, but this is no justification for violence and the storming of embassies or endangering of people’s lives. The video is unacceptable and hurts the feelings of millions of believers but this is no justification for violence,” he said.
Westerwelle also confirmed that the embassy staff were safe despite the storming and torching of the embassy building.
In an attempt to reach a global audience, Westerwelle repeated the part of his statement concerning his condemnation of the video in English.
Around 5,000 people surrounded the German and British embassies, which are next door to each other in Khartoum, after Friday prayers initial reports said.
Sudanese police fired tear gas to disperse the protesters as several of them scaled the roof of the German embassy and tore down the German flag, replacing it with a black Islamic one.
The mob then proceeded to smash windows, broke into the building and started fires.
Afterwards hundreds gathered in front of the US embassy, and were beaten back by security forces. Broadcaster Al-Arabija reported that one demonstrator was killed as tear gas was fired into the crowed. A cameraman from the station was injured.
Westerwelle said the Sudanese ambassador in Berlin had been summoned to the foreign ministry on Friday morning where he was reminded of his government's duty to protect diplomatic institutions.
Germany's ambassador to Sudan, Rolf Welberts, only took up his position last Saturday. He has been in contact with Westerwelle, informing him of the situation.
Friday’s attack was the latest in a series initially directed at US embassies in several Muslim countries, as anger sparked by a film mocking Islam spread across the Muslim world.
Westerwelle said on Friday morning that security measures had been bolstered at embassies in Muslim countries, and that German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan had also been put on a higher state of alert.
The US ambassador to Libya was killed and three others injured when the consulate was attacked in the city of Benghazi on Tuesday.
A further four people were killed at the US embassy in Yemen on Thursday after similar attacks, while some 220 people were injured in anti-US protests in Cairo.
The protests began after the video - an amateurish film denigrating the Prophet Mohammed allegedly linked to evangelical and Coptic Christians in the United States - was released.
Demonstrations have spread across the Middle East, as well as to Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Gaza Strip, Kuwait, Sudan and Tunisia.
The Local/DPA/DAPD/AFP/hc
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It is also another example for Germans that being not-American is no guarantee of acceptance or protection when in the third world.
We Americans have been saying that for years. It's not 100% about the US and their failed middle eastern policies. It is the total abject hatred of anything that is not them. They do not want ANY freedom or peace.
All any body ever wanted from the middle east was a reliable source of oil. All that needed to be done was for the middle east to peaceably sell oil to the world. But no. They couldn't be bothered to even do that. But of course we can thank England,Italy,Japan,France for the treaty of Versailles for breaking up the Ottoman empire (among other things) after WWI that created the instabilities that are still going on, along with setting up WWII. Which by the way. The Americans opposed. Mostly due to the formation of the league of nations. We did not and still don't accept a one world government solution.
"It's not 100% about the US and their failed middle eastern policies. It is the total abject hatred of anything that is not them."
Really, I mean really??????? How on earth did you come to such educated conclusion?
I suggest dearly to all of you to read something other than
Well stated, its not often I can agree with you on most issues.
Guido Westerwelle doesn't speak for all of us when he says he understands the fury ,stop crawling up to these murderers ,if I want to insult any religion I can simply by saying I don't believe in your god .
Saying that should not give the right to kill me or anyone else ,Iran insults Jews often ,Muslims in the U.K. even burn symbols of our remembering the dead from ww1 and ww2 at ceremonies in our capital.
Enough is enough take you religion and practice it in a land where it is welcomed .
Thankfully, I am not religious and can see clearly.
Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Gaza Strip, Kuwait, Sudan and Tunisia.
And which of these countries populations are helped and fed by western aid?
Biting the hand that literally feeds you.
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R. Waters
Yes we mistakenly got involved after England gave up after WWII. But the fire was burning long before the US arrived. And we succeeded in throwing more fuel on the fire. But we most certainly didn't start it.
Kuwait, By the 19th century, Kuwait came under the influence of the Ottoman Empire. After World War I, it emerged as an independent sheikhdom under the protection of the British Empire. Kuwait's large oil fields were discovered in the late 1930s. The USA didn't wasn't there. It was Europe.
Aims of the Allies.The leaders of France, Britain, and the United States had stated their differing objectives with respect to the Ottoman Empire during the Paris Peace Conference, 1919. The common theme was the sick man of Europe had come to his own end. However, it was a shock to the world when the treaty said the Allies were in agreement keeping the Ottoman Government of Constantinople, which remained the capital of the Ottoman Empire, though with the reservations of the conditions of the treaty. The treaty called for the expulsion of the Ottoman Empire from Europe. The treaty imposed terms so severe that British policy seemed to have succeeded in strangling the sick man of Europe in his sick-bed in Asia Minor.
The United States—having refused the Armenian mandate in the Senate—decided to have nothing to do with partition of the Ottoman Empire. The U.S. wanted a permanent peace as quickly as possible, with financial compensation for its military expenditures.
France (Zone of influence)
Greece (Zone of Smyrna)
Italy (Zone of influence)
British Mandate of Iraq
British Mandate for PalestineThe High Contracting Parties agree to entrust, by application of the provisions of Article 22, the administration of Palestine, within such boundaries as may be determined by the Principal Allied Powers, to a Mandatory to be selected by the said Powers. The Mandatory will be responsible for putting into effect the declaration originally made on November 2, 1917, by the British Government, and adopted by the other Allied Powers, in favour of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Palestine officially fell under the British Mandate.
French Mandate of Lebanon
French Mandate of Syria
Well there's something you don't see every day!
There needs to be a full public investigation of how the United States got sucked into the European War and turned it into World War I. Who were responsible for the following changes in the United States in 1913:
1. The United States Senators were changed to being Representatives of the people instead of Representatives of the States.
2. The United States Government was allowed to collect an Income Tax.
3. The United States Federal Reserve (FED) was created.
4. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was created.
It took 4 years before two thirds of the Senators were elected by the people, and then the Senate voted to turn the European War into World War I. Who selected the Senate Candidates that the United States Citizens were allowed to choose from?
I hope everyone's politician apologize for apologizing.
@Englishted #13
Yes, I agree, very doubtful any of these nuts saw the film, which supports my point of this having nothing to do with any movie. But then again, you have never met a Tea Partier either, which just proves most nuts will react absent of personal experiences so long as the juice remains free.
@Edin #5
Get a clue, Muslims have been doing this long before Israel or any U.S. Foreign policy ever existed. Spend some time learning how Islam spread from the Arab people¦#39;s to all the non-Arab peoples it was not from enlightenment. Reactions like your only play to the hand of the nuts and trying to appease them will get you nowhere.
Anytime a book or movie comes out critical of islam, the zombies rise up and attempt to destroy everything and anything. Makes you wonder what deep dark islamic secret the zombies are trying to hide.
So let me get this right :
1. The German embassy in Khartoum is burnt down by a racist hate mob of "zombies" (yes a good description).
2. You want "a full public investigation of how the United States got sucked into the European War and turned it into World War I. " (Australia,Canada, South Africa,India ,New Zealand ,and many other smaller countries but no U.S.A. so not a world war ?).
3. Have you been at the Bavarian forest berries again?
Excellent point!
Sadly, the answer is that you really can't do it. After centuries of programming the intolerance, it can't be changed, and the internet and globalization of ideas only makes it worse. While many deplore the ideas expressed in the so-called film, we don't immediately see the need to silence those who created it. Unfortunately that tolerance isn't taught elsewhere. As long as the Islamic world continues to allow "perceived insults" to be turned into attacks and vendettas, we won't make global progress. When the more moderate voices begin to speak, then maybe there will be some hope. I don't expect that to happen any time soon.
wa
I'm trying to remember that Islam is the religion of peace.
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Look at the Mob, did any civiilized country ever have a better reason to limit or exclude a group from immigration? If response is proportional the US will limit these People's entry like they did Nazis and Communists.
Until 9/11 I really knew virtually nothing about islam except that it was a religion and that islam meant peace or so I was told. With the exception of Sacha Cohen who is a rather bad comedic actor everyone else is either an expert on islam or report on the atrocities committed in the name of islam. Thanks to them I know that islam means submission to the word of allah. I do not believe in allah, nor do I intend to submit to allah's word. I have studied islam's past, studied the qur'an, hadiths and sunna. I know what al-Taqiyya means and the concept of abrogation (naskh).
For example, "There is no compulsion in religion"... a phrase moslems say all the time. Unfortunately that is only part of the sura, the rest is conveniently not spoken. The meaning that we Infidels choose to endow that phrase with -- is not what Muslim scholars mean at all. See sura 9:5.
When you tell people that islam is a political ideology wrapped in the garb of religion you are mostly laughed at. When you tell people that the political goal of islam is to conquer the world for allah, again you are laughed at. Napoleon tried to conquer the world and was stopped, hitler tried to conquer the world and was stopped, a religion where it's followers pray 5 times a day wants to conquer the world. You jest!
Go to the library get a history book on the Roman emperor Constantine. Look at the map, all those countries in africa and the middle east from the time of Constantine's death to when the moslems rode out of arabia, almost over 300 years were once mostly christian with some paganism mixed in. Now they are moslem. Did all these millions and millions of people one morning wake up and all say "I don't want to be a pagan or a christian, I want to be a moslem". A very dubious scenario.
So to all those moderate Islamic folk out there. The ball is now firmly in your court. Are your going to finally stop being the silent majority and start DOING something about those that twist your religion into something that you claim it's not. Are you going to continue to elect hardliner religious types or maybe a more moderate. Or dare I say it. A secular leader that supports all of the citizens equally.
If your going to invade other countries, destroy their infrastructure, and ram your version of democracy down their throats with the barrel of your gun, do you expect these folks to come to you smiling?
On top of all the above indignaties, some low life, deliberately makes this movie with the sole intent of inflaming people, and then the folks on here go blaming the recipients who are the target???? WOW, clearly, Germans have lost the plot totaly with their bestes buddies the Yanks, with the exception of a handful on here, who can see the wood for the trees.
We need to also close our embassies. When will America get it through it's head that these savages will never love us no matter how much money we throw at them. Close the embassies, slam the door shut, and turn the key and walk away.
But don't forget to bubbytrap them before you walk away.
Anyway.. while your governments and media say "HEY! LOOK AT WHAT THE ARABS ARE DOING!" the Fed is destroying the US with more bankster bailouts, CEB is destroying europe the same way. The obama administration is trying to appeal a court ruling blocking their ability to detain american citizens indefinitely....
But hey, this is the important story right? LOL
Thank You! As a retired US Soldier, I should have not forgot to boobytrap. Guess I'm getting forgetful in my old age. :-)
Australia, Canada, South Africa, India, and New Zealand were among the exploited colonies of Great Britain at the time of WWI. They were forced to expend their Blood and Treasure for Great Britain.
I haven¦#39;t checked out the Bavarian forest berries yet.
Then which of these "exploited countries " used conscription ?,
I know Canada did in a attempt to get the French Canadians to play their part but the rest "forced " don't think so.
a handful of idiots on both sides making things go bad to worse. The need is to create more jobs and make these jobless idiots busy.
As for the retired US military guys breathing on their last air and other jobless folks with loads of free time for this blog....... i can imagine your frustration as all your life you have done a Fkd-up job. But please do not spread anymore poison so that the world can be preserved for our next generations!
I just found out that there is a registered Hello Kitty Tartan! I am of an ethnically celticic background. CURSE YOU, HELLO KITTY!!!! Thats my CULTURE!!!!!!!!!
I will now lead a wrestles lynch mob of brainless, howling fanatics in a fatwah against Sanrio!
Hmm... Who else has offended me...? Maybe the Islamists are on to something!
Muslims - how do you think, who will still believe your religion is peaceful? After what you show now?
Your behaviour shows true face of you and your cult - a face of a murderous savage. Say however often you like that it is just a small fraction - this fraction is killing people and storming embassies - and you are either not willing or not able to tame them, or just secretly support them.