WN: Cairo protesters scale U.S. Embassy wall, remove flag - USA Today

[WorthyNewsBot]

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.

http://www.worthynews.com/top/content-usatoday-com-communities-ondeadline-post-2012-09-11-cairo-us-embassy-protesters-prophet-mohammad-70000126-1#-UE-cRK4wDRZ/

[Steve_S]

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.

http://www.worthynew...1#-UE-cRK4wDRZ/

The muslims should feel very contented in the fact that the west doesn't fall upon them with its fury every time they insult something that is important to it, because if it did.... Islam wouldn't be around too long.

(I'm not advocating the west do this, at all, I'm just saying, thinking about it from a reverse perspective, about all they can do is storm embassy walls due to how weak and inconsequential their actual militaries actually are, as the west is many orders of magnitude more powerful than the muslims, militarily - it would not end well for them).

[nebula]

Isn't an attack on an embassy considered an act of war?

[Steve_S]

Isn't an attack on an embassy considered an act of war?

Technically, yes, but it wasn't the "government" doing it, so this almost certainly won't be considered that by the administration.

[winsomebulldog]

My thinking is that embassies are considered soverign ground belonging to whatever nation they represent. By international law, a US embassy in Egypt, or anywhere else, is considered to be US soil. And this applies to all embassies of all nations. If some nut scaled the wall of any embassy and was shot by that embassy's security forces, they would be entirely within their rights. So I honestly believe the "protesters" who scaled that wall and tore down our flag should have been considered enemy invaders and shot on the spot.

[ayin jade]

Under this administration, they might get medals for tearing down our flag.

[nebula]

Someone on FB made note of this:

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U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement

September 11, 2012

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – 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 others

http://egypt.usembassy.gov/pr091112.html

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We've elected a fox to guard the hen house, and if we don't focus our energies on intercession and repentance (rather than more judging and criticizing), how can we expect God to move?

[winsomebulldog]

Someone on FB made note of this:

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U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement

September 11, 2012

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – 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 others

http://egypt.usembas...v/pr091112.html

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We've elected a fox to guard the hen house, and if we don't focus our energies on intercession and repentance (rather than more judging and criticizing), how can we expect God to move?

I saw this and am appalled. It's as if they're saying the "protesters" have every right to invade our embassies and kill our people because their feelings were hurt. What about our feelings? Seeing my flag ripped to shreds hurts my feelings. Hearing the lies the Muslim world continues to perpetrate against the Jewish people hurts my feelings. Seeing almost 3000 lives taken in an act of indescribible terror hurts my feelings. Yet, we (Americans) are still considered to be the ones at fault, deserving of all that we get, AND expected to apologize for being the victims.

[other one]

Someone on FB made note of this:

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U.S. Embassy Condemns Religious Incitement

September 11, 2012

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – 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 others

http://egypt.usembas...v/pr091112.html

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We've elected a fox to guard the hen house, and if we don't focus our energies on intercession and repentance (rather than more judging and criticizing), how can we expect God to move?

Neb, I believe that this was done before they attacked the embassy's. They understood how the people of these two countries would react when they got word of the video's from the Islamic news people promoting violence. It still urks me that they did so even before the voilence.

If we don't realize that Islam is at war with Western Civilization we're going to loose the war before we even realize it's being waged.

Problem is that not everyone living in Islamic countries are really Islamic and believe it's core teachings..... so it's hard to know who your enemy really is...... kind of like Viet Nam was. We lost that one, and we'll loose this one too if we don't do something different.