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Syria protesters set Danish embassy ablaze
2006-02-04
Several thousand Syrian demonstrators set the Danish embassy on fire on Saturday to protest the printing by a Danish newspaper of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad. The fire badly damaged the embassy's building, a Reuters witness said, but fire engines later put it out. Protesters also threw stones at the building, shattering windows.

Chanting "God is Great," they stormed the embassy, burned the Danish flag and replaced it with another flag reading "No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet."

BBC News 24 quoted Jorgen Nielsen, the representative of Danish Institute in Damascus, as saying the building was empty at the time because the protest was expected. The embassy was closed on Saturday. "There were policemen there but it seems to have been a symbolic presence," he said.
It's almost as if they didn't care, eh?
A security official present at the scene said the building, located at the upscale Abou Remaneh area, also housed the Chilean and the Swedish embassy. He had no further details.

Protestors were expected to march to the Norwegian embassy as well, witnesses said.
Posted by:lotp

#6  This is not my original thought, but I fully agree with the poster who said that if Kawme West wasn't such a little girl, he would have played dress up as Mohammad instead of Jesus for his cover on the Rolling Stone.
Posted by: Capsu78   2006-02-04 15:51  

#5  I bet the Chileans are pissed.
Posted by: Howard UK   2006-02-04 15:42  

#4  Again the ROP shows what it really is. It is absurd for this religions practitioners to insist that the world follow it's sharia law when commenting on it or making representations of it. We are in the 21st Century not the 7th.
Posted by: Sock Puppet O´ Doom   2006-02-04 15:05  

#3  Sorry to repeat post, but surely even MSM has got to see the irony in this. And the truth of the necessary "at guard" mode on defending free speech.

Ah, never mind. I'm back to Dorothy, aren't I.
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-02-04 13:54  

#2  LGF has the picture; a very impressive blaze indeed.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-02-04 13:53  

#1  Gee, muslims ready to explode. Fuses light. Acting in the name of Mohammed (pbuh).

and the cartoon is an insensitive depiction? Of what?
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-02-04 13:48  

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