Penunjuk perasaan Filem bertembung dengan Polis di Bangladesh . . .
AssociatedPress - Markah orang cedera hari Sabtu dalam pertempuran di ibu kota Bangladesh antara polis dan ratusan umat Islam yang membantah sebuah filem yang dihasilkan di Amerika Syarikat yang mencemuh Islam Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya). (AssociatedPress - 'Film Protesters Clash With Police in Bangladesh' Scores of people were injured Saturday in clashes in Bangladesh's capital between police and hundreds of Muslims who were protesting a film produced in the United States that denigrates Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him).
‘30 cedera, ‘40 ditahan sebagai pertembungan polis
Bangladesh dengan penunjuk perasaan (PHOTOS) . . .
Pertempuran meletus di ibu negara Bangladesh selepas puluhan orang membanjiri jalan-jalan membantah terhadap sebuah filem buatan Amerika Syarikat anti-Islam, walaupun pengharaman 24 jam. Polis menggunakan gas pemedih mata untuk menyuraikan orang ramai membaling batu. Puluhan mengalami kecederaan. Beratus-ratus penunjuk perasaan Islam cuba ke peringkat perhimpunan anti-Amerika di ibu kota Dhaka pada pagi Sabtu. Polis terpaksa menggunakan gas pemedih mata dan cota sebagai keluar dari kawalan orang ramai pasukan keselamatan diserang, dibakar dan kenderaan sebuah van polis musnah. Harian Star bahasa Inggeris tempatan akhbar meletakkan beberapa orang cedera dalam pertempuran untuk sekurang-kurangnya 30 orang, termasuk penguatkuasa undang-undang, dan bilangan yang ditangkap pada 40 penunjuk perasaan.
Violent clashes erupted in Bangladeshi capital after scores of people flooded the streets protesting against a US-made anti-Islam film, despite a 24-hour ban. Police used teargas to disperse a stone-throwing crowd. Dozens sustained injuries. Hundreds of Islamist protesters tried to stage an anti-American rally in the capital city of Dhaka on Saturday morning. Police had to use teargas and batons as the out-of-control crowd attacked security forces, torched vehicles and damaged a police van. Local English newspaper Daily Star put a number of those injured in clashes to at least 30 people, including law enforcers, and the number of arrested at 40 protesters.
Motosikal dilihat dibakar di dalam premis Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 22, 2012 (A motorcycle is seen ablaze inside the premises of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 22, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
Keganasan pada mulanya bermula di dalam bangunan kelab akhbar selepas pemimpin dan aktivis pihak Islam berkumpul di sana cuba mengadakan protes mereka, edisi laporan akhbar online. Mereka cuba untuk muncul dari kelab akhbar dalam satu perarakan, tetapi polis menghalang mereka kerana larangan 24-jam, yang telah dikenakan oleh Polis Metropolitan Dhaka (DMP) lewat kelmarin. Sekatan melarang semua protes berhampiran masjid Mokarram Baitul utama di bandar ini untuk mengelakkan massa tiada rehat. Beberapa penunjuk perasaan bertindak balas dengan membuang cip bata pada polis dari dalam bangunan.
Pada masa yang sama, orang lain keluar untuk bertembung dengan pasukan keselamatan, menghenti-kan lalu lintas di jalan raya berdekatan. Polis yang dikepung 3 pintu kelab akhbar dan menahan pemimpin dan aktivis yang cuba untuk meninggalkan premis. "Mereka mencabar pengharaman kami dan cuba untuk peringkat bantahan terhadap filem anti-Islam. Pada satu peringkat, mereka mula melontar batu pada polis, "AFP memetik jurucakap polis Dhaka Masudur Rahman sebagai berkata.
Perikatan yang melancarkan bantahan telah dipanggil mogok di seluruh negara pada hari Ahad untuk meneruskan demonstrasi besar-besaran terhadap tidak bersalah filem umat Islam dan kartun Perancis mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), yang kedua-duanya telah menimbulkan kemarahan besar-besaran di seluruh DUNIA Islam.
Anggota bomba Bangladesh memadamkan motosikal membara dibakar semasa demonstrasi terhadap filem buatan Amerika Syarikat anti-Islam mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) di Dhaka pada 22 September 2012 (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman) (Bangladeshi firefighters extinguish a smouldering motorcycle set on fire during a demonstration against the US-made anti-Islam film mocking the Prophet Mohammed in Dhaka on September 22, 2012). (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman)
Seorang anggota polis membuat tangkapan penunjuk perasaan di hadapan Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 22, 2012 (A policeman arrests a protester in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 22, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
The violence initially started inside the press club building after leaders and activists of the Islamic parties assembled there tried to hold their protest, the online edition of the newspaper reports. They attempted to emerge from the press club in a procession, but police barred them because of the 24-hour ban, which was imposed by Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) late Friday. The restriction prohibits all protests near the city's main Baitul Mokarram mosque to avoid mass unrests. Some of the protesters responded by throwing brick chips at the police from inside the building.
At the same time, others came out to clash with the security forces, halting the traffic on the road nearby. Police cordoned off the three gates of the press club and detained the leaders and activists who tried to leave the premises. “They defied our ban and tried to stage a protest against the anti-Islam film. At one stage, they started pelting stones at policemen,” AFP quotes Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman as saying.
The alliance which staged the protest has called a nationwide strike on Sunday to continue mass demonstration against the film Innocence of Muslims and French cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings of God be on him), which both have stirred mass outrage across the Muslim WORLD.
Seorang penunjuk perasaan Bangladesh Islam kelihatan dalam van penjara selepas dia ditangkap di protes ganas di hadapan Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 22, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (A Bangladeshi Muslim protester looks from a prison van after he was arrested at a violent protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 22, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Keganasan terbaru datang sehari selepas kira-kira 1,000 rakyat Bangladesh telah mengambil jalan-jalan di ibu kota. Protes dibakar "keranda Barack Obama" dilindungi oleh bendera Amerika Syarikat bersama-sama dengan patung presiden Amerika. Aktivis parti-parti politik yang berbeza Islam juga dipentaskan gantung olok-olok Sam Bacile, pembikin filem didakwa di sebalik filem anti-Islam, AP melaporkan. Penunjuk perasaan itu juga membakar bendera Perancis dalam tindak balas kepada kartun Nabi (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) dalam majalah Perancis.
Sementara itu di Nigeria, yang juga bersepahan dengan protes anti-Amerika Syarikat, ramai penunjuk perasaan menjangkau beberapa kilometer melalui bandar yang terbesar, Kano. Penunjuk perasaan, yang diketuai oleh Pergerakan Islam Nigeria dan kumpulan pro-Iran, telah menjerit "Kematian untuk Amerika, kematian kepada Israel dan kematian untuk musuh-musuh Islam." Penunjuk perasaan juga membawa potret Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama dan Amerika dan bendera Israel. Di Pakistan protes ganas terus Sabtu, sehari selepas pertempuran maut berakhir dengan kira-kira 20 orang terbunuh dan lebih 200 cedera.
Orang ramai kira-kira 1,500 orang, termasuk wanita dan kanak-kanak, berhimpun aman di ibu kota, Pakistan, Islamabad. Mereka kemudian berkumpul berhampiran bangunan Parlimen, melaungkan slogan anti-Amerika Syarikat dan menuntut hukuman yang ketat bagi pembikin filem. Seorang menteri kabinet tawaran ganjaran $ 100,000 untuk kematian pengarah filem. Tidak bersalah umat Islam, sebuah filem bajet rendah yang dibuat di California, telah mencetuskan gelombang protes anti-Amerika berdarah di lebih daripada 20 buah negara di seluruh DUNIA Islam. Demonstrasi besar-besaran ganas telah berpanjangan selama lebih daripada 10 hari, meninggalkan skor mati dan cedera.
Seorang anggota polis tangkapan penunjuk perasaan di hadapan Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 22, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (A policeman arrests a protester in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 22, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh polis menahan seorang aktivis semasa demonstrasi terhadap filem buatan Amerika Syarikat anti-Islam mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) di Dhaka pada 22 September 2012 (AFP PhotoMunir uz Zaman) (Bangladeshi police detain an activist during a demonstration against the US-made anti-Islam film mocking the Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings of God be on him) in Dhaka on September 22, 2012) (AFP PhotoMunir uz Zaman)
Bangladesh Islam menjerit slogan selepas membakar keranda olok-olok Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama semasa protes di hadapan Masjid Negara di Dhaka September 21, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Bangladeshi Muslims shout slogans after burning a mock coffin of U.S President Barack Obama during a protest in front of the National Mosque in Dhaka September 21, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh umat Islam melaksanakan pelaksanaan olok-olok pembikin filem filem anti-Islam yang dibuat di Amerika Syarikat semasa protes di hadapan Masjid Negara di Dhaka September 21, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Bangladeshi Muslims perform a mock execution of the filmmaker of an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. during a protest in front of the National Mosque in Dhaka September 21, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh Islam membakar gambar Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama semasa protes di hadapan Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 21, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Bangladeshi Muslims burn a picture of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 21, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh Islam menjerit slogan dan menendang kerana mereka membakar keranda olok-olok Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama semasa protes di hadapan Masjid Negara di Dhaka September 21, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Bangladeshi Muslims shout slogans and kick as they burn a mock coffin of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in front of the National Mosque in Dhaka September 21, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh umat Islam membakar Amerika Syarikat dan bendera Perancis kerana mereka menjerit slogan semasa protes di hadapan Kelab Akhbar Kebangsaan di Dhaka September 21, 2012 (Reuters/Andrew Biraj) (Bangladeshi Muslims burn U.S. and French flags as they shout slogans during a protest in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka September 21, 2012) (Reuters/Andrew Biraj)
Bangladesh penunjuk perasaan berarak dengan keranda olok-olok Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama semasa protes terhadap kartun secara menyindir dan filem internet mengejek Islam di Dhaka pada 21 September, 2012 (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman) (Bangladeshi demonstrators march with a mock coffin of US President Barack Obama during a protest against satirical cartoons and an internet film mocking Islam in Dhaka on September 21, 2012) (AFP Photo/Munir uz Zaman)
The latest violence comes a day after some 1,000 Bangladeshis took the streets of the capital. The protests burnt down a “coffin of Barack Obama” covered by the US flag along with the effigy of the American president. Activists of different Islamic political parties also staged a mock hanging of Sam Bacile, the alleged filmmaker behind the anti-Islam movie, AP reported. Protesters also burnt a French flag in response to cartoons of the Prophet (peace and blessings of God be on him) in a French magazine.
Meanwhile in Nigeria, also littered with anti-US protests, a crowd of demonstrators stretched several kilometers through the largest city, Kano. Protesters, led by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria and a pro-Iranian group, were shouting “Death to America, death to Israel and death to the enemies of Islam.” Demonstrators also carried portraits of US President Barack Obama and American and Israeli flags. In Pakistan violent protests continued Saturday, a day after deadly clashes ended up with around 20 people killed and more than 200 injured.
The crowd of about 1,500 people, including women and children, peacefully rallied in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. They later gathered near parliament building, chanting anti-US slogans and demanding a strict punishment for the filmmaker. A cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the film’s director. Innocence of Muslims, a low-budget film made in California, has triggered a wave of bloody anti-American protests in more than a 20 countries across the Muslim WORLD. Violent mass demonstrations have been lasting for more than 10 days, leaving scores of dead and injured.
Photo: AP Seorang wanita Iran dikir slogan kerana dia memegang salinan kitab suci al-Quran, umat Islam, di hadapan Kedutaan Perancis di Tehran, Iran, Khamis, Sept 20, 2012, semasa bantahan penerbitan karikatur itu IslamNabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) oleh mingguan secara menyindir Perancis. Majoriti umat Islam telah tidak diambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhamma d(keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam dunia Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP An Iranian woman chants slogans as she holds a copy of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, during a protest the publication of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) by a French satirical weekly. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim world. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
WORLD News ‘Islam vs toleransi dibahaskan dalam panggilan filem Nabi itu’ . . .
CAIRO (AP) - Di sebalik kemarahan seluruh filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), bantahan awam memberi laluan kepada perbahasan yang diukur ke atas kebebasan bersuara di DUNIA Islam yang baru.
Tetapi manakala banyak mengidamkan lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi setakat untuk mengatakan bahawa termasuk hak untuk menghujat. Marah teriakan "Tidak, tidak ke Amerika!" dan "Tidak kepada Israel!" telah diseimbangkan oleh suara mengutuk keganasan selama seminggu yang telah disasarkan kedutaan Barat Amerika Syarikat dan lain-lain dan meninggalkan lebih daripada 30 mati di 7 negara, termasuk Duta Chris Stevens dan 3 rakyat Amerika lain di Konsulat Amerika Syarikat di Benghazi, Libya.
"Umat Islam perlu tahu bahawa kumpulan pelampau Islam menanggung beberapa tanggungjawab untuk kegemparan yang berlaku sekarang, dan bagi perlanggaran budaya DUNIA," kata Sheik Hameed Marouf, seorang ulama Sunni di Baghdad.
"Orang-orang yang sederhana dan ulama di DUNIA Islam perlu melakukan yang terbaik mereka untuk mengasingkan dan menghentikan kumpulan itu yang tidak mewakili nilai sebenar yang sederhana agama kita." Pelampau agama - sama ada Muslim, Yahudi atau Kristian - "akan membawa hanya kepada lebih banyak pembunuhan dan banyak lagi perbuatan menghujat," katanya.
Kemarahan adalah masih dirasai lebih video anti-Islam yang dibuat di California, serta kartun politik Perancis yang memperkecil-kecilkan Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), tetapi kebanyakan DUNIA Arab telah tidak dilihat sebagai protes untuk banyak minggu ini.
Jalan-jalan sekitar Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah, di mana pertempuran tercetus selama beberapa hari, adalah agak tenang Khamis. Pasukan keselamatan Mesir meronda bersahaja bersandar senapang mereka terhadap dinding kompaun yang sama yang telah diskalakan oleh penunjuk perasaan marah hanya minggu lepas.
Pelonggaran keganasan mencerminkan keseimbangan bahawa Mesir dan negara-negara Islam yang lain cuba untuk mencari kerana mereka bekerja untuk menyuburkan demokrasi dalam masyarakat di mana kekufuran adalah satu jenayah. "Tidak syak lagi bahawa kebanyakan umat Islam mengambil kesalahan pada sesiapa yang mengejek Nabi (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya)," kata Mustafa Alani, seorang penganalisis di Geneva berasaskan Teluk Pusat Penyelidikan. "Jurang yang besar adalah lebih sambutan majoriti umat Islam memahami bahawa DUNIA kini saling berkaitan dan semua jenis bahan – yang baik atau yang menyinggung - menuangkan masuk"
"Apa yang kita lihat sekarang adalah kemarahan terhadap kedua-dua filem dan, DUNIA yang saling, secara tidak langsung," katanya. Tindak balas ganas terbentang dari Indonesia ke Maghribi, tetapi di mana-mana umat Islam mengambil di jalan-jalan secara beramai-ramai untuk membantah filem.
Di Kaherah, tidak pernah lebih daripada 2,000 penunjuk perasaan di luar Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat pada mana-mana titik sepanjang empat hari protes. Dan yang paling dipercayai untuk menjadi Islamis ultraconservative, yang dikenali sebagai Salafi, walaupun pegawai-pegawai Amerika Syarikat berkata orang ramai beralih dari masa ke semasa dan akhirnya tergalvani oleh kumpulan-kumpulan gaduh remaja. Salafi sedang mencari pembentukan sebuah negara Islam yang diasaskan pada tafsiran yang ketat undang-undang Syariah.
"Segala-galanya, reaksi kita, adalah cara, cara di atas," kata Ali Abdel Halim, seorang graduan 22-year-old perniagaan dari Kaherah, yang tidak mengambil bahagian dalam pertempuran tetapi berkata beliau melawat kawasan sekitar kedutaan untuk menonton mereka.
"Saya fikir filem itu bertujuan untuk memprovokasi kita sebagai orang Islam," katanya. "Pandangan peribadi saya adalah bahawa kita sepatutnya diabaikan. Ia menerima lebih perhatian daripada yang sewajarnya. Betul, adalah ia orang mati untuk bernilai."
Lebih sedekad yang lalu, diktator telah digulingkan di 4 negara Timur Tengah - Iraq, Mesir, Tunisia dan Libya - dan satu perlima terancam di Syria. Dengan itu telah datang memeluk meluas perhimpunan dan kebebasan agama yang telah diadakan di dalam semakan oleh rejim yang berwibawa selama beberapa dekad.
Khalil al-Anani, seorang pakar dalam gerakan Islam, meramalkan ia akan mengambil generasi atau lebih bagi negara-negara Timur Tengah untuk membangunkan demokrasi kerja yang menghormati hak individu dan nilai-nilai Islam sepenuhnya.
"DUNIA Arab adalah di pinggir memilih antara menyertai DUNIA moden dan perkembangan politik, atau untuk kekal sebagai dalam beberapa abad yang lalu," katanya. "Tidak perlu trade-off. Tetapi ia adalah satu cabaran besar, dan ia akan mengambil masa."
Iraq merupakan negara pertama Timur Tengah untuk memeluk demokrasi selepas pencerobohan 2003 diketuai Amerika Syarikat yang menggulingkan Saddam Hussein, tetapi ia boleh dikatakan lebih stabil berbanding sebelum ini. "Umat Islam diajar untuk mati untuk Tuhan, hidup untuk Allah, jadi saya berfikir bahawa peluang kesederhanaan adalah terhad dalam DUNIA Islam kita," Baghdad pengusaha Hassan Rahim berkata Khamis. "Barat harus menerima hakikat bahawa umat Islam mungkin bertolak ansur dengan tahap tertentu kritikan mengenai Islam, tetapi tidak ejek-ejekan atau kekufuran."
Di Mesir, al-Anani berkata, kerajaan perlu menggalakkan pemikiran progresif dengan mengepam lebih banyak dana ke sekolah agama yang menawarkan pelbagai tafsiran teks Islam - dan bukan hanya pandangan konservatif. Pengaruh Salafi meningkat di Mesir sejak sedekad yang lalu, dalam sebahagian kerana sekolah-sekolah dan pertumbuhan TV satelit, mana ulama konservatif gunakan untuk mempromosikan pandangan pelampau dan, sering, ucapan benci terhadap Kristian dan Yahudi.
Video anti-Islam, seperti kartun Denmark mengejek Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) beberapa tahun lalu, dipercayai oleh sesetengah orang sebagai sebahagian daripada konspirasi terhadap umat Islam untuk memprovokasi mereka ke dalam keganasan. Tetapi walaupun suara kesederhanaan mengenai isu itu berada dalam perjanjian dengan militan bahawa filem, kartun terbaru Perancis merendahkan martabat Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) dan karikatur Denmark sebelumnya mereka tidak boleh diterima sebagai kebebasan bersuara.
Di masjid al-Azhar di Kaherah, yang dianggap sebagai tempat duduk utama pengajian Islam Sunni dan suara tradisional kesederhanaan, Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb memanggil bagi undang-undang antarabangsa yang memastikan rasa hormat terhadap agama dan kesalahan dengan kekufuran.
Sementara itu, pihak berkuasa kehakiman di Mesir telah berkata mereka akan uji mereka di sebalik filem itu tanpa hadir di hadapan mahkamah jenayah. Pendekatan kepada agama membahagikan Mesir, mewujudkan garis kesalahan antara Islam dan sekular serta antara pelbagai warna Islamis. Itu Salafi menerajui protes adalah bukti perpecahan itu. Ikhwanul Muslimin, dari mana Islamis Presiden Mohammed Morsi berasal, telah menjauhkan diri dari protes, hanya mengutuk filem itu dan memanggil untuk demonstrasi aman.
Kerajaan Morsi juga meningkatkan kepolisan rusuhan selepas Presiden Barack Obama panggil Mesir tidak sekutu mahupun musuh, tetapi "kerajaan baru yang cuba untuk mencari jalan." Washington mula ditayangkan iklan di Pakistan minggu ini mengutuk video di cawangan zaitun untuk DUNIA Islam (an olive branch to the Muslim WORLD).
Di Bandar Gaza, Shukri Abu Fadel, seorang guru 42 tahun, dengan bangganya berkata beliau menyertai penunjuk perasaan yang telah menunjukkan aman - rukun asas demokrasi. "Kami menghantar mesej bantahan kita dengan cara yang bertamadun dan moden, dan ia perlu diketahui bahawa filem ini mempunyai bersatu umat Islam dan Kristian di Timur Tengah, dan telah menyatukan semua penganut yang kuat dalam Tuhan seluruh DUNIA," Fadel berkata ketika dia meninggalkan masjid.
Associated Press Penulis Sameer N. Yacoub di Baghdad, Rebecca Santana di Islamabad, Brian Murphy di Dubai, dan Ibrahim Barzak di Bandar Gaza menyumbang kepada laporan ini.
Photo: AP Para Pengikut Libya Ansar al-Syariah Briged dan lain-lain militia Islam, mengadakan demonstrasi terhadap filem dan kartun yang mengecam Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) di Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept 21, 2012. (Photo: AP Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias, hold a demonstration against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012).
Photo: AP Para pengikut Libya Ansar al-Shariah Briged dan lain-lain militia Islam mengadakan demonstrasi di Dataran Kemenangan terhadap filem dan kartun yang mengecam Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) di Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept 21, 2012. (Photo: AP Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias hold a demonstration in Victory Square, against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) in Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012).
Photo: AP Penunjuk perasaan Palestin memegang al-Quran, kitab suci Islam, semasa protes terhadap "tidak bersalah orang Islam" filem, di bandar Tebing Barat Jenin, khamis, Sept 20, 2012, sebagai sebahagian kemarahan meluas di seluruh Muslimdunia tentang filem menghina Islam Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya). Majoriti umat Islam telah tidak diambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam dunia Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP Palestinian protesters hold a Quran, the Muslim holy book, during a protest against the movie "Innocence of Muslims", in the West Bank town of Jenin, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him). The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim world. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
Photo: AP Hezbollah wanita bertudung memakai kepala Arab yang membaca, "anda berkhidmat pada Nabi Allah (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya)," semasa perhimpunan satu mengecam sebuah filem anti-Islam yang telah menimbulkan seminggu kekacauan di negara-negara Islam di seluruh DUNIA, di pinggir bandar yang selatan Beirut, Lubnan. Majoriti umat Islam telah tidak diambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam DUNIA Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP Hezbollah veiled women wear Arabic headbands that read, "at your service God's prophet," (peace and blessings of God be on him) during a rally denouncing an anti-Islam film that has provoked a week of unrest in Muslim countries WORLD Wide, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim WORLD. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
Photo: AP Penunjuk perasaan menutup jalan utama semasa protes berhampiran kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah, Mesir. Majoriti umat Islam telah mengambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam DUNIA Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP Protesters close the main street during protests near the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim WORLD. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
Photo: AP Para wanita Bahraini mendengar di luar pusat komuniti agama di Sanabis, Bahrain, ke atas ulama Syiah Sheik Isa Qassim bercakap Thursday, September 20, 2012, kira-kira filem yang dibuat di Amerika Syarikat yang mencetuskan keganasan terhadap kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Mesir, Libyadan Yaman. Qassim, yang ucapan yang telah dijangka pada monitor untuk ramai limpahan luar, menggesa negara-negara Barat untuk menghentikan pelampau dari Islam menghina Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), berkata kebebasan bersuara tidak seharusnya termasuk menghina agama lain. Tanda-tanda yang berbunyi, "saya mengorbankan jiwa saya kepada anda, oh Nabi Tuhan," (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) dan "kita mengorbankan diri" merujuk kepada Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya). (Photo: AP Bahraini women listen outside a religious community center in Sanabis, Bahrain, to top Shiite cleric Sheik Isa Qassim speak Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, about a film made in the United States that sparked violence against U.S. embassies in Egypt, Libya and Yemen. Qassim, whose speech was projected on monitors to overflow crowds outside, urged Western nations to stop extremists from insulting Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), saying freedom of expression should not include insulting other faiths. The signs read, "I sacrifice my soul to you, oh Prophet of God," (peace and blessings of God be on him) and "we sacrifice ourselves" referring to Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him).
Photo: AP Seorang lelaki Libya memegang pelekat dalam Bahasa Inggeris semasa demonstrasi menentang serangan ke atas konsulat Amerika Syarikat yang mengorbankan 4 rakyat Amerika, termasuk duta, di Benghazi, Libya. Majoriti umat Islam telah tidak mengambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam DUNIA Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP A Libyan man holds a placard in English during a demonstration against the attack on the U.S. consulate that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, in Benghazi, Libya. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim world. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
Photo: AP lelaki Kurang Upaya Afghani menjerit slogan anti-Amerika semasa protes aman terhadap filem anti-Islam "tidak bersalah orang Islam," yang dihasilkan di Amerika Syarikat, di bandar Jalalabad, timur Kabul, Afghanistan, Sabtu, Sept 22, 2012. Sekurang-kurangnya 49 orang, termasuk duta Amerika Syarikat ke Libya, telah dibunuh bulan ini dalam keganasan yang dikaitkan dengan filem, yang juga telah diperbaharui Perdebatan kebebasan bersuara di Amerika Syarikat dan di Eropah. (Photo: AP Disabled Afghani men shout anti-American slogans during a peaceful protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims," produced in the United States, in the city of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 22, 2012. At least 49 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, have been killed this month in violence linked to the film, which also has renewed debate over freedom of expression in the U.S. and in Europe).
Photo: AP Islam memegang pelekat di luar Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat semasa protes terhadap "tidak bersalah orang Islam"-besaran Amerika filem yang denigrates Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) di luar sebuah masjid di Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jumaat, Sept 21, 2012. (Photo: AP Muslims holds a placard outside U.S. Embassy during a protest against the American-produced film "Innocence of Muslims"which denigrates the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) outside a mosque in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012).
Photo: AP Para penunjuk perasaan Pakistan bertindak balas kepada gas pemedih mata dilepaskan oleh polis, semasa pertempuran meletus sebagai penunjuk perasaan cuba untuk mendekati kedutaan Amerika Syarikat, di Islamabad, Pakistan, Khamis, Sept 20, 2012. Beratus-ratus Pakistan marah pada filem yang anti-Islam yang mencemuh agama Nabi (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) bertempur dengan polis di ibu negara Pakistan Khamis, menunjukkan yang paling ganas kemarahan pada hari yang menyaksikan demonstrasi yang lebih kecil di Indonesia, Iran dan Afghanistan. Majoriti umat Islam mengambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam DUNIA Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP A Pakistani protester reacts to tear gas fired by police, during clashes erupted as protestors tried to approach the U.S. embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. Hundreds of Pakistanis angry at an anti-Islam film that denigrates the religion's prophet (peace and blessings of God be on him) clashed with police in the Pakistani capital Thursday, the most violent show of anger in a day that saw smaller demonstrations in Indonesia, Iran and Afghanistan. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim world. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
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Photo: AP Seorang wanita Iran dikir slogan kerana dia memegang salinan kitab suci al-Quran, umat Islam, di hadapan Kedutaan Perancis di Tehran, Iran, Khamis, Sept 20, 2012, semasa bantahan penerbitan karikatur itu IslamNabi Muhammad (keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya) oleh mingguan secara menyindir Perancis. Majoriti umat Islam telah tidak diambil ke jalan-jalan atas filem mengejek Nabi Muhamma d(keamanan dan rahmat Allah ke atasnya), dan di sebalik kemarahan awam dilihat perbahasan yang lebih diukur mengambil tempat lebih berapa banyak kebebasan bersuara adalah diterima dalam dunia Islam. Walaupun ramai yang rindu untuk lebih keterbukaan, beberapa jika ada akan pergi sejauh menerima hak untuk menghujat sebagai ujian muktamad kebebasan bersuara. (Photo: AP An Iranian woman chants slogans as she holds a copy of the Quran, Muslims' holy book, in front of the French Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, during a protest the publication of caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) by a French satirical weekly. The vast majority of Muslims have not taken to the streets over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), and behind the visible public anger a more measured debate is taking place over how much free speech is acceptable in the Muslim world. While many do yearn for more openness, few if any will go as far as accepting the right to blaspheme as the ultimate test of freedom of speech).
CAIRO (AP) - Behind the anger over a film mocking the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him), public protest is giving way to measured debate over free speech in the new Muslim WORLD.
But while many crave more openness, few if any will go so far as to say that includes the right to blaspheme. Angry shouts of "No, no to America!" and "No to Israel!" have been balanced by voices condemning the weeklong violence that has targeted U.S. and other Western embassies and left more than 30 dead in seven countries, including Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"Muslims should know that Islamic extremist groups bear some responsibility for the uproar taking place now, and for the collision of the world cultures," said Sheik Hameed Marouf, a Sunni cleric in Baghdad.
"The moderate people and clerics in the Islamic world should do their best to isolate and stop such groups that do not represent the true moderate values of our religion." Religious extremists - whether Muslim, Jewish or Christian - "will lead only to more killings and more blasphemous acts," he said.
Anger is still palpable over the anti-Islam video made in California, as well as French political cartoons that denigrate Muhammad, but most of the Arab world has not seen protests for much of this week.
The streets around the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, where clashes raged for days, were relatively quiet Thursday. Egyptian security forces patrolling the area casually leaned their rifles against the same compound walls that were scaled by angry protesters just last week.
The easing of the violence reflects the balance that Egypt and other Islamic nations are trying to find as they work to nourish democracy in societies where blasphemy is a crime. "There is no doubt that most Muslims take offense at anyone mocking the prophet," said Mustafa Alani, an analyst at the Geneva-based Gulf Research Center. "The great divide is over the response. The vast majority of Muslims understand that the world is now interconnected and all kinds of material - good or offensive - pours in."
"What we see now is a rage against both the film and, indirectly, the interconnected WORLD," he said. The violent backlash stretched from Indonesia to Morocco, but nowhere did Muslims take to the streets en masse to protest the film.
In Cairo, there were never more than 2,000 demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy at any point during four days of protests. And most were believed to be ultraconservative Islamists, known as Salafis, although U.S. officials say the crowd shifted over time and eventually was galvanized by gangs of rowdy teenagers. Salafis are seeking the creation of an Islamic state founded on a strict interpretation of Shariah law.
"The whole thing, our reaction, was way, way over the top," said Ali Abdel-Halim, a 22-year-old business graduate from Cairo, who did not participate in the clashes but said he visited the area around the embassy to watch them.
"I think the film is meant to provoke us as Muslims," he said. "My personal view is that we should have ignored it. It received much more attention than it deserves. Really, it was not worth people dying for."
Over the last decade, dictators have been toppled in four Mideast countries - Iraq, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya - and a fifth is threatened in Syria. With that has come a widespread embrace of assembly and religious freedoms that had been held in check by authoritative regimes for decades.
Khalil al-Anani, an expert on Islamist movements, predicted it will take a generation or more for Mideast nations to fully develop a working democracy that respects individual rights and Muslim values.
"The Arab world is on the edge of choosing between joining the modern world and political development, or to remain as in the last few centuries," he said. "There shouldn't be a trade-off. But it's an enormous challenge, and it will take time."
Iraq was the first Mideast country to embrace democracy after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, but it is arguably more unstable than ever. "The Muslims are taught to die for God . . . live for God, so I think that the chances of moderation are limited in our Islamic WORLD," Baghdad businessman Hassan Rahim said Thursday. "The West should accept the fact that Muslims might tolerate a specific level of criticism on Islam, but not mockery or blasphemy."
In Egypt, al-Anani said, the government should encourage progressive thinking by pumping more funding into religious schools that offer a range of interpretations of Islamic texts - and not just conservative views. Salafi influences rose in Egypt over the last decade, in part because of the schools and growth of satellite TV, which conservative clerics use to promote extremist views and, often, hate speech against Christians and Jews.
The anti-Islam video, like Danish cartoons mocking Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) several years back, is believed by some to be part of a conspiracy against Muslims to provoke them into acts of violence. But even the voices of moderation on the issue are in agreement with the militants that the film, the latest French cartoons demeaning Muhammad (peace and blessings of God be on him) and the Danish caricatures before them cannot be tolerated as freedom of speech.
At the al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, which is considered to be the primary seat of Sunni Muslim learning and a traditional voice of moderation, Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayeb is calling for an international law that ensures respect for religions and criminalizes blasphemy.
Judicial authorities in Egypt, meanwhile, have said they would try those behind the film in absentia before a criminal court. The approach to religion is dividing Egypt, creating a fault line between Islamists and secularists as well as between various shades of Islamists. That Salafis spearheaded the protests is evidence of that schism. The Muslim Brotherhood, from which Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails, has stayed away from the protests, only condemning the film and calling for peaceful demonstrations.
Morsi's government also stepped up its policing of the riots after President Barack Obama called Egypt neither an ally nor an enemy, but "a new government that's trying to find its way." Washington began airing ads in Pakistan this week condemning the video in an olive branch to the Muslim WORLD.
In Gaza City, Shukri Abu Fadel, a 42-year-old teacher, proudly said he joined protesters who were demonstrating peacefully - a basic tenet of democracy. "We sent our protest message in a civilized and modern way, and it should be known that this movie has unified Muslims and Christians in the Middle East, and has unified all strong believers in God all over the world," Fadel said as he left a mosque.
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