Thousands of Lebanese Shi'ites protest cartoons

Posted by Robert on February 9, 2006 9:13 AM

Shouting (of course) "Death to America" and "Death to Israel." From [1] Reuters, with thanks to Sr. Soph:

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon turned a religious ceremony on Thursday into a peaceful protest against a series of cartoons in the Western media lampooning the Prophet Mohammad....

The leader of Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrilla group pledged no compromise until there was a full apology from Denmark, where the cartoons first appeared, and European countries passed laws prohibiting insults to the Prophet.

"Today, we are defending the dignity of our Prophet with a word, a demonstration but let (U.S. President) George Bush and the arrogant world know that if we have to ... we will defend our prophet with our blood, not our voices," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbollah, told the crowd.


Article printed from Jihad Watch: http://www.jihadwatch.org/2006/02/thousands-of-lebanese-shiites-protest-cartoons.html

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