US Embassy Protests: Flag Burned During Demonstration Outside London Consulate (PICTURES)

Around 200 protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London on Friday in protest at an anti-Islamic film that has sparked scenes of violence and murder in cities across the Middle East.

The demonstration, which included men in headscarves and women wearing niqabs, was led by Anjem Choudhary, a well-known rabble rouser and former spokesperson for the now banned Islam4UK.

The protesters waved Jihadi flags and anti-America placards around 50 metres from the front of the Grosvenor Square consulate.

An American and an Israeli flag were burned, accompanied by chants of “down, down USA, Barack Obama you will pay".

The film that sparked the riots, entitled Innocence of Muslims, is a crudely shot, low budget production which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a drunk, philanderer and a homosexual.

Speaking to the Huffington Post UK, one protester, who refused to give his name, blamed the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in Benghazi on Wednesday, on “freedom of speech”.

“This is what happens when you can say anything,” he said.

“Would it not be better for you [the west] to stop those who go beyond the limits and insult the messenger [Muhammad]?"

“Obama and Clinton should not condemn the protests but condemn the mouths that speak against the prophet.”

“This is the direct result of man-made law and freedom of speech. We do not want freedom; we want Islam.”

More than eight police wagons were present at the demonstration. No reported arrests were made.

A rumoured counter-protest mooted by the English Defence League in “solidarity” with the Americans failed to materialise.

Earlier on Thursday, the British and German embassies in Sudan were attacked, as the protests spread from the Middle East to North Africa.

Of course this protests are not about a film.. this is about 9/11 and about not missing the opportunity of vilifying the US for bombing so many Muslim countries. By the way Iran is another Muslim country on the wait to be bombed and destroyed by the US

US Embassy Protests: Flag Burned During Demonstration Outside London Consulate (PICTURES)

Around 200 protesters gathered outside the US Embassy in London on Friday in protest at an anti-Islamic film that has sparked scenes of violence and murder in cities across the Middle East.

The demonstration, which included men in headscarves and women wearing niqabs, was led by Anjem Choudhary, a well-known rabble rouser and former spokesperson for the now banned Islam4UK.

The protesters waved Jihadi flags and anti-America placards around 50 metres from the front of the Grosvenor Square consulate.

An American and an Israeli flag were burned, accompanied by chants of “down, down USA, Barack Obama you will pay".

The film that sparked the riots, entitled Innocence of Muslims, is a crudely shot, low budget production which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a drunk, philanderer and a homosexual.

Speaking to the Huffington Post UK, one protester, who refused to give his name, blamed the death of US Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in Benghazi on Wednesday, on “freedom of speech”.

“This is what happens when you can say anything,” he said.

“Would it not be better for you [the west] to stop those who go beyond the limits and insult the messenger [Muhammad]?"

“Obama and Clinton should not condemn the protests but condemn the mouths that speak against the prophet.”

“This is the direct result of man-made law and freedom of speech. We do not want freedom; we want Islam.”

More than eight police wagons were present at the demonstration. No reported arrests were made.

A rumoured counter-protest mooted by the English Defence League in “solidarity” with the Americans failed to materialise.

Earlier on Thursday, the British and German embassies in Sudan were attacked, as the protests spread from the Middle East to North Africa.

Arab spring! I think Lucas has a point though!

Or invade them like Iraq, rape the women, kill the children, and sodomize the men in Abu Gharaib!  Ruin the country and steal all their oil!.  Where is Bush when you need him?

That is straight up bullshit. Egypt eats because the US give it bread. No one ever bombed it. Libya was digesting itself in internecine tribal war; the US did not cause it but it stopped it. This is their own doing so whatever blame they want to leverage from all this it pertains to self censorship to the compulsion for violence.

Egypt is getting free bread because Israel.Keep giving free berad so that they do not march over there and stop the injustice against the Palestinians!!

Stop the free bread that you refereed to and lets see what's going to happen.

As far as  I am concerned, Egypt, Israel and all other nations  who are receiving billions in aid from my taxpayer money  should immediately be stopped.

Those billions could be better spent here at home to repair our old and  broken down infrastructure.

cHIEF STATED CLEARLY THAT GUYANESE mUSLIMS ARE BECOMING LIKE me mUSLIMS BECAUSE THEY THE me mUSLIMS ARE PRACTISING iSLAM THE "RIGHT" WAY.  GO FIGURE.

Nehru,

Let me educate you. Muslims follow the Holy Quran and the teachings from the holy and noble Prophet Muhamad(uwbp). That is universal and has nothing to do with Guyanese or Arab muslims. If as you stated that Guyanese muslims are now refusing to  attend a function because alcohol is served, that is universal because alcohol and other acts that associated with drunkenness is forbidden.If you are seeing more Guyanes women are now wearing the hijab is not that they are following arabs it is just that decided to do what is correct. If you see your old guynese muslims friends are no longer wasting time in rumshops that you frequent it is because they have now decided to take the teachings from Allah seriously and move on and this has nothing to do with Arabs.

I thought that was the AFC meme.

Nehru,

Let me educate you. Muslims follow the Holy Quran and the teachings from the holy and noble Prophet Muhamad(uwbp). That is universal and has nothing to do with Guyanese or Arab muslims. If as you stated that Guyanese muslims are now refusing to  attend a function because alcohol is served, that is universal because alcohol and other acts that associated with drunkenness is forbidden.If you are seeing more Guyanes women are now wearing the hijab is not that they are following arabs it is just that decided to do what is correct. If you see your old guynese muslims friends are no longer wasting time in rumshops that you frequent it is because they have now decided to take the teachings from Allah seriously and move on and this has nothing to do with Arabs.

There is nothing universal about Islam. That is like saying there is something universal about a cup. It is the function and use of Islam that matters. The ideal is akin to a platonic ideal of the archetypal cup. It does not exist in the real world but only in the mind.To say women are responding to the hijab as doctrine is nonsense also.