Thousands in Michigan Slam Blasphemous Movie, Cartoons
Thousands of people took to the streets in southeast Michigan to express their anger over a U.S.-made movie and blasphemous cartoons in a French magazine that insult Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
The demonstration took place in metro Detroit where protesters strongly condemned insult to Islamic values.
They also carried banners that read "Say No to Hate-Mongering, Say No to Islamophobia''. “We need to speak out against discrimination against Islam,” said Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Richard Halloran during the protest.
Reports said that the rally was organized by Arab-American leaders.
The protests against the movie have intensified in the Muslim and non-Muslim countries after French weekly Charlie Hebdo on September 19 published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in yet another proof of the West’s Islamophobia campaign.
Demonstrations against the movie have been held across the Muslim world, with protesters in some countries marching on the U.S. embassies and torching U.S. flags.
Protesters demand that Washington apologize to the Muslim world over the film. They also call for the punishment of those behind the film.
The anti-Islam movie is said to have been made with the help of Zionist donations totalling 5 million dollars.
Muslims in Iran, Turkey, Sudan, Egypt, Yemen, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Kashmir, Pakistan, India, Iraq, Gaza, Morocco, Syria, Kuwait, Nigeria, Kenya, Australia, Britain, the United States,
France, Belgium, and some other countries have held many demonstrations to condemn the blasphemous film.
By Sadroddin Musawi
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