STOP THIS FREAKING MADNESS

Article in Queensland's Courier Mail

Protesters in Mac attacks
Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan
16feb06

PROTESTERS burned a KFC restaurant and movie theatres in the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday – Pakistan's third consecutive day of violent protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, witnesses said.

Gunfire was heard near the burning KFC restaurant as police used tear gas and batons to fight back thousands of protesters blocking one of the city's main streets, witnesses said.

The mob burned three movie theatres and offices of Mobilink – the main mobile phone operator in the country, witnesses said.

Clashes between police and demonstrators injured at least 16 people, witnesses said. Hundreds of Afghan refugees joined the protest in Peshawar, the capital of the conservative North West Frontier Province.

The violence began after about 6000 protesters gathered at a busy traffic intersection. Many were chanting "Death to Denmark!" and "Hang those who drew the insulting cartoons!" Others burned Danish flags and effigies of the Danish Prime Minister.

Most shops, public transport and other businesses were closed in Peshawar.

As police battled protesters in Peshawar, another violent demonstration erupted about 230km away in the town of Tank, where 2000 people rallied, said Attiq Wazir, a police official in the town.

Protesters set fire to 30 shops selling CDs, DVDs and videos, Mr Wazir said.

Suspected Islamic militants had issued warnings to music shops to close in Tank, on the edge of South Waziristan, a tribal region where security officials have said Al-Qaeda-linked foreign fighters are hiding, witnesses said.

One policeman was injured when a protester opened fire to resist arrest, a police official said.

Yesterday's violence came a day after thousands of protesters went on a rampage in the eastern city of Lahore, burning Western businesses such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. Two people died and police detained 125 people, another police official said.

Violent protests also erupted in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday. More than 1000 students forced their way into a heavily guarded enclave housing foreign embassies. They damaged cars and a bank building but were quickly expelled from the area by police using with tear gas and water cannon.

Police had arrested 142 students in the capital for disrupting peace, damaging property and disregarding orders to disperse, Islamabad police spokesman Naeem Iqbal said.

A violent protest happened on Monday in Peshawar, where thousands of students marched through the city and broke windows.

In Kuala Lumpur, a Chinese-language daily has been ordered to halt publication for two weeks as punishment for printing a photograph showing the Danish cartoons.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said in a statement yesterday that he ordered the Guang Ming Daily, Malaysia's third-largest Chinese-language daily, to stop publication of its evening edition for two weeks starting today.

The newspaper on February 3 published two stories on the global uproar over the cartoons, with an accompanying photograph showing someone reading a paper on which the caricatures were clearly visible, the statement said.

Associated Press


AND MAY I ADD:

Still going, going, going. When will these demented rioters ever stop making raging monkeys out of themselves?

They even attack establishments that have nothing to do with those stupid cartoons. Those very establishments that provide employment to young people (and not so very young) as well as investments to their local economy. These events should serve a wake up call to foreign investors who are thinking of putting their money and resources to politically unstable countries like (you know what). Maybe Western developed countriest should also take this into account when they consider accepting future immigrants with this background.

Now we have a clear picture of what is really meant by Islam by the examples set by the believers -it is definitely not a RELIGION OF PEACE. (Okay they proved their point already on this one). And if GOD is really all omnipotent, omnipresent and very Merciful, then he has already made jugment on this issue based on the ongoing unsettling events. He doesn't need all those retards to defend Him.

One more questions - If they revered Mohammed that much - why it is very common for men named Mohammed? I wonder when those Mohammeds were still silly, stupid, naughty boys, do their mothers swore at them?


Also, the picture of small children dragged in this controversy, those little kids learn HATE before they learn how to read and write.