Signs End Of the HISTORY Not End Of the WORLD . . . : Islam - menghina 'filem' mencetuskan serangan di konsulat Amerika Syarikat di Libya, kedutaan di Mesir' . . .

Islam-insulting 'film' triggers attacks on US consulate in Libya, embassy in Egypt’ . . .

RT News - 'Islam-menghina 'filem' mencetuskan serangan di konsulat Amerika Syarikat di Libya, kedutaan di Mesir' misi diplomatik Amerika di Libya dan Mesir telah diserang oleh perusuh marah sepanjang 'filem' buatan Amerika Syarikat berkata untuk menghina Nabi Muhammad (Shallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam). Serangan di bandar Libya Benghazi meninggalkan satu ahli kakitangan Amerika Syarikat terbunuh dan seorang lagi cedera. Selepas revolusi Libya dan Mesir hanya akan melihat peningkatan selanjutnya dalam ekstremisme dan ketidakstabilan, kata Nader Hashemi, Penolong Profesor Timur Tengah dan Politik Islam di Universiti Denver. (12 september @ Syawal 25)

RT News - ‘Islam-insulting film triggers attacks on US consulate in Libya, embassy in Egypt’ American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt have been attacked by angry mobs over a US-made film said to insult the Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings of God be on him). The assault in the Libyan city of Benghazi left one US staff member killed and another injured. Post-revolutionary Libya and Egypt will only see a further rise in extremism and instability, says Nader Hashemi, an Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the University of Denver. (Sept. 12 @Syawal 25)

US Consulate in Libya Attacked, American Killed . . .

AssociatedPress (13 minit yang lalu) 'Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Libya diserang, Amerika Maut' Telah terbunuh dalam serangan ke atas Konsulat Amerika Syarikat di Benghazi, Libya. Penunjuk perasaan juga menyerbu Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah. (september 12 @Syawal 25) (AssociatedPress (13 minutes ago) ‘US Consulate in Libya Attacked, American Killed’ One American was killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Protesters also stormed the U.S. Embassy in Cairo). (Sept. 12 @Syawal 25)

Kedutaan-kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah, Benghazi disasarkan lebih 'penghinaan' pada skrin untuk Islam . . .

Seorang pegawai Amerika Syarikat telah dibunuh sebagai gerombolan bersenjata menyerang Konsulat Amerika Syarikat di bandar Libya Benghazi. Serangan itu datang jam selepas penunjuk perasaan menyerbu Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah dalam kemarahan atas filem Amerika yang mereka katakan menghina Nabi Muhammad (Shallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam).

"Seorang pegawai Amerika telah terbunuh dan seorang lagi cedera di tangan," Timbalan Menteri Dalam Negeri Libya Wanis al-Sharef memberitahu AFP. "Ahli-ahli kakitangan lain telah dipindahkan dan selamat." Setiausaha Negara Hillary Clinton telah mengesahkan bahawa seorang pegawai dari agensi beliau telah terbunuh dalam serangan itu.

Penyerang Benghazi membakar bangunan itu, mengikut menyaksikan laporan, yang mengatakan banyak konsulat telah dibakar. Terdapat laporan ‘tembak-menembak’ antara penyerang dan pasukan keselamatan Libya. Bom roket telah dipecat pada konsulat dari sebuah ladang berdekatan, kata Abdel-Monem Al-Hurr, jurucakap suruhanjaya keselamatan Kementerian Dalam Negeri Libya.

"Pasukan keselamatan Libya datang di bawah api berat, dan kita tidak bersedia untuk keamatan serangan," berkata Hurr. Sekurang-kurangnya 3 anggota pasukan keselamatan telah diambil dalam ambulans, Reuters melaporkan. Jurucakap Jabatan Negara Victoria Nuland mengutuk serangan ke atas misi diplomatik Amerika Syarikat.

Terdahulu, lebih 2,000 penunjuk perasaan menyerbu Kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Kaherah di jiran Mesir, sesetengah daripada mereka membuang bendera Amerika dan cuba untuk menggantikan dengan bendera hitam membaca "Tiada Tuhan melainkan Allah." Ini adalah kali pertama pernah bahawa kedutaan Amerika Syarikat di Mesir telah diserang atau di langgar.

Filem yang dipercayai telah mencetuskan kebangkitan telah dihasilkan oleh kumpulan yang berpangkalan di Amerika Syarikat yang termasuk Terry Jones, seorang paderi Kristian yang terlibat dalam skandal Quran pembakaran yang mencetuskan bantahan besar-besaran di Afghanistan. Pada ulang tahun serangan 11 September, 2001, beliau mengeluarkan satu video yang mempromosikan filem yang menggambarkan Nabi dalam cara yang "menyindir", menurut Jones.

Kedutaan di Kaherah, dalam satu kenyataan, mengutuk "usaha berterusan oleh individu-individu sesat menyakiti perasaan agama Islam - seperti yang kita mengutuk usaha untuk menyinggung penganut semua agama" "Filem ini mesti diharamkan segera dan meminta maaf perlu dibuat . . . ini kehinaan," kata seorang aktivis Mesir memberitahu Reuters, menyeru Presiden Mohamed Morsi untuk mengambil tindakan.

Ahmed Ben Helli, Liga Arab timbalan setiausaha agung, telah juga mengutuk filem itu, berkata ia "mengandungi penghinaan terhadap Nabi Muhammad" dan "telah dikecam oleh orang Kristian dan Muslim" di seluruh DUNIA Arab.

US embassies in Cairo, Benghazi targeted over on-screen ‘insults’ to Islam . . .

A US official was killed as an armed mob attacked the US Consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi. The attack came hours after protesters stormed the US Embassy in Cairo in indignation over an American film they say insulted the Prophet Muhammad.

“One American official was killed and another injured in the hand,” Libya's Deputy Interior Minister Wanis al-Sharef told AFP. “The other staff members were evacuated and are safe and sound.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has confirmed that one official from her agency was killed in the attack.

The Benghazi attackers set fire to the building, according to witness reports, who say much of the consulate was burned. There were reports of fierce gunfights between the attackers and Libyan security forces. Rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the consulate from a nearby farm, said Abdel-Monem Al-Hurr, a spokesman for the Libyan Interior Ministry's security commission.

"The Libyan security forces came under heavy fire, and we were not prepared for the intensity of the attack," Hurr said. At least three members of the security forces were taken away in an ambulance, Reuters reported. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland strongly condemned the attack on the US diplomatic mission.

Earlier, over 2,000 protesters stormed the US Embassy in Cairo in neighboring Egypt, some of them removing the American flag and trying to replace it with a black flag reading "There is no God but Allah." This was the first time ever that the US embassy in Egypt had been attacked or breached.

The film that is believed to have triggered the uprisings was produced by a US-based group that includes Terry Jones, a Christian pastor involved in a Koran-burning scandal that triggered mass protests in Afghanistan. On the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, he released a video promoting the film that portrays the Prophet in a "satirical" manner, according to Jones.

The embassy in Cairo, in a statement, condemned "the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions." "This movie must be banned immediately and an apology should be made … this is a disgrace," one of the Egyptian activists told Reuters, calling on President Mohamed Morsi to take action.

Ahmed Ben Helli, the Arab League deputy secretary general, has also condemned the film, saying it "contained insults against the Prophet Mohammed" and "was denounced by Christians and Muslims" across the Arab WORLD.

Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

'Extreme elemen mengukuhkan antara satu sama lain' . . .

Nader Hashemi, seorang profesor Timur Tengah dan Politik Islam di Universiti Denver, memberitahu RT bahawa bantahan itu boleh merebak melalui seluruh DUNIA Arab, kerana tidak ada kekurangan kumpulan ekstrem - sama terpakai kepada Amerika Syarikat - yang akan suka bersama-opt kejadian itu untuk menyebabkan mereka sendiri.

RT: Bantahan meningkat ke serangan ke atas Amerika Syarikat misi diplomatik pada kadar yang pesat. Adakah anda terkejut pada ini, dan apakah ini mengatakan tentang kemarahan yang terpendam di Amerika di rantau ini?

Nader Hashemi: Saya terkejut sebahagian besarnya kerana tiada siapa yang pernah mendengar tentang filem ini kontroversi. Tiba-tiba kita diberitahu bahawa ia adalah punca kebimbangan yang mendalam bahawa ia adalah dalam pengeluaran. Ia membawa kepada bantahan di Mesir dan di Libya, tetapi saya berfikir bahawa ia adalah penting untuk tidak membesar-besarkan skala protes. Ini bukan masyarakat Mesir limpahan bubur, ini adalah satu kumpulan yang sangat kecil pelampau - kira-kira 15 ratus yang menyerang kedutaan Amerika Syarikat. Apa yang kita ada di sini adalah, anda tahu, unsur-unsur melampau dalam kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat dan di Mesir saling memperkukuh satu sama lain.

RT: Terry Jones, paderi Florida yang membakar Al-Quran awal, telah dinaikkan pangkat filem. Adakah ini kes tertentu sesetengah rakyat Amerika menyebarkan sentimen anti-Islam, atau adakah ia mewakili sikap umum di Amerika terhadap DUNIA Islam pada hari ini?

Nader Hashemi: Tidak, ini adalah pinggir melampau gila spektrum agama Amerika. Apabila Terry Jones mula membakar Al-Quran di atas rumput depan rumahnya di Florida, beliau telah secara meluas dikutuk oleh orang yang paling baik. Tetapi anda tahu, orang-orang seperti ini, saya fikir sedang mencari untuk tindak balas - mereka mencari dengan tepat apa yang kita lihat hari ini di Kaherah dan di Benghazi. Mereka amat cuba untuk menggalakkan pertembungan tamadun. Dan bersyukur kerana kedua-dua kumpulan dalam kedua-dua Mesir dan Amerika Syarikat adalah minoriti, dalam minoriti yang melampau, dan mari kita berharap ia kekal di sana.

RT: Memandangkan apa yang kita lihat setakat ini, adakah anda menjangkakan kejatuhan lebih daripada ini?

Nader Hashemi: Nah, ia masih belum dapat dilihat. Apa yang mengganggu saya adalah bahawa ini adalah sebuah filem yang tiada siapa tahu apa-apa tentangnya. Kini ia telah dijana ke dalam protes - takut ini merebak ke negara-negara lain. Terdapat kumpulan-kumpulan seperti yang kita lihat hari ini di Mesir dan di Libya yang maju pada jenis ini kontroversi. Mereka mahu untuk mendapatkan publisiti untuk menyebabkan mereka sendiri dengan menjadikan insiden seperti ini menjadi isu antarabangsa yang utama. Jadi ya, terdapat ketakutan bahawa kita akan melihat copycats demonstrasi di seluruh DUNIA Arab dan Islam. Dan mari kita berharap bahawa sejuk kepala boleh diguna pakai.

‘Extreme elements reinforcing each other’ . . .

Nader Hashemi, a professor of Middle East and Islamic Politics at the University of Denver, told RT that such protests could spread through the entire Arab world, as there is no shortage of extreme groups – the same applies to the US – that would love to co-opt the incident for their own cause.

RT: The protests escalated into attacks on the US diplomatic missions at a breakneck pace. Are you surprised at this, and what does this say about pent-up anger at America in the region?

Nader Hashemi: I am surprised largely because no one has ever heard about this controversial film. All of a sudden we are told that it’s a cause for deep concern that it is in production. It’s led to a protest in Egypt and in Libya, but I think that it is important not to exaggerate the scale of the protest. This is not Egyptian society boiling over, this is a very small group of extremists – about 15 hundred who attacked the US embassy. What we have here is, you know, the extreme elements both in the United States and in Egypt mutually reinforcing one another.

RT: Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who burned the Koran earlier, has promoted the film. Is this a specific case of some Americans spreading anti-Islamic sentiment, or does it represent the general attitude in America towards the Muslim world these days?

NH: No, this is an extreme lunatic fringe of the American religious spectrum. When Terry Jones began burning the Koran on his front lawn in Florida, he was widely condemned by most decent people. But you know, people like this, I think are looking for a reaction – they are looking for precisely what we saw today in Cairo and in Benghazi. They deeply are trying to promote a clash of civilizations. And thankfully both groups both in Egypt and the US are in a minority, in an extreme minority, and let’s hope it stays there.

RT: Given what we’ve seen so far, do you expect much more fallout from this?

NH: Well, it remains to be seen. What disturbs me is that this is a film no one knew anything about. Now it has generated into protests – the fear of this spreading to other countries. There are groups such as we saw today in Egypt and in Libya that thrive on this type of controversy. They want to gain publicity for their own cause by turning an incident such as this into a major international issue. So yes, there is fear that we are going to see copycats of demonstrations throughout the Arab and Muslim world. And let’s hope that cooler heads can prevail.

Tayangan dibatalkan atas sebab-sebab keselamatan . . .

Sementara itu, British Channel 4 telah dipanggil satu lagi dokumentari kontroversi mempersoalkan asal-usul Islam, memetik kebimbangan keselamatan.

"Islam: Kisah Berjuta," yang mendakwa bahawa terdapat sedikit bukti kontemporari asal usul Islam, menarik lebih 1,000 mengadu selepas ia ditayangkan 2 minggu lalu. "Setelah mengambil nasihat keselamatan kita telah enggan membatalkan tayangan yang dirancang program ini, Islam: Kisah Berjuta Kami kekal amat berbangga filem itu, yang masih tersedia untuk melihat pada 4oD," saluran berkata dalam satu kenyataan.

Metropolitan polis mengatakan mereka tidak menyedari apa-apa nasihat yang membawa kepada keputusan untuk membatalkan pemeriksaan saluran. Tetapi sumber-sumber yang dekat dengan saluran mengatakan ia telah diterima daripada "pihak berkuasa keselamatan yang relevan."

Screenings canceled for security reasons . . .

Meanwhile, British Channel 4 has called off another controversial documentary questioning the origins of Islam, citing security concerns.

“Islam: The Untold Story," which claims that there is little contemporary evidence of the origins of Islam, drew over 1,000 complains after it was screened two weeks ago.

"Having taken security advice we have reluctantly cancelled a planned screening of the program, Islam: The Untold Story. We remain extremely proud of the film, which is still available to view on 4oD," the channel said in a statement.

Metropolitan police say they are unaware of any advice leading to the channel's decision to cancel the screening. But sources close to the channel say it was received from "relevant security authorities."