Arab World: Outrage Over Killing of US Ambassador in Benghazi
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Revolution 2011.
Arab netizens have condemned the cowardly attack on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last night (Tuesday 11 September, 2012). Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens were killed when militants fired rockets at them as they were being driven to a safer location after protesters surrounded the consulate building.
News reports say protesters surrounded the Consulate, outraged over a film which ridiculed Prophet Mohammed, produced by an American-Israeli film maker. In Cairo, a similar protest was staged, where protesters scaled the US Embassy walls, tearing down the US flag, and replacing it with an Islamic banner.
The killing of Mr Stevens and three other US Consulate staff has outraged netizens from across the region.
The Libyan Youth Movement asks:
@ShababLibya: What did attacking the consulate last night achieve? Nothing but destruction, violence, & utter tragedy
Abdulraqeeb Al Azzane notes [ar]:
Protesters outside the US Embassy in Cairo last night. Photograph shared on Twitter by @khadrania
Nasr Aldbea says [ar]:
Khalil Agha tweets [ar]:
Saudi Fahad Albutairi reminds us [ar]:
And Libyan Ahmed Misrata agrees:
@AhmedEMisrata: Last night's event was a disgrace to our revolution, our martyrs and most of all, a disgrace to the teachings of the Prophet PBUH #Benghazi
From Egypt, Schehrazade remarks:
@_Schehrazade_: A man doing his job got killed in #Libya because some amateurs made a worthless movie and some freaks valued it. Continue hating.
And from Benghazi, @N_Benghazi writes:
@N_Benghazi: The Prophet (saws) wouldn't have accepted that innocent blood be spilled because people are offended over some nobody's movie. #libya
Egyptian writer Karim El Degwy predicts [ar]:
And still in Egypt, Nadia El Awady concludes [ar]:
This post is part of our special coverage Libya Revolution 2011.
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Journalists need to search for links between the filmmaker and Sheldon Adelson.
The film had little if anything to do with this attack. That’s just a narrative that febrile lefties want to push. These attacks were planned in advance The mobs were riled up by al Qaeda operatives, using Islam, a terrible religion that’s easily used to meld weak minds to violence.
Arab Spring, an Obama plant, has failed.
It would be worthwhile to look into the identity of Sam Bacile, the film-maker, whose existence is unverifiable.
This was entirely predicable and there will be more. The problem is that Muslim rage has become a weapon. They have learned that RAGE gets them respect when nothing else does. Whoever though that the so-called Arab Spring would bring anything more than more Islam and hate was dreaming, and I am talking about the media, academia and our leaders.
The big problem is that the film (and I am not going to see it, as I
have never seen any of them) doesn’t say anything new that is not in
Islam’s own hadith. Where do you think these anti-Islam people get
their ideas and facts to put into these films? This inability to question Islam and its teachings is, in my opinion,
the root of all the Arab/ Muslims world’s problems, and they want to
subject us to their intellectual and moral prison.
It is encouraging to see a few remarks that seem sincere. Those comments that say these actions are contrary to the Islam’s teaching and the actions of Islam’s prophet really do need to read their own writings. This is exactly why this will happen again and again, worse and worse. We will all suffer, but it will be worse for Muslims – but that is not much consolation.
Thank you, Amira, for this report.