Interior Minister Manuel Valls said officials throughout the country had orders to prevent all protests and crack down if the ban was challenged. France had already announced the closure on Friday of embassies and other institutions in 20 countries while, in Paris, some Muslim leaders urged their followers to heed a government ban on weekend demonstrations protesting against denigration of the prophet. Separate protests took place outside of Dhaka as well.Įuropean countries took steps to forestall protests among their own Muslim minorities and against their missions abroad. The protesters threatened to seize the American Embassy on Saturday, but a police order banned any further demonstrations. They also burned the American and French flags. They chanted “death to the United States and death to the French” and set on fire a symbolic coffin for President Obama that was draped with the American flag, as well as an effigy of Mr. In Bangladesh, several thousand activists from Islamic organizations took over roads in the center of the capital, Dhaka after prayers.
In Tunisia, the authorities invoked emergency powers to outlaw all demonstrations, fearing an outpouring of anti-Western protest inspired both by the American-made film and by cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a French satirical weekly.Īmerican diplomatic posts in India, Indonesia and elsewhere closed for the day. The unrest came as governments and Western institutions in many parts of the Muslim world braced for protests after Friday Prayer - an occasion often associated with demonstrations as worshipers leave mosques. Here is a sample text, taken from the news:Ī television station employee was shot dead on Friday in the northwestern city of Peshawar as violent crowds filled the streets of several cities on a day of government-sanctioned protests against an anti-Islam film made in the United States.
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