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Monday 24 September 2012 - 08:03

Thousands protest anti-Islam film outside US consulate in Canada

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A man hold a sign during a demonstration against a US-made anti-Islam film outside the US consulate in Toronto, Canada, on September 22, 2012.
A man hold a sign during a demonstration against a US-made anti-Islam film outside the US consulate in Toronto, Canada, on September 22, 2012.
The protesters converged on University Avenue in Toronto on Saturday, and carried signs that called for the film to be banned and for blasphemy to be made illegal, CTV television network reported.

They also chanted ‘shame, shame USA’ and called on the US government to prosecute the filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (aka Sam Bacile), who has gone into hiding.

A protester, who identified himself as Mohammed, said that hate speech against Islam or any other religion should not be tolerated.

“Free speech does not give you a right to go and attack someone’s faith,” he said.

The man added, “If anybody is attacking the Jewish faith or the Christian faith, Muslims would be hand in hand with them to denounce it. The same thing applies to the Islamic faith.”

Meanwhile, Director of Toronto’s Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought Zafar Bangash said the Canadian government has not done enough to stop the spread of the profane film.

“What it has done is disrupted the social peace and it has created a lot of turmoil in the Muslim world as well as it has angered Muslims wherever they may be,” he stated.

    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.


Angry protesters across demand the US government apologize to the Muslim world over the anti-Islam movie.

The American-made anti-Islam movie is said to have been made with the help of Zionist donations totaling USD 5 million.

The sacrilegious movie was followed by publication of several cartoons mocking Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo on September 19.
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