YouTube Refused to Delete Film Trailer Which Caused Deadly Attacks on US Embassies
Ant-American and anti-European protests spread all over the Middle East.
YouTube refused to delete the trailer of Innocence of Muslims which caused the protests in the Middle East which has already resulted in several casualties.
“It can be challenging that what is OK in a country represents something offensive in another. This video which is still available on the Internet, complies with our policy of free expression, therefore we will not remove it. Anyway, given the difficult situations that ignited in Libya and Egypt, we temporarily restricted access (to the film) in these two countries. Our souls are with the bereaved families after the events in Benghazi,” the official statement says.
The film titled Innocence of Muslims was shot by citizen of Israel and the USA named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. However, Israel haven’t identified such a citizen yet.
The trailer of the film was uploaded on YouTube and caused fury among Muslims. American embassies in Yemen, Tunisia, Egypt and Libya were attacked. American ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, and four other persons were killed in an assault.
However, the protests are reported to grow larger.
Protesters angered by a film mocking Islam have attacked the German and British embassies in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, BBC says.
Demonstrators started fires and tore down the German flag, raising an Islamist banner in its place.
In the Lebanese city of Tripoli, one person was killed as demonstrators set fire to a KFC fast-food restaurant.
Five people were injured in protests in Cairo, state media said. There are also clashes in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office confirmed that a demonstration was taking place outside the embassy in Khartoum, and said Sudanese police were at the scene.
However, the spokesperson could not say whether protesters had entered the embassy, or whether the demonstration was about the anti-Islam film.
In Cairo, police firing tear gas pushed about 500 protesters back from the US embassy.
Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Mursi has called for protests to remain peaceful.
The streets around the US embassy in Cairo have been blocked with barbed wire, concrete and police vehicles.
Islamist groups and others had called for a peaceful “million-man march” in the city, but a number withdrew those calls on Friday.
In Lebanon, protesters in Tripoli, in the north of the country, set fire to a KFC branch, sparking clashes with security forces.