US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton however condemned anti-Islam film which has sparked violent Middle East protests, stressing that the US government had nothing to do with it. Ms Clinton said personally, this video is disgusting and reprehensible.
She said it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose, to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage. She said all government and religious leaders to draw the line at violence.
After speared of the trailer of the film through internet, a wave of anti-American protests by demonstrators has spread in different p[art of the world.
In Yemen, hundreds stormed the grounds of the U.S. embassy in Sana’a. The mob torched a number of diplomatic vehicles Thursday as security guards used water cannons and warning shots in a bid to drive them out of the heavily fortified compound. A number of people were reported injured.
Protests against the American-made amateur film mocking the Prophet Muhammad also took place in Cairo, Tehran, Baghdad and Dhaka. Demonstrators in Baghdad chanted “no to Israel” and “no to America” while burning an American flag.
Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi, on an official visit to Brussels Thursday, slammed “attacks” on the Muslim prophet in the film, while also condemning the violence.
“We Egyptians reject any kind of assault or insult against our prophet,” said Morsi. “[But] it is our duty to protect our guests and visitors from abroad. I call on everyone to take that into consideration, not to violate Egyptian law, not to assault embassies.”
The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were killed Tuesday after suspected Islamist militants stormed the American consulate in Benghazi during similar demonstrations.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano said the film was “objectionable and wrong.”
“That does not, in and of itself, justify, however, taking life and becoming violent,” she said. “That’s a different issue all together so I think linking the two is not right.”
Meanwhile Washington sent two Navy destroyers, a Marine Corps anti-terrorist security team and federal investigators to Libya to protect Americans and help hunt the suspected religious extremists who carried out the attack late Tuesday.
The Obama administration also ordered the evacuation of all U.S. personnel from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli.
American officials said Wednesday the attack on the Benghazi compound and a nearby safe house may have been a planned, coordinated and complex operation, in contrast to the initial Cairo protest, which appeared to be spontaneous. They say armed militants in Libya may have used the Cairo events as cover.
Film criticized
A trailer for the anti-Islamic video was posted on YouTube in July. An Arabic-language translation began circulating in the Middle East in recent days. Clips from the movie depict the Prophet Muhammad as a villainous, homosexual child-molesting buffoon, among other overtly insulting claims.
The film has been widely condemned across the globe and in the United States.
“This movie is not United States’. It is not the United States government,” said Ronald E. Neumann, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and Yemen. “It is a few crazy people that want to take shelter in our country to make trouble for our relations with the Muslim world.”
U.S. media reports say the video was publicized last week by a U.S. Coptic Christian activist named Morris Sadek, known for his attacks on Islam. Sadek promoted the video in tandem with a statement by controversial Florida-based Christian Pastor Terry Jones, who declared “International Judge Muhammad Day” on September 11.
He triggered deadly riots in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011 by threatening to set fire to copies of the Quran and then burning one in his church.