Kabul: Hundreds of
people held a violent protest in Kabul early on Monday morning, against an ‘anti-Islam’
film insulting to Islam that has caused an uproar across the Muslim world, media
reports say.
Protesters reportedly shouted anti-American slogans, burned tires, and threw
rocks at a U.S. embassy military base in Afghanistan capital.
The low-budget film, produced in California, has sparked days of anti-American
violence that has caused the deaths of 17 people in a number of Muslim
countries, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya.
Supporters of the Shi'ite militant group Hizballah were expected to hold a
protest against the film in Beirut later on September 17.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour says he has asked Arab League
Secretary-General Nabil El-Araby to organize an emergency meeting of Arab
foreign ministers to discuss the film.
U.S. officials have condemned the film but noted that such free speech is
permitted under the U.S. right to free speech.
The Afghan
government has blocked video-sharing web site YouTube to avoid panic situation
from viewing a clip of the anti-Muslim film.
The wave of
international violence began Tuesday when mainly Islamist protesters climbed
the US Embassy walls in the Egyptian capital of Cairo and tore down the
American flag from a pole in the courtyard.