Anti-American demonstrators before the Swiss Embassy in Teheran, Iran
| IRNA
Anti-American demonstrations continue in Cairo for the fourth day
in a row with reports that on 14 September the Muslim Brotherhood
called for a million strong manifestation at Tahrir Square, the Muslim
world continuing its outrage in what began in a minute scandal; at the
same time, as far as fuel is concerned, Brent is already at $116 per
barrel with an upward trend.
Anti-American riots continued in North Africa and the Middle East
from 11 September until the time of going to print with fears of
escalation evident from US security actions.
The wave of demonstrations expands to Egypt and Libya, where the US
Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three staff members of the
American Consulate in Benghazi were killed on 12 September, and also in
Yemen where four people were already killed as well as other Muslim
countries including fiery protests in Tunisia.
Protests took place in Teheran outside the Swiss Embassy (which also
represents the USA), in Kuwait the American Embassy was evacuated and
in Saudi Arabia in front of the American Embassy in Riyadh and the
American Consulate General in Jeddah protests were reported.
Anti-American demonstrators before the Swiss Embassy in Teheran, Iran
| IRNA
Anti-American demonstrations continue in Cairo for the fourth day
in a row with reports that on 14 September the Muslim Brotherhood
called for a million strong manifestation at Tahrir Square, the Muslim
world continuing its outrage in what began in a minute scandal; at the
same time, as far as fuel is concerned, Brent is already at $116 per
barrel with an upward trend.
Anti-American riots continued in North Africa and the Middle East
from 11 September until the time of going to print with fears of
escalation evident from US security actions.
The wave of demonstrations expands to Egypt and Libya, where the US
Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three staff members of the
American Consulate in Benghazi were killed on 12 September, and also in
Yemen where four people were already killed as well as other Muslim
countries including fiery protests in Tunisia.
Protests took place in Teheran outside the Swiss Embassy (which also
represents the USA), in Kuwait the American Embassy was evacuated and
in Saudi Arabia in front of the American Embassy in Riyadh and the
American Consulate General in Jeddah protests were reported.
The source of this uprising of sorts was the release of a 14-minute
clip to an online video sharing site of an amateur anti-Islam film
produced by Israeli-American contractor Sam Bacile, slammed by the
entire Mulsim world including the Iranian religious leader the Ayatollah
Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
The film was made by Sam Bacile (real estate developer) who is
Jewish and a fanatic anti Islamist, who says that the purpose of the
film was five million dollars from the Jewish community.
The film, reportedly insults the Prophet Muhammad and is in
religious terms much worse than, for example the Danish cartoons
depicting the Prophet with a bomb.
In a globalised and digitalised society such as ours where different
cultures and different types of democracy must coexist respecting each
other; an extreme event like the anti-Muslim film may act as a “strange
attractor” and trigger a chaotic explosion.
Thus a new “status quo” will be generated, which will have nothing in common with the “status quo ante.”
Potential countries for such change are Egypt and Libya as they both
were countries led by strong dictatorships and are now ruled by “loose”
pro-American Muslim governments trying to advance democracy to European
levels “right here and right now” with the resulting risk, being an out
of control situation.
In this case, with the deepening unrest and demonstrations with common denominator anti-Americanism, we are not far from chaos.
The new scheme is likely to be that of regimes, like Iran. As Iran
is de facto the leading power of Islamic fundamentalism, strategic
checks and balances between Islam and the West, will certainly change.
Israel appears to be pressuring the United States to strike against Iran now, under the pretext of nuclear weapon development.
The United States seem to be reluctant to proceed as on the one hand
Washington is keeping side negotiations with Teheran and on the other
hand an air attack against Iran would require the engagement of B-2
bombers equipped with the next-generation bunker-buster Massive
Ordenance Penetrator (MOP, bombs capable to destroy underground
facilities at a large scale). However, according to a New Europe source
in Washington, McDonnell Duglas has not delivered sufficient quantities
of MOPs to the Pentagon, as yet.
With the United States turning inwards and marginally capable of
warfare where new fronts are concerned and Europe practically unarmed
and led by administrators rather than leaders, the West may soon look
for new allies (i.e. China) and new ways to confront the Islamic threat.
At the time of going to print sources were reporting that the US
Embassy in Tunisia was seeing protests, in Malaysia, Bangladesh, the
Berlin US Embassy had had a situation with some toxic almost mishap in
its visa section and the US Mission to the EU had been sent home early,
for security reasons.
On 14 September the Turkish and Egyptian authorities also issued statements of non-violence from their people.
An additional 50 marines were sent to Yemen the Pentagon reported on
14 September to protect the US embassy and Libyan authorities have seen
increased assistance on security from the US.
