Daily Trust (Abuja)

Nigeria: Security Alert Over 'Blasphemy' Film

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Libyans in Benghazi are making sure that the world knows that they do not support those responsible for the deadly attack on the U.S. embassy.

Abuja/Jos — A nationwide security alert was issued yesterday to forestall violence over the alleged "blasphemous" film released in the United States, which sparked demonstrations around the world that led to the death of the American ambassador in Libya.

Clips of the film at the heart of the row, titled "Innocence of Muslims", presented the Prophet Muhammad in ways that deeply offended Muslims, reports said.

The movie has been circulating on the Internet for weeks, with an Arabic translation being posted on video-sharing website Youtube. It gained further prominence when U.S. pastor Terry Jones, who angered Muslims with threats to burn the Koran in 2010, lent his support for the film.

In Abuja, the Police Force Headquarters yesterday issued a security alert to all formations, hours after demonstrators over the movie were dispersed in Jos, Plateau State.

"Following recent violent demonstrations in some parts of the world linked to a recent US film believed to have offended a section of some religious faithful, the police has taken immediate proactive security measures to ensure that no similar violence is replicated within our country," police spokesman Frank Mba said in a statement.

"Consequently, the Inspector-General Mohammed Dahiru Abubakar has placed all police formations across the federation on red alert. In this regard, the IG has directed all zonal AIGs and command commissioners to ensure a 24-hour water-tight security in and around all embassies and foreign missions in Nigeria as well as other vulnerable targets.

"In addition, the AIG in charge of intelligence and commissioners in charge of the various special squads such as the Counter Terrorism Unit (CTU), Police Mobile Force (PMF) and Special Protection Unit (SPU) have been directed to ensure that their personnel are strategically deployed to prevent to potential crisis."

Hours before the police alert was announced, Special Task Force (STF) personnel dispersed a group of people demonstrating against the controversial movie in Jos.

About 50 protesters gathered around 'Yan Taya junction in Jos and moved to Zololo junction, displaying placards that say 'To Hell with America and Israel for insulting the Prophet'.

Leader of the demonstrators, Mansur Sani Adamu, told Daily Trust that they were on a peaceful protest. "Anyone who has knowledge of Islam knows that it is peaceful religion so there will be no harm to any life or property," he said.

"We are not happy with what is going on. These people always try to provoke Islam and Muslims because they know how sacrosanct our religion and the Prophet is to us," he added.

But less than an hour after the demonstration started, a detachment of STF personnel arrived in a Hilux van and intercepted the protesters at the Zololo junction.

A Daily Trust reporter observed as the security operatives cautioned the protesters against proceeding without permission.

Spokesman for the STF, Captain Salisu Mustapha, said the demonstrators did not seek permission before starting the protest and so security agencies could not guarantee their safety.

"We will not allow anything that is capable of breaching security in the state," he said.

In parts of the world yesterday, demonstrations continued over the "blasphemy" movie, following the death of US Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens from smoke inhalation after rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the US consulate in Libyan city of Benghazi on Tuesday night.

Tunisian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets into the air to disperse a protest by several hundred people near the US embassy in the capital Tunis, as they chanted slogans including "Obama, Obama, we are here for the triumph of Islam", Reuters news agency reported.

Demonstrations were reported outside the US embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and the US consulate in Casablanca, Morocco, as well as outside the UN offices in the Gaza Strip

The US embassy in Algiers warned Americans in Algeria to avoid non-essential travel amid calls for protests on social media.

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    THE US PROMOTES THE IDEAS OF ISLAMAPHOBIA IN ITS POLITRIKS. AS WE SAW AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION THERE WAS ANEW DRAFT TO NAME JERUSAMLEM AS CAPITOL OF ISRAEL!!??? WHO ARE THEY TO MAKE SUCH INSENSITIVE DECISIONS THEY PLAY POLTIRIKS WITH LIVES AROUND THE [PLANET AND DO NOT REALISE WHAT THEY DO. AMERICANS ARE IGHNORANT INENSITIVE TO THE REALITIES OF FACTS ON THE PLANET. THIS FILM I SUSPECT IS SOEMTHING I WOULD NOT LIKE TO SEE; THE IDEA THAT A WHITE MAN IS PLAYING MUHAMUD PEACE BE UPON HIM IS SOMETHING ELSE ALL TOGETHER. THERE HAS BEEN SO MUCH MIS REPRESENTATION OF ISLAM ARABIC HISTORY IT IS UNFORTUNATE BUT WHAT IS ALARMING IS THE AMERICAN AND ZIONIST VIEW THAT THEY ARTE THE TRUE ISRAELITES AND THAT THOSE ZIONIST IN AFRRICA ARE THE SEMITES AND WE ARE HAMITES ALL THESE FOOLISH MISINTERPRETATIONS OFR FACTS. IN THE TIMES OF BIBLICAL ANTIQUITY THERE WERE FEW LEPORS AS THEY WERE CALLED THE PEOPLE WHO EVENTUALLY BECAME THE CAUCASION RACE OF PEOPEL AFRICA THE MID EAST WAS OEN GREAT MASSIVE LAND WHICH WAS FILLED WITH GREAT CITIES THAT WERE PRODUCTIVE FROM TOP OF LEBANON TO CAIRO ALGERIA DUBAI THIS WAS TH LANDS OF THE BLACK MAN. HISTORY AND SCIENCE PROVES TO ALL HUMANITY THAT WE THE BLACK MANWAS THE FIRST MANTHE MONUMENTS THAT VIEW US THE EARTHS CIVILZERS ARE ALL OVER THE PLANET. WE HAVE SOME NEW TO ARABIC WHO KNOWS NOT HISTORY DESTROYING THE GREAT BUDHA THE GRETA TOMBS IN TIMBUKTU HOWEVERIT IS IMPORTANT TO KNWO THAT THE BLACK MAN WAS TH ARAB THE FIRST ISLAMIC IMAMS. ARABIC WAS CHOSEN FOR ITS POETIC VIRTUES THESE WERE WEST AFRICAN SUDANESE TONGUES. ISRAEL WAS IN AFRICA AFTER THE ROMANS CAME THE TIME BEFORE THE GREEKS WE HAVE HAD TWO MAIN DEPARTURES FROM MID EAST NATIONS WHEN THE DESTROYERTS RAMSACKED JERUSASLME THE LAT TIME WAS WHEN THEY THE ROMANS CAME AD RAN THE LAST OF THE BLACK HEADS OF RELIGION OUT OF THE TEMPLES. THEYR EPLACED THEM WITH WHITES WHOM WERE EVENTUALLY OSTRACISED BY CHRIST WJHO RECOGNISED THEM NOT. ROMANS THEN CREATED CHRISTIANITY THE ROMANISATION OF ISRAELS BELIEF TAKING IT WITH IM[PROVISIONS OF THREE GODS WORSHIPING MARY ETC. THEY TOOK FROM AFRICA MANY TRUTHS AND CONVERTED IT TO AFALSE RELIGION. THE PROPHET MUHAMAD PEACE BE UPON HIM SAW THESE THINGS AND WAS GIVEN SIGHT TO THE MAJOURITY OF TRUTH THIS WAS THE REDEMPTION OF ISRAEL WHO WAS LOST. THEY WERE THEN OPPOSSED BY WHITE JEWS WHO HAD INFILTARTED ISRAEL WHO WERE NOT THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ;WHO WAS AT THE TIME IN WEST AFRICA OR CERTAIN PARTS OF EAST AFRICA. WHAT WE THEN FIND IS THAT THESE PEOPEL WHO WERE TRUE BELIVERS FOLLOWED THE PROPHET WHERE HE THENN TRAVELED FROM ETHIOPIA ACCROSS INTO YEMEN AND HENCE HE STARTED TO CIVILZE THE MANY MIXED AND WHITE BEDOUIN TRIBES WHO WERE NOT ARABIC BY BIRTH OR LANGAUIE THEY WERE TAUGHT ISLAM AND THE FUNCTIONING PRINCIPLES OF ISLAM. AGAIN WE MUST ALSO KNOW THAT DURING THE EARLY TIMES OF THE PROPHET WHILE HE WAS IN WHAT WE KNOW TODAY AS ARABIA THE MOORS WERE IN EUROPE CIVILIZING THIS CONTINENT. THEY BROUGHT MANY BOOKS OF KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE AND SO ON THEY ALSO SO,E SPOKE AND WROTE ARABIC AS THIS WAS THE LANGAUGE OF POETRY. WHAT EVER THE REASONS WE MUST LOOK AT ISLAM AS AN ALL EMBRACING RELIGION NOT SPEAKING OF ANY CHOSEN OR OEN TRIBE TO ENTER THE GATES OF PARADISE BUT THOSE WHOM ARE WILLING TO SUB MIT TO THE " ONE TRUE AN LIVING GOD ALLMIGHTY ALLAH" THOSE WHO ARE NOBELE WITH INTEGRIY THOSE WITHOUT BLEMISH WILLING TO ABIDE THE PRINCIPLES AND THE LAWS THAT GOVERN THE STRUCTIRES THE 7 PILLARS OF ISLAM" AT NO TIME DOES THIS RELIGION PREACH AHTE AGAINST HUMANITY ARE TRUIS T DEMONISE OTHERS AS WE SEE WITH CHRISTIANITY JUDAISM AS WE KNOW IT TODAY. THESE TWO RELIGIONS ARE WAR MONEGRERS THEY PRACTISE DOUBLE STANDARDS THEY ARE HYPICRITS AND THESE ARE WHAT THEY BRING WTH THEM AROUND THE WORLD . THEY STIR MISCHEIF THEY CONTIEU TO CREATE DISSENT IN MANY NATIONS STAGNATING THIER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT THESE ARE NOT PARTICLES OF A NOBLE AND RIGFHETOUSS RELIGION. THEY ENSLAVED THE AFRICAN UNDER THE GUISE OF CHRISTIANNITY THIS COULD NEVER EVER BE THE RELIGION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. IT DISTURBS ME THE MOST WHEN I HEAR AFRICANS PROC;LAIMING THEY ARE CHRISTIANS THEY ARE NOT CHRISTIANS THEY FOLLOW THE TEACHING OF CHRIST THEY LOE ISRAEL"""" NOT ZIONISM!!! THE THOUGHTS OF THE TRUE ISRAEL WHERE THE MANY PROPHETS LIVED WITH "THE GLORY OF ALLMIGHTY ALLAH " AS THEIR GUIDE. LET US NOT FALL TO FAR IN KEEPING STEP WITH THE USA AND THEIR TALK OF SECURITY AND SO ON. WE MUST LOOK AT THE TRUTH THIS MAN WHOM WAS KILLED WAS THE DISSENTOR THE SEDITIONIST THE SABAOTAGER THE ESPIONAGER THE ONE WHO STROKED THE FLAMES IN LIBYA FOR THE WEST TO COME IN AND DECLINE THE OFFER OF PEACE THAT WAS 'THE ROAD MAP' OF THE AFRICAN UNION ' THIS MAN KEPT REFUSING THE ROAD OF PEACE INSTAED ALLOWING FOR THE MURDERS OF MANY AFRICANS!! I ALWAYS WONDERED WHERE THEY GOT THIER AMERICAN TAKE ON THINGS THE WORDS THEY USED WERE ALL AMERICAN THE RACIST AGENDA THAT DEVELOPED IN LIBYA WAS ALL AMERICAN. WE SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES THE DESTRUCTION OF LIBYA THE ETHNIC CLEANSING THAT TOOK PLACE IN LIBYA THE TOWNS OF GADQAFFI LOYALIST WHO WERE MOST BLACK INDIGENOUS ARABIC BLACK PEOPLE BEING MURDERED ;THE "ALLMIGHTY GOD" SAW THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT OVERTOOK THE AFRICAN CONTIENNT THROWING IT INTO TURMOIL AND CONFLICT THAT SPREAD ALL OVER WEST AFRICA TO EAST AFRICA NOW CONSUMING CENTRAL AFRICA. THIS MAN WAS PART OF THE CREATION OF THESE TROUIBLES HIM ALONGSIDE SARCOZY CAMERON DEPLYING SO CALLED DEESRT ARABS TO FLY PLANES OVER AFRICAN CITIES BOMBING THEM. WHAT WE ALSO SAW WAS THIS DIECSION TO AGAIN TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE SOME DIFFERNT ARABS TO THE OPRIGINAL ARBAS WHO WERE INDEED BLACK ; HE TAUGHT THEM THIS FASLE ANAOLGY ABOUT ARABS NOT BEING AFRICAN !!!!THE QUARN TEACHES US THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE QURAN WERE ALSO THE THE PEOPLE OF ISHMAEL WHO IS OFTEN NOT MENTIONED ALTHOUGH HE TOO WAS KING AND HE TOO WAS THE SON OF ABRAHAM WHO WERE BOTH BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE MARRIED TO EGYPTIAN WOMAN WHO WAS BLACK NOT HIS OR HER HAND MAID BUT THE WIVES OF ABRAHAM AS HE WAS AFRICAN THE POLYTHEIMS THAT SURVIVES IN MARRIAGE OF MORE THAN TWO WIVES. WE MUST NOT FORGET THAT NO WHITE MEN COULD HAVE SURVIVED THE TIMES THEY SPEAK ABOUT AS PICTURES DETREMINED THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE SUN LOVERS ABND THEY SPENT ALOT OF TIEM INTHE SUN HALF NAKED WITH OUT MUCH CLOTHES AS WE SEE TODAY. TRHESE PEOPLE WERE DARK BLACK VERY BLACK AND THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL IN HISTORY WE HAVE SEEN THAT TWO BLACK PEOPLE CAN PRODUCE WHITE SKINNED CHILDREN WITH BLONDE HAIR AND BLUE EYES THIS IS NOT A PHENOMENAM IT IS NOT THE SUPERIOR RACE LIKE WAS TAUGHT BY WHITES IN AMERICA AND ADOLF HITLER. THIS IS A COMMON OCCURENCE WHEN TWO BLACK PEOPLE HAVE ALBINO CHILD AS WE SEE FOR A FACT TODAY. THIS ALSO COVERS THE ARGUMENTS OF EVOLUTION. THESE WERE THEY WHO COULD NOT LIVE IN ARABIA OR YEMEN SO THEY WERE FORCED INTO EUROPE WHERE THEY FOUND SOLACE S THE WEAHTER WAS MORE SUITABLE FOR THEM AND THEY DEVELOPED INTO A PEOPLE WE SEE TODAY AS EUROPEANS. THE IDEA THAT THEY COULD BE THE BIRTH FATHERS IN AFRICA IS ABSOLOUTELY RIDICULOUS VERY LAUGHABLE, FOR ONE THEY DO NOT HAVE MELANIN AND NO MATTER HOW HARD THET TRIED THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE A BLACK CHILD THEY CAN NOT GET AS DARK AS ANY BLACK MAN ,THEY CANNOT!!!!! ANOTHER LOOK AT THIS IS NOAH THE PROPHET NOAH WAS SAID TO HAVE A SON WHO LOOKED AT HIS NAKEDNES WHEN HE AS CURSED BY GOD TO EB A SERVANT OF MAN, THIS THE STORYTELLING OF WHITES TO UNDERMINE THE SIGNIFICANT ROLE OF THE BLACK MAN IN HSITORY. WE THEN AGREE THAT THERE WAS A FLOOD AND WE AGREE THAT NOAH HAD SOEN WHAT WE MUST THEN AGREEE HAT NOAH COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WHITE WHY? HE COUDL NOT PRODUCE ANY CHILDREN WITH MELANIN!!!!! MELANIN IS THE GENETIC MARKER THAT IDENTIFIES WHITES FROM BLACK ANY ONE WITH SIGNIFICANT MELANIN IS INDEED BLACK. A BLACK MAN WITH A BLACK WIFE CAN PRODUCE TWO CHILDREN ONE WHITE ONE BLACK THE WHITE CHIDL WITHOUT MELANIN THE BLACK CHILD WITH MELANIN THIS THE WAY FO SCIENCE THE EVOLUTION OF MANKIND. SO WHATEVER THESE WHITES SAY WHAT THEY ARE TRYING TO PREACH IS FALSE AS THEY KNWO THIER BEGINNINGS AND IF THEY DO THEY HIDE THE TRUTH""" AS AFRICASN WE MUST RESOLOUTE WHEN WE APPROACH THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO WE ARE?? WHAT "OUR GREAT HISTORY ENTAILS !! WE ARE THE MASTERS OF CRAETION WE WERE ORDAINED WITH THAT GIFT FROM "OUR ILLUSTRIOUS FATHER CREATOR THE DSIGNER OF ALL THE HEAVENS AND EARTHS THE MASTER OF ALL KNOWN THINGS THE SINCEREST THE NOBLEST THE TRUTH TELLER THE MOST HOLY THE MOST WORTHY TO BE PRAISED AND ACKNOWLEDGED ABOVE ELSE ALL MIGHTY SUPREME GOD OF ALL- ALLAHMIGHTY GOD"

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