Mansour Asks for Arab FMs Meeting on Anti-Islam Film
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour announced on Sunday that he was exerting efforts to call for an urgent meeting of Arab foreign ministers to denounce an anti-Islam film that has sparked fury across the Islamic world.
The minister's press office said that as chairman of the Arab League Ministerial Council, Mansour contacted Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi urging him to make the necessary contacts to hold the emergency meeting at the League’s headquarters in Cairo to discuss the film that is an “aggression on the belief of more than 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.”
The low-budget movie, entitled Innocence of Muslims, “should be confronted by firm and decisive decisions,” the statement said.
The movie mocks the Prophet Mohammed and portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
Mansour suggested the emergency meeting to be held on Thursday or Friday.
The press release came half an hour after Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for protests in Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, in the southern city of Tyre on Wednesday, in the eastern city of Baalbek on Friday, in Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon on Saturday, and in Hermel in the eastern Bekaa valley on Sunday.
He also called for people across the Islamic world to demonstrate against the film, which he described as "the worst attack ever on Islam, worse than the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, the burning of the Koran in Afghanistan and the cartoons in the European media."
17 September 2012, 08:14
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This is ridiculous. You'd think the Arabs have a billion other problems to solve.
17 September 2012, 08:36
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I, as a Muslim, reject your call, and would rather you call a meeting for the thousands being killed in Syria...
17 September 2012, 10:04
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How about calling a meeting to stop the killing in Syria you clown..
17 September 2012, 10:31
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didn't see him calling for a meeting when churches were being burned in nigeria, indonesia,
17 September 2012, 11:05
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How about calling a meeting against the daily syrian aggressions on Lebanon?
17 September 2012, 11:56
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what the hell are these people (if they are still humans) thinking?
These backward people drag Lebanon back with them to an age of ignorance and stupidity
17 September 2012, 12:22
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The Shia and the Iranians are exploiting the Anti-Muhammed Movie to distract the Muslim and Arab world from the ethnic cleansing and genocide taking place by there allies in Syria. Nasrallah, and the supposed "Foreign Minister" of Lebanon, Adnan Mansour, recently called for an emergency meeting in the Arab League about the film. They will love nothing more then to divert attention away from Syria. Protests have occurred almost everywhere in the world, and now suddenly after the dust has settled, Nassrallah, thinks its an important issue. Well, your to late. I warn the Muslim and Arab world to get there act together and confront the slaughtering of the Syrian population.
17 September 2012, 13:05
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Stop trying to export your repression to the "free world"... If you don't like the internet and Youtube, then disconnect your country from it..
17 September 2012, 14:45
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The one and only meeting this this clown has to attend, is with the judge and jury where he is sentences to death for treason.
17 September 2012, 14:58
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"The movie .... portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent" -- and killing four innocents in Benghazi including an ambassador that helps Lybia liberated, burning restaurants and consulates, is NOT gratuitously violent?
17 September 2012, 19:41
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Mansour has always been a Syrian regime and hezbollah mouthpiece... Tfeh!
Attend to more serious issues instead of playing with youtube!
17 September 2012, 23:12
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Great--give the movie even more publicity.
Stupid publicity seeking officials just give the movie more publicity--for God's sake, let the story and eventually the movie die off.
17 September 2012, 23:53
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Nice move Hasan; now you showed the whole world who is REALLY controlling Lebanon. Suleiman orders Mansour to launch a formal complaint with Syria over border violations, Mansour gives Syria a BJ "on the behalf of the Lebanese people". Hasan orders him to go and exploit righteous outrage over an admittedly heinous piece of low-budget crap (that is as much an insult to cinema as it is to the Prophet - PBUH), and Mansour jumps right away and eases the PR pressure on the butchery being committed by the Marquis d'Assad (pronounced as the PR coaches of Western politicians teach to pronounce it). Bravo Hasan; you've showed us all who holds the reins of Lebanon - as well as who holds you by the leash.
