INDONESIA: THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS HOLD ANTI-U.S. RALLY AFTER REPORTS OF AMERICANS DESECRATING THE KORAN

Record ID: 215409

  • Title: INDONESIA: THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS HOLD ANTI-U.S. RALLY AFTER REPORTS OF AMERICANS DESECRATING THE KORAN
  • Date: 22nd May 2005
  • Summary: (W2) JAKARTA, INDONESIA (MAY 22, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. HAS RALLY ON STREET 0.06 2. HAS PROTESTERS WALKING ALONG ROAD HOLDING BANNER READING: "MUSLIMS UNITED AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM"; PROTESTERS MARCHING ON STREET; WOMEN PROTESTERS SHOUTING "ALLAH THE GREATEST"; SCU PROTESTERS' FEET; SLV WOMEN PROTESTERS PASSING THROUGH STREET (9 SHOTS) 0.55 3.
  • Embargoed: 6th June 2005 13:00
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  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Reuters ID: LVAAWJ9WS3BIX07ITJW1JWMF500W
  • Story Text: Thousands of Indonesian Muslims hold anti-U.S.rally
    after a report that Americans desecrated the Koran.

    Thousands of Indonesian Muslims marched through the
    streets of capital Jakarta on Sunday (May 22, 2005) to protest a
    report that Americans desecrated the Koran.

    'Newsweek' magazine issued an apology and retraction of
    its report that the Muslim holy book had been desecrated by
    U.S. interrogators at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

    The report in the magazine's May 9 issue sparked
    protests across the Muslim world, from Afghanistan, where
    16 people were killed and more than 100 injured, to
    Pakistan, Gaza, India, Somalia and Indonesia.

    After marching through Jakarta's main street, Muslims
    from various organisations later held a peaceful rally
    outside the U.S. embassy.

    "Our main demands are for America to stop their abuses
    against Muslims, for President George W. Bush to apologise
    to all Muslims in the world, for Bush also to sentence to
    death those who are responsible for the abuses, and for the
    closure of prisoners' camps at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib
    and Bagram," said protest leader, Mohammad Al Khathaath,
    referring to other alleged abuses against prisoners at
    U.S.-run prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Protesters also held printed banners saying "Reject
    U.S. imperialism in Muslim Nations" and "Abuses in
    Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib cannot be tolerated".

    The White House this week called on 'Newsweek' to help
    repair the damage done to America's image by explaining
    what happened and how it got the article wrong. But despite
    Newsweek's retraction, anger over the report still simmmers
    in parts of the Muslim world, including Indonesia -- the
    world's most populous Muslim country.


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