FRANCE-SHOOTING/LEBANON-PROTEST Hundreds in Lebanon's Tripoli protest against Charlie Hebdo

Record ID: 324445

  • Title: FRANCE-SHOOTING/LEBANON-PROTEST Hundreds in Lebanon's Tripoli protest against Charlie Hebdo
  • Date: 23rd January 2015
  • Summary: TRIPOLI, LEBANON (JANUARY 23, 2015) (REUTERS) PROTESTERS HOLDING BLACK ISLAMIC FLAGS VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS IN THE STREET WAVING FLAGS VARIOUS OF FLAGS DURING THE PROTEST PROTESTERS MARCHING AND CHANTING SLOGANS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SUNNI CLERIC, AHMAD AYOUB, SAYING: "We are sorry about everyone who participated in the march in France with the magazine that mocked our holy figures and our holiest Mohammad. We took the streets to tell the world that we have no leader but Mohammad. We ask them to stop their salaciousness, we tell them to cut their tongues, we tell them that if they want to live peacefully in this world, stop with our Prophet and our Messenger who asked us to believe in all messengers." VARIOUS OF MUSLIM RELIGIOUS FIGURES DURING THE PROTEST MAN HOLDING BANNER READING (Arabic): 'Mohammad, we are your soldiers' PROTEST IN PROGRESS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SUNNI CLERIC, OTHMAN BAKHACH, SAYING: "(We are here) condemning what the French magazine did and the silence of the leaders that didn't speak about the insult of the prophet. We are condemning those of them (leaders) who participated in the blasphemy... among which are the king of Jordan, Mahmoud Abbas, the prime minster of Tunisia, the foreign minister of Algeria, and all those who participated against Mohammad. We tell them: 'we have nothing to do with you'." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS HOLDING FLAGS AND BANNERS AS THEY MARCH IN THE STREETS
  • Embargoed: 7th February 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Lebanon
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA9A55BWIEA5P2JHT79DBHDBWOK
  • Story Text: Hundreds of protesters took the streets of the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday (January 23) to protest against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and the solidarity march on the streets of Paris.
    The Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo were attacked by two Islamist gunmen who killed 12 people on January 7. The following week, in its first edition since the attack, Charlie Hebdo printed a caricature of the Prophet Mohammad holding a sign reading "Je suis Charlie" under the words "All is forgiven".
    Protesters in Tripoli said they were not only offended by the magazine's cartoons but also by a unity march in Paris, which was held to pay tribute to the slain cartoonists.
    The march was attended by world leaders including statesmen from a number of Arab and Muslim countries.
    "We are sorry about everyone who participated in the march in France with the magazine that mocked our holy figures and our holiest Mohammad. We took the streets to tell the world that we have no leader but Mohammad. We ask them to stop their salaciousness, we tell them to cut their tongues, we tell them that if they want to live peacefully in this world, stop with our Prophet and our Messenger who asked us to believe in all messengers," said Sunni cleric Ahmad Ayoub.
    Many Muslims see the publication of the magazine's cartoons as blasphemous, and protests have broken out in cities across the Middle East against Charlie Hebdo.
    The Tripoli protesters condemned Arab leaders for having taken part in the Paris march.
    "(We are here) condemning what the French magazine did and the silence of the leaders that didn't speak about the insult of the prophet. We are condemning those of them (leaders) who participated in the blasphemy... among which are the king of Jordan, Mahmoud Abbas, the prime minster of Tunisia, the foreign minister of Algeria, and all those who participated against Mohammad. We tell them: 'we have nothing to do with you'," another Sunni cleric, Othman Bakhach, said.
    The Paris attackers, two French-born brothers of Algerian origin, singled out the weekly for its publication of cartoons depicting and ridiculing the Prophet Mohammad.
    The bloodshed ended two days later with a hostage-taking at a Jewish deli in which four hostages and the gunman were killed.
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