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Sunday, May 6, 2007

Iranians Protesting Al-Jazeera

You thought that Muslim riots protesting infidel rhetoric were only against Danish newspapers?

Recently Iranian Shiites have been taking to the streets protesting the Qatari based satellite network Al-Jazeera. The contraversy erupted following an Al-Jazeera talk show last week in which the presenter, Egyptian Ahmed Mansour, questioned Iraqi religious leader al-Sistani's leadership credentials and whether he authored his own edicts.

The Iranian parliament speaker has banned all Al-Jazeera reporters from entering inside the parliament building until Al-Jazeera offers an official apology regarding their statements towards al-Sistani.

The protesters denouncing Al-Jazeera were chanting violent threats which included, "Today, we burn down Al-Jazeera,"

These incidents in addition to the continuous Sunni insurgency within Iraq are reminders to the outside world of the growing divide plaguing the Muslim world from within.

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