According to latest reports, the Yemeni porters are not happy with a film mocking Islam. In addition, the Yemeni protesters destroyed the complex of the US embassy in Sanna, defying efforts by riot police to hold them at bay.
It is also said in reports that the protesters have damaged number of US diplomatic vehicles and the security forces used water cannons and air shorts as a move to put some control on the protesters.
Meanwhile, security forces had also fired warning shorts to break-up the Yemeni protesters as they were trying approach to the main gate of the US embassy.
Protesters chanted, “O, Allah’s messenger… O, Mohammed.”
Further, the protest in from of US embassy in Sanaa comes two days after four Americans were killed including US ambassador in Libyan mob attacked the US embassy in Benghazi. In the meantime, the protesters in Cairo tore down the Stars and Stripes and replaced it with a black Islamic flag.
It all started after a low-budget film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ released, in which actors have strong American accents, portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
In fact, the actor jokes at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of paedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as “the first Muslim animal.”
