Source: National Post
With significant protests in nearly a dozen countries over a amateurish anti-Islam film posted to YouTube, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance to warn the U.S. it faces further Muslim anger unless it suppresses the video that mocks the Prophet Mohammad.
“The world should know our anger will not be a passing outburst but the start of a serious movement that will continue on the level of the Muslim nation to defend the Prophet of God,” Nasrallah told tens of thousands of marchers in Beirut.
“The world needs to understand our links to God’s prophet … It did not understand the level of the insult that God’s prophet was subjected to through some of the clips of this insulting film,” he said, to roars of applause and cheers from the crowd.
Nasrallah called on governments across the world to censor websites that carry clips of the film and urged Muslims to boycott those sites.
“America, which uses the pretext of freedom of expression … needs to understand that putting out the whole film will have very grave consequences around the world,” he added.
Nasrallah rarely makes public appearances in hopes to avoid assassination since Hezbollah fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006.
Protests against the U.S., which started in Egypt last week, have spread across Muslim countries, despite the United States strongly condemning the film. They continued throughout Monday.
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