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India arrests 86 over US consulate attack in Chennai
Another completely spontaneous and inevitable human reaction to the terrible movie that nobody in the crowd had probably seen.
Much thanks to the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, presumably a charitable organization of some sort, for helping the people understand the spontaneous nature of their inevitable and predictable feelings toward the film they hadn't seen, and helping the people channel their very understandable outrage over whatever it is they imagined or had just been told to be the case into the most therapeutic action available—attacking our consulate and burning effigies of President Obama.
Several hundred protesters charged the US consulate in Chennai in response to the "Innocence of Muslims" film. A Google representative announced Friday that the video had been blocked in India in accordance with a court order meant to prevent violence.
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Eighty-six people were arrested on Friday after a group of several hundred Muslim protesters threw stones and smashed windows at the US consulate in the Indian city of Chennai, police said.
"They smashed the window panes, surveillance camera and tried to scale over the compound wall, but we dispersed them while exercising restraint," a senior police officer said on condition of anonymity. "We made 86 arrests."
The violence flared during a protest organized by the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, an Islamist movement, against an anti-Islam film which has triggered similar protests in large parts of the Muslim world.
The protesters also burnt an effigy of US President Barack Obama and an American flag, police said.
Read more: http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/505369e4c110c00744000000/india-arrests-86-over-us-consulate-attack-in-chennai#ixzz26UElux5x
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Eighty-six people were arrested on Friday after a group of several hundred Muslim protesters threw stones and smashed windows at the US consulate in the Indian city of Chennai, police said.
"They smashed the window panes, surveillance camera and tried to scale over the compound wall, but we dispersed them while exercising restraint," a senior police officer said on condition of anonymity. "We made 86 arrests."
The violence flared during a protest organized by the Tamil Nadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam, an Islamist movement, against an anti-Islam film which has triggered similar protests in large parts of the Muslim world.
The protesters also burnt an effigy of US President Barack Obama and an American flag, police said.
Read more: http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/505369e4c110c00744000000/india-arrests-86-over-us-consulate-attack-in-chennai#ixzz26UElux5x
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