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Protesters angered by an anti-Islam movie vandalized a KFC restaurant in Al-Bohsas in North Lebanon’s Tripoli before setting it on fire, the National News Agency reported.
The security forces opened fire in the air to break up protesters, the NNA said, adding that fire fighters arrived to the scene.
The low-budget movie, "Innocence of Muslims" in which actors have strong American accents, portrays Muslims as immoral and gratuitously violent.
It pokes fun at the Prophet Mohammed and touches on themes of pedophilia and homosexuality, while showing him sleeping with women, talking about killing children and referring to a donkey as "the first Muslim animal."
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EDIT: The pope also motivated it.
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TRIPOLI - Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope's visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.
Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, "We don't want the pope" and "No more insults (to Islam.)"
The incident came as Pope Benedict began a three-day visit to Lebanon and as anger over a film which Muslims have said is blasphemous to Islam spread across the region.
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KFC is American, so that's the connection.
Also, I live close to there and I've seen people shooting, burning and damaging the Pope's pictures (He's coming to Lebanon)
Must be a whole lot more by now...
