Police use tear gas on protesters in Sydney at the US consul

[innsaneink]

Any excuse for a riot.
Morons.
They need to realise its everyones right to offend another….'specially on the net

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UNAUTHORISED protesters have put Sydney's CBD in gridlock this afternoon after marchers became violent, injuring police near the US consulate.
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Police have been forced to used tear gas on marchers as global outrage over an anti-Islamic film portraying the prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and paedophile hit Australia.
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Hundreds of people have descended on the CBD and police have swarmed the city to control the marchers.
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The marchers went through Pitt Street before the world famous Hyde Park.
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The anti-American protest has been near Market Street and George Street and is causing significant disruptions to traffic.
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Surrounding streets are also being affected as a result.
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Photos posted on social networking site Twitter show police, possibly from the Public Order and Riot Squad injured and assaulted.

 

[Tigerdave]

but it's a religion of peace???

Pack of idiots, I don't recall too many accounts recently of people from other religions demanding people die who insult their beliefs.

 

[hammertime]

Idiots. Words are incomparable to physical violence. 'Sticks and stones..'

 

[Frank_the_tank]

What a pack of mongrels. Tear gas and rubber bullets…...and then more tear gas

 

[weststigers4life]

Apparently it flared up again after they were demanding information on the protesters arrested & injured.
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[Tigerpete]

Just saw it on the news. Utter mayhem and thankfully the police took charge cause that could've gotten real ugly. A minority of that mob was there with intent to intimidate and hurt if needed by the sounds of it. Didn't like being told what to do. A shame really, because the protest, if peaceful, was a valid one but as usual the work of a few fools ruined it for the masses. Not a good look.

 

[dermo]

And then when something like the Cronulla Riots come around they act like they are saints who have done nothing wrong.

Aside from the way the protested, I really don't see the need for it in the first place? They were protesting a low budget movie made by some random in the US so they feel the need to march in the streets of Sydney??? What was to be gained from this in the first place?

 

[system]

From my understanding the core of the problem group relate back to a Libyan separist subset of the Liverpool based mosques.

Sad thing is this will be viewed by many as representative of the entire culture and religion and by others again to start spewing boat people rhetoric

 

[derailed]

Sad thing is this will be viewed by many as representative of the entire culture and religion and by others again to start spewing boat people rhetoric

This.

I work in a school with a large Islamic Community and feel for them every time something like this happens as this group is the minority and ruin it for the rest of them.

 

[alexaki]

not good….next episode of the footy show Beau knows.....protests...

 

[Justo]

Doggggiiiies
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[Rambo2714]

Doggggiiiies
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Yeah bro ! That's what happens when the bulldogs have the week off …...
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[Guest]

From my understanding the core of the problem group relate back to a Libyan separist subset of the Liverpool based mosques.

Sad thing is this will be viewed by many as representative of the entire culture and religion and by others again to start spewing boat people rhetoric

It's always a minority that paint the majority in a poor picture. If they had protested like that in Libya they would have been shot dead as opposed to being sprayed in the face by an OC fogger.

 

[Yossarian]

Aside from the way the protested, I really don't see the need for it in the first place? They were protesting a low budget movie made by some random in the US so they feel the need to march in the streets of Sydney??? What was to be gained from this in the first place?

Agree. I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the news… Imagine if nutbag Christians held countries like Egypt and Pakistan responsible for every Islamic loony who insults Christianity.

It's sad for the majority of Muslims who don't go for this kind of stuff though...

 

[dermo]

Aside from the way the protested, I really don't see the need for it in the first place? They were protesting a low budget movie made by some random in the US so they feel the need to march in the streets of Sydney??? What was to be gained from this in the first place?

Agree. I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the news… Imagine if nutbag Christians held countries like Egypt and Pakistan responsible for every Islamic loony who insults Christianity.

It's sad for the majority of Muslims who don't go for this kind of stuff though...

I agree, Islam is at the core a very peaceful religion and one to be respected but as with anything it has been interpreted to suit the ideals of a rotten few

 

[Yossarian]

I would have thought the "gentleman" holding the sign about beheading people is breaking some sort of law. If he isn't he should be.

 

[happy_tiger]

Save the tear gas for the Tigers pre season training

 

[Yossarian]

Save the tear gas for the Tigers pre season training

The fans don't need gas to cry. Just watch the final two games of the season again.

 

[BenjiMagic96]

They protest over every little thing that happens, make up your minds idiots.

 

[dermo]

They protest over every little thing that happens, make up your minds idiots.

Clearly your good exam result wasn't in religion