Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance on Monday to warn the United States that it faced further anger and repercussions across the Muslim world unless it suppressed a 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's southern suburbs...

Nasrallah called on governments across the world to censor websites carrying clips from the amateurish film, produced in California, and urged Muslims to boycott those sites...

Nasrallah has lived in hiding to avoid assassination since Hezbollah fought a month-long war with Israel in 2006.

Thousands of Lebanese protesters chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel" marched through Beirut's Shi'ite southern suburbs in protest against the film.

"America, hear us -- don't insult our Prophet," chanted the marchers at the demonstration, called for by Nasrallah. The peaceful protest, which came after a weekend of violent demonstrations across Arab capitals in which several US embassies were attacked, stayed well away from US mission on the city's northeastern outskirts...

Hundreds of Palestinians staged a sit-in demonstration in Ramallah on Monday, in protest of the anti-Islam film, AFP reported. The protest in Ramallah, organized by the Palestinian Authority's Waqf (religious endowment), followed similar protests held by Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in Gaza over the weekend.

Protesters held signs with slogans reading, "We are against those who oppose you Mohammed" and "Do not touch our Prophet."

PA Waqf Minister Mahmoud Habbash spoke at Monday's protest calling on the US to apologize for the film and remove it from the Internet.

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Editor's Note: Two points. First, regardless of whether or not an insult to Islam was perpetrated or not, setting fire to buildings and murdering people using a film as the excuse is beyond unacceptable and the Muslim community needs to police its emotions or face the consequences of standing alone against the rest of the world. The free world is tired of their adolescent behavior every time they don't like something. Second, this so-called "film" is nothing more than a poorly made, over-dubbed trailer for a film not related to Islam. Radical Islamists are using it to gin up anger in the illiterate Muslim communities so as to affect a further instilled hatred for the West, all in an effort to maintain their oppressive, totalitarian theo-political power over their people.


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