DUBAI (Reuters) – The Yemen-based branch of al Qaeda urged Muslims to step up protests and kill more U.S. diplomats in Muslim countries after a U.S.-made film mocking the Prophet Mohammad which it said was another chapter in the "crusader wars" against Islam.
"Whoever comes across America's ambassadors or emissaries should follow the example of Omar al-Mukhtar's descendants (Libyans), who killed the American ambassador," the group said, referring to Tuesday's attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi.
"Let the step of kicking out the embassies be a step towards liberating Muslim countries from the American hegemony," a statement posted on an Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) website on Saturday said.
Fury about the film swept across the Middle East after Friday prayers, with protesters attacking U.S. embassies and in protests that killed at least seven people and prompted Washington to send troops to bolster security at its missions.
"The film published in America which insults our Prophet Mohammad, peace be upon him, comes as part of the continuing crusader wars against Islam," AQAP's statement said, referring to European wars in the region some 1,000 years ago.
"The incident is so huge that the resources of the nation should be pooled together to kick out the embassies of America from Muslim lands," it said.
AQAP, mostly militants mainly from Yemen and Saudi Arabia, is regarded by the United States as the most dangerous branch of the network founded by Osama bin Laden.
The group has used Yemen, a key regional U.S. ally, to plot attacks on the United States. Washington has backed a Yemeni army campaign that drove al Qaeda and its allies from their southern stronghold this year.
Muslims have blamed the U.S. government for the amateurish film of obscure origin. Washington has condemned the film and said it does not condone any insult to any religion.
Praising the attacks by angry demonstrators in Libya, Egypt, Yemen and Sudan on U.S. and other Western missions as "natural responses to a huge insult", the statement said that American embassies should be burned and diplomats killed.
It said defending the Prophet's honor was a "religious duty and obligation to the Muslim nation, each according to his ability".
The group also said that Muslims living in the West have an extra duty to be involved in attacks on key targets.
"They are more capable of doing harm and reaching the enemy is easier for them," it said.
Impoverished Yemen is struggling against challenges on many fronts since mass protests forced president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down last year after decades in power.
The United States, eager to help the country recover from the upheaval that has pushed it to the brink of collapse, has said it would provide $345 million in security, humanitarian and development aid this year, more than double last year.
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If you think anyone on this hypocritical section will utter one word - you will wait until the prophet grows hair on his balls.

lagerwhenindoubt: If you think anyone on this hypocritical section will utter one word - you will wait until the prophet grows hair on his balls.

IT DEPENDS THEY MAY CHANGE SOME DAY

Considering that according to Islamic holy books 'Allah did not make us all Muslim (he could have done so but did not do so)'; that there is no compulsion in religion; and that Islam is a religion of peace, the actions of those muslims who killed people and caused damage to property in response to the anti-islamic film does not make sense to me.

Since Allah did not make everyone Muslim, then there will definitely be people who do not care for Allah/Islam/Mohammed. Since there is no compulsion in religion, you should not force does people who do not care for Allah/Islam/Mohammed to do so; and if Islam is indeed a religion of peace, why did those peopl go out and murder people who absolutely had nothing to do with the production of this film? Surely a 'peaceful protest' would have been in line with the Islam that truly peaceful muslims try to present to us everyday.

Why should people who had absolutely nothing to do with this film be murdered because someone who does not care for Allah or Mohammed produced a film that is in line with is non-belief? Afterall, Allah did not make the film producer Muslim in the first place, and there is nothing that anybody will say or write about Mohammed that will change who Mohammed really was as documented by the Quran + Hadiths. At this rate all it takes is a rumour that someone has done/said/written something 'insulting' about Mohammed for innocent people to get killed.