KANO, Nigeria — Thousands of
people are walking through
the streets of Nigeria’s largest
city to protest a film that
Muslims say is offensive about
the Prophet Muhammad. The protests began Saturday
in Kano in Nigeria’s Muslim
north. The crowd grew larger
as it left the mosque and
people marched toward the
palace of the Emir of Kano, the region’s top spiritual leader
for Muslims. The crowd was peaceful
though vocal about their
anger over the release of the
video called “Innocence of
Muslims,” which ridicules the
Prophet Muhammad by portraying him as a fraud, a
womanizer and a child
molester. Last week thousands marched
in the northwest city of
Sokoto. Another crowd of
angry youths in central
Nigeria were dispersed by
troops firing gunshots into the air.