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Sunday, 17 February 2008 |
 Thousands of Muslims held a demonstration in Dar Eas Salaam Friday and burned U.S. flags in protest against a visit of President George W. Bush.
The Muslims chanted slogans such as “Bush is an oil thief" and "evil is not a foreign policy". The demonstrators including men women and children who tried to march from the city's centre to the U.S. embassy on its northern outskirts but were diverted to open ground by a small force of police. They tore down U.S. flags erected for Bush's visit this weekend and burned them. The police did not intervene and there was no violence.
Thousands of Muslims held a demonstration in Dar Eas Salaam Friday and burned
U.S. flags in protest against a visit of President George W. Bush.
The Muslims chanted slogans such as “Bush is an oil thief" and "evil is not a
foreign policy". The demonstrators including men women and children who tried to
march from the city's centre to the U.S. embassy on its northern outskirts but
were diverted to open ground by a small force of police. They tore down U.S.
flags erected for Bush's visit this weekend and burned them. The police did not
intervene and there was no violence.
The protesters chanted "Who is a terrorist? Bush”.
The demonstration, which began after Friday prayers, caused a major traffic jam
across the narrow Bridge leading out of Dar es Salaam. One of the protest
organizers, Sheikh Mussa Kundecha, was quoted as saying: "We will be the first
to receive Bush by protesting against him and cursing his visit." The angry
demonstrators expressed remorse that the Tanzanian government has agreed to host
an oppressive leader like Bush who is a notorious global war monger.
Bush is scheduled to arrive on Saturday night on the second and longest leg of a
five-nation African tour.
Tanzania Muslims are also angered by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, by U.S.
backing of an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to help defeat Islamists -- and the
subsequent rendition of Muslim suspects -- and by Tanzanian anti-terrorism laws
which they say discriminates against them.
Source: Muslim News
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