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People across Pakistan to the streets on Friday to demonstrate their anger the anti-Islam video that was made in the USA. Although the government a national holiday, "Love for the Prophet Day," and encouraged peaceful protests, 19 were killed in street battles between protestors and police. In Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, up to 5,000 demonstrators gathered to vent their at the video and America. Many tried to the U.S. embassy and were back by police and the military firing gas and live rounds. Student Jawad Ahmed expressed his outrage, saying: "They should allow us to the American embassy because they have blasphemed our holy Prophet.

U.S. president Barack Obama took the unusual of buying air-time on seven Pakistani television stations to a specially made message that aims to America from the video. In the $70,000 campaign, in Urdu, Hilary Clinton states: “The United States has absolutely nothing to with this video. We absolutely reject its . America's commitment to religious tolerance back to the very beginning of our nation." Meanwhile, in France, security has been after a magazine published drawings the Prophet naked. Mohammed Moussaoui, leader of the French Muslim Council, said the video and the cartoons were “ of aggression” against Islam.

 

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