“Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement or football fans, gathered at the embassy in protest over a film deemed offensive to the Prophet Mohammed which was produced by expatriate members of Egypt’s Christian minority resident in the United States. A dozen men scaled over the embassy walls and one of them tore down the Stars and Stripes, replacing it with a black flag inscribed with the Muslim profession of faith: ‘There is no God but God and Mohammed is the prophet of God.'”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/11/egyptian-protesters-tore-down-u-s-embassy-flag/
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