prophet mohammed is a deeply contested figure. religions have to do with interpreting his legacy. i think the difference here is that the caricatures are offensive. it's about mockery and humiliation. for a small percentage of muslims and i have to underline that a very small percentage that, type of mockery is not inseparatable from the type of treatment that the societies received. so for egyptians storming the u.s. embassy, is it really about the prophet mohammed or what they perceive american foreign policy to be? i do agree that there needs to be more of a conversation about religion and an honest conversation. as you see democracy spreading, we'll see that happen. maybe this is the first stages of that process happening. >> as a muslim, do you think the prophet mohammed should be depicted in any way? is it okay to depict him to make a character tour of him or to depict him in any way? >> i believe in freedom of speech. as long as someone is not insighting violence directly, it's fair game. people should be able to make the a

prophet mohammed is a deeply contested figure. most of the divisions between the sunnis and shias for example have to do with interpreting the prophet mohammed's legacy. it is offensive and not about meaningful criticism and debate, by it is about mockery and humiliati humiliation, and for a small percentage of muslims, and it is a small percentage, that mockery is not acceptable for what their countries have received. so the storming of the egyptian embassy, it is about what they perceive american foreign policy is or about the prophet mohammed. i believe there needs to be a more honest conversation. maybe across the world there needs to be a et bbetter understanding, and maybe is the beginning of that. >> is there any way to depict prophet mohammed, in a caricature or in any way? >> well, i belief in the freedom of speech and as long as someone is not inciting violence directly, somebody can make whatever points they want to make, but from a religious or moral point, depictions of religious figures like john the baptist or jesus

i said, hold on. >> one wrong move by mohammed could have deadly consequences.tore murd is are near the top of the list of workplace slayings in the u.s. every year. now the phone is across the room so he can't call the cops. but the clerk has been hiding something from the robber with the menacing vat. he's got a weapon of his own, a big gun under the counter. what would you do in this situation? would you fight back, break out the gun, or just give the man threatening you with a weapon what he wants? >> that's the moment i had to make decide myself. i can't call somebody to ask what i'm going to do now. >> mohammed makes some choices this robber never sees coming. >> i tell him, drop that, drop the bat, get down. and he see my gun, that's a surprise to him. just like a shock. >> almost instantly the thief drops to his knees and begs for mercy. >> he say, please, don't shoot me. don't call police. please, i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i have no money. i have no food. my family's hungry. my little baby have no mill sglk the thief's words weigh heavily on mohammed, so ne

. >> narrator: the man who coordinates the 150 fighters in this key sector is abu mohammed. >> abu mohammed is a very, very important character, a member of the aleppo military council. through him brand new ammunition, brand new weapons are being channeled into the rebels. >> narrator: he was asking the fighters to stand firm. (explosion) >> narrator: until eight months ago, he was a captain in the syrian army. >> here is a man who believes we're trying to build a democracy, we're trying to build a free syria. >> narrator: abu mohammed agreed to take ghaith with him as he delivered ammunition to the rebel units. the front line was changing by the minute. >> a street that was under the control of the rebels in the morning can switch sides in the afternoon and the government can take over that street. >> narrator: they began their journey along the rebel front line in the salahuddin neighborhood. >> he's trying to coordinate all these different units, be it islamist, be it jihadis, be it secular, be it village-based unit. the only thing that was connecting all these units was the ammunition

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where protesters gather for sunday here is an american made filmmaking and the career of the prophet mohamed refused to be silenced launchers and tear gas on been seen outside the u.s. embassy that over two hundred people have been injured and some dozen arrested since going to stray from speak out and. rage against the film and spreading across the region with other u.s. missions around the time of growth has slowed up in almost a dozen countries including again when you've gone wrong while media rest suspects in the killing of the american ambassador to the country. and a strongly condemns the president putin says governments around the world should unite in the fight against when he dismissed. and right now a coalition of interests and whole topic discussions cross talk with host. if you. want. a lonely and welcoming cross-talk on people about from the arab spring to the arab blowback what accounts for the rise of violence across the arab middle east was the killing of the american ambassador in benghazi really a reaction to an alleged short film defaming islam or are we witnessing a care

our guest host is mohamed el erian, ceo and co-cio at pimco and more from mohamed in a minute.- >> she's doing a little dance. >> i can't help it. >> really? i resist it at all costs. >> i've seen you're doing it right now. >> one finger moves and slowly -- no, i won't let it happen. >> the overbite going on. >> no, i won't do that. >> sprinkler? >> i might do the sprinkler or the shopping cart. >> i like the shopping cart. >> push zbl . >> it's a quadruple witching day. the iphone 5 is now on sale at apple stores and mobile carriers in the eastern time zone, this is it, in the last 56 seconds they've been on sale here, you are looking at a live shot from the apple store on fifth avenue in new york city. some of the people here had been lined up for days, that's right, days, meaning they've been sleeping here, nutsos. the phone goes on sale in us australia, hong kong, japan, france, singapore opand the unid kingdom. mobile carriers expecting a boost from the sales of new apple iphone. look right now this is a live shot of the at&t store in ft. lee, new jersey. at&t says the pre

journalist an academic who specializes in the arab middle east and north africa in washington we have mohamed ghanem he is director of government relations for the syrian american council and intricacy we crossed the v.j. prashad he is the author of arab spring libyan winter folks cross talk rules and if i mean you can jump in anytime you want in the below what is going on here we have the anniversary of nine eleven we have the killing of the american ambassador in libya i mean and then we have this weird film how do you connect the dots here. well you know the narrative is not very straightforward all we know is that there has been a film which is perceived offensive by muslim communities around the world which was applauded on to you tube and it sparked riots in egypt and it led to attacks against the u.s. embassy as the film is believed to be american print produced and then the anger spilled over to libya a very quickly and it provoked people to attack u.s. missions and then the u.s. consulate in libya and it led to a deeply shocking development which is the the murder effectively of the

violence sweeps pakistan in protests against insults to the prophet mohammed. >> could the gender mix in board rooms cbe said for a shake up? >> no longer just for the military. drones are quickly becoming available technology for consumers. should you be alarmed? pakistan has become home to some of the bloodiest demonstrations against insults to the muslim prophet mohammed. >> 15 people died including a policeman in mass demonstrations against the pakistani government. >> however, in much of the world, protests remained peaceful. our coverage begins with protests at friday prayers in pakistan. >> pakistan's government called for a day of love for the prophet mohammed. crowds gathered across the country showed plenty of that, but many were also keen to demonstrate their hatred of the united states. protesters burned american flags and vented their anger at western nations. saddam is, banks, and cars were torched -- cinemas, banks, and cars were torched. the day of love turned to a day of rage. police used shipping containers to block the entrance to the u.s. embassy, but demonstrators

we do have with us this afternoon mohammed nuru, director of d.p.w. mohammed, where are you? [applause] mohammed is going to have to rush out, but he wants to say welcome and thank you. >> good afternoon, everyone. and thank you for inviting the department of public works over here to talk about our contract processes. we are part of the city family and he will not be able to stay for the whole event, but edgar lopez, who is from our department, who actually is involved in many of the projects, the new public safety building, most of the projects in san francisco are actually under his leadership. so he can talk in detail about how they meet many of the goals and what we have coming out. we do have quite a number of projects that are coming out. all those new projects are subject to the 30% local resident hiring. you will see from the information that our department has far exceeded many of those goals that have been sent. we actually track everything and i think the exciting part is that we do have a number of projects that are coming online, and so this hope for work. as it

to hell and the one to come to protect them is prophet mohammed. and so they have more emotions and plus this -- simply the human life in the teaching, when you see they are killing some man because he converted, when you execute the killing ever a human being because he insulted the prophet mohammed, but this is what you can find in mainstream teaching, and so unless and until this form of teaching is stopped and changed, then we are having a major problem in the middle east. >> is there anything under the surface here beyond ala because it was like a tinder box that blew up. >> there were certain factors that helped the occurrence of the problem in this country, like egypt and yemen, you notice th their revolution gives them the impression they can change anything by simply doing violent demonstrations. and so the whole atmosphere is volatile after revolution and you see this coupled with the religiouyou combine them together, it is like putting fire with -- or flame with some oil. it can spread everywhere. >> very interesting indeed tonight. ter

i want to bring in mohammed, a neighboring lebanon, and mohammed, talk a little bit about what we have, and it sounds absolutely horrific this idea, this creation of barrel bombs that are being used. >> well, suzanne, opposition activists are increasingly worried and telling us about a new form of crude weaponry that they say is being utilized by the syrian regime to bomb different parts of syria. they're calling these barrel bombs. they say that they are crudely constructed improvised explosive devices that the syrian regime effectively are taking barrels and loading them up with everything from nails to tnt, to other types of explosives, to fuel. we've seen more and more amateur videos posted on-line reporting to show the aftermath of these types of attacks. yesterday in the hannamu district of aleppo we saw amateur video reporting to show a residential building that had been completely flattened. you saw men scrambling around that building searching frantically for any survivors or others buried in the rubble, and increasingly, these activists are saying that the syrian regime using

>> mohammed. that's what it said. those were not my words. >> frightened herself an ordained minister confronted sam after seeing the violent reaction to the racist movie trailer posted on youtube. >> i called sam, i thought how dare you do this to us, to the world. >> what did he say? >> he said you tell them that you are innocent, cindy. it was the one who wrote the script who is guilty. tell them that he was the one that did it because he was tired of the radical muslims killing his people. he said that's what you need to tell them. >> did he talk about religion with you at all? >> never. >> his spouse's religion. did he say where he was where he was from? >> he never said anything about his religion or his belief system. he made me believe he was from egypt when we were filming. he said he was going to show the film in egypt. so i was assuming he was from egypt. but the day on the phone after all of the chaos, he said, tell them i am from israel. >> do you have anything to say? >> the actors identified this man as

in recent decades, there's been a popular film about ohio mohammed.f the issues is that for a long time, we didn't really see nonmuslims attempting to portray mohammed. we have seen this in christianity, where for many decades hollywood has been depicting jesus sometimes offensively in films and others in art. but with globalization this is only beginning to be an issue with the muslim world right now. we're seeing a lot more friction, a lot more attempts by non-muslims. some are hostile to islam. so this kind of prohibition against depicting mohammed is being violated now. >> when these incidents happen, that plays into the stereotypes of the west that we all get tainted when mohammed's image is mocked. >> right. i think that both sides unfortunately become an emblem so from the american viewpoint, this attack in libya becomes emblemmatic of this world. and with this film, that's seen in parts of the muslim world is emblemmatic. and there are leaders on both sides saying, no, these are just extremists who are trying to gin up this sentiment against o

his name is mohammed, a 20-year-old farmer. he had been driving a truck to pick up a relative when a bomb struck. he says he blacked out. it was the day before his wedding. medics struggled to keep him from slipping away. they don't believe he will survive. hello. two days later we found mohammed alive in a jordanian hospital. and eager to speak with his fiancee back in syria. we help him make the call. his joy is immediate. he tells her, when i regained consciousness, i was thinking about you the whole time. come over here, come over. she says, how can i come over? mohammed knows she cannot easily make the journey. he's already planning to return to her in syria. he tells her, you are the love of my life. two lives and a country torn apart by war. today the head of the u.n. refugee agency and jordan foreign minister made an urgent appeal for more international aide to help a growing flood of refugees. brian? >> ann curry continuing her reporting from the region for us tonight. ann, thanks. >>> still ahead along the way for us

mohamed morsi has a political base. he represents the oldest muslim religious institution in the country, political institution and he has a base to satisfactory, so he's not going to be taking any orders. i think that was what president obama was signaling is that we've got a new situation in egypt where we don't have a puppet. the united states had a puppet in egypt doesn't have one now. we've got somebody who might not do what we want them to do under certain circumstances and we're going to have to negotiate with them. >> professor cole is the long term answer here, we've got to ride these wavy waters. it's not going to be as easy as the past as telling the dictator who was our ally do this. are you optimistic in the long run, they're democracy will work out and we'll get some sort of secular government? i don't know i hope that's the case but i'm not sure that we will so if that -- or do we just accept hey, you know what, we got a democracy, that's what we asked for and it turns out their people are not aligned wit

the inflammatory material offending the prophet mohammed peace be upon him this is not the first time in fact this is the third time this is offensive material targeting our prophet has been released in europe in reality productions so he had film footage or other defend our prophet mohammed christ nor does it offend the prophet abraham and to him there are other degrade the producers and the authors of such materials . the west is doing now is aimed at fueling chaos instability and violence in the arab and islamic world because the media focus on such materials to circulate them among the people in order to provoke them then mark back. at the danish caricatures mocking the prophet mohammed peace be upon him i have heard about the six months prior to the beginning of the unrest in the arab and islamic world really set out what we spoke to the caricatures and invited him to visit syria so that we could show him the real image of jesus christ and the prophet muhammad peace be upon him a shattered it's not the caricatures that were the problem the moral standards in the edit they reflect

that questions the words of mohammed. president obama before those events in egypt and libya, had made a point of saying that the islamic religion is not america's enemy. >> today, the war in iraq is over. in afghanistan we're training afghan security forces and forging a partnership with the afghan people. by the end of 2014, the longest war in history would be over. i always said our fight is with al qaeda and its affiliates, not with islam or any other religion. lou: the u.s. embassy in cairo apologized to anyone in the region offended by that movie and criticized anyone who would hurt the feelings of muslims. meanwhile the president rejected a request to meet with israel's prime minister at the united nations general assembly later this month. the white house cited scheduling conflicts. the president's schedule to be on the campaign trail when benjamin netanyahu will be in this country. and the so-called convention bounce in the polls for president obama seems to have already dissipated a brand new "abc washington pos

carol. >> thank you, mohammed jamjoon.ts ago secretary of state hillary clinton made a statement about this movie. >> this film is disgusting and reprehensible. it appears to have a deeply cynical purpose to denigrate a great religion and to provoke rage. but as i said yesterday, there is no justification, none at all, for responding to this video with violence. we condemn the violence that has resulted in the strongest terms. >>> joining us now is michelle dunn from the carnegie endowment for peace, and she serve ed d ie statehouse and the white house. thank you, michelle. >> thank you. >> the secretary of state also said that the united states government is not behind this film and clearly a message for the people around the world, don't you think? >> yes. i think that the obama administration is having to walk a very careful line here between acknowledging that this film privately-produced fillp whi which -- film which has nothing to do with the united states government is highly offensive, but at the same time the obam

egypt's president, mohammed morsi, was in brussels today, where he denounced wednesday's violence for the first time. his previous failure to do so had caused concern in washington. and president obama had a pointed answer on egypt in an interview last night with spanish-language telemundo. >> i don't think that we'd consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy. they are a new government that's trying to find its way. they were democratically elected, and we need to see how they respond to this incident. in some cases, they've said the right things; in some, they've taken steps not aligned with our interests. >> woodruff: morsi spoke with mr. obama last night and asked for action against the maker of the inflammatory video, titled "the innocence of muslims." >> ( translated ): i called him in order to ask him to put an end to such behavior. and of course, we assured president obama that we will be keen and we will not permit any such event, any such occurrence in our country against the embassy territories in the future. >> woodruff: today, in washington, secretary of st

and now what they will turn around and say to you, the prophet mohammed is a red light, mohammed is a red light, they fail to cross that. they can't distinguish between free citizens and a free country doing whatever they wish to please. and the government of the country, in this case, the u.s., is irresponsible and innocent of anything that happens. but this is part of the problem in the middle east, they can't distinguish between independent citizens and the role of the governments. that's part of the legacy of living under a dictatorship for so many years. >> phil, i'm wondering, was this just disorganization, or looking the other way? because the american embassy was involved. i mean, why were there not more egyptian security forces there to prevent them skalg the walls and burning the american flag? >> my guess is they have a plan to respond to this, but they're just not as efficient as we might expect in the west. as somebody mentioned earlier, you've had attacks on different embassies across cairo in the past months. the security services have gone through great disarray since