Tanzania: Moslem Seethers greet Bush
Not exactly a warm welcome for President Bush, the first American president to officially visit Tanzania. Clinton signed the Burundi Peace accord there but it wasn't an official visit:
I see things like this and wonder just exactly how much aid we gave to Tanzania last year. It also makes me think back to the year 1998 and the embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. It makes me remember things like seeing the American ambassador to the Kenyan Embassy standing there on a pile of smoking rubble in her Ferragamo pumps with a shrapnel wound to her face. Should we take it as a sign of progress that the SOB's are just seething and not blowing shi% up?
(courtesy of ZTruth. Thanks, man.)
About 2,000 Muslims marched through Tanzania's capital on Friday and burned U.S. flags in protest against a visit by President George W. Bush.
Chanting "Bush is an oil thief" and "evil is not a foreign policy", the demonstrators, some wearing traditional Muslim dress including the Islamic women's black bui-bui, tried to march from the city's centre to the U.S. embassy on its northern
outskirts.
They were diverted to open ground by a small force of police but 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 Selander bridge leading out of Dar es Salaam.
One of the march organisers, Sheikh Mussa Kundecha, told Reuters: "We will be the first to receive Bush by protesting against him and cursing his visit."
...But Muslims are 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.
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