Anti-islam Film Protests

• Google ordered to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube

  Google Inc was ordered by a US federal appeals court to remove an anti-Islamic film that had sparked protests in the Middle East from its YouTube website.

• California man behind anti-Islam film to be freed from federal custody

  The man behind a film that stoked anti-US protests across the Muslim world was due for release from federal custody in California on Thursday after serving time for probation violations stemming from his role in making the video.

• California man behind anti-Islam film released to halfway house

  The man behind a film that stoked anti-US protests across the Muslim world has been moved from prison to a halfway house to serve the remaining weeks of his sentence for probation violations stemming from his role in making the video, federal officials said on Tuesday.

• Bangladesh finally lifts ban on YouTube

  Bangladesh on Wednesday lifted a ban on video-sharing site YouTube which has been blocked since September after an online anti-Islam movie spawned violent protests across the Muslim world.

• US judge refuses to order anti-Muslim film off YouTube

  An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests against the United States across the Muslim world lost on Friday her second legal bid to force the video off YouTube.

• Egyptian Christians sentenced to death for Islam film

  A Cairo court on Wednesday sentenced to death seven Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in an anti-Islam video that was released on the Internet in September and prompted violent protests in Muslim countries.

• Al Qaeda's Zawahiri calls for more Prophet film protests

  Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammed showed Washington was waging a "crusader Zionist war" against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies.

• Pak govt blocks 20,000 websites, including YouTube: Reports

  Pakistani authorities have blocked about 20,000 websites, including YouTube, for hosting "objectionable" material like footage from the anti-Islam movie "Innocence of Muslims", an official said today.

• US film protests bring boom for Pakistan flag makers

  As Pakistan's mullahs railed against a US-made anti-Islam film, Naveed Haider's print works went into overdrive, running off hundreds of US flags for angry protesters to burn at demonstrations.

• Iranians attack French embassy over Prophet film

  Dozens of Iranians angered over an anti-Islam film made in the U.S. and caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a weekly in France have attacked the French Embassy in Tehran.

• Russian court bans 'extremist' US-made anti-Islam film

  A Moscow court on Monday banned as "extremist" a US-made anti-Islamic film that fed deadly protests across the Arab world but whose showing was backed by human rights supporters in Russia.

• New bounty offer in Pakistan for Prophet filmmaker

  A former Pakistani legislator has offered a $200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims around the world.

• Fresh anti-Islam film protests in Pakistan

  Hundreds of Pakistanis demonstrated in small rallies against a US-made anti-Islam film on Friday, but there was no repeat of the widespread violence seen at protests a week ago.

• Spanish magazine publishes Prophet Mohammad cartoon

  Spanish political satire magazine El Jueves has published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover, soon after violent protests rocked the Muslim world over a U.S. film and French caricatures deemed insulting to Islam.

• Protests against anti-Islam film at US Consulate in Kolkata

  Hundreds of Muslims marched towards the American Centre in Kolkata today to protest against an anti-Islam video and to demand that the US authorities apologise for it.