half of them in places where washington supported protesters who toppled their regimes, bringing more democracy, but also unleashing deep hatred and zealotry that s now focused on u.s. properties overseas. joining us now live from cairo is nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, thanks for being here again. i appreciate you staying up into the middle of the night. i know you spoke with those protesters outside the embassy today. why do they believe the u.s. government is responsible for this anti-muslim internet video? reporter: because they think the united states is secretly paying for not only this movie but lots of activities like this. they think it is part of a hidden agenda, a secret plot where the u.s. condemns this kind of thing but secretly funds organizations like this and as evidence they say look what happened in afghanistan, u.s. troops destroyed korans. you ve had preachers in america who will burn korans.
american flag flying at half-staff, they burned the flag and replaced it with a black flag similar to the one of al qaeda. luckily, no one was killed and no injuries reported in that big protest. this isn t the first time a provocative public expression about islam has sparked outrage and violence. in 2005, the danish newspaper that published a dozen papers with a cartoon of the prophet muhammad. a couple of years later, a right wing dutch politician produced a video that superimposed images of 9/11 over passages from the koran. it was seen as so offensive and potentially explosive, no tv station would broadcast it. you could still see it on the internet. people saw it. and the dutch politician adopted security for years because of credible death threats.
also unleashing deep hatred and zealotry that s now focused on u.s. properties overseas. joining us now live from cairo is nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, thanks for being here again. i appreciate you staying up into the middle of the night. i know you spoke with those protesters outside the embassy today. why do they believe the u.s. government is responsible for this anti-muslim internet video? reporter: because they think the united states is secretly paying for not only this movie but lots of activities like this. they think it is part of a hidden agenda, a secret plot where the u.s. condemns this kind of thing but secretly funds organizations like this and as evidence they say look what happened in afghanistan, u.s. troops destroyed korans. you ve had preachers in america who will burn korans. and movies that come out and are insulting to islam.
bringing more democracy, but also unleashing deep hatred and zealotry that s now focused on u.s. properties overseas. joining us now live from cairo is nbc s chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, thanks for being here again. i appreciate you staying up into the middle of the night. i know you spoke with those protesters outside the embassy today. why do they believe the u.s. government is responsible for this anti-muslim internet video? reporter: because they think the united states is secretly paying for not only this movie but lots of activities like this. they think it is part of a hidden agenda, a secret plot where the u.s. condemns this kind of thing but secretly funds organizations like this and as evidence they say look what happened in afghanistan, u.s. troops destroyed korans. you ve had preachers in america who will burn korans. and movies that come out and are
american flag flying at half-staff, they burned the flag and replaced it with a black flag similar to the one of al qaeda. luckily, no one was killed and no injuries reported in that big protest. this isn t the first time a provocative public expression about islam has sparked outrage and violence. in 2005, the danish newspaper that published a dozen papers with a cartoon of the profit muhammad. a couple of years later, a right wing dutch politician produced a video that superimposed images of 9/11 over passages from the koran. it was seen as so offensive and potentially explosive, no tv station would broadcast it. you could still see it on the internet. people saw it. and the dutch politician adopted