Muslim Brotherhood calls for Friday protest

The Muslim Brotherhood has called for a peaceful demonstration to be held on Friday to protest against what they say is an "insult to the Prophet" in the movie Innocence of Muslims, Brotherhood Secretary General Mahmoud Hussein told ANSA on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party, on Wednesday condemned the movie about the Prophet Mohamed, whose screening seemed to have triggered protests and attacks on US missions in Cairo and Benghazi, in Libya, as a "racist crime". The movie is a "blatant violation of... freedom of expression" that tried to "provoke sectarian strife between... Muslims and Christians", according to a statement posted on the party's website. The Brotherhood will sue the president of the National American Coptic Assembly and two other Copts for producing the film, which allegedly "insults the Prophet".