Shiites protest against Al-Jazeera's 'insults' against clerics
Hundreds of angry Shiites poured onto the streets of two cities south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad today to protest over what they considered insults by Al-Jazeera television against Iraq’s most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The protests followed the Friday prayers in the southern cities of Basra and Najaf, where al-Sistani supporters carried banners denouncing the channel and its host nation, the Gulf Arab state of Qatar.
