Lebanon: One killed 25 injured in protest against anti-Islam film

A demonstrator was killed and 25 people hurt in clashes with police Friday after an angry crowd of Islamists set fire to a KFC restaurant in northern Lebanon, a security source said.The crowd of some 300 people were protesting at a US-made film that mocks Islam, an AFP correspondent said.The attack on the US fast-food chains outlet came as Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Lebanon for a three-day visit, calling for Christian-Muslim coexistence and attacking religious extremism.The demonstrators, many of them wearing long beards, poured out of a mosque after weekly Muslim prayers in the centre of the northern port city, waving traditional Islamist black flags and shouting against the United States and the pope.America is the enemy of God and O Muslims, shout it out, we dont want the pope, shouted the protesters.Another slogan said we want an Islamic state, not a crusader one.When they arrived at the restaurant, located in southern Tripoli, they began hurling stones at police, wounding five of them, the correspondent said.Police responded with tear gas and by firing into the air.The fatal victim died of a gunshot wound, but the circumstances were not immediately clear.Calm was eventually restored after troops were deployed who dispersed the demonstrators.In southern Lebanon, meanwhile, hundreds of people poured out of mosques in the countrys largest Palestinian refugee camp -- Ein el-Helweh -- to denounce the film Innocence of Muslims.They carried an effigy of the US president, a rope tied around his neck in a parody of hanging him.Anti-US protests by crowds whipped into fury by the film erupted elsewhere across the Arab world and many Muslim-majority countries on Friday, sparking violent clashes in Sudan, Lebanon and Yemen as well.