Posted on 04/02/2011 3:30:21 PM PDT by YankeeReb
KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghans rioted for a second day Saturday to protest the burning of a Quran in Florida, killing nine people in Kandahar and injuring more than 80 in a wave of violence that underscored rising anti-foreign sentiment after nearly a decade of war.
The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan it further strained ties with the West. On Friday, 11 people were killed, including seven foreign U.N. employees, in a protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
The protests come at a critical juncture as the U.S.-led coalition gears up for an insurgent spring offensive and a summer withdrawal of some troops, and with Afghanistan's mercurial president increasingly questioning international motives and NATO's military strategy.
Two suicide attackers disguised as women blew themselves up and a third was gunned down Saturday when they used force to try to enter a NATO base on the outskirts of Kabul, NATO and Afghan police said. Earlier in the week, six U.S. soldiers died during an operation against insurgents in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistan, where the Taliban retain safe havens.
President Hamid Karzai expressed regret for the 20 protest deaths, but he also further stoked possible anti-foreign sentiment by again demanding that the United States and United Nations bring to justice the pastor of the Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, where the Quran was burned March 20. Many Afghans did not know about the Quran-burning until Karzai condemned it four days after it happened.
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Islamists riot and water is wet... Why is this news?
Re: #9, excellent and accurate points.
“Yes, burnings should continue until morale improves.”
And so should the killings in Dawgcrapistan or where ever, the less of those 7th century fools there are the happier I am!
Mrs. Prince of Space
Insane!
They stop killing Christians and burning our flag, then we will stop burning the Koran, deal?
Bingo! And the reason that the "cause" for the riot is because of the actions of an American is to create problems and dissension within the USA. There are endless "reasons" for Muslims to riot but they don't except when it fits into a global political effort. In this case the plan is probably an attempt to create a backlash against conservative Christians.
Slaughtering UN staff members and fellow Muslim Afghans isn't a rational response to what someone in Florida did even by the standards of Islam. Its a purely political stunt of a particularly savage sort, bearing all the hallmarks of a Taliban or Al Queda operation.
Did you know Islam is a religion of peace, tolerance and mercy?
You can save yourself time and money by just saying that you burned a koran (or hundreds). It will have the same effect.
If so there is an easy way to have them clean each other out.
LOL - ya got that right.
Good Kill each other!
I have so had it with these ignorant tribal wackjobs. Let them kill themselves.
Nothing is ever going to change, no matter what we do over there in Muzzieland. They are lost to civilization because they choose to follow an insane madman.
"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
~Hussein Obama
bttt
These are gigantic spoiled children.
Maybe we should just bomb them with flaming Korans. Or better yet, Korans that spontaneously burst into flames at random intervals.
...did not
Download it then delete it.
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