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 Quran-Burning Controversy Still Sparking Unrest in AfghanistanPosted on Sep 15, 2010
With an eye on Saturday’s parliamentary elections, the Taliban is evidently making sure that Afghans don’t forget the recent Quran-burning hubbub in the U.S. (thanks a lot, Pastor Jones), as some 800 people gathered in Kabul for an anti-American Taliban-sponsored demonstration that took a violent turn Wednesday. —KA
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By Igor Slamoff, September 20, 2010 at 5:00 am Link to this comment
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I burn Korans, but I’m sneaky about it. I roll my joints with pages torn from a small Koran that a Muslim cleric gave me as a parting gift. If Mustafa knew!
Report thisBy Don Stivers, September 16, 2010 at 2:13 pm Link to this comment
I think things would be totally different if ALL of our military was stationed at home. The middle east would still sell THEIR oil and natural resources. China would still have cheap labor for our industries to use.
France’s violence ended when their military was pulled from Morocco.
I doubt very much an Afghan would care about the Quran-burning spectacle of Pastor Jones if United States of America’s military was not accidentally killing citizens and gone from their country. They would be too busy struggling to live their own way to care. Only when things are waved in people’s faces do they react. That was why the planes were flown into the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and the ground on 9-11. We have military bases in all of those middle east countries and if not bases we interfere with their way of life.
Report thisBy rico, suave is a xenophobic nationalist, September 16, 2010 at 11:20 am Link to this comment
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“Do some Muslims burn Bibles in some middle eastern countries? More importantly, do some middle eastern Governments confiscate and burn Bibles?”
Who cares if they do or don’t?! What does this have to do with those who live in the United States? Those are sovereign nations on the side of the world who have the right to have their laws and enforce them the way they see fit. What? You disagree? How American!
“Do offended Christians storm middle eastern embassies in DC to protest the alleged burning of said Bibles? And if they do, do you think the embassies send cables home strongly advising their governments to offer an abject apology for the burnings and promise to do everything they could to stanch the intolerance of the burners?”
What kind of rhetoric is this?! Personally, I have not heard many stories about people who live in southwest Asia burning Bibles. Unlike Christians, Muslims respect the Bible more so than Christians respect Korans. Would you like to know why, rico suave? Because Muslims have respect for Jesus and Moses as the prophets they are. Too bad there are so many Christians who are unable to extend the same courtesy.
“Is the US Embassy in Kabul apologizing to the Afghans for the presence of Koran-burning nutjobs in our population?”
Who knows and who cares? I bet you found it amusing that a clergyman would want to desecrate a sacred text.
Report thisBy rico, suave, September 16, 2010 at 7:07 am Link to this comment
Do some Muslims burn Bibles in some middle eastern countries? More importantly, do some middle eastern Governments confiscate and burn Bibles?
Do offended Christians storm middle eastern embassies in DC to protest the alleged burning of said Bibles? And if they do, do you think the embassies send cables home strongly advising their governments to offer an abject apology for the burnings and promise to do everything they could to stanch the intolerance of the burners?
Is the US Embassy in Kabul apologizing to the Afghans for the presence of Koran-burning nutjobs in our population?
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