I believe it really was because of the civilian killings and the taking of photos of the “trophies” by the US servicemen.
That seems to be the only explanation that makes sense. The big problem I have with the alleged Koran burning is that when this was headline news a while back, when this pastor was allegedly receiving phone calls from highly placed officials, when this was in all the news - there wasn't any deaths or mayhem outside the usual background levels of death and mayhem typical of this bunch.
My reaction to the over-reaction of the government and the enemedia is that some other evil thing was taking place over in AF and the administration would need a scapegoat on the shelf ready to use when needed to cover-up something embarrassing to the administration. The hypocrisy was what got me thinking about it. The threat of burning a Koran was supposed to bring down all of Western Civilization by illiterate goat herders and poppy farmers, yet when our military actually torched many private Bibles in AF, there was no alarm or outcry.
When in Kabul, I remember coming back from a restraunt at night and the only residential lighting was by kerosene lantern - and this is AF's most modern city. The rioting was held in the northern provinces which make Fred Flintstone look like George Jettson in comparison. So being that 99.999% of Americans were unaware of this alleged Koran burning last week, how is it that illiterate people who don't have electricity, don't have internet, no television, can't read, speak a mangled form of Dari somehow get news about some nobody in Florida torching a Koran? Furthermore, why is the rioting isolated only to a region of AF when there are far more angry muslims elsewhere who didn't riot yet had far better access to this information than the Afghanis?
Why would the President of AF call-out this Pastor knowing full well that it would cause a riot? The B.S. meter is pegged. The tail wagged the dog, the Karzai made this claim after the fact, on behalf of the US (who know for how much additional $$) to cover-up something else.
With the release of the trophy killing pictures, it is now quite clear. This is all theater. The original attack on the Florida pastor was staging to act as cover for the fallout of this greater than Abu Ghrab scandal. That way when the muzzies would go violent, as expected, Barry wouldn't catch the same heat that "W" received for the non-event in Iraq. The enemedia can now focus the fallout of this scandal on Christians rather than on the Administration, and now can ignore the scandal since the rioting now has "no connection" to the trophy killings.
Blaming the Florida pastor accomplishes several things: makes him a scapegoat, deflects hate to Christianity, makes it look like Christians are the real problem, yet another "Its America's Fault" example, and most important, allows the enemedia to remove the scandal from the front page and tie the rioting to the private sector - not to government policies and practices.
Thanks for the insight.
I’m surprised more here don’t see this.
I agree with you both. But I’d still nuke the place. I’d do it myself but the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has a fairly insensitive attitude toward me having my own atomic weapons.