Posted on 02/08/2006 9:50:47 AM PST by voletti
Lahore, February 8: At least 3,000 protesters enraged by the alleged desecration of the Koran clashed with police and torched two cinemas in Pakistan's second largest city Lahore, police said on Wednesday.
The city, was tense after the mob rampaged through a poor neighbourhood overnight and also smashed up dozens of vehicles, local police officer Mohammad Abbas said.
The trouble erupted late on Tuesday when copies of the Muslim holy book were found lying in a drain in the Bhatta chowk area on the fringes of the sprawling city.
"The news of the desecration of the Koran spread quickly in the neighbourhood and within no time some three to four thousand people took to the streets shouting slogans against the desecration," Abbas said.
He said the crowd armed with bamboo sticks turned violent, setting fire to two cinema houses and attacking public and private properties.
"Police used a mild baton charge to restore order, but the situation is very tense," he said.
Abbas said police have registered a case against unknown people under the country's blasphemy laws.
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Let's start a new reality show...World's Dumbest Rioters. I thought the story about the guys who were rioting and set a building on fire on their way up the stairs and then had to be rescued from the top floor by the employees they had just forced out of the building was hilarious.
That would be considered a hate crime.
However you are free to get a toilet and set it in your front yard and place a koran in it. Call it an artistic sculpture and "like all good art, it makes a statement".
A hate crime? I don't think so.
You forgot selecting new sex slaves seized in jihad.
You might have something there. See what the level of insanity is while we can still contain it. When's that flight to Dearborn...
As opposed to their careful and respectful reporting when they're talking about lunatic Muslims. The difference - and the hypocrisy - is astounding.
Here! Here!!
Throw neonazi literature in the gutter of a minority neighborhood and come back to be with what the press labels it.
Light a cross in the gutter of a black neighborhood and tell me what the authorities call it.
Do it in your own yard and call it art. Trust me on this one.
Say you support the muslims but oppose the holy war.
They are just kneeling before their muslim masters.
They know that their heads could literally be on the chopping block if their pissed off jihadists.
The worst they face with Christians is a boycott and corporate America went lib sometime back.
No need to actually do it, all we have to do is spread rumors and they will burn down their own countries. BTW, I heard that someone in Iran used a Koran to swat a bug. Pass it on.
"Police used a mild baton charge to restore order, but the situation is very tense,"
If they used one of these
they would have fewer problems in the future
;-) I've never had crad salad. What's in it. :-0
very likely, since gutters are probably the sole method of handling unsanitary waste in third world hellholes.
Well, probably no pig entrails.
Good point! The one I ate was mostly crad claws.
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