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Afghan Mob Kills 10 United Nations Workers (over Terry Jones Koran burning)
New York Times ^ | April 1, 2011 | ROD NORDLAND

Posted on 04/01/2011 10:13:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of demonstrators angered over the burning of a Koran in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, overrunning the compound and killing at least seven foreign staff workers, according to an Afghan officials.

There were conflicting reports of the total number of people killed and whether two of the victims had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also reported killed.

The incident began when thousands of protesters poured out of the Blue Mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif after Friday prayers and attacked the nearby headquarters of the United Nations, according to Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, spokesman for Gen. Daoud Daoud, the Afghan National Police commander for northern Afghanistan.

After disarming or shooting the United Nations compound’s guards, the crowd surged inside. Mr. Ahmadzai said that eight of the foreign staff workers, whose nationalities were not known immediately, were killed by gunfire, and that two others were captured by the mob and beheaded. Other reports said that the operations center was burned down as well.

The governor of Balkh Province, Atta Mohammad Noor, said that seven United Nations employees were killed in all, five Nepali security guards and two European international staff, one of them a woman. He said earlier reports of beheadings were unfounded; all of the victims were shot.

The crowd, which he estimated at 20,000, overwhelmed police forces and the United Nations security guards, and the weapons they used in the attack may have been those they seized from the United Nations guards, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; islam; koran; terryjones
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To: theDentist

Actually, their book is not holy. If that pastor’s stupid stunt accomplished anything, it’s exposing Islam, yet again, as being a group of Satanic fools.


21 posted on 04/01/2011 11:04:09 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: theDentist

So, you blame the girl and not the rapist.


22 posted on 04/01/2011 11:05:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: demshateGod

So how is it the Koran is not holy, but the Bible is?


23 posted on 04/01/2011 11:06:05 AM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Muslims now act as the “civilized/Western” world did when we burned witches, burned those who printed Bibles, those who said the world was round, etc.

Why we are accommodating a bunch of radicals stuck in a 700 to 1000 year ago time warp is beyond my understanding.


24 posted on 04/01/2011 11:09:09 AM PDT by madison10
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe the world will wake up soon. I'm going to burn a Bible, Koran, and Tipitaka (Buddhist) this weekend. If those 8 lives can help stop the willful ignorance of the world, it would be a worthwhile sacrifice.

One does NOT work at a UN or western embassy in the Middle East without knowing full well the risk of random beheadings at any moment, for any perceived offense against that gutter religion.

25 posted on 04/01/2011 11:10:48 AM PDT by Teacher317 (really?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
He said earlier reports of beheadings were unfounded; all of the victims were shot.

Well then, no harm, no foul...

/s

26 posted on 04/01/2011 11:15:55 AM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: theDentist

Because the Bible is the Holy Spirit breathed revelation of a Holy God. The Koran is inspired by Satan who isn’t holy.


27 posted on 04/01/2011 11:17:36 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: CodeToad

Wow! Was that the best strawman you could come up with?


28 posted on 04/01/2011 11:17:42 AM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: theDentist
It is your fault that you burnt their holy book knowing that somewhere in the world, others would pay for your actions with their lives

Blaming Pastor Jones for Islamic violence is a false accusation. Blaming the UN would be more correct. They have no business being there in the minds of the Islamists and the UN socialists know that. The US should not be occupying that hell hole. We should have carried out a punitive strike and then left as Rome did with Carthage.

29 posted on 04/01/2011 11:17:42 AM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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Radical islam is an insane murder cult. Moderate islam is its Trojan Horse.

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30 posted on 04/01/2011 11:18:53 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: theDentist

The koran is a product of the devil, and mohammed is his tool as is evidenced by the behavior of those who believe in that garbage, that’s how.

Pastor Jones lives in a free country, if we stop behaving like a FREE people, then we deserve to be either enslaved or eradicated by these vermin.

Pastor Jones is not responsible for those deaths. You can attempt to make a claim at cause and effect, but the imam at that bldg of hate incited those people into murder using a FREE man’s actions half way around the world.

How many of those sand rats would have even known about it if it weren’t for the slobbering media, wringing their hands over some perceived slight to the moslems?

Do Christians burn mosques down and murder moslems here in the USA for moslems murdering Christians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Malaysia?

Sorry, not buying what you’re trying to sell.


31 posted on 04/01/2011 11:19:28 AM PDT by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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To: theDentist

That’s a good dhimmi. Now shut up and pay your jizyah.


32 posted on 04/01/2011 11:20:12 AM PDT by tnlibertarian (Hey D. C., tax increases are not spending cuts. Nor do tax cuts constitute increased spending.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Next time guard the compound with miniguns and orders to kill anyone who crosses the “line.”


33 posted on 04/01/2011 11:29:21 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: bboop

Well said.


34 posted on 04/01/2011 11:29:25 AM PDT by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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To: theDentist
And icing on the cake is that 8 people who had nothing to do with your need for publicity are dead today, slaughtered because of your burning a Koran.

Yeah, but they were UN workers, so it's okay.

35 posted on 04/01/2011 11:39:24 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: theDentist

You obviously don’t know the difference between “strawman’ and an analogy. Considering your first comment, I didn’t expect you would.


36 posted on 04/01/2011 11:49:02 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: theDentist

You also contribute to their cause because you have failed to become a Muslim and they hate that. So, the next time they kill someone remember that you contributed to it, too.


37 posted on 04/01/2011 11:50:31 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: theDentist

“So how is it the Koran is not holy, but the Bible is?”

One was written by man from the word of God brought forth from various mountains on high.

The other was written by a batsh*t crazy child-molesting murdering lunatic for his own mortal desires of the flesh while sitting in a bat cave (literally).

Guess which one is the Koran.


38 posted on 04/01/2011 11:54:05 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
Lone Ranger, you make good points. We should not be there, but oil is a vital need of this nation, and those who hate us would gladly choke our capacity if we weren't there. So we're there.

Jones is no better than Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, lighting fires that will result in others suffering just for a little publicity.

And I know everyone's pee'd off at me, but I think this is a topic is worthy of discussion among us.

39 posted on 04/01/2011 11:55:55 AM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: theDentist

Since you think the victims of crime should not blame the criminal but should blame the person that pissed off the criminal, if you post to FR one more time the kitten gets it! OK? One more post and you are blame!

40 posted on 04/01/2011 12:21:09 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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