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Pakistani Youths Set Pizza Hut on Fire to Protest Cleric's Death
AP via FoxNews ^ | 07/15/2006 | Unknown

Posted on 07/15/2006 2:41:47 PM PDT by oxcart

KARACHI, Pakistan — Hundreds of youths set fire to a Pizza Hut restaurant, two gas stations and a dozen vehicles in Pakistan's biggest city, Karachi, after Saturday's funeral for an Islamic Shiite cleric killed in a suicide attack.

Rioters rampaged through a busy commercial area a day after a suicide bomber killed cleric Allama Hassan Turabi, his cousin and a police guard.

Police fired shots in the air, swung batons and used tear gas to control the crowd.

Hours earlier, Turabi was buried at a city cemetery after more than 8,000 people, beating their chests with their hands as a sign of grief, packed the city streets for his funeral.

Most of the crowd dispersed peacefully after the ceremony, but a gang of youths damaged shops and torched a Pizza Hut, two state-owned gas stations and several vehicles, apparently expressing general anger at the U.S. and Pakistani governments.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allamahassanturabi; crispcrust; pakistan; shiite; turabi; xtrapepperoni; xtrasausage
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To: GSlob
And what did Pizza Hut have to do with it

Maybe Ali ordered a plain hand tossed goat cheese, but got a three topping with Canadian Bacon, Italian Sausage, and Pepperoni.

21 posted on 07/15/2006 3:21:01 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: oxcart

Serves that damn Sunni Pizza Hut right for their crime.....


22 posted on 07/15/2006 3:22:12 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: JillValentine

When we observe the Islamic-dominated countries, it is difficult to imagine when many/most of them will be ready for civilization, never mind (successful) democracy. Sure, every country in the world has "social problems" but in few other places is there such widespread social depravity and dementia as in the Islamic countries. Insane rioting every time something bad happens, wild assaults on scapegoats that have nothing to do with the problem at hand, depraved support for mass terrorism, fanatical hatred of the Jews, etc. etc. etc. I find it hard to believe that much of the Islamic world is really part of the human race, but they keep telling us they are our spiritual superiors.


23 posted on 07/15/2006 3:25:53 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: we will defend freedom so long as it doesn't affect our IRAs or vacation plans.)
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To: oxcart

These Islamists can't stand the world, can't stand each other, can't stand the U.S., can't stand Israel, can't stand [word picked at random]...


24 posted on 07/15/2006 3:26:45 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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To: oxcart

A greasy place like that would probably burn for hours. Yech!


25 posted on 07/15/2006 3:28:26 PM PDT by swampmonster (Welcome to America. Please obey the law just like our polit....oh nver mind.)
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To: GSlob

UTAH PIZZ


26 posted on 07/15/2006 3:29:03 PM PDT by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: bybybill
Maybe their pizza had anchovies

or bacon

27 posted on 07/15/2006 3:31:48 PM PDT by Go Gordon (I don't know what your problem is, but I bet its hard to pronounce)
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To: oxcart

Heck, I would have the place on fire because their food sucks.

But to each his own.


28 posted on 07/15/2006 3:33:05 PM PDT by VanDeKoik (Fitzmas Has Been Canceled.)
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To: jwalburg
I guess they didn't have a McDonald's with obligatory Ronald McDonald statue to set afire.

At last, the mastermind of these fast-food torchings is revealed.

29 posted on 07/15/2006 3:36:58 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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30 posted on 07/15/2006 3:38:49 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: JillValentine
The way young Pakistanis think, better a dictator like Musharraf running things than a democracy where they'd probably elect a Hamas-like government.

Democracy's a b*tch. Thank goodness our Founding Fathers created a Constitutional republic instead.

31 posted on 07/15/2006 3:41:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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To: monkapotamus

LOL!


32 posted on 07/15/2006 3:44:20 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: JillValentine

Turabi was a nasty piece of goods who has been involved with Kashmir separatists for nearly two decades. And if Indian intelligence got him I say, good on you guys.


33 posted on 07/15/2006 3:44:46 PM PDT by gaspar
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34 posted on 07/15/2006 3:45:53 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: bybybill

Too much pepperoni!;)


35 posted on 07/15/2006 3:50:49 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: JillValentine

Democracy: two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner.

Liberty: a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.


36 posted on 07/15/2006 3:51:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"A republic.... if you can keep it"

-- Ben Franklin --
37 posted on 07/15/2006 4:02:57 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: we will defend freedom so long as it doesn't affect our IRAs or vacation plans.)
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To: GSlob

They were running a pork lover's special.


38 posted on 07/15/2006 4:06:52 PM PDT by MistrX
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To: GSlob
And what did Pizza Hut have to do with it . . .

They use the table cloths for headdresses.

39 posted on 07/15/2006 4:15:43 PM PDT by sportutegrl (A person is a person, no matter how small. (Dr. Seuss))
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To: oxcart

"a gang of youths"

Those angry yutes again. Let me guess, they were 18 year old blond Swedish boys, or wild rambunctious Hungarian kids.

Yawn. Maybe they were angry that Achmed accidentally threw Canadian bacon on their pizzas?


40 posted on 07/15/2006 4:27:37 PM PDT by goresalooza (Nurses Rock!)
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