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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And what did Pizza Hut have to do with it [besides them serving bad pizza]? Was their van used for a bombing or shooting of the departed?
Maybe their pizza had anchovies
I guess they didn't have a McDonald's with obligatory Ronald McDonald statue to set afire.
they didnt refill the salad bar promptly during the reception.
Wow. Good thing they didn't win the World Cup. Who knows what might have happened?
What a bunch of slimeballs. A Muslim fundamentalist is killed by other Muslim fundamentalists, and this mob of roaches takes its rage out on a Western symbol (Pizza Hut).
The way young Pakistanis think, better a dictator like Musharraf running things than a democracy where they'd probably elect a Hamas-like government.
To the appeasers: If this post offends you, see tagline.
it was the "pork topping".
Pizza Hut? *shudder* Can't really blame them for this one....
Nahhhh.. I think, in the finest of muslim traditions, they were expressing they are immature thugs bent on destroying anything they can.
"Rioters rampaged through a busy commercial area a day after a suicide bomber killed cleric Allama Hassan Turabi, his cousin and a police guard."
Oh yeah, this is logical. Terrorist a**hole A kills terrorist a**hole B, so fans of coprse A go on a rioting rampage through a commercial sector destroying businesses that bring money and jobs into the city. And we are supposed to respect a culture that supports this kind of "thinking" because...
I hear that. I wonder if Skyline Chili has a chain there .....
I am not offended. I am confused though(after looking at your homepage)that you have a pair of Nike shooting gloves. I didn't know Nike had gone after that niche.
A Pakistani soldier shouts instructions to people trapped inside the burning Pizza Hut restaurant in Karachi. Fresh violence has flared in this southern Pakistani city as angry mobs went on the rampage during the funeral of a senior Shiite leader killed in a suicide blast a day earlier.(AFP/Asif Hassan)
Save the pizzas!
Please leave the building in an orderly fashion...
You're doomed !
Where's the fire brigade?
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