Afghanistan: Kandahar protest at Koran burning (Latest on Day 2 of deadly protests)

BBC News ^ | 4/2/2011 | BBC

[Nextrush]

Nine people have been killed in the Afghan city of Kandahar during a demonstration against the burning of a Koran in the US, officials say.

Hundreds of people took part in the protest. Gunfire was heard and cars were set on fire.

On Friday, seven UN workers were killed after a protest over the same issue in the northern city of Mazar-i Sharif......

A large and very angry crowd surged through the streets of Kandahar chanting "They have insulted our Koran" and "Death to America," the BBC's Paul Wood reports from Kabul.......

[Nextrush]

The carnage continues and those responsible for it are responsible for it......What part of that don't we understand......

[pnh102]

Keep telling these savages that more korans are being burned or desecrated here and maybe they will just all kill each other. That would be a truly wonderful solution.

We shouldn't have to share a planet with people who go bat$#!+ crazy whenever their favorite book is dissed by other people.

[shadeaud]

burn baby burn.

[gwilhelm56]

Next time, burn a CASE of the damn things.. and if that doesn’t work... after that a full Pallet ...until THEY SUBMIT, have a full BONFIRE weekly!!!

[chickadee]

This is from an article by Reuters:

"The spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province said the protest was organized by the Taliban who used the Koran burning as an excuse to incite violence in a city where their reach has been curtailed by an aggressive NATO-led military campaign."

The mob was "incited" by a rancid imam at a radical mosque over a 10 day old event. What is troubling is the simple-mindedness of the mobs.

[gwilhelm56]

**What is troubling is the simple-mindedness of the mobs.**

Kinda like ... WISCONSIN???

[bigheadfred]

Hundreds of people took part in the protest.

What is stupid is that we don't target these hundreds of people.

Everyone of them that show up for these protests are the enemy.

It should be viewed as a tactical masterstroke to get them to group up.

The air strikes should continue until no protester is left standing.

[chickadee]

Gee, you know, I am in WI. I was hoping for a day off from thinking about that crap:)

[95B30]

Wonder when the great un-washed left will see that the Pastor was right? Now is the time for any possible “moderate” muslims to stand up and loudly denounce this kind of violence! Not that I expect to here a peep out of any muslim either against the violence or in support of the right of some (loony) pastor to burn the koran.

[Alas Babylon!]

Sometimes there is a very thin line between shouting “Fox Lies!” and “Death to America!”

[newfreep]

I work in an industry that is 90% leftwingers (high-end audio) and they are blaming Jones for this act of evil.

How anyone can blame the pastor is mindboggling and demonstrates a hatred of Christianity and America.

They are also the ones that will burn an American flag in a heartbeat.

[expatguy]

Am I the only one here with a feeling of deja vu

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[optiguy]

I’ve been reading a lot of reports like this one that refer to these f@#&ers as protesters. I guess dragging people into the street and cutting off their heads after coming out of a mosque is up there with picketing.

[hitchit]

This is a world wide war between christians and muslims, and it will continue long after we are gone if we don’t take steps now to isolate these dirt bags of the 1st century. Strip them of their markets for their goods so they don’t have money to buy weapons. Do not allow them to immigrate. We, in the west, need to become self sufficient of the resources found in these muslim countries. Shouldn’t really be all that hard to do. We need to start now.

[chickadee]

I’ve been reading a lot of reports like this one that refer to these f@#&ers as protesters. I guess dragging people into the street and cutting off their heads after coming out of a mosque is up there with picketing.

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Obviously, the reporters who are choosing to use the word “protesters” when referring to the Islamist mobs has an agenda. However, when one sets out to incite a mob, controlling the outcome is a crap shoot.

[KeyLargo]

I rented a great movie from Netflix last night. It is a great eye-opener for those not aware of the history of wars in Afghanistan and how nations have tried to conqueor Afghanistan and were defeated.

9th Company

2005 R 140 minutes

After barely surviving an intensely grueling boot camp in Uzbekistan, an eclectic group of recently enlisted Soviet soldiers ships off to fight in Afghanistan, where they must endure hellish conditions and extremely dangerous Mujahideen forces. Based on a true story from the 1980s, this rousing Russian war film about camaraderie and heroism stars Aleksey Chadov, Artur Smolyaninov and Konstantin Kryukov.

A reviewer says: "Anyone with an interest in the Soviet War in Afghanistan should see this. No shortcuts were taken in filming. Proper weapons were used. The tanks shown never served in Afghanistan but are of the right era. The fighters, helos and APC's are all period and war correct. Oddly enough I know the Afghani who supplied the uniforms for this movie, and they are, with minor exceptions, absolutely authentic. Excellent movie, and having it in spoken English, even better"

[Joe Boucher]

With that I think I’ll walk outside, face east towards mecca and in the manner islam deserves and take a leak to honor the religion of peace.

[pnh102]

Agree 100% with everything you said. I just wish we could force all the “all cultures are equal” crowd to spend a year living among these savages.

[DManA]

It is tremendously instructive to notice that these people do not make any distinction between the UN and a pastor in Florida. They hate everything they identify as other.

[anglian]

April 1, 2011 by Allahpundit

And yet, and yet, until today, there’d been no major violence anywhere reacting to Jones’s stunt, despite the fact that it happened almost two weeks ago.

CBS quotes a witness who says clerics were driving around the town yesterday with loudspeakers urging people to turn out for a “peaceful protest.” Fast-forward to today and the provincial governor, trying his best to spin this as some sort of organized Taliban or jihadi assault, was left trying to argue that the attack had been carried out by insurgents using the crowd as cover. That doesn’t square with the account quoted above, though, especially the part about an enormous throng overrunning the perimeter and seizing the guards’ guns. Insurgents surely would have brought their own weapons.

And so now we move to the inevitable next phase whenever there’s some cycle of revenge in the Muslim world in response to western speech, a la the Mohammed cartoons. Among the public, lots of second thoughts about staying put in Afghanistan, wondering how you build a nation on a foundation that’s capable of this. Among the administration, lots of angst about how to politically navigate the fallout, with free speech rights, AfPak diplomacy, and the outcome of the “Arab Spring” all in the mix. And for the media, lots of effort to hold Terry Jones morally responsible for the dead UN workers even though the only thing he burned was a book. An exit question for them via the Daily Caller’s Mike Riggs: “What are you willing to stop doing to avoid offending violent religious zealots?”

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