One Dead in Protest Against Koran Burning

[Karenina]

Afghanistan

See top story on the hour on Al-Jazeera English.

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[Freetradesucks]

1. They are truly disturbed.

Somebody threatens to burn a Koran half a world away, and they start rioting and killing each other.

[malaise]

2. Do you remember American military men painting on

Xtian religious quotes on weapons that were used to kill people in Iraq and Afghanistan?

What about the use of the word Crusade by Bush?

Just remember that most people who buy religious dogma are disturbed.

[pampango]

3. BBC: Koran-burning protests sweep Afghanistan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11258739

Thousands of protesters have held anti-American rallies in provinces across Afghanistan over plans by a US church to burn copies of the Koran.

Witnesses said the protesters voiced anger that the US government had not banned the Koran-burning.

In an Eid message, President Karzai said: "We have heard that in the US, a pastor has decided to insult Korans. Now although we have heard that they are not doing this, we tell them they should not even think of it."

"By burning the Koran they cannot harm it. The Koran is in the hearts and minds of one-and-a-half billion people. Insulting the Koran is an insult to nations."
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We can call the world crazy and disengage or we can deal with it as it is and try to make it better.

[Freetradesucks]

9. Thousands of protestors have held rallies...

and so fucking what? They are all fucking crazy!

"Witnesses said the protesters voiced anger that the US government had not banned the Koran-burning."

Fuck off! We aren't the goddam taliban here! We can burn fucking korans if we want to!

[uppityperson]

13. a political cartoon for you oh "they are all fucking crazy!"

[Freetradesucks]

19. The difference is,

they burn and have burned the US flag on a regular basis for decades. We find it insulting, but for the most part don't give a shit. We certainly are not rioting in the streets and threatening to blow up families with bombs strapped to our chests on the bus ride home over it.

Not to mention that he HASN'T EVEN BURNED THE KORANS!!

[Octafish]

5. What's disturbed is ''Free People'' making war on innocent people.

That's so disturbed it's got a word: NAZI.

BTW: Welcome to DU, Freetradesucks. If you don't like what Tom Friedman spews, you're all right.

[spanone]

7. they take their religion seriously, unlike 'pastor' jones

[Codeine]

10. Seriously enough to kill over.

Frankly, that's fucking insane, and deserves to be viewed as the insanity it is.

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[uppityperson]

14. Who is "they" in "their religion tells them to kill the likes of you"? Muslims?

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[SmileyRose]

4. Sigh.

Ugh.

Recommended.

[Bragi]

6. This was happening BEFORE the US media went nuts

I think it is important to understand that the jihadists have been organizing around Koran-burning now for weeks. They aren't picking up their cues from CNN and American media, they are all over this for their own propaganda purposes.

This thing is far from over. I'd say the 2010 Koran Burning Crisis is just beginning, and at this point, it matters little what Americans think, or how or whether American media cover the burnings. Korans will be burned, and bad shit will result.

Some people blame the idiot torchbearers, some blame the media for covering them.

Me, I blame the jihadists who are organizing the coming mayhem.

[bighart]

8. Couldn't agree more.

[Codeine]

11. THANK YOU!

Talk about inappropriately apportioning the fucking blame around here. Some semi-literate dipshit in Floriduh burning (actually, just THREATENING to burn) a book should NOT result in some nutfucks losing their shit on the other side of the planet. If they do then the problem lies within them and their philosophical outlook toward freedom and toward their chosen fairy stories, and nowhere else.

[jberryhill]

16. "the problem lies within them"

Having identified the problem, what do you see as avenues toward solutions?

A little known therapeutic approach was explored by Stigmund Floyd, a since-discredited associate of psychologist Carl Rogers. Known as "making fun of them" therapy, Floyd would spend hours with mental patients yelling at them to "snap out of it already" and giving them wedgies.

While he claimed to have a high success rate, others at the asylum were not as convinced.

What sort of role, other than back-patting, do you see for the clear-headed, mentally healthy, rational people in this world?

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. I blame all, how about that?

[gophates]

17. It's happening because of what this country has done.

If we got out of their land and left them alone, NONE of this would be happening. Another casualty of our lust for oil.

[bighart]

20. Bull.

They were killing eachother long before we got there.

[polly7]

21. Oh bull.

Ordinary Sunni and Shi'a lived together, married, worked together in Iraq long before the invasion. This trumped up civil war was an excuse to stay and cement the oil deals, finish the palace and get a suitable oil-friendly puppet gov't in place. Nothing more, nothing less. BTW ......... Christians have been killing each other and everyone else for centuries.