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[spanone]

Tensions High Across Kashmir After Koran Protests

NEW DELHI — The authorities expanded a strict curfew across Kashmir on Tuesday and sent more security officers across the restive Himalayan region after bloody protests erupted there a day earlier, fueled partly by a report of Koran desecration in the United States.

The bloodshed, which rippled across different districts in the region, deepened the crisis that has steadily worsened in Kashmir since protests against Indian rule began in June. In New Delhi, the Indian government called for leaders of the country’s major political parties to meet on Wednesday and seek consensus on how to quell the unrest and stabilize Kashmir, a disputed region claimed by both Pakistan and India.

The authorities said that at least 18 people and one security officer had been killed on Monday, with more than 70 people injured, as separatist protesters clashed with Indian paramilitary officers. Minor clashes also took place on Tuesday but police reported a tense calm late in the afternoon..

The Monday violence was ignited by a report on an Iranian state television channel, Press TV, allegedly showing a protester in the United States tearing pages out of a Koran. One of the most violent encounters happened in the village of Tangmarg, where witnesses said more than 20,000 protesters threw stones at Christian missionary school, the Tyndale-Biscoe and Mallinson School, and then later burned it to the ground.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/asia/15kashmir.html?_r=1&ref=global-home&pagewanted=print::sarcasm:

[NoNothing]

1. This is the worst kind of blame-America-firstism

We can acknowledge that the U.S. makes plenty of mistakes in international relations without degenerating to the absurd stance that a single nutball American exercising his constitutional rights is the cause of separatist violence on the other side of the world.

[spanone]

2. so, what caused it? you tell me.

[sufrommich]

3. The history of Hindu/Muslim troubles predates the

nut in New York story . It's not like this all started on 9/11/10.

[burnsei sensei]

4. Shall the individual be responsible for

his own thoughts and acts?
Or shall we just give up individual responsibility as an idea altogether.
Does individual responsibility apply only in the U.S.?
Or are other peoples responsible for what they do as individuals and nations?
This goes not to what anyone has done.
It goes to who is responsible for his or her acts.
Who said it?
Who did it?
I had no idea we controlled other people from so far away.
I also had no idea we controlled what was run on Indian television.

[LeftinOH]

5. Sorry- but this isn't America's fault. Getting worked into a violent frenzy over a video clip

of uncertain origin? Cultural relativism be damned.

[Tsiyu]

6. "Cultural relativism"

I don't know, but it seems like a lot of Americans are getting worked into a violent frenzy over a cultural center in NYC, a black president, the idea that we might spend money helping our own instead of killing the brown others.

Lots of violent frenzy here in the states, lots of shootings of cops and arson of mosques and such - right here in the "civilized" U S of A.

The flames get fanned and the sparks fly. We show religious intolerance and someone else shows theirs. I suppose when we are supposed to "represent" freedom of religion - because it's part of our CONSTITUTION - our blatant intolerance may fan the flames higher.

Nobody likes hypocrisy more than another hypocrite.

[L0oniX]

7. Watch the gov turn this into a national security issue and clamp down on the media.