Several hundred Afghans chanting “Death to America” rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church’s plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Skip related content
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Enlarge photo .The protesters, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside Kabul’s Milad ul-Nabi mosque to condemn plans by the Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Centre to burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks against the United States.
“We call on America to stop desecrating our Holy Koran,” student Wahidullah Nori told Reuters. He said the street protests condemning the church would continue “every day.”
It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort,” Gen. Petraeus said in an interview. “It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.”
Hundreds of Afghans attended a demonstration in Kabul on Monday to protest the plans of Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has said he will burn copies of Islam’s holy book to mark the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Afghan protesters chanted “death to America,” and speakers called on the U.S. to withdraw its troops. Some protesters threw rocks at a passing military convoy.
With all due respect to General Patreus, with Iran paying $1000.00 for every American soldier the taliban kills, they are going to kill as many Americans as they can, whether this church burns the koran or not.
Any mindless boob can apparently raise the hackles of the ignorant, 7th century peasants who are stirred up by their holy men. We saw this with the Mohammad cartoons, the false “flushing the Koran down the toilet” story spread by Newsweek, and just about anything that Muslims don’t like said about them.
Any mindless boob can apparently raise the hackles of the ignorant , 7th century peasants who are stirred up by their holy men. We saw this with the Mohammad cartoons, the false “flushing the Koran down the toilet” story spread by Newsweek, and just about anything that Muslims don’t like said about them.
The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran’s clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public. The newspaper later apologized for the error.
Petraeus did not say holding hands would help anybody. He said if you want to help create MORE violence, rev up the Koran burnings.
If there is an anti-LSU riot smashing cars and windows on your street, I’m sure you would not wander out with a bullhorn yelling “Tiger bait.” Maybe you would, I don’t know. Takes all kinds.
I didn’t say that about Patraeus, I said it about you. Try to improve your reading skill.
I don’t really care what you said about me. The general’s point is pretty straightforward. The terrorists use all available tactics to radicalize Muslims and though they are working on this plan without you, any help you might provide will surely be appreciated. Extremists groups of the right, like the Klan and the Muslim terrorists, and of the left like the communists, are all trained in group polarization. See, study by McCauley and Moskalenko on radicalization at your local library.
