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Afghanistan
Afghan clerics demand punishment for Quran burners
2012-03-03
[Dawn] Senior Afghan holy men said on Friday the Koran burning
...One of the basic tenets of Islam is that once a Koran has been printed it is expected to last for all time, no matter how old, ratty, and smelly other, lesser holy books may become. Should it actually become necessary to put a Koran out of its misery there is a ritual that includes extensive charivari, featuring long drawn-wailing and head bonking, ritual wife beating, and the sacrifice of dozens of women's noses and pubic lips. When the actual disposal has been completed there is a prescribed period of celebratory gun sex with the expectation of a minimum of two hundred casualties. Should actual infidels dispose of a Koran, Islamic custom calls for three weeks of rioting and a minimum of three dozen dead, which is a holdover from the days of Moloch worship...
at a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
base last month was an "evil act" that must be punished, a demand that could deepen widespread public anger over the incident.
This is what happens when you apologize to Muslim crazies...
"The council strongly condemns this crime and inhumane, savage act by American troops by desecrating holy Koran's," members of a council of holy mans said after meeting President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, according to a statement issued by his office.

"The council emphasised that the apology for this evil act can never be accepted. Those who committed this crime must be publicly tried and punished."

Despite the apology from US President Barack Obama
I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar, we talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick...
, the desecration of the Koran's at Bagram air base ignited a wave of anti-Western fury across the country. Moslems consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.

At least 30 people were killed in the protests. The Koran's had been confiscated from prisoners at the base and mistakenly discarded in an incinerator, US officials said. Afghan labourers found charred remnants.

The Koran burnings have hurt a US campaign to win the hearts and minds of Afghans in order to weaken the Taliban and force the turban group to negotiate an end to the war now in its eleventh year.
Posted by:Fred

#17  Never did I want a laser so bad as to zap their little books mid rent-a-mob so they would catch fire right then and there, in-hand. Would have been great optics.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2012-03-03 18:00  

#16  Nuke the entire country from orbit--itÂ’s the only way to be sure
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2012-03-03 17:59  

#15  Everyone knows the proper way to dispose of qurans is to dump them in sewage canals. Infidels, give Mohamed's Molesting Manual the respect it deserves.
Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793   2012-03-03 15:48  

#14  Strategy Page has the Real story behind the burnt Koran rent-a-mobs
Posted by: Frozen Al   2012-03-03 13:15  

#13  Sounds like self identify practice points for drone targeting.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2012-03-03 12:23  

#12  The Republican party should be rejoicing over this news. All they have to do now to win the election in November is publish Obama's apology. The only question is will they put up a candidate with sufficient dangly bits to make an issue of it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-03-03 12:07  

#11  Let Allah punish them if he is offended. These clerics should not presume to know his will or speak for him.

The CIA should be taking notes and work on humiliating these instigators, opportunists and charlatans.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2012-03-03 11:51  

#10  To clarify my point--1652 items removed and only 4 were defiled Korans, the same they were pulling out of the incinerator. Sounds like proper procedures and those leading the uproar are most likely the instigators....and should be incinerated, too.
Posted by: Omoluque Hapsburg8162   2012-03-03 10:44  

#9  Korans are defiled by writing in them, and can then be burned or buried by Islamic law. Afghan interpreters determined which ones were burned--yet the laborers pulling out charred remains were upset over the messages destroyed.
From AP/Fox:

A NATO military official said last week that it appeared detainees were exchanging messages by making notations in the texts. The Western official confirmed reports that after the writings were discovered, two Afghan-American interpreters were assigned to go through the materials at the library and that 1,652 items were removed.
The items, which included the Korans, were placed in boxes and the Western official confirmed that a decision was taken to dispose of them because of a lack of storage space and because of the notes scribbled in them.
At some point a group of soldiers on a work detail came and removed the books to throw them away. The Western official told The Associated Press on Saturday the three soldiers on the garbage detail had no idea what they were carrying to the burn pit.
The Afghan workers then realized what was being burned and tried to extinguish the flames, some burned their fingers trying to salvage the books. Afghan government officials said initial reports indicated four Koran texts were burned.

Posted by: Omoluque Hapsburg8162   2012-03-03 10:37  

#8  Maybe American Christians should petition their government to severely apologize for the intentional burning of Holy Bibles.

Disciplinary action against those responsible would be in order as well.
Posted by: Chuckles Barnsmell5410   2012-03-03 08:30  

#7  Its so one way!

When was the last time the muslims apologised for terrorism,preaching hatred or intolerance?
Posted by: Gruth McGurque5303   2012-03-03 07:25  

#6  The US government officially accepted and legitimized Afghan interference in internal affairs of the US.

Why then shouldn't the Afghans expect submission from US forces IN Afghanistan?
Posted by: Chuckles Barnsmell5410   2012-03-03 06:54  

#5  All part of a very successful and continuing Taliban recruitment drive.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2012-03-03 02:52  

#4  I DEMAND an apology of the lives of these GOOD men you took for this cooked up koran bullshit.

You may suck my ass.
Any Military Judge that touches one hair on those Soldiers head is in my purview for corrupt conduct as this is not a battle issue.

The Commander in Chief has lost his position.

If the Military continues this idiocy, we will never be out of a hornets nest - ever.

Posted by: newc   2012-03-03 02:05  

#3  Deport them, and all their compatriots, from the country.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-03-03 01:42  

#2  80% of this shit is a direct result of the Idiot Obumbles apologizing instead of telling them to fu*k off and die already.

If we stay then we need to change from a 'nation building' force to a occupation force - even a brutal occupation force.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-03-03 01:17  

#1  Hearts and minds winning daze are over. The Taliban saw opportunity knocking and they went for it. The clerics will keep the pot boiling an people will continue to go ape sh*t. Welost the propaganda war a long time ago. We are not loved, respected or even feared.

This land is frog-in-a-box mental.
Posted by: Alaska Paul    2012-03-03 00:38  

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