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Afghanistan
Afghans won't accept US justice for Qur'an blunder
2012-03-05
KABUL: Afghans will never accept US justice for five American soldiers involved in burning copies of the Qur'an, and could rise up in a "storm of fury" if there is no public trial, a senior cleric said on Saturday.
Screw it. Bring out our people. Let Karzai have his Najibullah moment.
"The military leaders who ordered the burning and the offenders should both be tried and punished ... This evil crime has been done inside Afghanistan so the punishment must be according to the country's law," Qazi Nazir Ahmad Hanafi, head of an Afghan group comprising clerics and parliamentarians investigating the incident, said.

"Court martial or any punishment within the circle of US military law will never be accepted ... If our demands are disregarded then a storm of fury will rise and wash away the Americans." Protests and condemnation erupted last month after Afghan workers found charred copies of the Qur'an at the Bagram base near Kabul. There are three on-going inquiries into the event.

A joint investigation, conducted by US military officials and members of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government, has concluded that five US soldiers were involved.

Afghan parliamentarian Mullah Tarakhil, who is also part of the group investigating the incident, said that delaying the trial and sentencing could create further instability. He said 400 copies of the Qur'an were burned.

"We want an immediate punishment of the offenders so we can heal the wounds of the people hurt by the ignorant Americans," he said.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  Look these people need to understand that they are defeated, occupied and need to conform to American standards. Like not killin' people.

Americans would really like every Afghan to be like me, within walking distance of a 7-11 to get a Slurpee, but shooting people and stuff, no, that is right out.

Gettin' a Slurpee, high-fives. Shooting up stuff, well the sheriff is comin' to get you. Sheriff Joe, yah that's the ticket.

Look out Afghans, Sheriff Joe is comin' to get you.
Posted by: rammer   2012-03-05 21:37  

#9  Another boom today.

The [NYT] said both U.S. and Afghan officials believe the soldiers driving the books to the incinerator could not read Arabic and did not understand the significance of the holy books.

The New York Times said an Afghan worker "began to scream" when he realized the soldiers were burning holy Muslim books, and he and other Afghan workers tried to extinguish the fire with their water bottles.

The newspaper said "the Americans immediately stopped," but not before four books had been badly burned.

Let's give 'em a link to Amazon.com and GTFO. After lacing every possible water source with estrogens, and burying those sleeper nukes, of course.
Posted by: RandomJD   2012-03-05 16:33  

#8  Ptah FTW!
Posted by: Hellfish   2012-03-05 12:00  

#7  From*
Posted by: Fat Bob Unotch3711   2012-03-05 11:49  

#6  To Afghanistan: F. YOU!

For the millions of Americans who had nothing to do with burning this trash, F. YOU, enjoy your sh*tty existence. Please never visit our country or ask for aid again, you've had your chance and you choose death and superstition over life and prosperity.
Posted by: Fat Bob Unotch3711   2012-03-05 11:48  

#5  I've decided I'm gonna be voting in favor of the "nuke the entire Umma from orbit" option.
Posted by: Ptah   2012-03-05 06:54  

#4  Problem is that we never set as THE strategic objective in Afghanistan to unislamize it and have Adghans burning mosques, flusging Korans in the toilet and hanging mullahs from lampposts.

We didn't and one minute after the last Allied soldier has left Afghanistan ut will ba a again a base for Al Quaida.
Posted by: JFM   2012-03-05 06:30  

#3  In 2005, less than 4 years after 9/11, Afghan clerics threatened Jihad against the US over reports of Korans flushed down in Gitmo.

Nothing happened to these clerics, the occupation did not punish them.

In retrospect that decision might have been unwise. Where the Bush administration showed restraint and magnanimity the Afghans saw weakness and submission.
Posted by: Vortigern White3466   2012-03-05 05:03  

#2  The Korans shouldn't have been burned. They should have been attached to drone missiles and helped Qazi Nazir Ahmad Hanafi, in the Muslim fashion, to meet his 72 year old virgin.
Posted by: tipper   2012-03-05 02:34  

#1  "We want an immediate punishment of the offenders so we can heal the wounds of the people hurt by the ignorant Americans," he said.

Trying to assist the Afhgan people is "punishment" enough.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-05 01:33  

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