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Afghanistan
Afghan protesters demand closure of French embassy in Kabul
2015-01-20
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Hundreds of Afghans protested in Jalalabad city, the picturesque provincial capital of eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province against a French satirical magazine which published a caricature of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!).

The protesters demanded closure of the French embassy in Kabul while chanting "Death to La Belle France" and burning the French flag.

They also called on the government of La Belle France to apologize from the Moslems regarding the desecrating act by the Charlie Hebdo
...A lefty French satirical magazine, home of what may well be the majority if the active testicles left in Europe...
magazine for re-publishing Prophet Muhammad's (PTUI!) caricature.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
also strongly condemned the re-publishing of the latest caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) by Charlie Hebdo and called the move as irresponsible.

The latest issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo hit newsstands on Wednesday which depicts a drawing of Prophet Muhammad, with a tear rolling down his cheek and a placard that reads "Je Suis Charlie".

The issue was created by the surviving staff with supporters saying the cartoon on the cover of Charlie Hebdo is a defiant expression of free speech following a terrorist attack on the publication's Gay Paree offices that killed 12 people on January 7.
Posted by:Fred

#6  Shipman, ditto.

We should cut off all of these $hitholes from all benefits of international society. No embassys no business deals no travel in or out for any of the people. The days of Saudi control of all oil are over push it to the wall now.
Posted by: AlanC   2015-01-20 14:34  

#5  JFM I see where you're coming from, but there was a window, a small window, where we could have simply nuked the passes and Kabul and walked away. The world would have had stinky briches for awhile but would have gotten over it in due course.

Or else.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-01-20 11:54  

#4  Elmerett and Besoeker. Nonsense. Bush was right. There was no other course since striking at Taliban required cooperation from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia held the West by the balls. So until both constraints had been removed it was necessary to ply friendly. But then we got the Balame America Firstgtyoes, the liberals, the commies in sheep-cothes (BTW, the communists helped the Nazis witrh American Commuist Party supporting isolatiionism and organizaing strikes in factories working for Lend-Lease) and then we got a Muslim in Afriacan-American clothes.
Posted by: JFM   2015-01-20 11:43  

#3  I agree Elmerert. I've pretty much resigned to seeing this sordid mess will most likely terminate in a colossal, thermonuclear holocaust.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-20 05:25  

#2  Note that they're not refusing to accept danegeld aid courtesy of the French taxpayer.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani also strongly condemned the re-publishing of the latest caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) by Charlie Hebdo and called the move as irresponsible.

Will either Ghani personally or Afghanistan face any consequences for this blatant non-recognition of basic French sovereignty? Of course not!

After 9/11 Bush allowed Afghanistan and others to save face instead of making them cry uncle.

Whatever Bush's rationale was at the time, in hindsight this was a monumental mistake.

The West did not retaliate for the attacks.
The West did not export liberty.
The West imported alien tyranny.

"Until Muslims themselves begin to sense unpleasantness from the crimes of radical Islam, there is little likelihood of Islamism eroding."
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2015-01-20 05:16  

#1  Requested closure of a diplomatic mission in Afghanistan? Closure would represent a definite feature, not a bug.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-01-20 01:03  

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