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Afghanistan/South Asia
Six KFC workers burned to death in Karachi violence
2005-05-31
Six employees of American fast-food franchise KFC were burned to death in Karachi during a riot that followed a suicide attack on a mosque in the southern Pakistani city, rescue workers said on Tuesday. Angry Shi'ites set fire to the restaurant after the mosque attack in which five people died on Monday night, but the bodies of those burned were only found on Tuesday morning, said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi Foundation, a private emergency service. "We recovered the bodies of the six people from the debris of the KFC early this morning. All the dead were employees of KFC," he said.

Shi'ite mobs often target symbols of U.S. influence after sectarian attacks as they accuse the government of failing to act to prevent religious violence. The attack on the KFC outlet came just minutes after attack on the Karachi mosque. Mobs of angry Shi'ite youths also attacked a hospital, two petrol stations and burned more than a dozen vehicles. Shi'ites make up about 15 percent of Pakistan's mostly Sunni population of more than 150 million.
Posted by:Paul Moloney

#16  John, it's just that there are so many clever programmers hanging out at Rantburg (something about the analytic mindset, I suppose). This place isn't really set up for end users like us -- Fred has put a lot of thought into it, but they forget sometimes what we duffers don't know -- and the learning curve is pretty steep. If I can get to the point where they only chuckle quietly and sympathetically to themselves, so can anyone. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-05-31 20:37  

#15  Cool

Posted by: john   2005-05-31 20:19  

#14  Or just get yourself a tiny link at TinyURL.
Posted by: .com   2005-05-31 19:26  

#13  Apologies.
Didn't realise how the long link would mess with the page formatting.
Posted by: john   2005-05-31 17:59  

#12  John, there is either button for links or the code in the post box. If that is beyond your capacity to handle, don't post links. You screw up formatting.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-05-31 17:41  

#11  I've eaten at KFC. I've been to Karachi. They both deserve to burn.
Posted by: remoteman   2005-05-31 17:31  

#10  No disrespect, it all started when thousands got vaporised on 911 and no one even bothered to find out the recipe.
Suggest that some respect is neccesary for those whose lives have been criminally cut short any where.
Posted by: General Killjoy   2005-05-31 17:24  

#9  Some Pakistanis See U.S. As Symbol of Woes

Link

"People went mad, they had no idea what they were doing," said Turabi. "People hate America. For many people in Pakistan, KFC is a symbol of America."

"There are perceptions that the United States is anti-Islam," she said. "But what it really is is frustration, a sense of insecurity. They don't know what to do, so anger can turn to attacks on U.S. symbols."

A student who said he was nearby when the KFC was targeted summed up the mood on the street.

"We hate America because Americans are responsible for the miseries of all Muslims in the world," said Nisar Haider, a spokesman for the Immamia Student Organization.

Posted by: john   2005-05-31 16:11  

#8  secrete recipes;

that too is a secrete.
Posted by: Colonel Harland Sanders   2005-05-31 15:33  

#7  No disrespect, but when did KFC start selling crispy critters?
Posted by: Captain America   2005-05-31 14:41  

#6  Anonymoose,

What type of bloody vengeance would you like..original or crispy?
Posted by: Colonel Harland Sanders   2005-05-31 13:03  

#5  I would hope that someone on the board of directors of Yum!, Inc., parent company of KFC, would find it in his heart to purchase the service of some Sikhs-for-hire in the area, to reak some bloody vengeance on these perps. Just for the principal of the thing.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2005-05-31 09:45  

#4  The normal practice on the part of the stricken Shias has been to blame the Sunni fanatics as well as the Americans, implying that they murdered the Shias at the behest of the Americans. This jibed with the policy handed down from Tehran. But this has not helped Pakistan in removing the curse of sectarianism from the country. The most foolhardy thing is to say that anyone who kills a Shia is not a Muslim and therefore not found in Pakistan because it is the state for the Muslims. The Hazaras of Quetta clearly knew who had killed their men and pointed to some members of the MMA. Why should we tell this hunted community that they should instead blame it on the Americans
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2005-05-31 05:29  

#3  Some relevent nuggets...
Columnist Ataul Haq Qasimi wrote in “Jang” (5 March 2004) that he was greatly uplifted when I heard the Iraqi Shia saying that 200 of them killed in Iraq on “ashura” was not the work of Muslims (read Sunnis) because no Muslim could do such a thing. The Shia in Iraq instead said that the evil deed was done by someone else (kissi aur ka hath). The columnist then said that the Shia of Pakistan should develop the same kind of thinking about the “ashura” massacre of Quetta which killed nearly 50 Shias.

Famous columnist Abdul Qadir Hassan wrote in “Jang” (5 March 2004) that the “ashura” massacre in Quetta was just like the massacre in Baghdad and Karbala and the Muslims were convinced that it was not done by the Muslims themselves. In present times when America has unleashed its aggression on the Muslims no Muslim group can think of killing another Muslim. In the case of the Quetta massacre another country (read India) can join America in committing this evil deed. Those who investigate the massacre should keep the idea of foreign hand in their mind.

Columnist Irshad Haqqani wrote in “Jang” (5 March 2004) that a foreign office spokesman in Islamabad had stated that the ashura massacre in Quetta had the hand in it of the Indian consulate in Afghanistan. In the Senate the opposition senators thought that it was a conspiracy hatched by a big foreign power.
Posted by: Paul Moloney   2005-05-31 05:26  

#2  The KFC outlet was next to the attacked mosque. Angry shi'ites mob burned besides the KFC outlet, a petrol station, residential complex and many cars. Did not allow the Rangers and police to come and rescue the innocent people stuck in the area. Lashkar-i-jahngvi it appears is behind tis act also. One of the attackers has been caught, let us see what comes up.
Posted by: Shahid   2005-05-31 05:20  

#1  "Shi'ite mobs often target symbols of U.S. influence after sectarian attacks..."

Well I don't want to ignore the possibility that this is the usual lame, simplistic bullshit "reporting/analysis" from the press, but let's assume for a second that this is true. Doesn't this just sum up everything that is wrong with Pakistan and all the other trouble spots through out the Ummah (the whole thing basically)?!

Al-Qaida or it's affiliates murders Shi'ite Pakistanis but the Shi'ites scapegoat the U.S., destroying businesses and property run and operated by their fellow Pakistanis.

Shouldn't they be getting mad about the symbols of Saudi influence? They ought to burn the Wahabbi Mosques and Maddrassas where that young punk was supplied with explosives, detonator, etc. and indoctrinated, incited, coaxed, cajoled, bribed, egged on, cheered and promised heavenly reward to kill himself and a crowd of innocent (fellow?) Pakistanis.

That's why terrorism is such a plague. Since the terrorists hide and obfuscate, most people just don't know how to react to it (many in our own country too.) That's really the biggest challenge of the War on Terror - channeling people's outrage at the actaul sources of the problems, instead of reflexively burning American flags. If enough people woke up, the war on terrorism could be won in a matter of weeks, instead of decades.
Posted by: Prince Abdullah   2005-05-31 04:57  

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