Afghans lose their composure over threatened Koran burning
Image via WikipediaNumerous protests broke out in Afghanistan on Friday and two of them turned violent in response to plans by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, even after the pastor announced he had suspended those plans.This emotional immaturity should be an embarrassment to Islam. Instead is it wielded like a sword against those between the raging mob and the perpetrator they want to murder. One looks in vain for a Muslim leader to tell these people to quit throwing infantile tantrums and allowing someone they don't even know to pull their chain. These kinds of displays do not gain any respect for Islam. They are in fact one reason American tolerance is looking stretched these days.
In western Afghanistan, one civilian was killed and three were wounded by gunshots at a protest outside a NATO base in Bala Buluk in Farah Province, according to a hospital official there.
In northern Afghanistan, five Afghan protesters were wounded by gunshots, three of them critically, when hundreds of men tried to force their way onto a NATO reconstruction base in Faizabad, the capital of Badakshan Province, Afghan officials said.
There were few details on what happened regarding the death in western Afghanistan, except that it was the result of a protest over the threat to desecrate the Koran.
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