The March 21 burning of a Quran in Florida has spawned a number of protests across the Muslim world, but led to a particularly ugly incident today in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh Province.
Protesters marched on a UN compound in the province, overwhelmed the guards, and climbed up blast walls before destroying a guard tower. Fires were set, and by the end at least 20 UN staffers, and five protesters, were dead.
The toll is the highest for UN officials in Afghanistan in a single incident since the 2001 US invasion, and two of the slain were even reported to have been beheaded. Exactly what happened and how the protest in the normally quiet region turned so deadly is unclear, however.
Balkh Governor Ata Noor reported that insurgents had “taken advantage” of the protests to launch the attack, but it is unclear if that is actually the case, or if there was some reason the Balkh protest, just one of several in the country today, turned so violent.
A Christian religious nut incites a bunch of Muslim religious nuts and now 20 good and innocent people are dead.
We need to get out of that backwards country. Our democracy is a sham in part because we have too many religious nuts here. So what are the chances of "democracy" or anything remotely like it will take hold there?
You mean Florida?
Heathcliff—Sorry bud, but anyone from the UN does not belong being in Afghanistan preaching/biblethumping and selling pure nonsense demockracy. You speak "WE" should get out of that backward country—look around and see the evil in your own @ssbackward country– world's pirates at large. Looting poor nations for their resources and acting as good guys/gals– policing the world :^(
The UN was not there doing any preaching or Bible thumping or selling of democracy. It was there providing humanitarian services.
In case you missed it, the Bible thumping and the burning of the Koran took place in FLORIDA. When Afghans found out about the Koran burning days later (because Karzai publicly condemned it), it set off violent, anti-Western protests. UN workers became the innocent targets.
CLIFF :^( Usaid "providing humanitarian services" how do you know this and wasn't the UN who allowed USA to invade this country on packs of lies that they had something to do with 911 attacks? Recall last year 100s of thousands of bibles were sent and USA's snipper scopes had engraved–"GOD BLESS". FYI: UN is a Sinister tool created and used by USA/Israel.Ok Ok Ok! Have it your silly way, someone beats the cr@p out of your whole family and offers each a band-aid . UN by now knows the real reason NATO operatives are in Afghastan–oil pipeline to EU to bypass USSR and refuses to vote to get the plunders/pirates out {:^(
The UN never authorized an attack on Iraq by the US, but Bush did it anyway. The UN sent weapons inspectors into Iraq 3 1/2 months before Bush attacked and they found nothing. After Bush attacked, the UN sanctioned the US occupation and it can be faulted for that.
The UN does not ever get into religious proselytizing. Its members include many countries that are predominantly non-Christian. So you are blaming the UN for actions by American fundamentalist Christians.
Also, the UN created Israel, not the other way around.
It is fair to criticize the UN—the Security Council in particular–for functioning as a fig leaf for aggression by powerful states, the US being by far the most aggressive country in the world. However, please keep your criticisms accurate. Those UN staff workers who were killed did not do anything to provoke their murders and they were VICTIMS.
So, a person who burns one book on video is equal to a mob who kills "20 good and innocent people"?
Are they even slightly similar in ethics/morality to you?
The fact that you would even try to make them sound the same is evidence of your own psychosis.
There are too many people with your kind of irrational beliefs in your country or anywhere in the world. But, unlike the Democrat and Labor Party control freaks, I do not try to use government to shut you up or ban "hate speech on the public air waves", but I will simply expose your sick and twisted assumptions and beliefs every time I see them espoused.
By the way, democracy means "rule of the people", the pure form of which is majority rule. If the majority doesn't agree with you, how can it be "a sham"?
You can't have it both ways, either it is "a sham", not really a majority opinion democracy, OR "there are too many religious nuts" and they have the majority.
Thinking clearly is hard when you have the kind of idiotic belief system that equates burning a book with killing 20 people.
They are not equivalent in those particular actions, but if you do not recognize that all religious fundamentalists are equivalent in their thinking, their intolerance and (in the long run) their violence, then you are not paying attention and don't know much history.
Give me one example where the Democrats have tried to use government to censor speech on the air waves. You are likely a partisan Conservative, but I am non-partisan. However, I am much more attuned to what happens in the USA and when attacks on free speech occur, they are almost always by Republicans. And I am talking about GOVERNMENT censorship, not private CENSURE.
Religious fundamentalists (as opposed to those who have some religious belief) are a MINORITY in this country, but they are the useful idiots of a political party (the Republicans) who serve a tiny minority of plutocrats. Both political parties are guilty of that, but the Republicans are the most absolute and aggressive about it.
I'll take it that your evidence of my "psychosis" is instead evidence of your bad temper.
How is the U.N. different from the Marines, just their tools are duller…. What IS the U.N.'s job…?? To pacify the Afghans..?? Good friggin LUCK….. History Plus human nature spells LOSE…LOSE in Afghanistan…. If there is ANY people that can do a BUMS RUSH of an invader better, I am not aware of who..
Very true, it has become an instrument of Axis of Terror.
I guess it wasn't just the Koran. People tend to get angry when foreigners invade their countries,murder civilians for fun,cut off body parts as trophies,impose the most corrupt government in the world on them,bomb civilians daily from helicopters and drones,etc,etc. The burning was probably just a tipping point.
I would like more information on the battle that left 6 US soldiers dead, in three separate incidents, in Konar province from small arms fire, on Tuesday March 29, 2011. This "on going battle", as described by a reporting general, was said to have killed a number of insurgents. Just what were the circumstances that lead to six US soldiers being killed, all by small arms fire, last Tuesday, March 29, 2011?
This is a real democracy by west. With me i never understasnd how can we make world understand about democract one side we put people in jain to deny jews in second world war and other side we let burn the books of other religion. ten time standards take some lesson west.
I agree when you take over a country and several 100 of thousands killed alot civilians you will make people angree to the point of craziness.Not to mention it's an illegal war.If that happened were you lived you would fight to.When the Taliban was at war with Russia they were are friends and we gave them the same weapons that kill Americans now.The trade center was not the Afgans so we should not be there.Bush was vplain DUMB Obama is smarter but I guess he lied his way to the presidentsy so much for change.I hear alot about the NWO most bad but for all I real;ly now is it'S an idea that might not happen at least the way we heard and I dought it but mabe it's would have the moral fortatude to care for people just a thought probably wrong but only the people involved no.But if money keeps controlling the world it's time for GOD to act.I belive he would just leave them sleep forever witch is much easyer than dealing with the people you hurt for hartless greed.But also start looking for food incase of an emergency and anything else needed.It may be needed because of natuer or people.Sorry for getting of subject but just don't want people to die when they may have time to get ready if some emergency takes place.Thankyou
Vive le resistance!
Who was the idiot who thought we could ever win hearts and minds in such a place?
Anyone who goes on a rampage over an insult against their imaginary friend is sick in the head. And in Afghanistan we see what a nation looks like when it's populated by such people.
There is no hope for Afghanistan. It shall forever be mired in the dark ages
Ahhhh Yes. Mindless podlings believing that their Divine Scribblings are much more sacred than some other mindless podlings Divine Scribblings and any afront to said scribblings deserves death or worse. Isn't the insanity of Organized Religion wonderful. Odin save us !!!
It is time to drop our most lethal weapon on Afghanistan. http://bit.ly/AfghanBomb or google sajepress