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Title: (Just How INSANE/STUPID Are Koran Worshipers?) Two Afghans Killed As Koran Protests Simmer
Source: Reuters
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100912/ts_nm/us_usa_muslims
Published: Sep 12, 2010
Author: By Paul Tait
Post Date: 2010-09-12 16:33:11 by Murron
Keywords: None
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Comments: 5

(Just How INSANE/STUPID Are Koran Worshipers?) Two Afghans Killed As Koran Protests Simmer

By Paul Tait, Sun Sep 12

KABUL (Reuters) – Two people were killed on Sunday in a third straight day of violent Afghan protests sparked by a U.S. pastor's threat to burn copies of the Koran.

Hundreds of Afghans kept up the angry demonstrations, some apparently unaware that pastor Terry Jones had dropped his plans.

Two protesters were shot and killed in the eastern province of Logar, a district official said, taking the death toll since last Friday to three.

The furor over Jones's plan -- a grave insult to Muslims who believe the Koran to be the literal word of God -- overshadowed the lead-up to commemorations of the September 11 hijacked airliner attacks on the United States.

Other parts of the Muslim world saw protests last week but Sunday's violence was confined to Afghanistan, six days before a parliamentary election which the Taliban has vowed to disrupt.

The United Nations' top diplomat in Afghanistan has said the protests risk delaying the election and warned that the Taliban, which has vowed to continue fighting until nearly 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan have left, could try to exploit popular anger over the issue.

Poor security is already a major concern ahead of the vote, with more than 1,000 polling centers out of a planned 6,835 to remain closed.

On Sunday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said a Taliban commander who had been plotting rocket attacks on polling stations had been killed in eastern Nangarghar a day earlier.

The election is seen as a key test of stability in Afghanistan before President Barack Obama conducts a strategy review of the increasingly unpopular war in December.

"DEATH TO AMERICA"

Afghan protesters beat a fire to express their anger against the planned burning of copies of the Koran by a small U.S. church during a protest in Nangarhar province September 10, 2010.

Angry protesters chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Christians" clashed with security forces in Logar, south of the capital, on Sunday.

Seven demonstrators were wounded, one seriously, when Afghan security forces opened fire to disperse hundreds of protesters marching to Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar, officials said.

Mohammad Rahim Amin, chief of Baraki Barak district just west of Pul-e-Alam, said two of the wounded died later in hospital.

The protesters threatened to attack foreign military bases.

"The governor must give us an assurance that the church is not going to burn the Koran, otherwise we will attack foreign troop bases in our thousands," protester Mohammad Yahya said.

Some of the protesters seemed not to know that Jones had called off his plan. Many in impoverished Afghanistan have limited access to news outlets and the Internet.

Major Patrick Seiber, a spokesman for ISAF, said it was aware of more protests in Logar on Sunday and estimated the crowd at about 100, some wielding sticks and throwing stones.

Four protesters were wounded in Logar on Saturday, a day after one was shot dead when an angry crowd attacked a German-run base in the northeast, one of many protests across the country.

Protests had eased by later on Sunday.

RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE

Ceremonies in the United States on Saturday marked the ninth anniversary of the attacks by al Qaeda, which led to the ousting of the Taliban by U.S.-backed Afghan forces because it had harbored Osama bin Laden's group.

The heated controversies over Jones's plan and over proposals to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near the site of the toppled World Trade Center in New York highlighted a growing debate in the United States about religious tolerance.

Hundreds of people favoring and opposing the cultural center and mosque gathered in New York for peaceful rallies hours after ceremonies in the city, and in Washington and Pennsylvania, to mark the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

Obama had warned that burning copies of the Koran could hurt the United States deeply abroad, endanger U.S. troops in Afghanistan and risk attacks by al Qaeda. (aligator mouth with a butterfly ass- smack talk)

While Jones abandoned his plan, there were at least two incidents of abuse of the Koran in Lower Manhattan in New York on Saturday. Two evangelical preachers not affiliated with any mainstream church burned two copies of the Koran in Tennessee.

Demonstrations over perceived desecration of Muslim symbols have led to dozens of deaths in Afghanistan in recent years, including after a Danish newspaper published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad in 2005.

Obama, who has sought to improve ties with the Muslim world frayed by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since the September 11 attacks, stressed religious tolerance in remarks at a memorial service in Washington on Saturday.

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#3. To: Murron (#0)

New batch of corn liquor come thru, Mammy?

You sure do seem to be laughing in weird places...

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#5. To: war (#3)

"New batch of corn liquor come thru, Mammy?"

Or perhaps Mammy got hit in the head by a dead cat.

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