Afghanistan Quran-Burning Protests Turn Violent

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Thousands of Afghans are protesting a small American church's plan to burn the Muslim holy book. At least 11 people have been injured.

Police in the northern province of Badakhshan say several hundred demonstrators ran toward a NATO compound where four attackers and five police were injured in clashes. Protesters also burned an American flag at a mosque after Friday prayers.

In western Farah province, police said two people were injured in another protest. Police say initial reports that someone was killed were wrong.

The Rev. Terry Jones from the Dove Outreach Center in Florida triggered outrage when he promised to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

He canceled the plans Thursday but then said he was reconsidering.

Here is a round-up of reactions from around the world to Rev. Jones' proposed Quran burning.

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President Asif Ali Zardari warned that the burning would "inflame sentiments among Muslims throughout the world and cause irreparable damage to interfaith harmony and also to world peace."

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President Asif Ali Zardari warned that the burning would "inflame sentiments among Muslims throughout the world and cause irreparable damage to interfaith harmony and also to world peace."

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sprtakis69 said on 10 Friday 2010 pm30 4:51 pm: As a person currently in the Persian Gulf supporting our troops I can't tell you how many problems even the mentioning of an attempted Qur'an burning has caused. What an idiot!

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[talking head]

08:03 PM on 09/15/2010

Looks like lunatics rule the world.

[janmB]

10:04 AM on 09/14/2010

Especially women....should be protesting not only the jihadist but degradation of women i.e. honor killings, stonings, beatings, genital mutilation in this BOOK of TRUE Islam in which violence acts against women elsewhere but is not allowed to be practised here here due to our USA laws.
Here in the states some preach "acceptance" of islam while the USA has been at war against two ISLAMIC Govt controlled countries. And don't like ISLAMIC CONTROLLED IRAN either.

[gabygz]

05:36 PM on 09/13/2010

If you want to send a message about the q_ran burning, why burn flags and effigys?

[Fred Ricardo]

05:33 PM on 09/13/2010

Let's just drop off all there religious nut bags in this country into Iraq.

[StopMakingSense2]

04:09 PM on 09/13/2010

What doesn't turn violent in Afghanistan? Violence is golden over there..

[JasonMcl]

03:19 PM on 09/13/2010

The one positive use I could think of for the patriot act would be to throw this reverend out of the country.

[banjokuzi]

11:39 AM on 09/13/2010

Here s a thought, lets say i m just a regular Ahmed living in Iraq or Afghanistan, one day i m out doing whatever i do with my family. suddenly bombs start falling all around me, people i ve known for years are killed in an instant. then news filters that some crazies killed a bunch of Americans in NY, i m wondering, whats that got to do with me? civilian casualties in iraq is around 106,755 i don't even know how many in Afghanistan. 3000 Americans were killed by some random crazies who happen to be Muslims. i d say we ve had our revenge, why kick em in the nuts by burning the Koran?
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

[lcelidon]

04:50 AM on 09/13/2010

SERIOUSLY, these people need t get a life.....peace will never happen without more education and less religion.

[ammsamm]

12:15 PM on 09/13/2010

I know - will these Americans never learn?

[gabygz]

05:33 PM on 09/13/2010

LOL

[Talossa]

12:10 AM on 09/13/2010

Okay... whew. Enough pictures of ugly nationalism and burning stuff.

Here is nationalism done right, with beautiful music and cute children. :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs07sYQqc1c&feature=related

[JerryLevy]

10:41 PM on 09/12/2010

A crackpot obscure preacher with 30 followers threatens to burn a Quaran and Muslims in Afghanistan riot. Go figure

[GSR]

09:35 PM on 09/12/2010

Australian atheist burns Quran-as a joint

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/brisbane-atheist-burns-koran-and-bible-20100913-157ao.html

[Talossa]

12:14 AM on 09/13/2010

As the officer said, "It might be offensive to some people, but it's not an offence." Exactly.

[Bigidea]

06:11 PM on 09/12/2010

I think Angelina in that dress looks the part. Can we keep her there for ever? please. please.

[rtgmath]

06:00 PM on 09/12/2010

Pakistan's President said that burning the Quran would "cause irreparable damage to interfaith harmony and also to world peace."

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said in statement that "Indonesia and the US are building or bridging relations between the Western world and Islam. If the Koran burning occurs, then those efforts will be useless."

Bahrain's government called the plan a "shameful act which is incompatible with the principles of tolerance and coexistence."

Here is an individual, a kook by all accounts, showing his hatred and we have governments saying that this is equivalent to an act of war? "Incompatible with the principle of coexistence"? Making useless efforts to bridge relations between the West and Islam? Irreparable damage to world peace?

And there were calls for Muslims the world over to make 911 the "Burn the American Flag Day."

Touchy, aren't they? Calls for Obama to deny the pastor his right to free expression have been made as well.

Granted, the pastor is an extremist, and wants to be inflammatory. But on the other hand, the reaction of the Islamic community to this kook's plans is not one of tolerance. No peaceful people here!

In a community of people AND a community of nations, we all have to be willing to be offended by someone else without resorting to retaliation. It is the grown-up thing to do. But threats comparable to going to war are extortion and childish.

I can live *with* Islam, but not *under* it.

[gingershot]

01:31 PM on 09/12/2010

Israel, her Israel Lobby, and her apologists are deliberately whipping up the American Fox News demographic against Islam and are directly responsible for these ‘hate crimes’ of the Park 51 center and Koran burnings, as well as the manufactured and highly orchestrated negative American public perception of Muslims

Look at all the Neocon punditry cheerleading the Park 51 issue – these Neocons are leading this campagin of Anti-Muslim hysteria-mongers, and all the rest of the Neocons are stepping up to bark their carnie-folk calls for the public lynchings. All this is nothing but yeoman service for the Israel Lobby- and Neocon-line to assault Muslim countries all over the world and Muslims here at home in America.

The cover-up of the reason we were attacked on 911 and the current hysteria-mongering – both are ‘made in Israel’ and carried out by the Israel Lobby and the Necons.

Whipping up anti-Muslim hysteria is all part of Israel’s game, and her Neocons are deliberately whipping up the American Fox News demographic against Islam and are directly responsible for these ‘hate crimes’ of the Park 51 center and Koran burnings, as well as manufactured and highly orchestrated American public perception of Muslims

It’s all for Israel – and this coverup of the Israel role in precipitating 911 and whipping up anti-Muslim hysteria is all part of Israel’s game. It’s a dangerous game and it’s current aim is to push us into war with Iran

[king friday]

03:09 PM on 09/12/2010

h8ful tr0ll

[hacksaw]

03:16 PM on 09/12/2010

So where is the ferocity coming from?

Millions pour into the coffers of these groups, all of which are dedicated to one overriding principle, one goal: advancing Israel’s national interests in the US. The serpentine convolutions of the Chernick connection, linking one front group to another, encircle the political and temperamental spectrum, ranging from the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles (over $900k) to the many hundreds of thousands given to hardline neoconservative outfits like the Hudson Institute, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, not to mention Pajamas Media ($7 million, in collusion with venture capitalist James "extensively experienced in multimillion-dollar technology transfer and license agreements " Koshland) and a mass campaign to distribute DVDs of the virulently anti-Muslim film "Obsession."

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/09/09/the-meaning-of-911/

[Elizabeth Farris Kalfa]

01:48 PM on 09/13/2010

From the hate you seem to be spewing, I can only conclude that you are some sort of extremist in your own right with a real grudge against Israel.
The uprising against Islam is a result of nothing other than ill educated people who want attention and to use the reverberations of terrorist acts committed buy Islamic extremists to bring attention to their own underlying agendas.
Just as it would seem your underlying agenda here is to bash Israel based on a bunch of one-sided crap you were more than willing to strap on like a horses feedbag and ingest without really knowing anything other than what you've been fed, so to speak.
I hope that one day you will see that the kind of hate you are spreading against Jews...it’s no different than that hate that is being spread against Muslims.
Lastly...the remarks about 9/11 having been a plotted and carried out by Israel....hmmm...I suggest sniffing less glue than the current amount you are obviously sniffing in between your feedbagging sessions. Or did you mean your post to be a political satire?

[MIKEinNYC]

11:39 AM on 09/12/2010

Why do we bother with these people?

They are not worth the life of even one more American kid.

[banjokuzi]

11:30 AM on 09/13/2010

So what s the going rate for an American kid these days?