At Least Nine Dead in Second Day of Afghan Riots Over Koran Burning
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Anger over the burning of the Muslim holy book at a Florida church fueled a second day of deadly violence half a world away in Afghanistan, where demonstrators set cars and shops ablaze Saturday in a riot that killed nine protesters, officials said.
The church’s desecration of the Quran nearly two weeks ago has outraged millions of Muslims and others worldwide, fueling anti-American sentiment that is further straining ties between the Afghan government and the West.
The uproar even brought violence to the normally peaceful city of Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan on Friday, where a crowd of protesters — apparently infiltrated by insurgents — stormed a U.N. compound in an outpouring that left four Afghan protesters and seven foreign U.N. employees dead.
In an unrelated attack that nonetheless demonstrated the kind of violence plaguing Afghanistan nearly a decade after the U.S. invaded to oust the Taliban and hunt al-Qaida, two suicide attackers disguised as women in blue burqas blew themselves up and a third was gunned down at a NATO base on the outskirts of Kabul.
The Quran was burned March 20, but many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later. The burning took place at the Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, the same church where the Rev. Terry Jones had threatened to destroy a copy of the holy book last year but initially backed down.
On Saturday, hundreds of Afghans carrying long sticks and holding copies of the Quran over their heads marched through Kandahar, the largest city in southern Afghanistan and the cradle of the insurgency. The crackle of gunfire could be heard throughout the city, which was blanketed by thick black smoke.
Security forces shot in the air to disperse the crowd, said Zalmai Ayubi, a spokesman for the provincial governor. It’s unclear how the protesters were slain, he said.
The governor’s office in Kandahar province issued a statement saying that nine protesters were killed and 81 others were injured in the demonstration that turned into a riot. Seventeen people, including seven armed men, have been arrested, the statement said.
The governor’s office claims demonstrators were incited by extremists who joined the group and set property ablaze.
“Some wicked and destructive people placed themselves amongst the protesters and started rioting throughout the entire Kandahar city,” the governor’s office said. “The enemies of the people and country also burned down the furniture and a bus at a ladies’ high school in Kandahar and destroyed some other properties.
Shops and restaurants throughout the city were shuttered and routes leading into the city were blocked by security forces.
An Associated Press photographer estimated the crowd at a few thousand and said demonstrators had smashed his camera and roughed up other journalists.
The bloodshed began Friday in Kabul, Herat in western Afghanistan and Mazar-i-Sharif, where thousands flooded the streets.
The seven foreigners killed at the U.N. compound included four Nepalese guards. The other three were identified by officials in their home countries as: Joakim Dungel, a 33-year-old Swede; Lt. Col. Siri Skare, a 53-year-old female pilot from Norway; and Filaret Motco, a 43-year-old Romanian who worked in the political section of the U.N.
Dan McNorton, a spokesman for the U.N. in Kabul, said the organization had no plans to pull out of Afghanistan.
“The U.N. is absolutely committed to remaining in Afghanistan to ensure that the Afghan people receive all the support they deserve from the U.N.,” McNorton said.
Karzai’s office said the president spoke on the telephone Saturday morning with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Karzai asked the secretary-general to extend his condolences to the families of the slain U.N. workers.
He also called on the U.N. to help promote religious tolerance throughout the world to ease friction between people of different faiths. Karzai said Afghan officials were investigating the U.N. attack and would bring the perpetrators to justice.
In Florida, Wayne Sapp, a pastor at the church, called the events “tragic,” but said he did not regret the actions of his church.
“I in no way feel like our church is responsible for what happened,” Sapp said in a telephone interview on Friday.Afghan authorities suspect insurgents melded into the mob outside the U.N. compound and they announced the arrest of more than 20 people, including a militant they suspect was the ringleader of the assault. The suspect was an insurgent from Kapisa province, a hotbed of militancy about 250 miles (400 kilometers) southeast of the city, said Rawof Taj, deputy provincial police chief.
Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid sent a text message to The Associated Press on Saturday denying that the insurgency was responsible for killing the U.N. workers.
Demonstrators have alleged that the four protesters were killed by Afghan security forces. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary said Saturday that a delegation of high-ranking Afghan officials was being sent to the city to investigate what happened during the demonstration in which seven vehicles, including a police vehicle, were burned.
“When the demonstration started, the number of people increased every minute to around 5,000,” Bashary said. “The police did take action, but we are investigating how these casualties occurred. Were the steps and actions by police adequate or not?”
Bashary also gave reporters details of Saturday‘s attack on NATO’s Camp Phoenix, a base on the east side of Kabul that’s used to train Afghan security forces.
He said three armed insurgents wearing suicide bomb vests arrived at a main gate at the base around 6:45 a.m. Two of the attackers opened fire and then detonated their vests of explosives, Bashary said. The third opened fire and was killed by NATO forces. The body of a fourth person, an Afghan man at the scene, has not been identified. Three NATO service members were injured.
The gate at the base was scorched from the explosions. An AP reporter at the scene saw the remains of at least one of the attackers dangling from the gate. Police officer Mohammad Shakir told the AP that two suicide bombers were clad in blue burqas, the all-encompassing coverings worn by many women in Afghanistan.
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Associated Press writers Deb Riechmann in Kabul and Mirwais Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report.
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eventual
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:03pmGet the troops the hell out of there, and let them eat each other alive.
The Middle East is a lost cause. Nothing we can do will change those barbarians.
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:42pmMuslims, in general, are uneducated fools.
Obama is one of the educated ones. And yes, get our troops out, NOW..instead Obama starts more crap. Secretive bastard
We need to just spray em down on day…with pork meat and blood….
Report Post »I’m concerned about how muslims do as they please, they need to get some of their own medicine. just kill em, they’re a lost cause…no sympathy here
sodacrackers2
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:17pmI am afraid Obama and his buddies are secretly gleeful about what is going on in the world and probably moved it along themselves in order to come in and rescue us all of us who are not as brilliant and devious as they are.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:47am@Mill: “Muslims, in general, are uneducated fools. Obama is one of the educated ones.”
Report Post »———-
Hmm. May I see his college transcripts? Hmm. Methinks not so much.
Enuff Zenuff
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:01pm.
This line from the story makes no sense: “The U.N. is absolutely committed to remaining in Afghanistan to ensure that the Afghan people receive all the support they deserve from the U.N.,” McNorton said.
If the U.N. is absolutely committed to ensuring that the Afghan people receive all the support they deserve, then they would pull out – as we should.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:00pmAs I said in a post to The Blaze yesterday, the Koran burning was wrong because it incited violence. Beyond that point, however, is a further and much more relevant one. As has been pointed out, these folks, Warriors for Mohamed, a.k.a. Islamic militant extremists, will use any excuse at all, or none at all to be violent, destroy things and cause havoc. One wonders what might have happened if a Torah or Christian bible had been burned, or even thousand burned? Nothing like this, that is for certain! So, the Pastor’s act of burning the Koran, wrong as doing so might have been, served a greater purpose: EXPOSED ISLAMIC THOUGHT for what it apparently is!
Report Post »matt708
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:00pmwe need to get out of afghan and let them killed each other
Report Post »awall1231
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:11pmagreed. pull all our people out and let them destroy themselves in the name of their hate book. lock this country up and let none of them in and kick out the rest. just got my concealed carry permit. they start their garbage here and most people wont wait for the police to stop them. bring it dirt people, bring it.
Report Post »Stljarhead
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:00pmI’m by no means a fan of Terry Jones or Christian fundamentalists in general, but I‘d say the savages are proving the Reverend’s point for him.
Report Post »matt708
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:59pmthe clerics are as much to blame as the animals who killed. Is this the tolerant religion, i think not
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:56pmWell, we could all see this coming, right? My concern is for all our troops over there. What kind of backlash are they going to get from this? Would Rolling Stone like to do anything to further stoke the fire of hatred towards the U.S.?
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:27pmWe need larger bombs and wait till they are on their knees sniffing each others butts then send them home to hell!
Report Post »swigs
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:55pmAP article;
“He also called on the U.N. to help promote religious tolerance throughout the world to ease friction between people of different faiths. Karzai said Afghan officials were investigating the U.N. attack and would bring the perpetrators to justice.”
The book burning is an excuse, these people had it mind to do this along. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” What happened in Egypt, Iran, Yemen and now Libya is gonna happen to Afganistan.
Did anyone notice how tame and non eventful the Saudi demstrations were?
Report Post »obama_binpharteen
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:52pmCan you imagine the Muslim outrage if every time a Muslim desecrated a Bible, Muslims would be killed by Christians? Ofcourse we know that would never happen because Christians don’t kill people over book burnings. I do have to say though that the guy in Florida that did burn the Quran is an idiot.
Report Post »geonj
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:50pmthese insurgents need no excuse to hate the US. but they will use any excuse to follow the koran’s orders to kill infidels.
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:46pmIt would have been better if we just dropped money on the people of Afghanistan. All the lives lost just so the UN can support a drug cartel run by the Karzai family, tribe.
Report Post »Ellbee
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:46pmOff Topic but IMPORTANT
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Lovepo
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:45pmThey remind me of barbarians.Why would we want any of those in our country. It is insane.
Report Post »sayangku
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:49amThey remind me more of the Germans of the 1930‘s and 40’s.
Report Post »Orlando Mom
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:43pmWhat is even more senseless is the way the media ignores the facts about these murderous maniacs under the name of Islam. American Flags and Bibles are desecrated every day and you don’t see Christians rising up to commit mass murder. The media will not report that Christians are being slaughtered throughout the Middle East and I must say that is, indeed reckless and craven. Tolerant and peaceful religion… not so much.
Report Post »N34W118
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:43pmI use my quran in the bathroom …………..
Report Post »beckwill
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:52pmSingle or two ply?
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:51pmJust read it in the bathroom.. It will scare the s#@t directly out of you.. Oh and n34w118, nice view..
Report Post »MASTER YODA
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:43pmKeep burning korans, soon they will all kill themselves and our problems, over, will be.
Report Post »emertz8413
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:41pm“fueling anti-American sentiment”, like that needed any help! The difference between Islam and Christianity, as I see it: Go ahead, burn our Bible, as Christians it lives in our hearts. Not to mention the murder of 9 people, and distruction of property, we’ll have no part of that.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:46pmThese “walk the talk” action-oriented guys are making us Americans look like “all talk” bunch of wimps!
Report Post »GMAN455
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:41pmTime to burn more then sounds like it lol
Report Post »deadpammy
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:01pmseriously, we can pull our troops out of there, start burning the koran everyday, put it on youtub, the stupid heads will riot and kill themselves, war over.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:41pmHi, Hawt! Where ya been?
Agreed. They’re so peaceful. They blow themselves up to kill as many Americans as possible — as quietly as possible.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:39pmIts not OK to burn a book, but it is OK to cut off heads and kill people? And we have these animals living amung us.
Report Post »Non-sequitur
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:01pmYeah, I notice all the riots and killings in America because somebody burned a Quran.
Oh wait, there are none. Whoops! Looks like Muslims are not a hivemind but actually individuals making their own choices! What a concept.
Report Post »streetrodder
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:11pm@Nonsequitor, I was’nt refering to them living in America. But now that you mention it, its coming here just listen to some of the muslim leaders. Wake up.
Report Post »TheCrusader007
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:02pmJesus did warn us:
Report Post »They will kill you [a believer in Jesus] and think to do God a favor.
aro5o75
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:37pmIslaminals don’t need an excuse to murder, they’re disgusting vermin and ALL of them should be shot on site. Everywhere and anywhere. Now, I’ve got to get back and tend to my bonfire of the ragmans book.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:37pmI’d like to hear what our Muslim-in-Chief has to say about it.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:13pmLOL … yes … I certain we are just misunderstanding the “religion of peace” with the “Holy Quran” and lovely call to worship (I mean kill!)
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:14pmoops …” I’m” … busy day …
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:36pmAnd where is the outrage over the beheading of Daniel Pearl by Islamic Muslims? Where is the outrage over the atrocities committed against Americans by radical Islamic Muslims?
They danced in the streets on 9/11. I frankly don’t care if they get killed themselves in their protests.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:45pmShow—I am still haunted by the beheading of Daniel Pearl
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:54pmSapp said he did not regret the actions of his Florida church. “I in no way feel like our church is responsible for what happened,” he said over the telephone.
Report Post »Echad
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:31pmGEORGEJO:
Report Post »How about what happened to the Fogel family! Here’s a link that shows the true face of Islam.
http://wejew.com/media/10859/Itamar_Massacre:_The_True_Face_Of_Terror_Viral_Video/
TheCrusader007
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:59pmThere is no outrage, because Pearl and all others are according to ISLAM not [!!!] innocent.
Report Post »Nobody, who is not a Muslim, is innocent.
Period, that is why they have no remorse to lie, to murder, and slaughter everyone in there path.
HOwever, I am getting sick and tired to hear that some insurgents infiltrated the “peaceful” mob and then kill and behead some people.
Islam has not been hijacked by some radicals, otherwise we would hear at least one moderate muslim [an oxymoron] condemning this. But not one you hear.
And when you ask them to condemn those acts, they will not and will weasel their way out of it with some bogus arguments.
It seems to me, that the force of evil as been unleashed and will start to kill more people than we can imagine.
Therefore: Repent and follow Jesus.
Bullwinkle
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:33pmNot even news anymore!
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:42pmya think…the more I hear stories about the middle eastern culture…muslims..whatever it is…they act like animals…nothing new here
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:54pmThey have acted this way for thousands of years, the PC crap has not allowed our schools to teach this to our kids for the last 50 years.
Report Post »bobodu
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:33pmAnd more innocent blood is on the hands of so-called Christians.
Report Post »There you go again…blaming the powder deg…not the GD idiots with a lighter.
godlovinmom
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:13pmmore innocent blood on christian’s hands?…what are you even talking about…most “christians” don’t even claim this idiot in Florida and second…what christian do you know that would kill anyone…especially over the burning of a book…even the bible?…way to turn that one around bobo
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:46pmGodlovinmom,
Report Post »I believe there is a vast difference between a Christian and a so-called Christian.
godlovinmom
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 3:25amhonestly, that is exactly why I don’t call myself a christian…organized christian churches are funky to say the least…though I strive to be Christ-like, I just say I’m a believer. the Muslim “religion” is barbaric, these people need to move beyond the stone age!
Report Post »redneck
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:33pmPrint your Quran and use it at as door mat
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:37pmAccording to the liberals, America is always wrong and our enemies are always right: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/liberal-foreign-policy-explained.html So when a guy burns a book it’s bad, but the people who commit murder have an excuse. Same old same old.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:37pmThere is no one to blame for this violence but the Afghan thugs that committed these murders. We’re dealing with fanatics here folks. They show their disgust for America when someone burns a Koran by cutting the heads off people in a UN office and they burn the American Flag, where the hell is our OUTRAGE?
These people are nothing but nutcases and when they overrun an embassy like this anyone even remotely associated with this protest should get a cruise missile up their you know what.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:39pm“The Quran was burned March 20, but many Afghans only found out about it when Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the desecration four days later”
I wonder if Karzai has ever condemned the burning of the United States flag?
Report Post »OneFootRandy
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:49pmMeanwhile, they have been slaughtering Christians for years who did nothing. Islam is love by eliminating those you hate, it is peace by subjucating your enemies. I am so sick and tired of being force fed this nonsense that Muslims are just like Christians. Islam is the antithesis of Christianity, and more than likely is a creation of Satan in response to the success of Christianity.
Dont give me the bloody history of Christianity, first off, that whole line of argument is exagerated in its scope, and it wasnt Christianity rather it was States and Nations using the church as a guise and motivator to achieve political and personal goals. That is why the founding fathers tried to seperate church and state, to protect the church, NOT the state, as it seems to be interpreted today. It was NEVER the constitutional goal to keep God out of governance, but to keep mans governance out of the church.
The world is close to realizing the great conflict, and currently, our leaders are playing for the wrong team. Seriously, we are arming radical muslim elements in the middle east, while at the same time trying every way possible to circumvent the 2nd amendment and disarm our own law abiing, God loving/fearing citizens?
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 12:53pmWTF are we doing in Afghanistan? Let them eat poppies. They’re clearly not ready for the blessings of liberty we are attempting to give them. Hell, we‘re not even ready for all the blessings our constitution affords us or we wouldn’t keep trampling on it..
Just tell the Afghanis we’ll leave them alone if they leave us alone… but make it clear that the next time we determine that a weapons-of-mass-destruction incident originated from Afghanistan, we’re not going to send our boots back to their ground. No… if we have to go back there, they won’t hear us coming until the air temperature starts heating up to 4,000 degrees around them.
No doubt that between Libya, Iran, and N.Korea, one of them will test our resolve, but once demonstrated, the rest will pay closer attention if we actually had the will to use our weapons the way they’re meant to be used.
Middle-Easterners have no such compunction about using whatever weapons they can get their hands on – that‘s why we call their IED’s “Improvised” Explosive Devices – because they are homemade from whatever they have available. We have far greater weapons available but we still use rubber bullets under some rules of engagement!
Until we have the will to end these wars quickly, our enemies will drag them out as long as they can. Ho Chi Minh demonstrated taught our enemies a valuable lesson about will and determination – a lesson which unfortunately we have yet to learn. He never won a single battle in Vietnam, but he had the will to outlast us and he won. When we send our troops to defend a foreign land, while caring more about our enemies’ collateral damage than they do… they’ve already won… it just takes us thousands of dead Americans and billions of dollars to admit it.
Libya is already turning into a stalemate that could trap us for years because we do not value our own soldier’s lives enough. We care more about protecting our enemies’ non-combatant citizens than our enemies do. They hide in their mosques to shoot at us; but did anyone notice that Gadhafi didn’t hesitate to utterly destroy all the mosques that Libyan rebels were hiding in? How many Quran’s went up in flames or were blown to bits – And where’s the outcry from the Muslim world over that???? Did they behead any innocent Muslims for that?
We cannot win wars by fighting only by our own rules – we must fight by the enemies’ rules or worse – until they want no part of conflict with us. Before they can ever learn to love us, they first must be taught to respect us. Until they respect us (& yes, that includes fearing us), then everything else is just another futile ‘Progressivism experiment” that wastes American lives and treasure.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:07pmAny excuse to kill … . this is just typical .. they are only using this as the excuse … they would be doing it anyway so why should we care … I think we someone needs to come out with Quranelle .. for the bathroom.
Report Post »taxed
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:20pmI bet Bed, Bath, and Beyond could make a killing over there…
http://conservativepoliticalforum.com/index.php?board=1.0
Report Post »Echad
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:23pmENUFF ZENUFF:
Report Post »I couldn’t agree more!
In Afghanistan less than 80% of the population can even read or even know why we are there! How can you change the way these people think if they don’t have a clue as to why we are there or what we are trying to do for them? This nation building crap has got to stop. When our people are attacked we should respond with devastating force and leave them to clean up the mess. If we would do that a couple of times they would get the message and if they don’t then turn their desert into glass no more problems!
thegrassroots
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:27pmI guess the Afghan Muslims didn’t get the “memo” about how they’re supposed to be convincing America about how peaceful they are.
In spite of all the “peace-speak,” Muslims can’t hide the fact that they are a cruel and barbaric people. And, their barbarism is barely a scratch beneath the surface of their pseudo-peace-speak.
I’m glad they are so volatile! Who they really are is constantly in our faces ……. No Room For Doubt! It’s just so very sad for anyone who happens to be in their way during their rabid-madness-attacks.
Report Post »NSDQ
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:29pmTwo words … Carpet Bomb
Report Post »gatlinburg
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:33pmBurning the Curan seams like a good way to drive the extremist, out of the woodwork and expose them (RINOs -Reformers in Name Only) for what they are. It will be interesting to see which side Karzai is really on.The sooner these guys are marked and identified the faster Afghanistan and the US can part ways peacefully with a stable relationship.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:51pmI wonder how many were killed from falling bullets these idiots shoot into the air.
Report Post »suzeqz
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:51pmOh, heaven forbid that anyone do anything against a Muslim. Anyone in the world can burn the American flag, call us names and spew their hate at us and we are not allowed to react. Well, I for one and sick to death of it. If you think for one minute that their rioting and killing each other bothers me, well think again.
Report Post »Altoona Grump
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 1:55pmDon’t blame the moron of a pastor, or his willing accomplices in the press.
Report Post »Riots and bombings and killings and beheadings in the land of Islam are caused by the sun rising in the east or maybe by gravity.
SPKnarr
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:03pmWhat…we can’t burn the Quran? Last I checked I woke up in the USA, and we still have the right to burn any book we want!!!!
Report Post »cruzinbill
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:03pmHow about tolit paper.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:24pm1. Burqas should be banned in our country (instead there is talk that our women in uniform should wear headscarves). They give the jihadists an advantage when they attack.
Report Post »2. Obama is a traitor to his position as CiC. First, he aided and abetted a revolution in Egypt which has spread throughout the entire ME, putting our country and our troops at great risk. Second, he is losing the war in Afghanistan. Third, his inability to lead a war has destabalized Pakistan as well.
3. Jones and Sapp are evil men, and should be openly shunned by all leading Christian pastors in the U.S.
4. Our major problem is Obama and his cohorts in Congress. Unless we get rid of them, we will NEVER defeat Islam. We are headed for a Chavista type of government, namely, a communist regime with strong ties to Islamists. If any good-hearted American thinks we can defeat that unholy alliance via the ballot box, you are absolutely clueless. It will not happen, America. Either we fight or we die. Those are the two choices (with all due respect to Glenn).
SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:26pm9 thats it?
What absurdity it is these people are acting out rioting over a book being burned. That is all that it is since they treat the Bible and Torah as such… just books. Could you imagine if christians acted out after all the churches that have been violated by muslim extremists, if anything calls for a riot would be when a church has been destroyed, vandalized etc my muslim extremists.
Sorry I am going to say it, we are way passed the time of waiting for the middle east to be turned into glass! This will only get worse with all the uprisings and take note you are witnessing the beginning of the first true war of the 21st century!
Report Post »RetiredMarine
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:28pmI have only a few comments: One, who cares; Two, they can burn our flag, kidnap and murder our soldiers, and burn whatever other religious book they want, but when an american, who is clearly fed up with this politically correct way we are going about fighting this war, burns their religious book every amaerican is wrong and that gives them the right to storm UN, not US, buildings and murder innocent people. This world is going to Hell, so I think cling to your faith and your guns is a real message to stick to right now and nothing tells me that it will change in the near future. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, oh yeah I am buddhist.
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:38pmi dont have a koran but when i get one im going to burn it
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:40pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDbTeFr9GKc&feature=player_embedded#at=741
“Fork in the Road” is a must watch and forward if you get the urge. We are ALL being played like a Stradivarius. Wake up and step out of the puppet show. The problem is places you aren`t looking.
Love Always,
Report Post »Howdy Doodie
mrclean
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 2:52pm@KRYTONITE
You’ve hit the nail on the head. end of story
Report Post »Lord_Frostwind
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:09pmDisgusting animals, either kill them all or leave them as fodder for their “Friends” in the Taliban. They don’t deserve our help anymore, they can starve for all I care.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:16pmBurn more quarans so the religeon of peace, tolerance and love can show their peace, tolerance and love.
Report Post »Wdawg
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:23pmif you want a good art project:
take a koran. shred it. recycle the paper. print a bible on it.
Report Post »KOCHLEFFEL
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:26pmI bet you all have forgotten the Christians who burned the “ Witches” in the
Report Post »good old days. So they got scared took their brooms and flew over to Afghanistan
to race hell.
heyjms
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:34pmI don’t care what upsets these people…. they can kill themselves all they want.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:43pmI am sorry, don’t see the religion of peace and tolerance > Don’t see it.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:46pmdoes anybody else remember how the muslims treated the church of nativity in bethleham when they hi jacked in several years ago? tyhey treated our church like a toilet. we should all burn korans. sick of these muslims. sick of them.
Report Post »Obama Bin Lying
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:51pmwhere are the Moderate Muslims condeming this?
Report Post »avenger
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 3:53pmthe solution is simple…these people are totally fkd up by islam,nuke them all and start all over… they are stuck in year 825.. http://thereligionofpeace.com
Report Post »Mairi Kay
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:15pmI heard it works great for housebreaking puppies………..
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:20pmWe need to wait till they are on their knee’s sniffing each others butts and blow them to hell.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:23pmDidn’t these same thugs murder almost 3000 Americans in the World Trade Center Towers.or did I just dream it?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:26pmFACT: Most of the world’s Muslims are not Arabic. However, the Qu‘ran is written in Arabic and many of the world’s non-Arabic Muslims can’t even read the book they are killing people over. They have no idea what it teaches except for what they are told. Very similar to the Dark Ages when only a certain few men could read the Scriptures in their printed language of the time and simply told people what it said….very dangerous !!!!!!
Report Post »truthwinz
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:28pmLet me see if I’ve got this right: Some dolt ‘preacher’ in Florida puts a book on ‘trial’ and finds the BOOK guilty. The punishment for the book is burning it. He burned paper, ink and cardboard. Therefore: Karzai, whom we are there to help, feels the need to inform his country of this. So the natives get offended and start lobbing off heads and rioting. What a world.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:30pmIf you are a non-Christian and you want to burn the Quran knowing that you are putting our troops and Westerners abroad, esp. Americans at risk, well then go ahead. One day you will answer to God, like drug pushers or other criminals who never see at first hand the deaths for which they are responsible.
If you are a Christian, heck no, you have no right to defile the name of Christ, like those so-called pastors did. Christ did not call us to offend or hate or commit acts of aggression against other religions. I don’t know about you, but I do care deeply about the brothers in Pakistan who were martyred because of those two unrighteous, self-serving cowards. I care deeply for our troops, who will now have to face an even more hostile civilian population in Afghanistan.
I cannot believe some of the reactions on this blog. How long have we known that burning the Quran is anathema to Muslims? We Christians feel indignant when the left compares us to Muslims, AND YET we react just as irrationally when as Christians or as a Christianized society we expect Muslims to behave like us. We know they are barbaric, unjust and easily enraged. We know they hate our guts, and more importantly, we know they can harm us. We need to fight them in a way that minimizes our losses, not behave like beasts by needlessly stoking the fires of religious hatred.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:43pmKeep it up Muslims. Let everyone know exactly who you are- murderers, barbarians and religous fanatics. And they say Christians are radicals. A guy burns a book 10000 miles away and these scumbags murder innocent people. Hopefully, we will see a “condemnation” (whatever that means- basically nothing) from our fine president.
Good thing we now have the responsibility to protect act. Just in case these islamic a-holes start some crap with Israel and start getting their clocks cleaned, the whole world can go in and save their barbarian lives. I will never stand with these people.
God Bless Israel. these are the lowlifes that surround them.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:44pmIf the show were on the other foot, these would be Tea Party Patriots standing up for their rights, so what is not to admire about true believers with enough cajones to carry out their threats and claims? They seem more adamant about the level of acceptable insult than most Americans, who appear weak in contrast.
Report Post »Seraph
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 4:53pmThis is BS they are not rioting over that….HOW ABOUT THE KILL TEAMS!!! GB is a fear monger if you want the REAL truth and see from the outside of the BS left right paradigm listen to Alex Jones.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 5:07pmTwo things come to mind here. The quran is more absorbant than a Sears catalog and the U.S. should learn to shoot first and worry about the consequences if you survive when in a life threatening situation.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:05pmKilling people over burning a book? They are just a bunch of mindless barbarians, why do we even try to reason with them.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:23pmokey dokey. Middle finger flippo to the sleazy hippo.
What the hell does this have to do with the TEA party? FYI- the TEA party is not founded in religion moron. It is based in spending the country into oblivion. But you are too much of a soros hack to have done any type of investigative journalism into your own ignorance.
I hereby nominate sleazy hippo to scumbag status. When the sword of conversion is at your throat, it’ll do you no good to say you stood against the TEA party.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:35pmand seraph
what the hell is a fear monger? what monger are you? What Mr. Beck says doesn’t scare us, it only informs. Are there some things that are scary? Yes. Do you have to be overcome by fear? No.
You see my friend(used loosely), those of us who know who our creator is do not have to fear. It is people like yourself, who answer to no one, that have to fear.
So the explanation to my initial question, what fearmongering is- the truth as stated based on and proven with words and actions delivered in a manner that is not sugarcoated, distorted, or falsified that strikes fear into the hearts of all non-believers.
Just because its uncomfortable info doesn’t make it fearmongering.
Report Post »pappy
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 6:43pmRiiiigghhttt… Like these people really needed the excuse of a coran (koran) (quoren) (ahhh, whatever…) Like they needed a quoran burning to riot, murder, protest, kill, etc. Kinda reminds me of south L.A.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:01pmImagine how they would have reacted if the recent art show in LA that featured a smiling Sarah Palin being nailed to the cross had depicted Mohammed that way instead!
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:10pmIsn’t it a wonderful thing when the rabid dogs eat each other?
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:24pm(sorry, misplaced this post)
SLAPTHELEFT: “When the sword of conversion is at your throat, it’ll do you no good to say you stood against the TEA party.”
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Well said. And that goes for all the other Dims who learned nothing from Daniel Pearl’s execution.
-KACK-
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:26pmThe liberal idiots (sorry for the redundancy) never cease to amaze me. They attack the church that burned a stupid book and they blame the church for what the murdering animals did. Yet they allow a certain “church” here to do far worse at funerals of our dead soldiers. Not that we didn‘t already know who’s side the Libs were on….amazing.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:33pmTXPilot: “Isn’t it a wonderful thing when the rabid dogs eat each other?”
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If you were currently deployed in Afghanistan you wouldn’t think it was “wonderful,” believe me. Rabid dogs don’t just bite each other.
Vixen27
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:40pmKryptonite had it right; the people at the Florida church should be asking themselves if it was worth putting our troops at risk, worth people getting killed over. Yes, the fanatical extremists don’t need much reason to act out violently, so why deliberately provoke them? They burn US flags, burn effigies of our leaders, kill captured civilians and troops, blow themselves up in the name of Allah, target Christians and Jews around the world but, as Christians, we don’t form retaliatory mobs for revenge. When was the last time you heard about an angry mob of Christians beheading Muslims for trashing the Bible? Or burning down a mosque with kids inside because someone called Jesus names?
Report Post »What I want to know is how did a Christian church come to the point where they thought burning the Koran would be something Jesus would admire? There is no gospel precedent for this. I know the story of Jesus turning over the moneychangers’ tables in the temple. I know He told his followers to turn the other cheek although all of them had been taught an ‘eye for an eye’. He never sent his disciples out to insult other religions to evangelize. He came to teach the Gospel of love with love.
Radical Muslim extremists don’t think rationally. Their government and religion are melded together. They have no fear of death and believe that they will be rewarded for anything they do to promote the spread of Islam, even if it means taking the lives of innocents or blowing themselves up.
At some points we have to defend ourselves or others from radical Muslim terrorists, but to deliberately stir these people up with inflammatory actions and words is not only futile but puts innocent lives at risk.
There is no defense for the actions of the Afghan mob, but neither is there a defense for inciting the violence by taunting them.
watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 7:57pm@ SLEEZY HIPPO…………The first part of your name really fits you well given your comment above. You are disgusting for trying to draw that comparison. I wonder if your family member lay dead if you would be quite as glib?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:25pm@ KRYPTONITE………….I hear what your sayin’ and I kind of agree to a point but you must remember that Christians were being killed, harassed, churches and Bibles being burned for years by Muslims. For years Christians have been tortured and killed by Muslims in some of these countries that do not tolerate Christianity. I don‘t necessarily think the answer is running around burning Qu’rans but I do believe we need to stand against this evil at every turn and in every way. To me this may mean speaking truth that very well may incite violence on their part. But I ask you, did Jesus do anything less to speak truth and stand against evil? I understand what you are sayin’ again and agree with you to a point, but I do not want us to turn around and accept the extreme amount of hypocrisy that exists on this issue and make the pastor in Florida the scapegoat for murder. Those “people” need to be called into account no matter who does what to a Qu’ran. Again, ask yourself how many people have been tortured, killed, abused, raped because they were Christians being persecuted by Muslims and how many homes, churches and Bibles have been burned by the same people throwing their little fit now.
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-kills-christians-news.htm
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Taquoshi
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 8:45pmI’ve always wondered how the suicide bombers know there is no Korans in any of the market places where they blow themselves up.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:20pm@ KRYPTONITE………..The one thing I would strongly disagree with you is that you said Christ did not call us to offend. I believe he most certainly did call us to offend. He said woe to you if every man speaks well of you! That is why he said the world would hate us because of Him. The truth is offensive, it is the sword he spoke of that would bring division, not peace. However, I strongly agree with you that we are not called to hate or to be physically the aggressor. I will stand and physically defend anyone against murder and oppression that is the initiator though.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 9:48pmWatchtheotherhand: “Most of the world’s Muslims are not Arabic. However, the Qu‘ran is written in Arabic and many of the world’s non-Arabic Muslims can’t even read the book they are killing people over. They have no idea what it teaches except for what they are told. Very similar to the Dark Ages when only a certain few men could read the Scriptures in their printed language of the time and simply told people what it said….very dangerous!!!!!”
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Watch, I see a couple of problems with your analysis. First, while it is true that most Muslims are non-Arab, it’s the Arab Muslims who have the black gold, and are therefore a real threat to Western civilization. Second, it is true that both imams and corrupt church leaders have used the common people for their nefarious purposes throughout history. However, the central figures of the Quran and the Bible are like night and day. Muslims who follow the teachings of Muhammad become radicalized. Christians who follow the teachings of Christ become civilized.
kryptonite
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 10:23pmWatchtheotherhand: “The one thing I would strongly disagree with you is that you said Christ did not call us to offend. I believe he most certainly did call us to offend.”
No, Watch!! Jesus said He — and by extension we — would be a stumbling block to many. The truth does not offend; the truth sets people free. It is the darkness in human nature that is offended by the truth. In any case we are called to speak the truth in love (meaning God’s love, which is not necessarily lovey-dovey), since most of us will be offended by the truth to some degree given that we are all sinners. To use an analogy in your field, it’s the difference between removing a cancerous tumor and stabbing someone. They both hurt a lot, but they are not equivalent actions.
The Bible says that if we offend anybody in word or deed, we must repent and if necessary, offer restitution. Those so called pastors don’t even feel remorse. The blood of martyrs is on their hands and cries out to God. Those wolves in sheep’s skin need to get saved and stop leading others astray with their false teachings.
As to burning the Quran, how is that speaking or preaching the truth? That was an act of aggression and inner rage. If you can’t picture Jesus burning the Quran, then don’t rationalize it, brother.
Report Post »X-ile
Posted on April 2, 2011 at 11:31pmNo use it as toilet paper, and then flush it so it winds up with the rest of the sewage
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 12:09amMuslims are truly dumb. Their very own religion is their greatest tormentor. While I personally would never burn a koran, I wouldn’t hesitate to do so out of protest. Isn’t freedom from ignorance wonderful?
Report Post »Longshot35
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 1:40amHow many of them have burned a Bible?
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:14ami feel a pork barbeque coming on where do i get a quran i need something to start the coals. seriously these people are insane. how could someone claim to be a religious leader and in the same sentence tell his followers to kill. i have yet to hear any christian pastor that i have ever known stand at the pulpit and declare that anyone should be killed. these garbage pickers call themselves men of God? i say men of satan. soon the true God will be here to sort it all out we must stay vigilant and true to our faiths. however, if war comes to our shores protect yourselves with your guns and religion. be prepared collect: food, water (filters) and ammo!!!!! LS44
Report Post »GulfPeg
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 5:27amAustralia says NO – Second time she has done this!
She’s done it again. She sure isn’t backing down on her hard line stance and one has to appreciate her belief in the rights of her native countrymen. A breath of fresh air to see someone lead. I wish some leaders would step up in Canada & USA.
Australian Prime Minister does it again! This woman should be appointed Queen of the World. Truer words have never been spoken.
It took a lot of courage for this woman to speak what she had to say for the world to hear. The retribution could be phenomenal, but at least she was willing to take a stand on her and Australia’s beliefs. The whole world needs a leader like this!
> Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.
Separately, Gillard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying she supported spy agencies monitoring the nation’s mosques.
Quote: ‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT.
Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’
‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’
‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!’
‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools.
If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’
‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’
‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.‘ ’If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here.
Report Post »You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’
LegionOfOne
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:13amHuh… and this rioting is found justifiable. So, theoretically, next time a bible is burned, it’ll be okay for me to declare a Crusade on the perpetrator?
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 7:59amSo Muslims can burn our flag, burn our Holy Bible, burn down Christian churches, and slaughter Christians… And Christians do not retaliate with violence and death…
Muslims can slander Israel and denounce all Jewish people with threats of death… And the Jewish people do not retaliate with violence and death…
So what exactly is the “Religion of Peace”? The Christian and Jewish faiths in a civilized society or the Muslim faith of Islam?
A picture saves a thousand words, and Muslims worldwide are clearly painting their “picture” for the rest of us to see… Islam is definitely NOT the “Religion of Peace.”
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:13am@GulfPeg
Report Post »WOW!
Now, when are WE getting rid of that Muslim in the WH who said that “we do not consider ourselves Christian nation?”
kryptonite
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 9:21amoops, “a Christian nation.”
GULFPEG, Maybe we need a woman in the WH, after all (not Hillary).
Report Post »Wiz001
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 10:54amBurn a Koran everyday til they become tolerant of it.. IT IS just paper, how does destroying that paper demand a HUMAN LIFE!!! These people are SICK and not a real religion, they are at best a CULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »God Bless Our Troops
tifosa
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 2:04pmEven with hindsight, seeing the abhorrent response to burning the Quran, there are those of you in here who would do it. Glenn Beck should be very proud.
Report Post »THENEWMCCARTHY
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 4:50pmWant to hear a big lie? DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW.
Domestic drilling does NOT increase domestic supply. That oil belongs to EXXON – NOT the United States of America (unless we nationalize the oil companies.)
And EXXON WILL SELL IT TO WHOMEVER THEY CHOOSE AT THE HIGHEST price they can get on the WORLD market.
Report Post »THENEWMCCARTHY
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 6:11pmand you can put your Bible right next to it
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 3, 2011 at 8:58pm@ On the Other Hand
Report Post »Thanks for your comments, it shows that you have the exceptionally open mind of a medically trained advocate of human rights, Hippocratic ethics and constitutional free speech. Bless you (smile) !!
It is interesting that as I have become an outside observer commenting on Blaze remarks; I find it fascinating that someone of your credentials would mistake that and make ad hominim insults. (smile) By the way I wish you were my urologist. Thus, I am preparing a three legged stool sample for you. (grin)
And, I hope you make enough medicare income to break even by 2015.