Koran Burning at Bagram Air Base Draws the Ire of Thousands

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Koran Burning at Bagram Air Base Draws the Ire of Thousands

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Alexander Abad-Santos 449 Views 8:22 AM ET
Thousands of Aghans protested at Bagram Air Base, the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, on Tuesday, as local laborers found out that NATO personnel had been burning Korans at the base. With news of the protest still coming in, MSNBC is reporting that the base saw 2,000-3,000 protesters today. "Afghan demonstrators used slingshots and fired guns in the air while U.S. helicopters responded with flares," reads the MSNBC report. "The demonstrators — shouting "Die, die, foreigners!" — started gathering in the morning after learning of the incident." According to MSNBC and The New York Times, local Bagram employees reportedly found the charred remains of Korans in the trash.
NATO Commander Gen. John R. Allen has already issued an apology for burning. "ISAF personnel at Bagram Air Base improperly disposed of a large number of Islamic religious materials which included Korans,” Allen said, referring to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force, in The New York Times report, which politely went with Allen's "disposal" euphemism in its headline. "When we learned of these actions, we immediately intervened and stopped them. The materials recovered will be properly handled by appropriate religious authorities."
We'll keep this post updated as more news comes in.
 
I am glad of it, as some folks are under the impression that Afghans outside of the Taliban are welcoming the Americans with open arms. Well this not only proves otherwise, according to first hand interviews with the people, these foreign invaders are despised and enable youths who'd have otherwise not remotely thought of joining the Taliban to do just that. They urinate on the dead, they evangelize they burn Qurans they rape girls they murder civilians they cause corruptions left and right and then want to negotiate with the 'Bad Guy' i.e the Taliban.

They've absolutely no credence and no power save by drones which they allege to finger out 'terrorists' when in fact it targets children of the female disposition. They know it is a losing battle on land and insha'Allah:
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Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allah . So they will spend it; then it will be for them a [source of] regret; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved - unto Hell they will be gathered.


yup just saying!
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When they're deflated which will happen soon insha'Allah..
 
Even as an American citizen, I cannot understand this mentality. What's the point in burning Korans? Even if one is not Muslim, anyone should be respectful enough not to blatantly destroy religious texts of others.

If this report is valid, I just cannot perceive what they were trying to accomplish...
 
If they had a bunch of Islamic religious texts at the base, a nobler act would have been for them to hand out copies to needy Muslims in Afghanistan.
 
GodIsAll said:
Even as an American citizen, I cannot understand this mentality. What's the point in burning Korans? Even if one is not Muslim, anyone should be respectful enough not to blatantly destroy religious texts of others.

If this report is valid, I just cannot perceive what they were trying to accomplish...
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Oh it is valid, you're welcome to google it, although I wonder how much of mainstream media will cover it.
We're accustomed to vile acts going unmentioned or with a tongue in cheek apology.
It wouldn't matter who burns the Quran you know it is actually the proper way to destroy religious texts. It will never die from our hearts, as God's word is living not simply written but we do recognize an act of war when we see it, and we've collectively reached our boiling point!

best,
 
The people involved should be made to purchase the most expensive E-Readers on the market, download the Quran ebook, and then be ordered to burn the E-Readers.

Book burning is so 20th century.
 
I agree that the person(s) responsible should be forced to personally pay for new copies and distribute them to those in need in Afghanistan.

This is totally irresponsible and shows a lack of empathy and respect.

BlueBell: I understand (to some extent) your outrage. I am asking for thoughts of peace and forgiveness to you. I hope this act was one of ignorance and inconsiderateness, that is easier to cure than blatant hate.

God's love to all his Creations...
 
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I am asking for thoughts of peace and forgiveness to you.
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I don't feel like either-- It is an act of war, they're physically there for war, destruction, rape and pillage not to handout peanut brittle-- I hope that they don't receive peace nor forgiveness but are met in kind. This isn't about God's love to his creation, this is about man's hate toward his fellow man. They've ravaged Afghanistan and neighbors enough to receive any form of reprieve and the half baked apologies have lost all meaning overtime. Urinating on the dead yesterday, burning Quran today.. what do you think will happen tomorrow? I am sorry if it isn't the sort of response you're looking for but I don't see eye to eye with those people and the apologies have grown meaningless!
I think they should get what's coming to them and it will come by God's leave!

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Not only is this highly offensive but also wasteful as another commentor pointed out. These materials could have been given to needy afghanis.
 
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just for the record someone above wondered how much main stream news will cover it..... i'm seeing it all over the place as the nightly news is currently on... it is a shame and a travesty that this happened no matter what excuses can be given... I pray to Allah (swt) that there won't be other such actions .... i NEVER agreed w/ book burning even when i was in school... it is a horrible waste and this even more so as we are in someone elses country AND of course the materials that were destroyed.
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This behaviour explains perfectly why we bomb muslim countries. If people are going to go so crazy over a simple book and kill others because of it, this society has no place in modern civilization. The Taliban are a throwback to a more primitive and savage time of human society and it is therefore the responsibility of Western societies to wipe out these brutes. Kudos to Obama for initiating the surge in Afghanistan after the war in Iraq was done, may the drones have happy hunting.
 
GodIsAll said:
Even as an American citizen, I cannot understand this mentality. What's the point in burning Korans? Even if one is not Muslim, anyone should be respectful enough not to blatantly destroy religious texts of others.
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This illustrates the point that contrary to what Bush and Obama say, this is a war on Islam, not a war on 'terror'. Islam is THE enemy because with the fall of communism it is the only legitimate alternative to the existing capitalistic economic and so-called democratic political system that rules the earth today. Terrorism is something that can inflame a people to act unjustly, but whether the reality of that terrorism is as has been told to us or a series of 'false-flag' operations to manipulate the masses remains to be seen.
If this report is valid, I just cannot perceive what they were trying to accomplish...
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Why would Obama apologize for something that is not 'valid'? The US has destroyed the social structure of both Afghanistan and Iraq with an untold millions of people killed, wounded, forced out of their homes to live as refugees. My question is why do Americans and others not see the state sponsored terrorism inflicted on these innocent people? Do these people hate America less or do they hate her more since being invaded and occupied?

Why do we Muslims get so worked up over cartoons and burnings of Qurans when we tolerate without so much as a whimper the injustices of these wars and the prisons of Bagram, Abu Ghaib and Gitmo?
 
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alpharius said:
This behaviour explains perfectly why we bomb muslim countries. If people are going to go so crazy over a simple book and kill others because of it, this society has no place in modern civilization. The Taliban are a throwback to a more primitive and savage time of human society and it is therefore the responsibility of Western societies to wipe out these brutes. Kudos to Obama for initiating the surge in Afghanistan after the war in Iraq was done, may the drones have happy hunting.
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Your post confirms what I wrote prior to reading it. Yes, Muslims are devoted to Islam and we respect both the Quran and Prophet Muhammad (saaws) infinitely more than what the West can comprehend. Insha'Allah, we will soon see how 'primitive and savage' the West becomes when it reaches the point of widespread economic collapse or after the implementation of severe austerity measures to avoid it such as presently occuring in Greece. The simpler, less materialistic way of life that was implemented by Prophet Muhammad (saaws) is just and sustainable; whereas, capitalism with its widespread use of usury only serves to make the extremely few rich even richer and the poor masses even poorer.

Remote control drone and sniper killings are so an illustration of manly warfare - truly something to be proud of, yeah right!
 

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