From AP via Fox News, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Thousands of Muslims marched Friday in Islamic countries from Asia to the Middle East, burning symbols of America to protest the alleged desecration of the Koran by military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The rallies in Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere followed an admission Thursday by U.S. investigators that Islam's holy book was mishandled at Guantanamo Bay. But American officials claimed it was often inadvertent and denied that any Korans were flushed down a toilet, as Newsweek magazine had reported in a now-retracted article.
No injuries were reported in Friday's demonstrations, with police simply watching in most places. In India's Kashmir region, however, police fired tear gas and used batons to disperse hundreds of Muslims gathered outside a mosque in the capital of Srinagar.
Women in black veils marched through Kashmir, where schools and businesses were closed as part of the protest, and set American flags and copies of the U.S. Constitution ablaze...
And from AsiaNews, "Christians and Muslims together against Qu’ran desecration," with thanks to Nicolei:
Faisalabad – Pakistani Christians will join the ‘international day of protest against the desecration of the Holy Qu’ran” called by the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), an alliance of Islamic religious parties.Mgr Evaristo Pinto, Auxiliary Bishop of Karachi, told AsiaNews that “we condemn the desecration of the Qu’ran by US soldier in Guantanamo Bay, because as we respect our sacred books so we respect and give honour to those of other religions. This type of insult is not justified under any circumstances,” he added.
Fr Aftab James Paul, diocesan director in Faisalabad for the National Commission for Inter-Religious Dialogue, said that “when we demand respect and honour for our religion, it is our duty to respect other religions and should not utter derogatory remarks or insult [their] holy books”.
“We are completely united in protest with our Muslim brothers,” he added...
World War on the way
Congratulate PC-niks world wide and US MSM for doing their part to make next WW happen
(hoepfully PC rules for upcoming war will be relaxed...at least enough so that we
non-islamists may practice self-defense of our civilization)
btw
" black (widows) marched through Kashmir...and set...copies of the U.S. Constitution ablaze."
that's it - anybody up for a riot or two?
Rioting by Westerners would play into the hands of the Islamists. They are itching for a fight. We can't be held responsible for the fact that almost everything is a provocation or insult to Islam.
What we should do is to prepare ourselves for continued unrest in the Muslim world that could lead to shortages and uncomfortable times ahead.
A coming oil crisis?
....“We are completely united in protest with our Muslim brothers,” he added...
Ahh, my dhimmi, you have learned your lessons well. Good dhimmi, good boy.
i'll walk the rest of this life - if it means the wassabi-lobby saudis and islamofacists are put out of business (by lack of petro money)
RugPilots:
Try to get used to we Americans dumping on the quran. We don't intend to stop. Plus, the fact that defiling the quran provokes muslim riots is quite satisfying.
Free Advice: Stock up on sun tan lotion. Maybe, it will help when we drop the Big One. But, probably not. Whatever. (No pain; No gain.)
No muslims. No mosques.
Don't worry we have lots of oil to sell you up in Canada, lets just cooperate and screw middle east imports
We have to look that this phenomenon strategically.
Now we know what kind of psy-ops rumors ("Kick a Qu'ran" = quickly collected crowds of Koranic crazies) will bring a lot of targets out en masse. Should we ever need to, we can count on their hysterical irrationality to play into the hands of whatever 'desecration' ruse we need to use.
(I hope the Pentagon planners are thinking up some tactical faux outrages against the 'holy' book to be 'leaked to the press' whenever we want to get a lot of Islamic nutjobs on the streets where we can see them, and who are packed close together, and easy to 'impact upon'.)
BigSleep, that is referred to as a target rich environmentI believe.
I only wish that Christians would show the same outrage regarding the persecution of their co-religionists around the world. Globally, 300,000,000 Christians face persecution. Who knows how may Bibles are desecrated as a result of such persecution.