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Burning of Koran is ‘America’s worst PR disaster in Afghanistan’
Published: 23 February, 2012, 03:20
Seven people have been killed and dozens injured in protests over the burning of the Koran by US troops at an airbase in Afghanistan. An officer has apologized for the inadvertent burning. Yet some are saying apologies will not work here.
Not the invasion of their country by a foreign power and not the killing of their people, but burning a certain book was the worst thing to do? One can clearly see here how religion is a poison for the mind, when it has come so far as to brainwash people into thinking that life has less value than the contents of a book.
American soldiers ignorantly burning Korans and Russian feminists desecrating a Moscow church with their intrusion and music? What a coincidence, eh?
The "worst disaster"? The whole of the US Middle East policy is a disaster!!! Many of you Americans make light of the burning of Korans, well being a stooge state of Israel and sending our young men and women to fight Israel's wars is also thinking that life has less value than the wishes of a guilty,paranoid, ruthless,bankers of the world ISRAEL!!!!....Fred....oregon usa
unis wrote in#2 Not the invasion of their country by a foreign power and not the killing of their people, but burning a certain book was the worst thing to do? One can clearly see here how religion is a poison for the mind, when it has come so far as to brainwash people into thinking that life has less value than the contents of a book.
Why is this being down rated? His point is indisputable.
Burning the Koran is America's worst PR disaster? What about bombing the weddings and the kids from the air by "mistake"? Peeing on dead prisoners? It has happened quite a few times in Afghanistan...
And what about Abu Gharaib and Haditha in Iraq? And many other episodes, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia?
NATO, the Military Industrial Complex and the Banksters have a credibility which is less then zero, in both Afghanistan and the West.
And Obama/Osama and Killary Klinton were so angry about wikileaks? Truth hurts, glory to Julian Assange!
We should demand that all the unreleased Wikileaks files must be published online as soon as possible
" The Tajiks, the Khazars ( correction RT its Hazara not Khazara) and the Uzbeks,.."I am from Afghanistan and I am Hazara please correct your spelling.
wash yer own dirty laundry yerself, manage yer own garbage, that way if something amiss no one knows, but alas, since that are low-dignity jobs they left it to other low people (in their eyes) the afghan, served them right to be so cocky...
Fighting over imaginary friends. Is this really news?
It is the same Zaid Hamid who fought the russians in 80s siding with Americans, talking to a russian television against the Americans...what a shift in world strategy...American doing the same worst mistake in controlling Afghanistan..the war seems to be never ending and no the public is turning against it.
Zaid Hamid in the RT interview is a Pak media version of a Glen Beck by some accounts. That purple beret is significant as some kind of Pak solidarity with Afghanistan people vs. the US and its allies. cronies, and proxy forces - which includes all mercenaries, CIA, and everyone else there who Paks like Mr. Hamid (Zaid Hamid not president Hamid alot of confusing guys named Hamid there) have good reasons not to like. Which brings me to the main point of everyone here missing the point. Is RT really so gullible to believe the US story of an unfortunate unintentional Koran burning by US forces in Afghanistan? Please. Could it be they might want to incite conflict? Plus Afghans sure are sensitive about religion, which does in fact seem legitimate even when invaders have been at war in your nation for more than a decade. They still pay well. When they burn your holy books now THERE is reason to get upset. Worse than urination on your dead. I use the word
"urination" because p..sing is not allowed by filter here comrade.
If to kill innocents in all corners of the World, if to p*ss on the dead bodies,
if to smile with SS emblem in hands, then why not to burn the Holy Books?
Fascism remains fascism, especially under "US Democracy" label.....
Maybe this should be time for Americans to leave Afghanistan? Afghan's are so angry at this- when they marry 13 yeard old and beat them to death or stone them if they leave- I bet that's not on the Kuram- But I agree- America should mind OUR business and get out of there- and NOT.. NOT let anyone else from there live here
wasn't Americans that burned it. RT wants to see a war happen. . Guess what it will and bad.
and Penguins are fanning the flames.
CNN should redeploy Arwa Damon from Syria (where there warmongering propaganda has failed with the death of one eyed Ms Colvin) to Afghanistan to do some damage control by filming NATO soldiers distributing chocolates, biscuits and playing with Afghan kids on the streets of Kandahar. Oh, lest I forgot, she has to remain in Syria bringing us pictures of kids struggling between life and death, allowing them to die so that the west can have video of 'Assad killing little children or Gaddafi feeding his troops with Viagra for them to run around with hard ons pursuing women on the streets of Tripoli' to be used for a UN resolution to blast Syria to stone age like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc.
Hey, Uncle Sam, is it not high time you packed your things out of Afghanistan and go with your kind of democracy which you have no good example in any country that you have been involved in to show. Go home and stop putting the lives of less priviledged American kids in extreme danger in places where they couldnt even identify on a map fighting against primitive tribesmen in remote mountains of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is on record regarded as the graveyard of invaders and it is no different this time.
When things go very very wrong for a long time it takes a little accident to spark the masses and all to boil over. As of to the Quran, they have been warned vey long time ago. And the mockery and the provocations began under the watch of this very same NATO general secretary A.F. Rasmussen, well known racist, who was at the time Danish PM.
How can the US troops "inadvertently" throw the holy books of Islam into a pile and set them on fire???
These anti-American protests are getting serious. The Taliban have called on all Afghan troops to kill American soldiers. One Afghan soldier already shot at several American troops killing two and wounding six.
Also, Drudge Report has a picture of Afghan protesters carrying a large black effigy of Obama with a stick up his behind and a sign around the neck that reads: "Black dog Obama".
The situation is getting serious when the Afghans, the supposed beneficiaries of the "blessings" of the US invasion, are calling the US president a "black dog". How racist is that??? At least they didn't refer to Obama as an black ape.
"Burning of Koran is ‘America’s worst PR disaster in Afghanistan"
Not true. The worst US PR disaster in Afghanistan has been the murder of hundreds of thousands of Afghan men, women and children, for no other reason than empire building.
There seem to be only one religious group in this one that think they have the monopoly to violence and terror under any guise.
How many times have we heard the Islamic governments apologised for the endless sacrilage that their followers commit against other religions or their holy objects or places?
Enough of all these nonsense of the West and their weak knees apologising to terrorists that will commit their atrocities anyway, regardless of what excuse is available.
What folks like Obama fail to understand is that oacifying the terrorists by covering the evil their religion stands for, will come back to hunt him as it is hurting millions of innocent Black Africans living with those savage demons. Take a look at Libya, Nigeria, Sudan, Ivory Coast, even Somali, Muslims will only eat each other when there is no 'infidel' to eat. Wake up Sane World and call a serpent by its name.
American freedom of religion = Burn Quran as easy as any other book :D