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Why Afghanistan has reacted so sharply to threat of Koran burning

By Alliance Alert

The Christian Science Monitor: "In Kabul, parliamentary candidates have put up signs vowing retaliation against the US if Korans are burned and in at least two provinces, anti-American protesters have been shot outside NATO compounds. In one northeastern province, an Afghan National Army outpost was almost overrun and a protest in Kabul earlier this week included stone-throwing at US humvees . . . While it's hard to see an isolated Quran burning in Florida driving many ethnic Tajiks or Uzbeks to the Taliban's side, the history of Afghanistan is replete with examples of insults against Islam ? real or imagined ?- lighting the dry religious tinder that cuts across ethnic lines there. That's a strategy the Taliban has pursued for decades."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 10, 2010 (boomark / email).