Muslims kill U.N. staff because of Koran Flambé

The difference between a nutty Christian and a nutty Muslim is that when the nutty Christian loses his head, everyone else gets to keep theirs; with Muslims it’s the reverse.

From here:

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.

The dead included at least seven United Nations workers — five Nepalese guards and two Europeans, one of them a woman. None were Americans. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded.

The attack was the deadliest for the United Nations in Afghanistan since 11 people were killed in 2009, when Taliban suicide bombers invaded a guesthouse in Kabul. It also underscored the latent hostility toward the nine-year foreign presence here, even in a city long considered to be among the safest in Afghanistan — so safe that American troops no longer patrol here in any numbers.

Unable to find Americans on whom to vent their anger, the mob turned instead on the next-best symbol of Western intrusion — the nearby United Nations headquarters. “Some of our colleagues were just hunted down,” said a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Kieran Dwyer, confirming the attack.

3 thoughts on “Muslims kill U.N. staff because of Koran Flambé

  1. I wonder if Jones’ conscience is bothering him. Probably not. Did you notice that there is at least one little boy in that picture? Wow.

  2. The embarrassing thing is that if one views Terry Jones and the Afghan mullahs in a certain way, they both “win” in this.

    Jones gets publicity. The mullahs demonstrate their influence and ability to stir up the people.

    Who loses? Well, those unlucky enough to be UN workers in Afghanistan, of course, among others.

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