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| Terry Jones Pastor at Dove Outreach Center in Gainsville FL. thought of the brillant idea to insult Muslims around the world by burning the Koran. |
-General David Petraus indicated that he believed the Koran burning was a disasterous idea that could lead to severe consequences for those Americans serving in Afghanistan.
-March 20th, 2011 the Dove Outreach Center- Gainsville Florida. A copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, was bured.
-March 24th 2011-Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke publicly concerning the Koran burning that took place four days earlier in FL. Karzai called the act a desecration.
-Saturday, March 26th, 2011. Kandahar Aghanistan. Protesters marched through the streets of the country's largest provincel, holding long sticks and carrying copies of the Koran over their heads. Gunfire erupted overhead and thick black smoke blanketed the air.
-Following the protest march turned riot, a government spokesperson declared the deaths of nine protesters. 81 others were injured.
-"Some wicked and destructive people placed themselves amongst the protesters and started rioting throughout the entire Kandahar city," the governor's office said. "The enemies of the people and country also burned down the furniture and a bus at a ladies' high school in Kandahar and destroyed some other properties."
-The protests that began Friday incited thousands of Afghanis across the region in Kabul, Herat and Mazar-i-Sharif.
-Seven foreign UN workers were killed at the UN compound as a result of the unrest.
-A UN spokesman said that the UN had no plans on pulling out of the devestated country. He said that the UN would remain because the Afghani people are still in need of aid.
-Hamid Karzai sent his condolences to the families of the those UN workers that were slain.
-Saturday-A Taliban spokesman sent a text message to the AP denying Taliban involvment in the murders.
-Wayne Sapp, pastor at the Dove Outreach Center in FL who participated and coordinated the burning of the Koran on March 20th reported that he felt sorry for those killed, but did not see that the deaths or riots were the fault of the parishoners."I in no way feel like our church is responsible for what happened."
-Afghan officals believe that insurgents somehow melded with the throngs of protesters outside the UN compound and detonated explosives.
Protests in Libya, Bahrain, Iran, Syria, Tunsinia and Egypt all resulted from people desiring freedom. Although there have not been political uprisings in Afghanistan that resemble those in many Middle Eastern nations, the unbelievably stupid actions of one ignorant moron have lead to thousands taking to the streets. Hopefully Mr. Jones and Mr. Sapp are capable of single handedly defending our country from Islamic extremeists and even average Muslim followers, because they certainly should have to.
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| US soliders stand guard at a US base in Afghanistan following an attack on April 2nd at a UN compound that killed seven foreign aid workers. |
I think that both the U.S and Islamic countries such as Aghanistan should be protected from not only Islamic extremist but also Christian extremist and any type of religious extremists. All these groups of extremists should learn how to live in peace with people different from themselves. The only way there would be peace is if we all learn to accept people for who they are and try not to impose our believes and views on others. The fact that a someone is a Muslim doesn't mean the person is a terrorist and the fact that someone is a Christian doesn't mean the person is a saint! I wish we could all live in peace even if we don't see eye to eye on religion.
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