AFGHANISTAN افغانستان

Afghans protest burning of Korans at U.S. base

BAGRAM, Afghanistan —As thousands of angry Afghans flung rocks at NATO’s largest military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday, American officials sought to quell a widening furor over what they said had been the accidental incineration by U.S. military personnnel of copies of the Islamic holy book.

The protests erupted early Tuesday, after Afghans working inside Bagram air base told local residents that a number of copies of the Koran had been burned. When they carried out the charred pages, waving the evidence in the air, the crowd grew larger and more defiant.

U.S. officials said the books were mistakenly sent with a pile of trash to be disposed of before being identified by several Afghans. Although the initial protests were concentrated largely around the Bagram base, the charred remains of Korans were sent promptly to Kabul, where President Hamid Karzai and other top Afghan officials will decide how to respond to the incident.

Seriously?! Its just mind boggling that they keep doing such immoral things over and over again. Why don’t they just do their job and not disrespect, dishonor and disregard the values and faith of the country they occupy. And the fact that it was ‘unintentional’ is a joke, they clearly knew how sensitive this issue was and couldve easily foreseen the reaction.