Friday, April 15, 2011

Did the burning of a Koran incite mob violence?

It was wrong to burn a Koran - - rude and stupid and just plain bad manners.

And, the Koran burning (at a small unknown and unnoticed backwoods redneck church) was followed by violence.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/12-killed-in-attack-on-un-compound-in-northern-afghanistan/2011/04/01/AFrb5iHC_story.html

But, we now know that the unnoticed, unpublicized Koran burning did not incite the mob violence.

Those exploiting medieval backwards fundamentalist religious beliefs for their own political purposes incited the mob violence which followed the Koran burning.

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