NATO Apologises After Burning Copies Of The Koran In Afghanistan
Well, this is embarrassing. A US commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan has apologised after copies of the Koran (and other religious Islamic materials) were sent to be burned in a rubbish tip. The books were found by Afghan Muslims working on the dump. They told friends and this resulted in about 2 000 people rocking up at the US base to assault it with fire bombs and stones.
Images of the charred remains have also been doing the rounds on the internet.
Here is the apology that NATO posted online, made by General John R. Allen:
[Source: BBC]
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3 Comments
clinton
21 Feb 2012
“assault with fire bombs”
because checking if it was a mistake first is too civilised.
The Tycoon
22 Feb 2012
Clinton, explain how you would mistakably burn religious literature
Clinton
22 Feb 2012
“I didn’t recognise it as religious literature, it was in a pile of telkom bills etc.”
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