Dove World Outreach Church in Florida Kills foreign staff workers in Afghanistan

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Afghans Angry Over Florida Koran Burning Kill U.N. Staff


KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of demonstrators angered over the burning of a Koran in Florida mobbed offices of the United Nations in northern Afghanistan on Friday, overrunning the compound and killing at least seven foreign staff workers, according to Afghan officials.

There were conflicting reports on the total number of people killed and whether two of the victims had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also reported killed.
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Fran Ingram, an assistant at the Dove World Outreach Center, in Gainesville, Fla., said that the church had burned the Koran after a ceremony on March 20.

“We put the Koran on trial and we did burn it,” she said. Ms. Ingram said she and other church members were no more concerned about their safety than before the burning and the killings of the United Nations workers in Afghanistan. “We have a huge stack of death threats,” she said. “We take precautions. I have a handgun. A lot of us have concealed weapons permits. We’re a small church and we don’t have money to hire security.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/world/asia/02afghanistan.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[RZM]

1. Self-Delete n/t

[opihimoimoi]

2. Unreal...they are oblivious of what happened as a direct consequence

These guys might even do it again...no empathy

[Maine_Nurse]

3. No, murdering scum killed those people...

I certainly don't agree with the church or their actions in any way, but the reality is that getting pissed off about a book being burned is no excuse to go on a murderous rampage. As much as I can't stand the Catholic Church, I really can't picture my local priest beheading anyone over burning a bible. Backwards religious zealots that murder over pieces of paper are the same kind of crap whether they are in Kentucky or Kabul.

[spanone]

4. they knew it would cause a firestorm....guilty

[Maine_Nurse]

5. Guilty of assholery, absolutely. But the murderers are the ones guilty of murder.