Fourteen killed in Koran protests across Indian Kashmir

The accessibility of up to date information and education in some parts of the world is depressingly low. I can hardly believe that one hostile pastor talking about damaging a Koran somehow results in riots, destruction, and death on the other side of the world.

I feel that in a social sense that so much of the world hasn’t actually advanced much at all from the middle ages, and that generalization applies just about everywhere.

Terry Jones is directly responsible for the death of these people. He is responsible for the riots and for spreading intolerance. He is no man of God. He should be held responsible for his actions.

Koran was burnt in multiple places in US. One burnt Koran was left at East Lansing Michigan Mosque. Another burnt, Shot, Koran was left at Knoxville Tennessee mosque.

Muslims revere all holy books, including Torah and Bible, and consider them continuous part of Islamic message from Abaraham. Both Moses and Jesus are considered True prophets in Islam. Virgin Mary holds the highest rank amongst the women in world under Islam.

This is all in Koran.

You will not hear of any insults to holy books or Prophets in the so called Islamic countries.

Indians have been doing this for the past 30 years since the region was declared a troubled region and lakhs of soldiers were sent batch after batch. Has anything changed since then, except for many innocent Muslims being killed, tortured, burned, raped. Human rights violations are the same in every troubled region they say. Expect in Kashmir bullets are used against stones. We can go on and on about India’s occupation of a state full of peace loving Muslims and systematically turning it into a war zone. India is doing to Kashmir what China did to Tibet.

niharee: burning a christian missionary school inherently includes burnings of Holy Bibles and supplemental teachings of the prophet Jesus Christ and the prophets before him and after him. Did you miss that part of the story, or just hope the rest of us did?

Reuters: Thanks for the details on the abuse of the Quran with no journalistic endeavor to equate the other side of the story with a report from the missionary school and the number of Holy Bibles lost. Not that we need a tit for tat creating and fomenting an inevitable global religious war if this doesn’t stop. But, it would be awfully journalistic rather than decisively political.

Peacemongers: If Terry Jones is responsible for all this, then Al Qaeda is responsible for Terry Jones, and the CIA is responsible for Al Qaeda or something like that right…then i blame the russians for this incident in Kashmir for bothering Afghanistan in the first place!

I do know it is a good thing we hold ourselves to the highest standards, as exhibited by our own hatred of what Terry Jones was going to do, while the rest of the world burns our effigies, we just keep on rolling in dough. Even in this “down economy”, I’m still hunting, fishing, four-wheeling in the mud and gassing up the rigs. If it wasn’t for our own standard, we’d be burning effigies too and have an even higher rate of cancer in the U.S. I prefer to fish with a bemused expression thinking of the countries and places like this I’ve visited…and splash, fish on!

“Virgin Mary holds the highest rank amongst the women in world under Islam”. From what I’ve observed about Islam, that isn’t saying much.

I see no difference between Terry Jones and muslim terrorists in Afghanistan/Pakistan/India. They are all distorting religion for political or personal gains. While choice of religion should be a fundamental right, any public rhetoric against any religion should be condemnded and punishable by law.

niharee wrote: Muslims revere all holy books, including Torah and Bible … You will not hear of any insults to holy books or Prophets in the so called Islamic countries.

Wrong. Muslim extremists burned bibles and crosses to intimidate Christians in Gaza City, 2007:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/285123christians_in_gaza_fear_for_their_lives.html

caliguy55,

You’re comment is closer to the teachings of Christ than you think. I’m no theologian, but as I understand the Bible, the Sadducee and Pharisee priests of Jesus day were as fond of quoting and exercising the letter of the law from the Torah (Old Testsament) as today’s muslims are of doing so from the Koran. Jesus charged them with hypocrisy, having hearts full of lies and murder, and demanding behavior from the people they did not exhibit themselves(get the log out of your own eye first).

He also tried to teach them that the “Spirit” of the laws of the Bible as opposed to the letter of the law, was the overriding principles of love, mercy and forgiveness. But you know the story, for his efforts they conspired in the shadows and murdered him.

this does not make sense Allah and God are the same,anyone who has studied the bible knows this, anyone who has studied any of the religions that are based on old testament knows this. it makes no sense at all.why can’t everyone just stop this craziness.

So because a couple nut jobs thousands of miles away burned copies of a book, these guys had a riot. They wrecked their own city, burned down buildings and killed people. They didn’t even kill the nuts who mad them angry.

I’m sorry, but it’s really hard to take these people seriously or even try to imagine they want peace. They seem to respond to absolutely everything with mindless violence.

“Terry Jones is directly responsible for the death of these people. He is responsible for the riots and for spreading intolerance. He is no man of God. He should be held responsible for his actions.”

In case you hadn’t notice, long before Terry Jones these individuals were killing each other regularly. If one man burning a book regardless of it’s nature can instigate riots and death then there’s a serious problem with that culture and religion.

“We can go on and on about India’s occupation of a state full of peace loving Muslims and systematically turning it into a war zone.”
ziggurat

Well first off its not entirely muslim or hindu. Secondly India and Pakistan have both used Kashmir as a political buffer to the detriment of the people. Secondly to the many posters equating this with the Koran burning i highly doubt that is the motivation for rioting.

“If one man burning a book regardless of it’s nature can instigate riots and death then there’s a serious problem with that culture and religion.” – somethingtosay

Agreed. If violence wasn’t already in their hearts to begin with, they wouldn’t have committed murder, vandalism, and destruction. Blaming it on Terry Jones, who even canceled his burnings, is just another blame game.