Muslim rage

Being determined not to let a whole month go by without making an appearance here, I will just refer to this post anyone (if there is anyone) who happens to stop by and hasn't already read Solomonia's concise analysis of today's riots in Afghanistan.

Actually, they weren't "angered by" Terry Jones' Koran burning, they were stirred up by someone with something to gain by inciting them. I'm still waiting for a similar story of Israeli Jews coming out of Shabbat services and doing damage to UN personnel, but we all know the mere thought is ridiculous. They at least have a reason to be angry with the UN. What's the UN ever done to Afghanistan other than try to provide services? Barbaric.

Yes, that sums it up well.  Note that the most of the media, even Ynet, fail to catch this nuance.  Terry Jones, certified nut-case, kept his Koran burning plans sufficiently quiet this time that the event (appropriately) received almost no media coverage in this country.  I'm unable to find reports of so much as a protest here, either before or after the fact.  No hint of the public condemnations widely shared by prominent members of both the American Muslim and non-Muslim communities when Jones announced a similar stunt last year on September 11.  And yet it was a hot enough issue in Mazar-i-Sharif to provoke the killing of at least 20 [update: 7] UN workers?  As Sol says, not without the deliberate incitement of someone with an agenda.

This part, Ynet got exactly right: "Muslim rage leads to murder."

It almost always does.

Shabbat Shalom.