Protests in Afghanistan turned violent on Friday over plans by a Florida pastor to burn copies of the Koran, even after the pastor announced he was not going through with the event. Five Afghan protesters were wounded, three of them critically, when hundreds of men tried to force their way onto a NATO reconstruction base at Faisabad, capital of Badakshan Province in northern Afghanistan, according to civilian authorities.
I’m going to just throw out there the notion that this wasn’t really about the Koran so much as it’s about generalized dislike of the large American military presence in Afghanistan.
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