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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11912)	5/21/2008 4:10:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

does that doc. say what I think it says?

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (11912)	5/22/2008 10:40:12 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

1 NATO soldier killed in Quran protest May 22 09:59 AM US/Eastern By ALISA TANG Associated Press Writer breitbart.com KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Gunfire broke out Thursday at a protest in western Afghanistan against a U.S. sniper in Iraq who used a Quran for target practice and officials said a NATO soldier and two civilians were killed. Police opened fire on demonstrators who threw rocks and set tents on fire near a military airfield in western Ghor province, said NATO spokesman Maj. Martin O'Donnell. Two civilians were slain and seven others were wounded, he said. Gunfire also killed one NATO soldier and wounded another, but it was not clear who shot at them, O'Donnell said. "We don't know if it was one of the protesters, an insurgent among the protesters or an insurgent sniper outside the protest. We have no indication that it was the Afghan National Police," O'Donnell told The Associated Press. Ghor provincial police chief Shah Jahan Noori said about 1,000 demonstrators had gathered to protest the Quran shooting. Provincial council member Ahmad Khan Rahimi was among the protesters and estimated the crowd at 2,000 people. He said they chanted "Death to America!" and "America is against Islam!" "We condemn the act of the soldier in Iraq against our holy book," Rahimi quoted the demonstrators as saying. The U.S. military said Sunday it had disciplined the sniper and removed him from Iraq after he was found to have used the Quran for target practice May 9. President Bush apologized to Iraq's prime minister for the incident after several U.S. military officials tried to soothe anger over the shooting of Islam's holy book. There has been relatively little protest in Muslim countries since the incident, but similar perceived insults against Islam have sparked violent protests around the world. At least 11 Afghans were killed in 2006 during protests over the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons published in Denmark. Afghanistan is a Muslim nation where blasphemy of Muhammad and the Quran is considered a serious crime that carries the death sentence.