Listening
to the 10:00am news this morning on Radio Station 97.1 fm I was most troubled
to hear that US Soldiers were found to have burnt several copies to the Koran
in Afganistan. Immediately my thoughts took me back to the events of September
11th, 2001. "Would there be retaliation and to what extent?"
There is no excuse for showing
such disrespect towards another person's belief. Was it really an error on
their part where they paid no attenttion to what was thrown into the fire or
were these actions done intentionally.
Read the
Article below for further details and give me your opinion.
White
House apologizes for soldiers burning
Koran in
Afghanistan as 2,000
angry
protestors surround military base
The White House is apologizing for US soldiers
burning of Muslim holy books in a pile of garbage at an American military base
in Afghanistan.
Press secretary Jay Carney said it was a 'deeply
unfortunate incident' and doesn't reflect the respect the US military has for
the religious practices of the Afghan people.
More than 2,000 furious Afghans - some chanting
‘die, die foreigners’, other throwing rocks - gathered outside the giant US air
base at Bagram, 40 miles north of the capital Kabul, as reports of the burning
spreads.
Military sources told the Associated Press that
books were removed from the library of a nearby detention center because they
contained extremist messages. Prisoners had been writing in the books as way of
communicating.
