Once again, you don't see widespread rioting in the US and elsewhere over this.
While the rioting may seem like an overreaction, people are forgetting everything else that that the Afghans have endured and are angry about. Remember that the country has faced years of invasion and exploitation of resources by American soldiers. Thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in particular, have been killed in drone strikes and botched operations. It all adds up and the book burning is just an icing on the cake.
It obviously isn't worth killing people who had nothing to do with it, which of course, plays right into the hands of Terry Jones. This is what he wanted. And yet, maybe, he wasn't quite able to satisfy his goal because he may have expected the violence to be even deadlier and wanted a significantly greater number of Muslims to riot over this.
While the rioting may seem like an overreaction, people are forgetting everything else that that the Afghans have endured and are angry about. Remember that the country has faced years of invasion and exploitation of resources by American soldiers. Thousands of civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in particular, have been killed in drone strikes and botched operations. It all adds up and the book burning is just an icing on the cake.
It obviously isn't worth killing people who had nothing to do with it, which of course, plays right into the hands of Terry Jones. This is what he wanted. And yet, maybe, he wasn't quite able to satisfy his goal because he may have expected the violence to be even deadlier and wanted a significantly greater number of Muslims to riot over this.
