Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead

[Thor]

Once again, you don't see widespread rioting in the US and elsewhere over this.

The fact that we see rioting ANYWHERE over this says a lot about the mentality of folks exposed to this religion.

While the rioting may seem like an overreaction,

"May SEEM like an overreaction"? Someone burns a book, so you kill people who had nothing to do with the book burning? Not to mention the absurdity of even killing the person who burned the book.

people are forgetting everything else that that the Afghans have endured and are angry about.

So what? How does burning a book justify murder?

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.

What "exploitation of resources"? And the killing of civilians by drones is annoying, but a book burning sends them over the edge? Yeah, makes sense to me.

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 Muslim followers were more than eager to act like barbarians.

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.

Terry Jones is an asshole. But he didn't kill anybody for burning a book.