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

[Rayaan]

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

That sounds like a generalization.

Also, you have to consider the cause behind the rioting as well, not just the people who are doing it.

"May SEEM like an overreaction"? Someone burns a book, so you kill people who had nothing to do with the book burning?

It seems like an over-reaction and could be an over-reaction, but I never said it wasn't. I do agree it's an over-reaction.

Not to mention the absurdity of even killing the person who burned the book.

Yes, that would be more absurd.

So what? How does burning a book justify murder?

I never said it does. I already stated that I don't agree with all this rioting and killing.

What "exploitation of resources"?

Oil reserves and untapped minerals, for example, as well as for strengthening their political objectives in the region.

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

Like I said before, it all adds up and the Quran burning is only a small part of the story. But again, this is not to say that what the Afghans did is acceptable either.

And Muslim followers were more than eager to act like barbarians.

An overstatement + generalization.

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

But he intentionally provoked them and you don't have to kill or physically hurt people to incite them to violence. Burning the Quran can be quite hurtful to some of the Muslims.

Generally I agree with what you wrote, Rayaan. However, you might pause to give some thought to the fact that muslims are so easily manipulated into acting like murderous fools by silly gestures like this. It is easy to pull your strings because you DO overreact to bullshit like this.

Well I agee with that also, a lot of the Muslims are easily manipulated by things like this.

And I believe that the reason for such violence is mostly caused by socio-political related issues than anything else because it varies from one place to another.

Now, I understand exactly what you are saying..but please dont tell me you think any of this is new. Since when have afcrapistanies NOT been doing things like this? They were doing this crap even when we were helping them fight off the Soviets in the 80's.

Maybe that's true but I'm not aware of that particular event or period of history in Afghanistan. So, I can't comment on that right now.