"Uncontrollable" Muslim Violence: The Latest Excuse

by Joseph A. Klein
Canada Free Press
April 5, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1285/uncontrollable-muslim-violence-the-latest-excuse

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On March 31, 2011, Pakistan's United Nations ambassador, Abdullah Hussain Haroon, spoke to reporters at UN headquarters on behalf of the 56 member state Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ambassadorial Group, condemning the recent burning of a copy of the Koran by the pastors of a small Baptist Church in Gainesville, Florida. He highlighted the OIC's "grave concern that the despicable act had severely hurt the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims around the world" and warned reporters that it could lead to "incidents that are uncontrollable."

The very next day Ambassador Haroon's warning turned into a tragic, self-fulfilling prophesy. A large mob of demonstrators in Afghanistan, angry at the Koran burning and apparently responding to calls for revenge by three mullahs who had addressed worshippers at Friday prayer in one of Afghanistan's holiest mosques, stormed a United Nations compound in the northern region of the country and killed a number of innocent people, including at least seven UN staff members - two reportedly by beheading. It was one of the worst attacks on UN personnel in Afghanistan since the war there began in 2001. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters, while in Nairobi, Kenya, that the attack was "outrageous and cowardly."

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