By MAIL FOREIGN SERVICE
Last updated at 12:05 AM on 14th September 2010
- Protester shout 'Down with America' and burn effigies of Barack Obama
- Christian school, government buildings and police station attacked
- Fears for 150,000 NATO troops stationed in Afghanistan
Indian forces killed 18 people and injured scores of others in the bloodiest day of violence in the troubled area of Kashmir.
Police were called in when thousands of rioters, chanting 'Down with Koran desecrators' and 'Down with America', attacked a Christian school in one town and buildings in other cities.
Kashmiris defied curfews in the Indian-controlled region and took to the streets, chanting anti-India and anti-US slogans and burning effigies of US President Barack Obama.
Defying curfews: Thousand of Kashmiri protesters took to the streets in response to reports of Koran burning in the U.S. Indian police fired live ammunition into the crowd, killing 18 and wounding more than 100
An angry mob set fire to several government buildings and a Protestant-run school, as well as attacking a police station.
After several attempts to repel the mob failed, Indian police fired live ammunition into the crowd - and confirmed that 18 civilians had been killed.
Many of the deaths were reported to have occurred in Budgam district, with others reported in the village of Tangmarg, where the school was burned.
One of those killed was allegedly a student aged 12.
Wounded: Kashmiri Muslims carry protester during riots in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Reports say local hospitals are overrun by wounded, some in a critical condition
More than 100 people have been reported wounded, some critically.
U.S. Ambassador Timothy Roemer appealed for calm and condemned Koran-burning as 'disrespectful, intolerant, divisive and unrepresentative of American values'.
Kashmiri officials also removed a state-run Iranian station from local cable networks that had been fanning the anger by repeatedly broadcasting reports of Koran burnings in the U.S.
Most broadcasters have given scant coverage to the still-unidentified man who was hustled away from an anti-Muslim protest in New York after he tore and burned pages from a Koran.
Other such burnings, conducted in America on 9/11 or posted on the internet shortly after, have also been ignored.
Anti-American protest: Crowds chanted 'Down with Koran desecrators' and 'Down with America' during the riot - and an effigy of Barack Obama - with a sign saying Obam USA - was burned in Srinegar
They were inspired by Florida pastor Terry Jones, who had planned to hold a 'Burn A Koran' day on September 11.
He cancelled the event after international pressure but it has not stopped rioting and deaths in Muslim countries around the world.
And there have been threats of revenge attacks on American troops in Afghanistan.
On a third day of riots in Afghanistan, Muslims said they would attack 'foreign bases' in their thousands in response to the desecration of their holy book.
Hopes of calm were shattered on Saturday when the Koran was burned in the U.S. on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Fury: Afghan protesters shout anti-U.S. slogans as they celebrate after learning that pastor Terry Jones dropped his plans to burn copies of the Koran
Though Florida preacher Terry Jones had cancelled his plan to burn the Islamic holy book, a lone protester at the Ground Zero site set several pages on fire, while in Nashville, Tennessee, two religious leaders held a private Koran-burning ceremony.
The unnamed male protester at Ground Zero said: 'If they can burn American flags, I can burn the Koran. Americans should never be afraid to give their opinion.'
He was removed from the site by police but was not arrested. Footage of the New York burning has been posted on the internet and could be exploited by extremists aiming to stir anti-Western feeling.
The warning of retaliation came during riots in the eastern Afghan province of Logar yesterday during which men chanted 'Death to Christians'.
Anger: Thousands of people took part in demonstrations opposing the proposed Islamic community center near the Ground Zero site
Rally: Brandishing U.S. flags and placards, the protesters make their feelings known in downtown Manhattan
Painful: Flowers and messages written around the Ground Zero reflecting pool on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist atrocity
Two protesters were shot and killed and seven wounded, one seriously, when Afghan security forces opened fire to disperse hundreds of protesters.
Mohammad Yahya, a protester apparently unaware of Pastor Jones' decision to cancel the burning ceremony, said: 'The Governor [of Logar] must give us an assurance that the church is not going to burn the Koran, otherwise we will attack foreign troop bases in our thousands.'
Some 150,000 NATO troops are stationed in the country, many of whom are engaged in battles with the Taliban on a daily basis.
Divided: Supporters of the proposed mosque argue their case that it should go be built
Grief: New York firefighters gather to remember lost colleagues on September 11 and, right, family members stare in reflection at the site where their loved ones were murdered
Standing together: People react during the rally against the New York mosque
In addition to the incident at Ground Zero, the Reverends Bob Old and Danny Allen in Nashville burned the Koran in private to defend the United States constitution and the American people, they said.
Both denied their actions were related to the 9/11 anniversary or the row about plans to build a Mosque near Ground Zero.
In Washington, a small group of conservative Christians tore up pages from the Koran to denounce the 'charade of Islam'.
Elsewhere there were signs of rising anti-Western feeling as Christian worshippers in the Indonesian capital Jakarta were beaten up and stabbed by suspected Islamic hardliners.
Source: UK Daily Mail World Wide News
Comments:
Jane: Wake-up America and stop that Mosque!! Don’t go down the same road as Britain, France and the rest of Europe!.
Gary: A little pigs blood or buried pigs at all these sites would put an end to the Ground Zero Mosque as well as Mosques in general. Someone should read up on Cordova Spain…
ajhnson: Sacrifice some pigs in front of the building and sling the pigs blood all over it's door and exterior walls. This will desecrate the proposed site and no mosque will ever be built on it. The Muslims believe this and have nothing to do with that site ever again. Military, dip your bullets in pigs blood. The Muslim extremists will run from you in fear. (You can get it from a butcher or slaughterhouse)
PatriotJoe: We need to wake up. Islam is not a religion it is a an all encompassing takeover.
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