Protests over the burning of Korans at a NATO base may have faded but some Afghans are still venting their rage over the incident — at a bloody Kabul dogfighting ring.
If emotions here are any indication, desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book did lasting damage to the image of the United States, which is struggling to pacify the country before NATO combat troops leave at the end of 2014.
“We call the dogs who lose Americans. We are furious about the Korans,” said Mirwais Haji, 28, as a defeated canine limped off the snow-covered dirt ring on the edge of the capital.
“We want the Afghan government to bring the people who did this to us. We will kill them ourselves.”
In the interests of multicultural understanding and all, I’d like to point out that while Afghans view the accidental burning of already desecrated Korans as offensive, Americans view dog fighting as offensive. We even put one of our top national athletes in jail for a while to prove it.
We view the deliberate killing of our own troops as several orders of magnitude more offensive than dog fighting.
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