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A furious mob has desecrated dozens of Commonwealth War Graves in a Libyan cemetery amid continuing fury in the Middle East over the burning of the Koran by U.S. soldiers.
Headstones commemorating British and Allied servicemen, killed during World War II campaigns in the Western Desert, lay smashed and strewn across Benghazi Military Cemetery.
Protesters rampaged through site on Friday, despite efforts by America to calm tensions sparked when it emerged U.S. soldiers had burned Muslim holy books in a pile of rubbish at a military base in Afghanistan
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Originally posted by mayabong
reply to post by Pharyax
How many Libyans did the Brits help kill in their last NATO bombing effort?
Do you care more about some broken gravestones than them?
Originally posted by Pharyax
This is unacceptable. Just because someone accidentally burned BOOKS of PAPER, people were KILLED..
This is insanity... This is eventually going to lead to another religious war.. you all know its true.. you can feel it.
Originally posted by Jace26
What about all the Australian war graves that have been demolished there?
You made no mention of that?
Originally posted by InsideYourMind
Originally posted by Pharyax
This is unacceptable. Just because someone accidentally burned BOOKS of PAPER, people were KILLED..
This is insanity... This is eventually going to lead to another religious war.. you all know its true.. you can feel it.
It's unacceptable for uneducated apes to be burning religious texts in public. They might not be important to you, but they are important to others, especially in some cases throughout the middle-east were people are unable to afford their own books to study. It is an insult.
Even though religion (as a whole) is part of the problem and the reason why all major conflicts/wars have started... people's property should be respected.
The upsetting part here is that a British memorial monument has been destroyed on behalf of uneducated American troops. I don't want my country pulled deeper into this mess by the ego's of a selective few American
troops.