The BBC is reporting that an attack on a UN compound in northern Afghanistan has left at least 12 people dead, and that the violence occurred during a protest over the recent burning of a Quran in a Florida church.
“„On 20 March, Pastor Wayne Sapp set light to a copy of the Koran at a church in Florida. #
“„[Lal Mohammad] Ahmadzai, the [Afghan National Police] spokesman, said the demonstrators were angry about the burning of the Koranat the church of Pastor Terry Joneson Mar. 20. Mr. Jones had caused an international uproar by threatening to burn the Koran last year on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, and demonstrations at the time led to deaths throughout Afghanistan, but on a small scale. Mr. Jones subsequently had publicly promised not to burn a Koran, but then presided over a mock trial and the burning of the Koran at his small fringe church in Gainesville, Fla. #