{"id":481,"date":"2011-04-15T10:01:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/politics\/?p=481"},"modified":"2011-04-15T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T15:01:05","slug":"oh-the-irony-afgan-muslims-burn-korans-during-protest-over-koran-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/oh-the-irony-afgan-muslims-burn-korans-during-protest-over-koran-burning\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, the irony. Afgan Muslims burn Korans during protest over Koran burning."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As the dust settles in Afghanistan after sustained protest over a Florida pastor&#8217;s Quran burning, many residents in Kandahar are facing an unpleasant truth: More Qurans were burned in the course of their protests than by Terry Jones. The demonstrations, which started peacefully, quickly turned violent, killing at least nine people and injuring scores in Kandahar City alone. And as protesters vandalized a girls\u2019 school and set fire to shops, Qurans also inadvertently went up in flames. \u201cIf they burn a shop, there is a Quran in every shop, so this is a big problem,\u201d says Azizullah Aziz, a perfume and soap salesman in Kandahar City. \u201cPeople don\u2019t know how to protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/csm\/20110414\/wl_csm\/376907;_ylt=AqcWZbvl6prfOoHR7DZpovKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNiZHRxYmtoBGFzc2V0A2NzbS8yMDExMDQxNC8zNzY5MDcEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM2BHBvcwMzBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDYWZnaGFubXVsbGFo\">Afghan mullahs push peaceful protest in wake of Quran-burning violence &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com\/2011\/04\/report-several-korans-burned-during-koran-burning-protests\/\">GatewayPundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the dust settles in Afghanistan after sustained protest over a Florida pastor&#8217;s Quran burning, many residents in Kandahar are facing an unpleasant truth: More Qurans were burned in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[65,112,227,267,280,282,305,347,352,362,363,408,462,480,519],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-religion-of-peace","tag-afganistan","tag-burning","tag-funny","tag-idiots","tag-irony","tag-islam","tag-koran","tag-moonbats","tag-muslim","tag-not-surprising","tag-nutjobs","tag-protests","tag-stupid-2","tag-terry-jones","tag-wingnuts-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yuriar.com\/conservakat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}