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Update:  Twelve people killed across Afghanistan as protests over Quran burning continue

Twelve people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a NATO military base with riot police and soldiers on high alert braced for more violence.

The burning of the Qurans at the Bagram compound earlier this week has deepened public mistrust of NATO forces struggling to stabilize Afghanistan before foreign combat troops withdraw in 2014.

Hundreds of Afghans marched towards the palace of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, while on the other side of the capital protesters hoisted the white flag of the Taliban.

Chanting “Death to America!” and “Long live Islam!” protesters also threw rocks at police in Kabul, while Afghan army helicopters circled above.

The protests flared after Friday prayers, where mullahs condemned “Infidels” for the desecration of Qurans.

“Those who have committed this crime should be identified and should be publicly executed,” said mullah Mohammad Ayaz Niazi at Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan mosque.

“You have not just betrayed a nation, but you have played with the faith and sentiments of 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide, and you have trampled their holy book,” he said, while urging that any protests should be peaceful.

Armed protesters took refuge in shops in the eastern part of the city, where they killed one demonstrator, said police at the scene. In another Kabul rally, police said they were unsure who fired the shots that killed a second protester.

Rallies also broke out in northern Kunduz province, as well in central Bamiyan and Ghazni and eastern Nangarhar, AFP correspondents said.

Two US soldiers were shot dead by an Afghan soldier at a protest on Thursday. French, Norwegian and U.S. military bases also came under attack, after insurgents exhorted their countrymen to kill foreign troops in revenge.

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What I want to know is who the fuck ordered quarans to be burned? What kind of moron would EVER do that? I’m seething right now.

(via amodernmanifesto)