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The Afghan people are a very proud people. They have nothing else other than their pride and their religion. By defacing the Koran you are shitting all over anything that they have, leaving the expression of their frustration and outrage as understandable and expected.

The Afghanis responsible for this atttack would have killed people regardless of what the reason was. If it weren't a dude burning a book thousands of miles away it would have been because of a stray Coalition bomb, or because they didn't like the way the UNAMA conducted an election, or because the tribe down the street got better water rights than they did.

To in any way suggest that there was actualy a true causitive relationship between a Koran burning and a murder half a world away is ridiculous.

The insurgency was watching those UN workers for a long time just waiting for a good propaganda opportunity to attack.