The Koran also violates the People Magazine rule: it's longer than the average person can read during the average crap:
At least four people have been killed and many injured after police opened fire to break up an anti-US protest in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.
Hundreds of students rioted in the city of Jalalabad over reports interrogators at America's Guantanamo Bay prison had placed copies of the Koran on toilets.
The city is now said to be calm after widespread damage to property. All but essential UN staff are being withdrawn.
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The unrest follows a report in the American magazine, Newsweek, that interrogators at Guantanamo Bay had placed copies of the Koran on toilets in order to put pressure on Muslim prisoners.
This sounds like a big misunderstanding to me. I'm sure that Guantanamo officials had initially put Maxim and Playboy in the bathrooms (to make the prison seem more like a normal single man's apartment), and when the detainees protested, offered the Koran as a compromise.
Could all of our cultural and philosophical differences boil down to the fact that they don't like to read on the can?
President Hamid Karzai said the violence showed the inability of Afghan authorities to handle such protests.
Speaking at Nato headquarters in Brussels, he said his country would need international assistance "for many, many years to come".
Sorry Hamid, we're a little too busy turning Iraq into the democratic paradise god intended[1] to pay much attention to your revenue stream. Maybe if you got your people to do something to grab our attention. Like, say, have a woman flee her own wedding and somehow grab a week's worth of headlines.
The protesters chanted "Death to America" and smashed car windows and damaged shops.
Smoke could be seen rising from various points in the city.
One international aid worker in Jalalabad told the BBC there were groups of people running along the streets, reportedly looking for foreigners and anyone working for non-governmental organisations.
There's one place that won't be getting my tourist dollars. Afghanistan once again proves it's ripe for my patented Porn & Big Macs foreign policy initiative.
Supersized meals, Chicken Soup for the Soul books, and 24 cable sports channels: these are the cornerstones of the New Hegemony.
[1] "Inside every Ay-rab is an American trying to get out."
[2] I'm doing a lot of footnotes lately
I'll never understand why Moslems hate freedom.
And don't forget Starbucks and, at least potentially, the Gap. Because there's nothing like a pair of relaxed fit, flat-front cargo pants and a half-caff mocha frapachino to calm the savage soul of any Muslim fundamentalist.
Why don't we send the newlywed Chesneys over to Iraq? With any luck Kenny will be the target of a suicide bomber who would rather die than hear Chesney sing to his new bride. ;)
"The source of anger was a brief report in the May 9 edition of Newsweek that interrogators at Guantanamo placed Qurans on toilets to rattle suspects, and in at least one case "flushed a holy book down the toilet."
My questions are: Who believes Newsweek? and How can one flush a holy book? If it's true the one's to be offended are the plumbers called out to fix the problem. C'mon, holy books ) be they the Koran or Lucas; based Graphic novels) are usually too wordy and even in paperback too big for my liking. Hell! I have tried to flush many a holy book to no avail...they just won't go. You have to burn 'em first or something and be at the end of your lease... Now, will the APCB staff focus on something important like the allegations against Paula Abdul, Oops that's an Arab issue too...How 'bout the what's up with the Dickie Chicks? Is there a movie out this week?
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How 'bout the what's up with the Dickie Chicks?
If that's a Freudian slip, it's the best one I've heard in a while.
You know I am not one to slip in the Freudian sense.
So why were the copies of the Koran on the johns anyway.....ran outta toilet paper?
Everyone loves endnotes!!!