Pakistan cartoon protesters riot, burn KFC

[mitch]

Originally posted by rah
I have the same opinion of these people as those that loot high end merchandise during natural disasters.

That they're a colored people?

[SlowwHand]

Way to be a bigot.

If you refer to Nawleans, it was all races.

[Spiffor]

This DL is a riot

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Pekka
So is this about cartoons or something bigger? Hmmm!!!

It's about Musharraf. The fact that he's cozy with the US, explains the "Death to America" chants (Pakistan has historically been a close ally of the US up until it tested its first nuke).

[Fake Boris]

Mitch

[Dr Strangelove]

Didn't the Hindus burn down some Mcdonalds restaurants a few years ago? IIRC they were upset because restaurants in the US ( not in India ) used animal lard instead of vegetabloe oil to make French Fries.

So are the Pakistanis concerned that there might be some of "the other white meat" in their chicken tenders?

[DRoseDARs]

Well, the protests (in Pakinstan) have finally turned deadly. An 8-yr-old died after being struck in the face by a bullet - fired by a protestor - and a 25 yr old man was electrocuted by a live powerline that was felled by ... wait for it ... gunfire from a protestor.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060215/ap_on_re_as/prophet_drawings

At this point, I couldn't care less. In fact, I hope more protestors die at the hands of their fellow protestors. The imams that made hay out of these months-old cartoons for no other reason than to stir anti-West sentiments should then be held responsible for these deaths.

[Az]

racist

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Az
racist

No, mitch is a racist. I'm a Darwinist. These protestors have gone beyond stupid, so I encourage them to voluntarily remove themselves from the gene pool. The world and moderate muslims will thank them for their self-sacrifice.

[Az]

Mitch isn't a racist. mitch is the best guy ever.

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove

Didn't the Hindus burn down some Mcdonalds restaurants a few years ago?

Umm . . . . no , they didn't . I don't know where you got the idea from .

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by aneeshm


Umm . . . . no , they didn't . I don't know where you got the idea from .

Ummmmmm............................yes, they did. I got the idea from newspaper and TV reports the day after they did it. The incident happened somewhere around 2000. Perhaps it didn't make the news where you live, or you ignored it, or have forgotten. I remember because it seemed a little arrogant to me for people in one country to have the audacity to dictate the diet of people in another country.

[Sikander]

This seems appropriate for the thread:

Dumb All Over

by Frank Zappa


Whoever we are
Wherever we're from
We shoulda noticed by now
Our behavior is dumb
And if our chances
Expect to improve
It's gonna take a lot more
Than tryin' to remove
The other race
Or the other whatever
From the face
Of the planet altogether

They call it THE EARTH
Which is a dumb kinda name
But they named it right
'Cause we behave the same...
We are dumb all over
Dumb all over,
Yes we are
Dumb all over,
Near 'n far
Dumb all over,
Black 'n white
People, we is not wrapped tight

Nurds on the left
Nurds on the right
Religous fanatics
On the air every night
Sayin' the Bible
Tells the story
Makes the details
Sound real gory
'Bout what to do
If the geeks over there
Don't believe in the book
We got over here

You can't run a race
Without no feet
'N pretty soon
There won't be no street
For dummies to jog on
Or doggies to dog on
Religous fanatics
Can make it be all gone
(I mean it won't blow up
'N disappear
It'll just look ugly
For a thousand years...)

You can't run a country
By a book of religion
Not by a heap
Or a lump or a smidgeon
Of foolish rules
Of ancient date
Designed to make
You all feel great
While you fold, spindle
And mutilate
Those unbelievers
From a neighboring state

TO ARMS! TO ARMS!
Hooray! That's great
Two legs ain't bad
Unless there's a crate
They ship the parts
To mama in
For souvenirs: two ears (Get Down!)
Not his, not hers, (but what the hey?)
The Good Book says:
("It gotta be that way!")
But their book says:
"REVENGE THE CRUSADES...
With whips 'n chains
'N hand grenades..."
TWO ARMS? TWO ARMS?
Have another and another
Our God says:
"There ain't no other!"
Our God says
"It's all okay!"
Our God says
"This is the way!"

It says in the book:
"Burn 'n destroy...
'N repent, 'n redeem
'N revenge, 'n deploy
'N rumble thee forth
To the land of the unbelieving scum on the other side
'Cause they don't go for what's in the book
'N that makes 'em BAD
So verily we must choppeth them up
And stompeth them down
Or rent a nice French bomb
To poof them out of existance
While leaving their real estate just where we need it
To use again
For temples in which to praise OUR GOD
("Cause he can really take care of business!")

And when his humble TV servant
With humble white hair
And humble glasses
And a nice brown suit
And maybe a blond wife who takes phone calls
Tells us our God says
It's okay to do this stuff
Then we gotta do it,
'Cause if we don't do it,
We ain't gwine up to hebbin!
(Depending on which book you're using at the
time...Can't use theirs... it don't work
...it's all lies...Gotta use mine...)
Ain't that right?
That's what they say
Every night...
Every day...
Hey, we can't really be dumb
If we're just following God's Orders
Hey, let's get serious...
God knows what he's doin'
He wrote this book here
An' the book says:
He made us all to be just like Him,"
so...
If we're dumb...
Then God is dumb...
(An' maybe even a little ugly on the side)

[aneeshm]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove



Ummmmmm............................yes, they did. I got the idea from newspaper and TV reports the day after they did it. The incident happened somewhere around 2000. Perhaps it didn't make the news where you live, or you ignored it, or have forgotten. I remember because it seemed a little arrogant to me for people in one country to have the audacity to dictate the diet of people in another country.

The only thing the top ten google results brought up for "McDonalds Hindu arson" was some people in India throwing cowdung at McDonalds for fraud . The problem was that McDonalds advertised their French Fries as vegetarian , but in actuality used animal and cow fat to fry them . Then a lawsuit was launched against them . They settled for 10 million dollars . The lawsuit was over the fraud involved , not the fact that they offered such foods . Nobody wants to dictate to other what to eat . But everyone wants to know that it is they are eating .

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui


It's about Musharraf. The fact that he's cozy with the US, explains the "Death to America" chants (Pakistan has historically been a close ally of the US up until it tested its first nuke).

I know this isn't meant how it reads.