DAWOOD KHAN'S BLOG
Burning the Qu’ran
In thinking out loud on February 21, 2012 at 4:44 pm
To Muslims, it's sacred. To anyone else in the world, it's just a damn book.
Some lower Enlisted guys were told to take some old files out to the burn pit. Apparently, it was a lot of stuff. Most of it in Dari. Included in the piles of stuff were copies of the Qu’ran. These kids had no clue as to what the stuff was. They only knew that they were told to burn it.
While they were burning, some local nationals were in the area. These local nationals (AFGHANS) watched as the files AND the Qu’rans were burned.
The locals didn’t stop and ask the guys who were burning the stuff if they indeed knew what they were burning. They offered no advice or warning. They simply watched as the Qu’ran material was burned.
AFTER the Qu’rans had been burned, the Afghans walked off the job and proceeded to spread the news that US Soldiers at Bagram were burning Qu’rans.
My question is this:
Why did the local nationals (AFGHANS) not stop the guys and tell them that they were about to burn Qu’rans?
I’ve read the damn book and, therefore, I know what a Qu’ran looks like. A guy who has never seen a Qu’ran isn’t going to know that it’s a Qu’ran. It’s going to look like some book with squiggly ass writing on it in the middle of a bunch of other old papers, files and books with squiggly ass writing on it. If there are boxes of books and files and a few lower Enlisted guys are told to take the shit out to the burn pit and burn it, they’re going to take the shit out to the burn pit and burn it. I’ve thrown tons of old stuff into the fire pits in Bagram, Camp Stone and other places. If it’s old shit, I rarely look through it. I just start ripping, wadding and burning and throwing.
So Afghans watched a group of Soldiers burn some Qu’rans along with a bunch of other stuff. Having simply watched the Qu’rans burning and not offering any warning to anyone involved that they were about to burn the Holy Qu’ran, the Afghans spread the news that US Soldiers are burning Qu’rans. Kabulis and other Afghans are now out in force blocking roads, burning tires and rioting in general. As a result of this, one or two of Afghans and possibly, but doubtfully, a Coalition member or two will wind up dead or injured due to the stupidity of a couple of Afghans who could have forestalled all of this by simply saying; “Hey, do you know that those are Qu’rans that you are about to burn?”
Had an Afghan told the Soldiers this, not one Qu’ran would have been burned. Another thing that could have forestalled this would have been a little situational awareness on the part of the NCO or Officer who ordered the files to be burned. Having said this, the US Army should not be in the business of handing out religious books. If that is done at all, it should be in the hands of the various Chaplains in country.
My opinion. The Afghans should grab the guys who watched the Soldiers burn the Qu’rans and hang their asses. They allowed this to happen and then spread the news so that idiots could have an excuse to act like idiots.
Bottom line, though. It’s a fuckin’ book. If God had touched it or they were copies carried back from the Kaba’a or they were ancient manuscripts that were carried by Abu Bakr or Hussein and Ali, I could understand. But these were US mass produced copies of the Qu’ran. Not every copy of the Qu’ran is sacred. Some of them are just books that were mass produced. The Mullahs need to stop acting like and telling the Umma that all copies of the Qu’ran are sacred. Nothing that is massed produced is sacred. I don’t give a fuck if God himself hands each one out himself. If it’s massed produced, it’s about as sacred as a Happy Meal.
It’s extremely hard to defend Islam or Muslims when they act like fucking morons. Please stop acting like complete and utter morons!
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- Dawood,Please return home and write, write, write!You have so much more knowledge of the area than any of our foreign diplomats.The language is, uh, a little, maybe a lot, salty, friend!SamKat21 February 2012 at 6pm
