As of this post, six Americans have been killed in an Afghan response to what they see as the U.S. burning of their Islamic holy books. As soon as Afghans heard two copies of the Qur'an were burned by American soldiers, they broke out into crazy riots around U.S. bases. According to a March 1st article from CBS News, shooters include both Afghan men in army attire as well as one in civilian clothing ("Afghan Gunmen Kill 2 U.S. Troops", 2012). Of course if these protesters weren't so radically insane and took a second to understand and evaluate the situation, they might realize their reaction is absurd and only makes them look savage to the rest of the world. The U.S. did not burn the Qur'ans to make a political statement against the religion of Islam. The copies the U.S. had were being investigated for having hidden notes in it by terrorist groups. The U.S. has issued many apologies and only got rid of the Qur'ans to prevent anyone from using any of the potentially dangerous notes inside those particular copies.
I'm not sure how these Afghans find a moral equivalent to accidentally burning a Qur'an for security's sake, with killing real people. If they hate the American soldiers so much our soldiers can leave and tell the Taliban to come back and oppress the Afghans again. The most ironic part is that in their Qur'an, the holy book they are making this whole big deal about, it states it is against Islamic law to kill innocent people.
I understand these actions are those of some extremists and this post is not a view or stereotype of all Afghans, just the individual people (extremists) that have been rioting and shooting at the American soldiers.
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