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Florida Pastor Burns Koran; Protests in Afghanistan Lead to Deaths, Including Foreign Workers

Apr 03, 2011 16:17

Florida pastor oversees Quran burning

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deaths, afghanistan, islam, united nations, islamophobia, barack obama

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This dude's a little fish, but the broad picture leprofessional April 3 2011, 09:34:21 UTC

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Re: This dude's a little fish, but the broad picture skeleton_pirate April 3 2011, 10:22:17 UTC

Small point from someone here in Afghanistan: The Quran burning has been on the news, on all stations, including CNN and the BBC for several days now. People here can watch any news broadcast, from any country, and hear about it.

Iranian TV stations have been covering the attack on the UN compound as well.

Re: This dude's a little fish, but the broad picture leprofessional April 3 2011, 10:28:57 UTC

The Quran burning has been on the news, on all stations, including CNN and the BBC for several days now.

Prior to the attacks or after the attacks?

idk about Europe, but here the burning itself got major coverage after the UN attacks.

Re: This dude's a little fish, but the broad picture leprofessional April 3 2011, 10:33:05 UTC

Also the Iranian state media coverage seems to be pretty... uh biased...

http://www.presstv.ir/
New Afghan rallies rap Qur'an burning --> one sentence dedicated to the UN workers

Same in the Persian site, focused on Jones and anti-Islamic sentiment in the US, one sentence dedicated to the injured etc., 0 headlines.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.fa/172821.html

Re: This dude's a little fish, but the broad picture skeleton_pirate April 3 2011, 10:47:17 UTC

Yeah, I don't think that anyone would claim otherwise, and I'm sure as hell not gonna defend the Iranian media, but in all fairness, the attack on the UN compound took place more than 48 hours ago, and the rallies are escalating throughout the country at this moment. There's also been attacks (unrelated) to 2 other compounds. So the attack on the UN compound is kind of old news at this point.

Does that mean that Iranian media here is devoting full, sensitive, and neutral pieces about the people who were killed? Of course not. Alls I'm saying is that you can't really say that Iranian media hasn't been covering the attack.

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