Leaflets depicting a dog bearing a passage from the Qur’an is latest in series of perceived insults by coalition forces
The US military in Afghanistan has apologised for distributing propaganda leaflets featuring a passage from the Qur’an superimposed on to the image of a dog, which could cause offence to Muslims.
In a statement early on Wednesday, before the leaflet drop became widely known, the US military said the incident had been a mistake.
The leaflets depict a lion chasing a dog bearing a Qur’anic passage that appears on banners used by Taliban militants. However, the passage used is also the basic Islamic statement of faith, and associating one of Islam’s most sacred texts with a dog, considered unclean in Islam, could cause offence.
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4 comments:
Im sorry. Are we apologizing for using the same quote on tbeir flag when they behead captives?
The title is misleading.
The US soldiers did not mock the Taliban, they mocked Islam itself and therefore offending Muslims.
I mean, hey, you can mock the Taliban as much as you want but don't involve the entire Muslim population. They're separate.
US soldiers are so stupid and their ignorance baffles me.
Mr. Lapides,
There are more bad apples per capita in Islam than other groups by over an order of magnitude.
The press tries to keep it out of the news by saying each and every attacker was a lone wolf or mentally ill.
Eh, what?
In the UK it's the opposite.
All the so called "Muslim" attacker that are in-reality mentally ill are not reported as mentally ill by the press.
And non-Muslims Terrorists are normally regarded as mentally ill.
Didn't know it was the other way round in the US.
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