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the weekly afternoon prayers on Friday, different hardline religious groups, many with political affiliations and some with militant ties, organize protest rallies with clockwork precision that range from a few hundred to throngs of thousands. But many rallies end in the same way: the burning of an American flag.


The points of contention with the United States may differ: the CIA contractor who shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore,
Pakistan's second largest city; the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound by Navy SEALs in suburban Abbotabad;
the mistaken yet fatal attack on a Pakistani military checkpoint in the volatile northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas by NATO/ISAF forces;
or the now almost weekly drone strike.

The man who dominates much of the supply chain of American flags to religious groups, 30-year-old Mamoon-ur-Rasheed – who's been publishing anti-American placards and hand-made stars and stripes since his school days, when he was angered by the Clinton administration's sanctions on Pakistan following its nuclear weapons testing in 1998 – is now remarkably dispassionate about his services, as well as about the short shelf-life of his flammable goods.........................................
Isn't flag burning positive, compared to American atrocities? And also compared to the Taliban? We're not attacking mosques. ... We're not targeting American embassies. We're not killing anyone. Nor are we flying drones around," he says. "We're just burning flags, mere pieces of cloth, and then we're done. It's over."

( link doesnt work -from MSNBC)
 
annata said:
the weekly afternoon prayers on Friday, different hardline religious groups, many with political affiliations and some with militant ties, organize protest rallies with clockwork precision that range from a few hundred to throngs of thousands. But many rallies end in the same way: the burning of an American flag.


The points of contention with the United States may differ: the CIA contractor who shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore,
Pakistan's second largest city; the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound by Navy SEALs in suburban Abbotabad;
the mistaken yet fatal attack on a Pakistani military checkpoint in the volatile northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas by NATO/ISAF forces;
or the now almost weekly drone strike.

The man who dominates much of the supply chain of American flags to religious groups, 30-year-old Mamoon-ur-Rasheed – who's been publishing anti-American placards and hand-made stars and stripes since his school days, when he was angered by the Clinton administration's sanctions on Pakistan following its nuclear weapons testing in 1998 – is now remarkably dispassionate about his services, as well as about the short shelf-life of his flammable goods.........................................
Isn't flag burning positive, compared to American atrocities? And also compared to the Taliban? We're not attacking mosques. ... We're not targeting American embassies. We're not killing anyone. Nor are we flying drones around," he says. "We're just burning flags, mere pieces of cloth, and then we're done. It's over."

( link doesnt work -from MSNBC)
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The piece of cloth that you call a flag and that symbolises nothing but good to you, symbolises nothing but bad to many societies round the world. If you have the right to worship it, they have the right to despise it. If you have a law which says you must not deface or burn your flag that law stops at the beach. American law does not exist outside America (something for which most of the world is thankful) a fact that many Americans are completely unaware.
Instead of complaining that some Pakistani is burning American flags, go get some Pakistani flags and burn them.
 
Lowaicue said:
The piece of cloth that you call a flag and that symbolises nothing but good to you, symbolises nothing but bad to many societies round the world. If you have the right to worship it, they have the right to despise it. If you have a law which says you must not deface or burn your flag that law stops at the beach. American law does not exist outside America (something for which most of the world is thankful) a fact that many Americans are completely unaware.
Instead of complaining that some Pakistani is burning American flags, go get some Pakistani flags and burn them.
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Not sure that they're going to care about pakistani flags being burned when we keep bombing their country.

It's interesting and beyond most americans to try to take the next step to figure out why they're pissed at us. We just do the "Islamic Fundamentalist" bit, and move on.
 
Lowaicue said:
The piece of cloth that you call a flag and that symbolises nothing but good to you, symbolises nothing but bad to many societies round the world. If you have the right to worship it, they have the right to despise it. If you have a law which says you must not deface or burn your flag that law stops at the beach. American law does not exist outside America (something for which most of the world is thankful) a fact that many Americans are completely unaware.
Instead of complaining that some Pakistani is burning American flags, go get some Pakistani flags and burn them.
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I've burned my share of flags, wore them on my butt of my jeans, during Vietnam.

What's ironic is those(Americans) who abhore the "foreigners" burning the Ameican flag are damn quiet on the perpetual war we're engaged in.

No I'm not gonna burn a Paki flag, I go no quarell with Paki. I might burn a US flag for nostalgia, but frankly it's "old school" kinna been done to death.
Death, as in the deaths we're caused in AfPak. stop the madness, of droning the fuck out of houses, and CIA all over the world, and of course the bombing the fuck out of Libya,,and melting babys in Misrata.

Burn that rag, i could care less, America could use an object lesson. But we won't, we'll continue to espouse "American Exceptionalism", and continue with our new Crusades.

Funny how China's flag isn't burned, they are gross human rights violators -but they mostly keep it at home.
Except for Tibet; there Dali Lama is walking a fine line (suicide is taboo in Buddhism)

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...-suicide-protest/story-e6frg6ux-1226424826101
...In an interview published on Monday, his true thoughts on the matter remain elusive. "This is a very, very delicate political issue," he said, adding that the best thing for him was to remain neutral.

"Now, the reality is that if I say something positive, then the Chinese immediately blame me. If I say something negative, then the family members of those people feel very sad. They sacrificed their own life. It is not easy. So I do not want to create some kind of impression that this is wrong," he said.

He may be correct on both fronts, though some might wonder how far that absolves him from taking a position when both Tibetans and Beijing would clearly like him to do so.

He could, for example, attack the Chinese assertion that the burnings are acts of terrorism by pointing out that not one incident has harmed anyone except for the self-immolators themselves. His fear of being blamed by China also seems exaggerated, given the terms in which he is already condemned by Beijing.

So far, the Dalai Lama has called on others to frame the self-immolation crisis. China, he said, should stop pretending that nothing was wrong and conduct "thorough research" on what was prompting people to die in protest. Tibetans calling for independence, he said, should realise that a "middle way" of autonomy within the Chinese constitution was the only viable option.
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Granule said:
Too childish. I'd rather just unleash hell on their infrastructure somehow.
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You mean spending more tax money on hideously expensive bombs that we rain out of the sky on them? We already do that, plus it rains hell on our own infrastructure too, how cool is that?
 
I they were doing to us what we are doing to them .. we wouldn't just be burning their flags .. we'd be blowing up their citizens .. children and babies included.

That's who we are.
 
Bijou said:
We do it whether they're doing it to us or not.
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That's absolutely true .. which is why they're burning our flags.

We have become the monsters of nightmares .. raining down silent terror from the skies all over the world.

.. and we do it for profit.

That is who we are.
 
Granule said:
Too childish. I'd rather just unleash hell on their infrastructure somehow.
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My point, and the point that seems to have been missed here, is that a bit of flag burning, in the scheme of things, is not worth bothering about. So burn some of theirs. It is no more important than that.
 
Lowaicue said:
My point, and the point that seems to have been missed here, is that a bit of flag burning, in the scheme of things, is not worth bothering about. So burn some of theirs. It is no more important than that.
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Then are you willing to go stand in front of your local PRC Barracks, right there in Hong Kong, and burn a flag of the Peoples Republic of China?

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That is unless you have some kind of stupid excuse.
 
annata said:
the weekly afternoon prayers on Friday, different hardline religious groups, many with political affiliations and some with militant ties, organize protest rallies with clockwork precision that range from a few hundred to throngs of thousands. But many rallies end in the same way: the burning of an American flag.


The points of contention with the United States may differ: the CIA contractor who shot and killed two Pakistanis in Lahore,
Pakistan's second largest city; the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound by Navy SEALs in suburban Abbotabad;
the mistaken yet fatal attack on a Pakistani military checkpoint in the volatile northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas by NATO/ISAF forces;
or the now almost weekly drone strike.

The man who dominates much of the supply chain of American flags to religious groups, 30-year-old Mamoon-ur-Rasheed – who's been publishing anti-American placards and hand-made stars and stripes since his school days, when he was angered by the Clinton administration's sanctions on Pakistan following its nuclear weapons testing in 1998 – is now remarkably dispassionate about his services, as well as about the short shelf-life of his flammable goods.........................................
Isn't flag burning positive, compared to American atrocities? And also compared to the Taliban? We're not attacking mosques. ... We're not targeting American embassies. We're not killing anyone. Nor are we flying drones around," he says. "We're just burning flags, mere pieces of cloth, and then we're done. It's over."

( link doesnt work -from MSNBC)
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Maybe This is why Romney won't release his tax returns!!!
 
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