Republican White House hopeful Newt Gingrich has expressed outrage over President Barack Obama’s decision to apologise to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai over Koran burning.
“It is an outrage that President Obama is the one apologising to Afghan President Karzai on the same day two American troops were murdered and four others injured by an Afghan soldier.
“It is Hamid Karzai who owes the American people an apology, not the other way around,” Mr. Gingrich, the former Speaker of the US House of Representatives said.
“This destructive double standard whereby the United States and its democratic allies refuse to hold accountable leaders who tolerate systematic violence and oppression in their borders must come to an end,” said Mr. Gingrich, the leading Republican presidential candidate.
Earlier in the day, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Obama apologised to Mr. Karzai in a letter over the burning of the Koran at at Bagaram air base and added that no politics should be seen into it.
Keywords: Koran-burning incident
Akshay: (no religion preaches burning of other religious texts.) In the Torah, the fundamental scripture of Judaism, God commands the Jews, in the most explicit and detailed language possible, to annihilate every physical trace of the religions of Palestine and butcher everyone who does not abandon them. It is, in fact, the first recorded program of genocide and cultural genocide. How can you make such sweeping claims about the religions of the world?
The world Christians should understand that USA is pawn in the hands of
powerful Zionist lobby. In USA people have rights to criticize Jesus
(pbuh) but not Jews or Israel is the law of that great nation. The US
politicians are neither christians nor Americans they are puppets of
Israel.
@andrew knotts the taliban are complete fanatics with no respect towards
any other religion. you cannot hold the entire nation responsible for
what a small section of the people do, who btw were created by who? the
americans themselves!
Thank God Gingrich is almost out of the race as Republican candidate for US Presidency. Good for US which is still reeling under post-Bush fiasco.
While it might be argued that the "Afghans" owe an apology to the
"world" for the Bamiyan Buddhas, it still does not justify burning
Korans. Further, the Korans weren't burnt as retribution for the
Buddhas, so there's no point conflating issues here. This is not an
isolated incident - US forces abroad routinely violate the rights and
sentiments of specific communities, as also human rights in general.
The President, Obama has made a right decision by writing an apology letter to Mr. Karzai. His letter would help to great extent to meltdown the anger of Afghanipeople, and therefore cases of atrocities woken up by misdeed of US army will maize to normal-- which is why the US army is therein Afghanistan.
This incident shows why these things keep happening. Afghans burn effigy of a president who offers an apology how much ever name sake or formal it is. They end up getting people like neo-con Bush and the current roster of candidates which includes Newt Gingrich.
Instead of protesting Koran burning, they should concentrate on why Americans are not taking stringent action against those who use Afghanistan to grow drugs or why so little investment is put into educational institutions or why Americans unilaterally decide to leave Afghanistan without adequately prepared local army in place and even decide to have tactical arrangements with Taliban which still believes in having religious police banning TV, preventing women from learning or occupying positions of power.
Americans shouldn’t be allowed to create mess and leave it when they see fit. Afghans should get together on modernizing their country which has been at the receiving end ever since Soviet Union and United States started using their people and resources for gains in a great (shameful) game.
all religions deserve equal respect. burning the koran is wrong. no
religion preaches burning of other religious texts. Complete intolerance
on the part of those who burnt the copies
The Afghans also owe an apology to the World for destroying the Bumiyan
Buddha, though not carried out by the the present regime, but carried
out by Afghans themselves, nevertheless.
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