Afghans burn pope effigy

[Habesha]

HUNDREDS of students in northern Afghanistan burned an effigy of the pope while protesting on Tuesday against alleged proselytising by two Christian aid groups, witnesses said.

The Afghan government suspended operations of US-based World Church Service and Norwegian Church Aid after a local television station alleged they were proselytising, which is against the law in the conservative Muslim country.

Students in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif shouted ‘Death to America’ and set ablaze an effigy they said was of Pope Benedict XVI, in the first public reaction to the allegations. ‘We are demonstrating to express our disgust towards the activities of Christians trying to covert Afghans,’ student Abdul Karim told AFP.

‘We want the government of Afghanistan to find those people, try them and punish them. We want both the converted and those who have converted them to be brought to justice and punished,’ he said.

straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_537307.html

 

[canuckcatholic]

Those aid groups aren’t even Catholic, so getting mad at the pope isn’t going to help very much…

 

[1holycatholic]

Those aid groups aren’t even Catholic, so getting mad at the pope isn’t going to help very much…

Porro subesse Romano Pontifici omni humanae creaturae declaramus, dicimus, definimus, et pronuntiamus omnino esse de necessitate salutis.
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[scipio337]

Horrible. There have been Muslims on these very boards who justify the death penalty for apostates and proseltyzers, but “only in nations under true Islam”.