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The grisly show continues, as mobs in Pakistan swing into action to defend the Prophet by\u2026vandalizing businesses in Peshawar.\u00a0 That\u2019ll show those villains at Jyllands-Posten.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

I\u2019m reminded a bit of race riots in this country, where rioters often shoot themselves in the foot by trashing shops and other scarce economic infrastructure in their own communities.\u00a0 The psychological reasons are complex, of course, but it\u2019s still tragic.<\/p>\n

Moreover, with all its economic and political problems\u2013not to mention the soaring influence of its rival and sworn enemy next door\u2013Pakistan really can\u2019t afford to piss off the rest of the world, or further sully its already abysmal international image.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

What is accomplished by these ugly displays of demagoguery, other than further weaken Pakistan\u2019s already fragile state of law & order, I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n

Insha\u2019Allah, the delegation of ulema<\/a> in Pakistan will douse these fires. [HT: Seeker\u2019s Digest<\/a>]<\/p>\n

But at this point, people organizing riots probably aren\u2019t terribly concerned about Pakistan, Muslims, or the Prophet\u2019s honor.\u00a0 \u00a0This is about raising or maintaining their political profiles.\u00a0 Today, it\u2019s defending the Prophet (pbuh); tomorrow they\u2019ll find another pretext to create a crisis.<\/p>\n

Of course, American media coverage will ignore the role America played in creating these destabilizing social forces in Pakistan by showering money and prestige on even the most ferocious and homicidal jihadi groups during the Afghan Jihad (see Asad Abu Khalil\u2019s THE BATTLE FOR SAUDI ARABIA and Mahmoud Mamdani\u2019s GOOD MUSLIM, BAD MUSLIM) and instead take Pakistan to task for being a \"failed state\".\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Aljazeera.Net \u2013 Mobs rampage in Pakistan<\/a> <\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 More than 70,000 protesters in Peshawar have burnt a fast-food restaurant, offices of two mobile phone companies and three cinemas as violence continues in Pakistan for a third day over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons.
\u00a0 \u00a0 Three people were killed and dozens injured in the violence in two cities, police and witnesses said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The grisly show continues, as mobs in Pakistan swing into action to defend the Prophet by\u2026vandalizing businesses in Peshawar.\u00a0 That\u2019ll show those villains at Jyllands-Posten.\u00a0 I\u2019m reminded a bit of race riots in this country, where rioters often shoot themselves in the foot by trashing shops and other scarce economic infrastructure in their own communities.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-the-danish-cartoons"],"yoast_head":"\nPakistanis protesting against cartoons - Akram's Razor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The grisly show continues, as mobs in Pakistan swing into action to defend the Prophet by...vandalizing businesses in Peshawar.  That'll show those\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2006\/02\/pakistanis_prot\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistanis protesting against cartoons - 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