NBC Reports Quran Burnings Latest in ‘Long Line of Insults’ to Afghanistan by U.S.
Reporting on violent protests in Afghanistan following accidental Quran burnings for Monday’s NBC Today, correspondent Atia Abawi declared the incident “…follows a long line of insults that has intensified the public outrage towards the U.S., including last year’s intentional burning of a Koran by a pastor in Florida and the video of U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters.”
Compare that declaration to how Abawi portrayed Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai as the peace-keeper amid the crisis: “Karzai once again tried to diffuse the anger, saying, ‘Our emotions were shown all over the country regarding this, it is time now to return to calm and keep it.'” There was no mention of Karzai’s demand that the soldiers responsible for destroying the religious texts should be put on trial and punished.
Also missing from Abawi’s Monday report was any mention of reports that the Qurans in question were being used to spread violent extremist messages among detained terror suspects in U.S. custody in Afghanistan.
In addition, criticism of President Obama’s apology for the incident was left out of the report.
