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A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah.
The balls showed the Saudi Arabian flag which features the Koranic declaration of faith.

The US military said the idea had been to give something for Afghan children to enjoy and they did not realise it would cause offence.

The footballs were dropped from a helicopter in Khost province.

Some displayed flags from countries all over the world, including Saudi Arabia, which features the shahada, one of the five pillars of Islam - the declaration of faith.

The words, which include the name of Allah, are revered, and Muslims are very sensitive about where and how they can be used.

Saudi Arabia has complained to the World Cup's ruling body in the past about the use of its flag on footballs.

Mullahs in Afghanistan criticised the US forces for their insensitivity, and around 100 people held a demonstration in Khost.

Afghan MP Mirwais Yasini said: "To have a verse of the Koran on something you kick with your foot would be an insult in any Muslim country around the world."

A spokeswoman for the US forces in Afghanistan said they made "significant efforts to work with local leaders, mullahs and elders to respect their culture" and distributing the footballs was an effort to give a gift the Afghan children would enjoy.

"Unfortunately," she added, "there was something on those footballs we didn't immediately understand to be offensive and we regret that as we do not want to offend."

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6964564.stm

The BBC article has been downgraded to omit a crucial information. The picture in the BBC doesn't contain the real ball. The real ball has the flag of Saudi Arabia alongside the flag of the Zionist state. Now, imagine a 'blasphemous' ball along with the flag of the enemy of the Ummah.

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Salafists display a talent for parochialness the like of which is truly unsurpassed.

Torching embassies, chanting death to America shall not relieve the wretched condition of a people already ground underfoot by abject poverty.

Generations of Afghans young and old have owing to decades of civil war been condemned to beggary, about which the affluent Saudis have done little to alleviate, yet the Wahhabis incensed about the supposed desecration of their flag have the chutzpah to ignite an international row, for which the Afghans will presumably pay the cost once more, like they did over the Danish caricatures when a hundred of their number were killed rioting by the police.

arabman

doroos who hate somaliland burn the somaliland flag out of hate

i would burn it 2 if the shahada wasnt on the flag 8)

Any Muslim who burns a flag that features the Koranic declaration of faith (Shahaada) commits a sin.

arabman

doroos do it all the time becoz of the hate in them

but we started buring the somali blue flag

Focking Muslims..............always looking for a reason to be pissed off. So there were flags on the footballs, so the fock what?