2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests
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title:
2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests
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The 2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests were a series of protests of varying levels of violence which took place early in 2012 in response to the burning of Islamic religious material by soldiers from the United States Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. On 22 February 2012, U.S. troops at Bagram Base disposed of copies of the Quran that had been used by Taliban prisoners to write messages to each other. As part of the disposal, parts of the books were burned. Afghan forces working at the base r
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Protest
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Afghanistan_Quran_burning_protests
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2012-02-24T16:57:23Z
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2024-09-01T00:39:45Z
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