Some Lebanese don’t like the Pope visiting so attack KFC
Seriously, you couldn’t make it up could you.
Hundreds of protesters set alight a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, witnesses said, chanting against the pope’s visit to Lebanon and shouting anti-American slogans.
Locals watching the attack said some people were shouting, “We don’t want the pope” and “No more insults (to Islam)”.
One person was killed in this incident.
Of course, the video Innocence of Muslims which sparked outrage across the Muslim world, is also cited as a reason for the violence.
Anyway, I hope the Pope will have a superb three-day visit and I read earlier that he’d declined additional security despite the risks.
Doug Chaplin:
September 14th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Oh well, Colonel Sanders used to dress from head to toe in white, so perhaps the confusion’s understandable!