Because torching a fast food joint is the best way to protest a cartoon (via the BBC):
Angry demonstrators protesting over Western newspaper cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad have set fire to a KFC outlet in Pakistan, reports say.
Police used batons and teargas to break up the demonstration in the north-western city of Peshawar…Hundreds of protesters are said to have torched the KFC outlet and ransacked it.
An eye-witness reports:
“Fire is still raging from the KFC,” resident Tehseen Khan told the AFP news agency.
“I can see smoke coming out of the windows, the furniture has been gutted.”
To be fair, the protests which go down almost every day in Pakistan are usually less violent, but unfortunately, that’s about to change:
…(the demonstrations) are getting bigger and angrier as Islamic opposition parties begin a rolling campaign of protests ahead of a visit by US President George W Bush at the start of next month, she says.
No word yet on whether the Colonel was injured.
