Muslims in the Khost province of Afghanistan are all worked up again, this time over a soccer ball with the Saudi flag on it.  The US dropped the balls into a village for the children to play with but apparently the balls weren’t good enough for them.  The soccer balls had the flags of many different countries printed on them including the Saudi flag.  U.S. apologizes to Afghans for soccer ball snafu:

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The U.S. military said Monday it regretted any offense it may have caused by giving out a soccer ball with the word Allah written on it as part of a public relations exercise in Afghanistan.

At least one of several balls dropped by helicopter to children in eastern Khost province had a small picture of the Saudi Arabian flag. The flag features in Arabic script the Islamic declaration of faith, which contains the words Allah and the Prophet Muhammad.

So let me get this straight, it is ok to murder Christian missionaries in your country but it isn’t ok to kick a soccer ball with the word Allah on it?  What happens when Americans start burning the Saudi flag much like the Muslim world is so fond of burning ours?  Am I the only one who finds it ludicrous how easily offended these people are?  Why is it again that CAIR offers “sensitivity” training to government workers but neglects to “train” their fellow believers in the fine art of being “sensitive”? 

I vote we start using the ball in MLS play, that would at least raise awareness for the league around the world.  We would then have Beckham and a cool ball that pisses off our enemies.

LGF has more on the story here and Michelle Malkin here.

South Korea, in a decidedly secular move, has chosen to bow to terrorist demands in order to save the live’s of 19 Korean missionaries. MSNBC.com has the story: Taliban, S. Korea reach agreement on captives:

GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) - The Taliban agreed Tuesday to free 19 South Korean church volunteers held hostage since July after the government in Seoul agreed to end all missionary work and keep a promise to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year.

Sadly South Korea will learn the lesson many a country has, most recently Spain, that appeasing thugs and butchers only validates that their methods work. It does nothing to curb their ways, it just gives the scum another talking point for their crap movement.

I can not imagine that the 19 missionaries being released would want to be freed under the terms that South Korea has agreed to. Doesn’t stopping future Christian missionary work in Afghanistan make the loss of two missionaries less significant? It was important enough for them to sacrifice their lives to spread God’s word, so wouldn’t a better response be to flood the country with more missionaries? I’m just saying, we are in a religious war and the only thing the enemy fears is the Truth that is Jesus Christ.

Michelle Malkin has more here and more over at LGF here.