Was it the Chicken?

From CRI (China Broadcasting):

Six people burned when protestors in Pakistan's largest city set fire to an outlet of the American fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, late on Monday.

Ok, I know sometimes the chicken can be a bit greasy, but I never felt like torching the place.

Alright, so that wasn't why it was torched. More from CRI:

The attack was in response to the suicide bombing of a mosque.

Imagine that...big fucking surprise there.

However, take a look at how the Financial Times reports it:

Six employees of Kentucky Fried Chicken, the American fast food chain, were killed in Karachi overnight Monday when their restaurant was set on fire by Shi’ite youths seeking revenge for a suicide bomb attack on a local mosque, police and rescue workers said.

Here's where it gets interesting, though. The FT explains the incident this way:

The riot followed an attack Monday on the Shi’ite Madinatul Ilm mosque in Gulshan, in which three assailants, suspected to be Sunni Muslim extremists, clashed with police before exploding a bomb that killed two of the attackers, two policemen and a worshipper. Twenty-six people were injured, AP said.
The surviving assailant told police he was associated with Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Sunni militant group accused of orchestrating several attacks against minority Shi’ites, Christians and government officials, and suspected of having links with al-Qaida, the AP report said. About 80 per cent of Pakistan’s 150m people are Sunnis, while 17 per cent are Shi’ites.

The CRI reports the following:

The incident comes after a suicide bomb attack at a minority Shiite Madinat-ul-Ilm mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing six people, including the three attackers.

Now, not only is the FT report more thorough and detailed, but the facts don't even match (ie. the number of people killed, location), and apparently one of the terrorists survived. Now, either the FT is making up facts, or the Chinese news service leaves out a lot. Hmmm....

Let's review. A Shiite shrine and mosque are blown-up within three days of each other, apparently by Sunnis. The Shiites then riot and burn a KFC, killing 6 people trying to make a buck. The Sunnis are the majority in Pakistan. This is reported as an act of revenge. Perhaps, but maybe not for the reasons cited.

In Iraq, the Sunnis (Saddam's tribe) are the minority (and no longer in power), and are primarily the ones (among the Iraquis) causing all the turmoil there along with imported nut-jobs like Zarqawi. Based on this report, could burning down the KFC be revenge directed toward the US? Neverdock has an interesting take on the activities of Pakistani intelligence operatives posing as students in Afghanistan to hijack protests and agitate violence and anti-US sentiment there. I would not be surprised if the detaining of the Sunni leader in Iraq and the torching of the KFC in Pakistan are related somehow.

At least one Pakistani official seems to have a grasp on reality and common sense:

“This country has to have a democratic government to be able to unite the public to fight terrorism,” said Enver Baig of the opposition Pakistan People’s Party. “Keeping the government under a single ruler is not the way to handle lawlessness. Pakistan is like the wild west - you don’t run countries fighting terrorism like this.”

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**MBA (Media Bias Alert)**
Check out how the first paragraph of the Iraq report instantly accuses the US as the ones who "aggravated sectarian tensions:"

BAGHDAD — U.S. forces aggravated sectarian tensions in Iraq on Monday by mistakenly arresting a prominent Sunni Muslim leader as suicide bombers killed at least 25 people in a Shiite town and soldiers continued their offensive against insurgent networks in Baghdad.

Yeah, we arrest a guy, let him go, and we're the ones making trouble; not the suicide bombers. Nope, they aren't aggravating sectarian tensions. They're merely carrying out their duty to Allah to drive out the infidels. Seditious fucktard MSM.