Item: About a thousand demonstrators, mostly students, recently marched from Kabul University to the Parliament building to burn an effigy of President Barack Obama and yell anti-U.S. epithets. The reason: Rumors that American troops might have desecrated a Koran.
Non-item: Still no major public demonstrations in Afghanistan, Iraq or Pakistan against those who behead, strap on suicide jackets to kill innocents, detonate car bombs in markets crowded with women and children, and burn alive the occupants of a U.N. guesthouse.