Anti-Western messages grow among Afghanistan’s imams

KABUL, (Reuters) – Enayatullah Balegh is a  professor at Kabul University and preaches on Fridays in the  largest mosque in central Kabul, where he advocates jihad, or  holy war, against foreigners who desecrate Islam.

After a fundamentalist U.S. pastor presided over the burning  of a copy of the Koran last month, there has been a growing  perception among ordinary people that many of the foreigners in  Afghanistan belong in just one category: the infidels.

“The international community and the American government is  responsible for this gravest insult to Muslims,” Balegh told  Reuters in the