Would anyone blame France if they told these ungrateful losers to eff off and pulled their troops out?

KABUL (AFP) — Afghanistan’s senate voted to cut the word “friendship” from a pact with France because Islamic texts say it cannot be used to describe relations between Muslims and infidels, senators said Tuesday.

France, which has seen 88 of its troops killed as part of the NATO coalition backing the Afghan government against Taliban insurgents, signed the 20-year “friendship and cooperation treaty” earlier this year.

“Some senators said that based on Sharia rulings we cannot use the word friendship with infidels, so after voting the word friendship was replaced with relationship,” Senator Zahra Sharifi told AFP.

The move, which amounts simply to a recommendation as the senate has the power only to approve or reject the document, not to amend it, apparently embarrassed some senators.

“We argued, we said that France has been a close friend of Afghanistan for a very long time,” said Mohammad Alam Ezedyar, who chaired the senate session.

“Some senators disagreed, but the important thing is that the pact was approved, and will be sent to the foreign ministry.”