Six employees of a KFC restaurant were killed yesterday after the building was torched by a mob angry over a deadly suicide attack at a Shi'ite mosque in Karachi.

Doesn't that statement look as if it came from one of those random generators? First thing to pop into my head "Oh no, they've started serving pork!" But alas, there is no logical sense to the above statement. Just like there is no logical sense in much of what goes on in the Middle East.

The restaurant was targeted after three militants, a policeman and a worshipper were killed in a shootout and a suicide bombing during evening prayers at the Madinat-ul-Ilm mosque in Gulshan, a busy neighbourhood in Pakistan's violence-prone largest city.

And the inevitable round-up:

Sunni Muslim extremists were suspected in the mosque attack, and it was unclear why the KFC restaurant was targeted in retaliatory rioting, along with arson attacks on vehicles, shops, three bank branches and three petrol stations.

The restaurant is heavily associated with the US and rioters in Pakistan typically attack symbols of Washington while on a rampage.

Anti-US feeling grew in Pakistan after President Pervez Musharraf allied the country with Washington in the war on terror after September 11, 2001.

It is america's fault, of course, that Muslims are killing other Muslims, and therefore, rage must be directed at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Is it possible, after all these years in the scorching deserts of the Middle East, that these people are completely sun-addled?