Quran Burning Issue

• Israel behind Koran burning plan, says Iran

  Iran on Thursday said Israel was behind the plan by a US pastor to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, the official news Iranian agency reported."The software for this plan was made by the Zionists (Israel) following their defeats against Muslims and the Islamic world," Iranian Foreign Minis...

• 11 Afghans injured in anti-Koran-burning protests

  Thousands of Afghans are protesting small American church's plan to burn the Muslim holy book. Officials say at least 11 people have been injured.Police in the northern province of Badakhshan say several hundred of the demonstrators ran toward a NATO compound where four attackers and five police were injured in clashes. Protesters burned an America...

• One killed in Afghanistan protest over Koran burni

  At least one person was killed and six were injured in Afghanistan Friday in a protest over a US pastor's plan to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Xinhua reported.The protest was launched in northern Afghanistan's Badakhshan province as part of the widespread demonstration against a Florida pastor's controversial plan t...

• Pastor cancels Quran-burning, then reconsiders

  An anti-Islamic preacher backed off and then threatened to reconsider burning the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, accusing a Muslim leader of lying to him with a promise to move an Islamic center and mosque away from New York's ground zero.The Rev Terry Jones generated an international firestorm with his plan to burn the Quran on Satu...