Quran-burning

At least 10 people were arrested in southern Sweden and several police officers were injured in violence which broke out after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said Saturday.

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...

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...

A renegade pastor and his tiny flock set fire to a Quran on a street corner, and made sure to capture it on film. And they were ignored. That stunt took place in 2008, involving members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas, an almost universally condemned group of fundamentalists who also protest at military funerals. But plans for a ...

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...

Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned an American pastor's plans to burn copies of the Quran to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and asked Interpol to stop the "insane" man from going ahead with the move.President Asif Ali Zardari expressed grave concern over the pastor's threat and believed that anyone "who even thought of such a ...

US President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview aired on Thursday that he hopes the Rev. Terry Jones of Florida listens to the pleas of people who have asked him to call off the...

At least 10 people were arrested in southern Sweden and several police officers were injured in violence which broke out after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said Saturday.

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...

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...

A renegade pastor and his tiny flock set fire to a Quran on a street corner, and made sure to capture it on film. And they were ignored. That stunt took place in 2008, involving members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas, an almost universally condemned group of fundamentalists who also protest at military funerals. But plans for a ...

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...

Pakistan on Thursday strongly condemned an American pastor's plans to burn copies of the Quran to mark the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks and asked Interpol to stop the "insane" man from going ahead with the move.President Asif Ali Zardari expressed grave concern over the pastor's threat and believed that anyone "who even thought of such a ...

US President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to "listen to those better angels" and call off his plan to engage in a Quran-burning protest this weekend.Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" in an interview aired on Thursday that he hopes the Rev. Terry Jones of Florida listens to the pleas of people who have asked him to call off the...