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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed

Apr 22nd 2011 – 10:50PM

DEARBORN, Mich. -- A Florida pastor's planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque was scuttled Friday after a jury determined the protest would constitute a breach of the peace and he was briefly jailed for refusing to pay what authorities called a "peace bond." The Rev. Terry Jones, whose past rhetoric against...

UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker

Apr 2nd 2011 – 7:54PM
Mustafa Najafizada, AP

Mustafa Najafizada, AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of...

Fla. Preacher Terry Jones Faces Ban in Britain

By Theunis BatesDec 13th 2010 – 9:53AM
Mario Tama, Getty Images

Mario Tama, Getty Images

LONDON (Dec. 13) -- Terry Jones, the firebrand Florida preacher who threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, could be banned from visiting Britain. Jones has been invited to speak about the "evils of Islam" at an event run by the English Defense League (EDL) -- a...

British Girl, 15, Arrested Over Alleged Koran Burning

By Theunis BatesNov 25th 2010 – 9:30AM

LONDON (Nov. 25) -- A 15-year-old British girl has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after she allegedly set fire to an English-language copy of the Koran and posted footage of the incident on Facebook. The unidentified teenager is accused of torching the Islamic holy book at her school in Sandwell,...

Background on koran burning

The term "Quran desecration" is defined as insulting the Quran by defiling or defacing copies. Intentionally insulting the Quran is regarded as blasphemous.

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