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Afghan Officials: 2 Suspects in Custody for UN Attacks

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say they have in custody at least two former insurgents suspected of involvement in the killing of seven U.N. workers during a riot last week in the northern city over Quran burning in the United States. Lawmaker Mohammad Akbari said on Wednesday that a government team investigating...

Controversial Florida Pastor Barred From Britain

LONDON -- A U.S. pastor who had threatened to burn a Quran on an anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has been barred from visiting Britain, its government said Wednesday. Florida pastor Terry Jones had planned to address a right-wing group, England is Ours, and join it for meetings and demonstrations from...

British Girl, 15, Arrested Over Alleged Koran Burning

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,...

Planning a Quran Burning Is Costly, Plus 5 Other Lessons Terry Jones Taught Us

(Sept. 21) -- America's favorite controversial, mustachioed pastor, Terry Jones, learned a hard lesson today: Quran burnings are expensive. And now that the hullabaloo over his planned sacrilegious bonfire has died down, it might be a good time to ask what other lessons he has taken from his experience. But since Jones has...

Skateboarder Foils Quran Burning, Becomes Web Hit

(Sept. 14) -- A shirtless skateboarder has become an Internet sensation after he foiled an attempted Quran burning by a radical evangelist in Texas on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Amarillo Globe-News reports that skateboard-toting Jacob Isom, 23, grabbed the Muslim holy book from David Grisham --...

Background on quran burn

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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