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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed

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...

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...

Terry Jones Unapologetic for Violence After Koran Burning [VIDEO]

Quran Protests Spread to Turbulent Afghan East

JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran. An officer was shot dead in a second day of clashes in the...

UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker

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...

Background on quran 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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