Koran Burning

Counter-protesters demonstrating against a far-right group's intention to burn a Koran in Orebro in central Sweden clashed with police on Friday, leaving four police officers injured, authorities said.

Video of a crowd killing an Afghan woman accused of burning pages from a Koran was shown in court on Sunday in the trial of nearly 50 people over a lynching that prompted outrage and protests in Kabul.

Hundreds of protesters shouting "Down with ignorance!" urged the Afghan government today to bring to justice the killers of a woman lynched by a mob for allegedly burning the Koran.

An Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran was innocent, the Interior Minister said today.

A judge on Monday ordered police to refer the case of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy to a juvenile court, following a medical report that said she was 14. Rimsha Masih spent three weeks on remand in an adult jail after she was arrested on August 16 for allegedly burning pages from the Koran in a case that prompted worldwide condemn...

In another embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases, and beat and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.

Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul today over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Quran, police said.

On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11, President Barack Obama on Friday said that America is not at war with Islam, but against "a handful of tiny minority" who have distorted the preachings of this great religion.Asserting that the majority of the Muslims across the world are peace loving and do not support extremist ideologies, Obama sa...

On a day of dramatic twists and turns, a US pastor today announced that he has no plans to go ahead with his earlier decision to burn the holy Quran and said he still expects the planned mosque near Ground Zero to be moved as part of a "deal" with a Florida imam.Pastor Terry Jones made the announcement that he has decided not to burn Quran during a...

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...

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...

The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said on Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off."We are still determined to do it, yes," the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show...

Prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders held an extraordinary "emergency summit" meeting in the capital on Tuesday to denounce what they called "the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry" aimed at American Muslims during the controversy over the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero."This is not America," said Cardinal T...

Counter-protesters demonstrating against a far-right group's intention to burn a Koran in Orebro in central Sweden clashed with police on Friday, leaving four police officers injured, authorities said.

Video of a crowd killing an Afghan woman accused of burning pages from a Koran was shown in court on Sunday in the trial of nearly 50 people over a lynching that prompted outrage and protests in Kabul.

Hundreds of protesters shouting "Down with ignorance!" urged the Afghan government today to bring to justice the killers of a woman lynched by a mob for allegedly burning the Koran.

An Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran was innocent, the Interior Minister said today.

A judge on Monday ordered police to refer the case of a Pakistani Christian girl accused of blasphemy to a juvenile court, following a medical report that said she was 14. Rimsha Masih spent three weeks on remand in an adult jail after she was arrested on August 16 for allegedly burning pages from the Koran in a case that prompted worldwide condemn...

In another embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan.

The Taliban urged Afghans on Thursday to target foreign military bases, and beat and kill Westerners in retaliation for burnings of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country.

Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul today over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Quran, police said.

On the eve of the ninth anniversary of the 9/11, President Barack Obama on Friday said that America is not at war with Islam, but against "a handful of tiny minority" who have distorted the preachings of this great religion.Asserting that the majority of the Muslims across the world are peace loving and do not support extremist ideologies, Obama sa...

On a day of dramatic twists and turns, a US pastor today announced that he has no plans to go ahead with his earlier decision to burn the holy Quran and said he still expects the planned mosque near Ground Zero to be moved as part of a "deal" with a Florida imam.Pastor Terry Jones made the announcement that he has decided not to burn Quran during a...

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...

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...

The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said on Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off."We are still determined to do it, yes," the Rev. Terry Jones told the CBS Early Show...

Prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders held an extraordinary "emergency summit" meeting in the capital on Tuesday to denounce what they called "the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry" aimed at American Muslims during the controversy over the proposed Islamic community center near ground zero."This is not America," said Cardinal T...