Koran-Burning US Pastor Terry Jones Locked Up

A controversial US pastor has been jailed after a court said his planned protest outside a mosque was likely to provoke violence …

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Koran burnt in Florida church

By Paul J. Richards, AFP News

A controversial US evangelical preacher oversaw the burning of a copy of the Koran in a small Florida church …

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Burning with bigotry

It’s a discouraging sign of the times that a notoriety-craving Christian preacher with a pistol on his hip and intolerance in his heart can spark an international uproar by dissing another religion’s holy book. …

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Angelina Jolie upset over Quran-burning plan

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Actress Angelina Jolie on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of opposition to plans by a U.S. pastor to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, amid fears it would fan religious hatred.

The Quran-torching event on Saturday planned by Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a tiny, little-known church in Florida, is fueling growing fears about heightened Christian-Muslim tensions in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world.

Oscar-winning Jolie, who is visiting Pakistan to highlight the plight of millions of people devastated by the country’s worst-ever floods, said she would never support any such plans.

“Of course not. Of course not,” she told a news conference when asked if she supported Jones’ plans.

She said she had “hardly the words” to express her opposition to burning someone’s religious text. …

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