Month: September 2010

The anti-Muslim pastor at the heart of a fiery debate about plans to burn the Muslim holy book acknowledged Thursday there’s still a chance he’ll call off his controversial attempt to mark the anniversary of […] […]

Nazis used to burn books. That was noted in 1989 when some British Muslims in Bradford burned Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses, and again in 2006 when some Muslims torched the Danish cartoons of the […] […]

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama is exhorting a Florida minister to “listen to those better angels” and call off his plan to engage in a Qur’an-burning protest this weekend. Obama told ABC’s Good Morning America in an […] […]

MULTAN, Pakistan—A small American church’s plan to burn copies of the Quran is stirring outrage in Muslim nations, with lawyers protesting in Pakistan and Bahrain’s government calling the burning a shameful attack on interfaith relations. […] […]