Pastor Terry Jones oversees "International Judge the Quran Day"
Florida pastor oversees Quran burning After a six-hour trial on Sunday that featured a Christian convert from Islam as a prosecuting attorney and a Dallas imam as a defense lawyer, a jury of 12 church members and volunteers made the judgment, Jones said. He said the punishment — burning the book after it had been soaked in kerosene for an hour — was determined from four choices on his organization’s Facebook page. He said “several hundred” were polled and voted for burning over shredding, drowning and facing a firing squad. Jones considered the burning — which was conducted by another pastor since Jones was serving as the judge — a one-time event.
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http://www.startribune.com/world/119059069.html Afghan officials: 12 killed at UN office when Quran burning protest turns violent
The topic of Quran burning stirred outrage among millions of Muslims and others worldwide after a small American church in Florida threatened to destroy the holy book last year. The Florida pastor had backed down but purportedly went through with the burning last month, prompting protests in three Afghan cities.
Munir Ahmad Farhad, a spokesman in Balkh province, said the protest in Mazar-i-Sharif began peacefully when several hundred demonstrators gathered outside the U.N. mission’s compound to denounce the Quran’s destruction.
It turned violent when some protesters grabbed weapons from the U.N. guards and opened fire on the police, then stormed the building, he said. “I can see the smoke over the compound,” he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110401/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_unitednations_…] Two U.N. staff killed in Afghanistan were beheaded: police
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