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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed
By not in system - AOL NewsDEARBORN, 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 Muslims has inflamed anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan, said he refused to pay the $1 bond because to do so would violate his freedom of speech. He later paid it and was released. Jones had planned a demonstration Friday evening outside the Islamic Center of America in ...
Afghan Officials: 2 Suspects in Custody for UN Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, 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 the April 1 attack against the U.N. headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif has identified three men believed involved in the killing of three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards. A chief investigator with the Interior Ministry, Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, claims two of the ...
Terry Jones Unapologetic for Violence After Koran Burning [VIDEO]
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Quran Protests Spread to Turbulent Afghan East
By not in system - AOL NewsJALALABAD, 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 city of Kandahar, said provincial health director Qayum Pokhla. Two officers and 18 civilians were wounded, he said. In Jalalabad, the largest city in the east, hundreds of people blocked the main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave, burning an effigy ...
UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, 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 the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on ...
Fla. Preacher Terry Jones Faces Ban in Britain
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LONDON (Dec. 13) -- Terry Jones, the firebrand Florida preacher who threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, could be banned from visiting Britain. Jones has been invited to speak about the "evils of Islam" at an event run by the English Defense League (EDL) -- a far-right, anti-Islamic group headed by former soccer hooligans -- in the U.K. in February. However, British Home Secretary Theresa May said this weekend that she was "actively" considering whether to block the controversial Gainesville, Fla., pastor from entering the ...
British Girl, 15, Arrested Over Alleged Koran Burning
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 25) -- A 15-year-old British girl has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after she allegedly set fire to an English-language copy of the Koran and posted footage of the incident on Facebook. The unidentified teenager is accused of torching the Islamic holy book at her school in Sandwell, near the city of Birmingham in central England, as other students watched. She was questioned by police on Friday and was released later that day pending further inquiries. Police also arrested a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats on the social ...
Pastor Awarded Car for Canceling Quran Burning
By not in system - AOL NewsSOUTH BRUNSWICK, N.J. (Oct. 15) - A New Jersey car dealer plans to keep his word after offering Florida pastor Terry Jones a new car if he promised to not burn a Quran. Car dealer Brad Benson made the offer in one of his dealership's quirky radio ads, which focus more on current events than cars. But he was surprised when a representative for Jones called to collect the 2011 Hyundai Accent, which retails for $14,200. "They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car," Benson recalled. At first he thought it was a hoax, so Benson asked Jones to ...
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: Mosque-Burners Are 'Terrorists'
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 4) -- Play with fire and you're bound to get burned -- maybe even by your own countrymen. That's the lesson that arsonists -- allegedly disgruntled Jewish settlers -- learned today after torching a mosque and at least a dozen copies of the Koran in Beit Fajjar, a Muslim Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank. Now they are taking heat from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who Monday evening harshly condemned of the attack, even calling his fellow Israelis terrorists. "Whoever did this is a terrorist in every sense of the word, and intended to hurt the chances for peace and ...
Banned Book Week 2010: From Glenn Beck's 9/12 Project to Quran Burning
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- Just how dangerous is a book? Since 1982, the American Library Association has designated the last week of September as "Banned Books Week" in an effort to draw attention to what the group sees as a central tenet of American freedom: the right read whatever books one chooses. To mark the occasion, the ALA is hosting public events at libraries and bookstores across the country and is encouraging Americans to read titles that have been targeted for removal from libraries and public schools. "Free people read freely," Barbara Jones, the director of the ALA's Office of ...
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