burning the Qur’an

German police detained on Tuesday two Afghan citizens accused of planning to attack police near the Swedish parliament in response to the burning of copies of the Qur’an, the Muslim holy book, federal prosecutors said. The suspects,…
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, condemned on Monday the series of incidents that saw the burning of the Holy Qur’an in Europe earlier this year. In his remarks, Turk called for the “preserving of human…
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Two people burned a copy of the Koran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen on Monday, raising the possibility of a deterioration in relations between Iraq and Denmark. One of the two people ran over the Quran and set it on fire,…
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