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Los Angeles Times
Religion
Florida pastor says he may burn Korans after all
Terry Jones says he had canceled the event after securing a promise that the Islamic center planned near the World Trade Center site in New York would be moved. But an imam denies promising a relocation.
Just hours after backing down from plans to burn copies of the Koran, an anti-Muslim evangelist backtracked again Thursday by announcing that his tiny Florida church was considering burning the Islamic holy book after all.
For Muslims, Koran is 'light from God to humanity'
The major themes in Islam's holy book are mercy, justice and the oneness of God and the human family. Non-Muslims may be surprised to learn Jesus is mentioned more often than the prophet Muhammad.
President Obama on Thursday joined the growing chorus of top U.S. officials calling on a Florida pastor to abandon his plans to stage a Koran burning on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Koran-burning unwise, Boehner says
The House minority leader compares Pastor Terry Jones' event to the efforts to build a mosque near ground zero.
House minority leader John Boehner of Ohio suggested Wednesday that a Florida pastor's plans for burning of the Koran were unwise, comparing it to plans by a Muslim organization to build a mosque near ground zero in New York City.
Florida imam hopeful church will call off Koran-burning event
Imam Muhammad Musri of Orlando meets with the Rev. Terry Jones and says they found common ground in the denunciation of terrorism. Jones, however, still plans to burn the Muslim holy book.
Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida in Orlando, emerged from a meeting with the Rev. Terry Jones on Wednesday hopeful that the fervently anti-Islam church leader would call off plans to burn copies of the Koran on Saturday's anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Reaction to proposed Koran burning doesn't faze Florida church
A plea from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who fears that burning the Muslim holy book could provoke violence, is rebuffed. But Pastor Terry Jones hints that he may reconsider the Saturday event.
The pastor of a tiny, fringe evangelical church in Florida on Tuesday rebuffed a plea for restraint from Gen. David H. Petraeus, who warned that a plan to burn the Muslim holy book could provoke violence against American troops and citizens overseas.
Vandalism at a mosque in Madera, Calif., is being investigated as a potential hate crime by the U.S. Department of Justice, officials confirmed Tuesday.
The suspension of a Muslim student group at UC Irvine was upheld by university officials, but the recommended yearlong ban was reduced to one academic quarter, a move that could allow the group to begin participating in campus activities in January.
Video campaign invites American Muslims to share their normalcy
Dozens have filmed and posted clips for My Faith My Voice, telling viewers about their sports teams, hometowns or families. The grassroots effort aims to show that 'Muslims are like everyone else.'
One of the most interesting things about American Muslims appears to be their sports loyalties.
Arrayed on the steps of City Hall, New York Muslim leaders Wednesday condemned the ugly rhetorical attacks aimed at Islam and its followers amid a national furor over a planned Islamic center two blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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