The top American commander in Kabul, Afghanistan has warned that plans by a small Florida church to burn copies of the Qur'an Paak on Saturday, the so called anniversary of the so called September 11 "attacks", could play into the hands of the very Islamic Anti-American Liberation Armies of Afghanistan at whom the church says it is directing that message.
Burning copies of the Qur'an Paak, the Muslim holy book, “would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence”, the commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus said in an e-mail message to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Echoing remarks the general made in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, he said: “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort.
It is precisely the kind of action the Taliban use and could cause significant problems. Not just here, but everywhere in the world we are engaged with the Islamic community.”
In 2005, violent and sometimes lethal riots were set off around the world by a mistaken report by Newsweek that a Pentagon investigation had found that military interrogators of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, tried to flush a Qur'an Paak down a toilet (Naooz Billah). The same year, a Danish newspaper printed cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad also led to riots across the Muslim world.
Terry Jones, the notorious freemason pastor of the tiny Florida church that plans the Qur'an Paak burning, says that as an American Christian he has a "right to burn the Qur'an" because “it’s full of lies.”
Some of his prior attempts to incite anti-Islamic fervor have met with less public attention. Last year, he posted a sign at his church declaring “Islam is of the devil.”
Muslim leaders in several countries, including Egypt and Indonesia, have formally condemned him and his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, which has 50 members.
In Afghanistan, meanwhile, a district governor from Baghlan Province was assassinated by Taliban insurgents on Monday night along the Kunduz-Baghlan highway in the north of Afghanistan, officials said.
Armed insurgents stopped the white Toyota Hilux of Ahmad Soror, 30, the governor of Nahreen District. The militants then shot the official and his driver, said Munshi Abdul Majid, the governor of Baghlan Province.
The Kunduz-Baghlan highway is the major road connecting Kabul to the north of the country. It is especially heavily traveled during this week, as Afghans flock to their home villages to visit family for Id al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month.
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Burning copies of the Qur'an Paak, the Muslim holy book, “would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence”, the commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus said in an e-mail message to The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Echoing remarks the general made in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Tuesday, he said: “It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort.
General David H. Petraeus
In 2005, violent and sometimes lethal riots were set off around the world by a mistaken report by Newsweek that a Pentagon investigation had found that military interrogators of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, tried to flush a Qur'an Paak down a toilet (Naooz Billah). The same year, a Danish newspaper printed cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammad also led to riots across the Muslim world.
Terry Jones, the notorious freemason pastor of the tiny Florida church that plans the Qur'an Paak burning, says that as an American Christian he has a "right to burn the Qur'an" because “it’s full of lies.”
The mal'oon Freemason pastor Terry Jones
Muslim leaders in several countries, including Egypt and Indonesia, have formally condemned him and his church, the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, which has 50 members.
In Afghanistan, meanwhile, a district governor from Baghlan Province was assassinated by Taliban insurgents on Monday night along the Kunduz-Baghlan highway in the north of Afghanistan, officials said.
Afghan fighters using a bazooka
The Kunduz-Baghlan highway is the major road connecting Kabul to the north of the country. It is especially heavily traveled during this week, as Afghans flock to their home villages to visit family for Id al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic fasting month.
"We have sent down the Qur'an, and (undoubtedly) We will preserve it!"
(Surah Al-Hijr 15:9)
(Surah Al-Hijr 15:9)
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ReplyDeletethey will burn quran and we will burn there army in afghnistan and iraq inshallah
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