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Afghans Continue Protests Against Threat to Burn Quran

   VOA News 11 September 2010
   Afghans shout anti-U.S. slogans as they burn tires and block a highway
   during  a  protest in reaction to a small American church's threats to
   burn copies of the Quran

Photo: AP

   Afghans shout anti-U.S. slogans as they burn tires and block a highway
   during  a  protest in reaction to a small American church's threats to
   burn copies of the Quran, at Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, 10
   Sept. 2010

   Afghans  continued protests Saturday against a U.S. pastor's threat to
   burn copies of the Quran.
   The  Associated  Press  reports  protesters  have set shops and police
   checkpoints on fire in eastern Logar province's capital, Puli Alam.
   And Reuters news agency says several thousand people gathered in three
   district in northeastern Badakhshan province.
   On  Friday, thousands of Afghans across the country demonstrated their
   outrage  at  the  preacher's insistence on burning Islam's holy book.Â
   At  least  eight people were wounded in the protests.   The preacher
   has since called off Saturday's planned burning.
   The  obscure Florida pastor, Reverend Terry Jones, arrived in New York
   late Friday.
   His plans have created an international firestorm and prompted leading
   political  and  religious  figures  to issue statements condemning the
   plans.
   Top  U.S. officials had warned the pastor that the Quran burning could
   provoke Islamist violence and put U.S. soldiers' lives in danger.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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