Koran burning would be disaster, The New York imam leading efforts to build an Islamic centre near the World Trade Center site says plans by a small US church to burn Korans would have sparked "a disaster".
Feisal Abdul Rauf told ABC News that the event - now called off - would have "strengthened radicals". Rallies for and against the proposed centre marred the 9/11 commemorations.
Meanwhile, two people died in eastern Afghanistan as protests sparked by the threatened book burning continued, Koran burning would be disaster
Security forces opened fire when some demonstrators tried to storm the district governor's office in Baraki Barak, in Logar province, on Sunday.
Monday, 13 September 2010
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