SYDNEY- AN AUSTRALIAN lawyer tore pages from the Quran and the Bible and smoked them on YouTube, days after a US pastor's threat to burn Islam's holy book triggered deadly protests and global condemnation.
In a 12-minute clip entitled 'Bible or Koran - which burns best?' Alex Stewart, who belongs to an atheist group, holds up the Christian and Muslim holy books before tearing out pages and smoking them.
2 killed during protests
KABUL - TWO protesters were shot and killed in Afghanistan's east on Sunday, a district government official said, during angry demonstrations staged even though an obscure US pastor abandoned plans to burn copies of the Quran.
The two who died were among seven wounded during clashes with Afghan security forces who tried to disperse protests in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province.
Proposed Islamic cultural centre divides Americans on 9/11 anniversary
NEW YORK - America opened a new war at Ground Zero on Saturday -- against itself.
Tearful ceremonies in New York and at the Pentagon marking the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks were part of an annual ritual meant to bring the country together.
This time, though, the mournful music was barely over in New York before unity disintegrated into angry debate between thousands of demonstrators under the control of a heavy police presence.
The immediate issue was whether a proposed Islamic cultural centre should be built, as planned, two blocks from Ground Zero. But how to coexist with Muslims -- even American Muslims -- was the bigger question and it's one deeply dividing the United States.
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