• Submitted by: manso
• International
• 09 / 10 / 2010

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Havana, Thursday, September 9, 2010. The Koran is the sacred book of Islam, which for Muslims contains the word of the one god, Allah, and Muslims are more than 1200 million people in this world who revere him as part of their ancient culture and its existence.

But from the September 11, 2001, in the U.S. launched a crusade against the Muslim world, the disrespect for the Quran has been present as well in the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay U.S. base, where the CIA and the military Pentagon destroyed the books and threw them in toilets in the eyes of Muslim prisoners, or as in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, when the holy book was burned or trampled by the guards in the presence of detainees.

Today, an appeal by a U.S. pastor to burn copies of the Koran, on the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 in the U.S. is the most outstanding news on the eve of the date.

The burning of the Muslim holy book has been announced for next Saturday by Terry Jones, pastor of the Christian church in Florida.

The Higher Shiite Council vice president, Abdel Amir Kabbalah, the pastor described the U.S. initiative as an "act of barbarism that has nothing to do with religious values."

Meanwhile, in Berlin, DPA reported that religious communities, both Christian and Jewish in Germany, reacted with strong religious convictions to the preaching of extremist Terry Jones.

The reactions were more marked when it became known in Germany that the pastor has a history of forgery and cheating in the German city of Cologne, where he also served his ministry.

The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) clearly distanced itself from Jones and called it "intolerable provocation" notice of the burning of the Koran.

For its part, the president of the Central Council of Jews, Charlotte Knobloch,recalled the burning of books dismayed that made the Nazis in Berlin's Bebel Square. "The idea is horrible and shocking," he said in Munich, then to quote the famous phrase of the German writer Heinrich Heine: "Where they burn books they end up by burning people." (Elson Concepción Pérez)

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