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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (116) Slideshow Video Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared Obama warns Koran-burning would boost al Qaeda | Video 11:48am EDT Obama firm against tax cuts for rich 11:00am EDT B vitamins found to halve brain shrinkage in old 08 Sep 2010 Fidel Castro says Cuban model no longer works 08 Sep 2010 Economists cut U.S. growth forecast again 9:25am EDT Firm can't fire man for 1.8 cent theft 03 Sep 2010 Former singer with boy band LFO dies of leukemia 08 Sep 2010 Obama: U.S. can't afford to extend tax cuts for rich | Video 08 Sep 2010 Wall Street rises on upbeat economic data 10:29am EDT Health reforms trigger spending shift 8:10am EDT B vitamins found to halve brain shrinkage in old 08 Sep 2010 Obama warns Koran-burning would boost al Qaeda | Video 11:48am EDT Fidel Castro says Cuban model no longer works 08 Sep 2010 B vitamins found to slow progression of dementia 7:22am EDT Strange and unusual 26 Aug 2010 Editor's choice 8:45am EDT Pictures of the month: August 31 Aug 2010 German party mistakenly hands out porn pens to kids 03 Sep 2010 Can money buy happiness? Maybe, up to $75,000 08 Sep 2010 Obama firm against tax cuts for rich 11:00am EDT NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. NASDAQ delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here. Obama warns Koran-burning would boost al Qaeda Tweet This Share on LinkedIn Share on Facebook Related News Iraqi PM says US should halt Koran burning 11:05am EDT Interpol warns Koran burning may trigger attacks 11:48am EDT Analysis & Opinion Washington Extra – Party games and blame games Criticism mounts of “anti-Muslim frenzy” in U.S., Koran burning plan under fire Related Topics U.S. » World » Related Video Petraeus asks pastor to stop 5:26am EDT Pastor says Koran burning still on 1 / 7 Pakistani protesters shout slogans as they burn the U.S. flag during a protest in Multan on September 9, 2010. About hundred activists gathered on Thursday to protest against plans by Pastor Terry Jones, an obscure U.S. Protestant church leader, to burn the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Credit: Reuters/Asim Tanveer ) By David Alexander and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON | Thu Sep 9, 2010 11:48am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned Thursday that an obscure U.S. Christian pastor's plan to burn the Koran on September 11 could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings, and Asian countries urged Washington to prevent the act. "This is a recruitment bonanza for al Qaeda," Obama said in an ABC television interview. "You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan. This could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to blow themselves up in American cities or European cities." Terry Jones, leader of a Protestant church of about 30 members in Gainesville, Florida, is planning to burn copies of the Islamic holy book Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. His threat has caused alarm around the world and raised tensions over the 9/11 anniversary, which this year coincides with the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival ending the fasting month of Ramadan. The United States is also gripped by debate over plans for an Islamic center near the attack site in Manhattan. India, prone to sectarian strife, called on the U.S. government Thursday to stop Jones from carrying out his plan. The president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, urged Obama to step in personally. "We hope that the U.S. authorities will take strong action to prevent such an outrage being committed," Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said in a statement. He asked the media to refrain from showing pictures of the burning. In Jakarta, an aide to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said he had written to Obama asking him to intervene. "President Yudhoyono thinks that if this was allowed to happen, it will disturb world peace," Heru Lelono told Reuters. But Obama said there was little that could be done under U.S. law to confront the minister, other than citing him under local bylaws against public burning. RISK TO U.S. TROOPS Jones has said he sees Koran-burning as a way of confronting Islamist terrorism. But his plans have been widely condemned by U.S. religious, political and military leaders, who say it is jeopardizing the security of U.S. military personnel abroad. "I just want him to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform who are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan," Obama said on "Good Morning America." "We're already seeing protests against Americans just by the mere threat that he's making," the president said, urging Jones to listen to "those better angels." Two top U.S. commanders in Afghanistan have said the plan by Jones's Dove World Outreach Center risked undermining Obama's efforts to reach out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims. General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said the act could endanger his troops. The Convocation of American Churches in Europe also said Christians living in majority Muslim countries would be at risk of reprisals. In the United States, an FBI intelligence bulletin dated August 19 said the Koran-burning "might inspire retaliatory attacks against U.S. facilities overseas." The World Council of Churches, representing 349 branches of Christianity, added its voice to condemnations of Jones' plans. "This call has been firmly rejected and condemned by the WCC and its member churches, ecumenical partners, including in the United States as well as by people of faith and good will elsewhere," the umbrella group said in a statement. Jewish leaders have also condemned the action, saying it recalled the Nazi German burning of books in the 1930s, a prelude to the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were killed. "The burning of the book holy to the world's Muslims is morally repugnant," said the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization founded by a famous hunter of Nazi war criminals. CARTOON FUROR Streets were quiet in the Afghan capital Thursday as Eid al-Fitr celebrations approached. But police have been put on alert after angry demonstrations earlier this week when hundreds of Afghans, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside a Kabul mosque chanting "Death to America." Such protests have turned violent in Afghanistan several times in the past few years, with dozens of people killed as security forces fought to regain control. One such outburst was sparked when a Danish newspaper published a cartoon depicting the Prophet Mohammad in 2005. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended an award ceremony Wednesday for the Dane whose caricature provoked protests that led to 50 deaths. Her tribute to freedom of speech drew criticism from some Muslims in Germany. President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria, a country that has been repeatedly scarred by Muslim-Christian violence, urged U.S. authorities and "men and women of good will" around the world to prevail on Jones to abandon his plan. "This action can not be justified at anytime and certainly is doubly unjustified coming at the holy month of Ramadan. I would urge Pastor Jones to be mindful of the Golden Rule taught by Jesus Christ: Do unto others as you would want others to do unto you," Jonathan said on his Facebook page. Pakistan "urged the international community to discourage this fanatic approach and take steps to stop these fundamentalists," a Foreign Office spokesman said in an Associated Press of Pakistan report. (Additional reporting by Bappa Majumdar in NEW DELHI, Barbara Liston in GAINESVILLE, Knut Engelmann in POTSDAM, and Olivia Rondonuwu in JAKARTA; Editing by Paul Taylor and Mark Heinrich) U.S. World Comments See All Comments (116) | Post Comment Sep 09, 2010 12:08am EDT it precisely meets the definition of terrorism terÂ·rorÂ·ism (tr-rzm) n. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. cfnebear Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:10am EDT While I don’t agree with the pastor or his ideas of Islam, I do empathize with his statement. If you burned a Bible no Christian would threaten to kill you. In fact I don’t think any other religion would try to kill you either simply for burning their book. He is aware of the dangerous resulting effect this will have on his life and family and congregation, and that takes some courage for sure. Perhaps we have all gone crazy that we feel threatening to kill people simply for burning a book is somehow acceptable? justaguy35 Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:12am EDT If nobody shows up, then no one will know. dpbeard Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:13am EDT Of course he won’t back down – god told him to do it. He can’t put mere logic over the will of his imaginary god! There was a time when it didn’t seem too harmful to let people believe in whatever nonsense they wanted to believe in and to let them say whatever idiotic thing they wanted to say, but now we can see where it leads to. It’s time to tell the people who believe in fairy tales to either prove their ridiculous claims or to keep them to themselves!! jway Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:13am EDT I don’t understand why this man hasn’t been arrested and locked up yet. Fine, we have “freedom of speech” here in our country, but at what expense? Once an entire government (ours) has asked you not to do this because it will endanger lives, and you say you’re going to do it anyway, I’m sorry – that to me exists your “freedom” to speak like this. I say send in the police and lock this nutjob up BEFORE he does anything. greg30127 Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:14am EDT if the media would just quit feeding the fire! they have to give anyone their “15 minutes” of fame. don’t cover the event and give this Pastor his moment of fame mkencrl Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:15am EDT This is definitely not a Christian thing to do. That out of the way, it is a protected act in the United States. This was a direct result of the poor choice of Muslims to press the Victory Mosque in NYC. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and we as Christians should rise above it, but the truth is it’s related to the Mosque being built in poor taste by people who would not let a Baptist church anywhere near Mecca. j_n_waco Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:15am EDT “The planned event comes near the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and amid heightened tensions in the United States over a proposal to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near the site of the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.” I was against this book burning thing until I seen this on TV and watched the debates…I will say this; I think it is wrong to provoke violence, but I think it works both ways. If we are going to be tolerant about putting a Muslim church near the twin towers then it should be ok for us to put a Christian or Jewish temple on the Dome of the Rock…If this isn’t acceptable to the Muslim world then they shouldn’t asked the victims of the twin towers to except a Mosque near the site of their deceased loved ones (This seems to me like a period put at the end of the statement â€œDeath to America.â€) Let’s see just how tolerant the Muslim world is…lolâ€¦I doubt very seriously they would accept these terms and I think it is abhorred that they would even consider putting a mosque near the site of a terrorist attack( A Muslim terrorist attack). That to me seems like a dog trying to mark its new territory. whatukidding Report As Abusive Sep 09, 2010 12:16am EDT Held as initial culprits are Americans. Muslims never stand up against their radicals, yet so quickly do they stand against others. Did Muslims protest and disavow other Muslims who burn the Christian Bible? Did Muslims disavow publicly the 911 World Trade Center catastrophe? Did Muslims publicly outcry against other Muslims dragging American bodies and beheading them? Muslims are weak against their own atrocities. Muslims are hypocrites. rgrowley Report As Abusive See All Comments (116) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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