Iran FM: Zionists behind U.S. church’s plan to burn Koran
Iran FM: Zionists behind U.S. church’s plan to burn Koran – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News.
Manouchehr Mottaki also blames former U.S. President George Bush for inciting Islamophobia following Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Tehran on Thursday said that Israel was behind the plan by a United States pastor to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Sarajevo, Bosnia, April 26, 2010 |
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“The software for this plan was made by the Zionists following their defeats against Muslims and the Islamic world,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said in a meeting with foreign diplomats in Tehran.
Terry Jones, who leads an evangelical congregation of just 50 people at the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, declared this coming Saturday “International Burn a Koran Day.”
Mottaki also blamed former U.S. President George W. Bush, saying Bush’s religious rhetoric after the September 11 attacks led to Islamophobia in the U.S.
“The current U.S. administration should fulfill its duties in guaranteeing the basic rights of American Muslims for avoiding the spread of such inappropriate and devilish moves,” Mottaki said.
Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani, one of the senior clergy figures in Iran, on Wednesday harshly condemned the Koran-burning plan and called on the U.S. administration to arrest Terry Jones.
He further warned that if such a “gruesome and inhuman act” took place, Muslims would hold the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama responsible.
The ayatollah further said that desecrating the Koran would not only insult Muslims worldwide, but also the followers of Jesus Christ, his mother Mary and the prophet Moses.
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September 9, 2010 at 9:47 PM
All this is was a plan of the terrorist society to spark fear in the worlds eyes that some vain liar whom used a Hitler manual to encite terrorism upon the world that has come back to haunt terrorism. Even the Moderate Muslims as well as the Christian Faith and the Jewish Faith believe that the Koran isn.t the source of terrorism. It is truly the radicalization of hatred and fear tactics that the terrorists are using in the worlds Religions that has produced the acting out against the Terrorists fear tactics and really has nothing to do with the Muslim world or the Koran at all. The terrorists are losing control of the fear they once used as a weapon and The Peaceful Islam and Mooerate as well as the most disciplined Muslim`s in the world are holding terrorists accuntable and Allah approves of that too… Amen