Police broke up a mob of people armed with sticks that was threatening to attack a church Saturday after word spread that two copies of the Quran had been burned in eastern Pakistan, officials said. Full story
A majority of Egyptians believe laws in their country should observe the teachings of Islam's holy book, the Quran, according to the results of an opinion poll by a U.S.-based research center. Full story
The New Jersey Transit employee fired for publicly burning pages of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is getting his job back. Full story
A Detroit prosecutor has filed a petition in district court to stop a Florida fundamentalist Christian preacher, who recently caused riots in Afghanistan after he burned a Koran, from holding a rally outside a large Michigan mosque. Full story
Enayatullah Balegh is a professor at Kabul University and preaches on Fridays in the largest mosque in central Kabul, where he advocates jihad, or holy war, against foreigners who desecrate Islam. Full story
Suicide attackers stormed a police compound with AK-47s, grenades and an explosives-rigged ambulance in southern Afghanistan Thursday in an escalation of fighting that coincides with demonstrations — some of them deadly — over the burning of a Quran in Florida. Full story
Daisy Khan of the American Society of Muslim advancement shares her thoughts on the response to Pastor Terry Jones’ burning of the Quran.
Al-Jazeera’s Abderrahim Foukara and Prof. Irshad Manji debate whether the recent violence in Afghanistan – sparked by Pastor Terry Jones’ burning of the Quran – hurt American support for the war.
For the fourth day, anti-American protests continue in Afghanistan over a Florida pastor’s burning of the Quran. 22 people have died, including seven U.N. staff members. The Daily Beasts Leon Dische Baker joins Chris Jansing to discuss the Florida church at the center of the controversy.
Journalist Carl Bernstein joins Morning Joe to discuss the continuing protests in Afghanistan over a Florida pastor’s burning of the Quran, and the GOP budget proposal set to be released Tuesday.
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Muslims hold a mass prayer and chant Koranic verses to show their support to twelve defendants during their trials in Serang on April 26, 2011. Twelve Indonesians stood trial over the gruesome mob slaying of three minority Islamic sect members, the worst in a recent spate of hate crimes in the mainl
