Koran burning 'would be disaster' NY imam warns

[Jeffersons Ghost]

The New York imam leading efforts to build an Islamic centre near the World Trade Center site says plans by a small US church to burn Korans would have sparked "a disaster".

Feisal Abdul Rauf told ABC News that the event - now called off - would have "strengthened radicals".

Rallies for and against the proposed centre marred the 9/11 commemorations.

Meanwhile, two people died in eastern Afghanistan as protests sparked by the threatened book burning continued. Security forces opened fire when some demonstrators tried to storm the district governor's office in Baraki Barak, in Logar province, on Sunday.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11277526

[saltpoint]

1. Generally agree that it would definitely not help.

Tensions are running high across the globe already. We don't need anybody playing with matches.

[Warpy]

2. Two people were killed in a riot in Afghanistan over the mere threat

so consider what the stupid act, itself, would have done.

A death fatwa for that idiot preacher and his cult followers would have been the least of it.

What people in the Muslim world fail to understand is that while it is legal for him to have done such a stupid thing, a majority of his fellow citizens would point him out in a crowd to an assassin had he done so.