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Faith & Family Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead

Afghan riots over Quran-burning: 2 days, 20 dead

A member of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., walks back to the church after collecting the mail April 1. The church on Friday confirmed that it had burned a Quran in March. Thousands of protesters in northern Afghanistan, angry over the church’s burning of the Quran, stormed a U.N. compound Friday, killing at least 12 people, including eight foreigners. Afghans rioted for a second day Saturday to protest the burning of a Quran in Florida, killing nine people in Kandahar and injuring more than 80 in a wave of violence that underscored rising anti-foreign sentiment after nearly a decade of war.
The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan it further strained ties with the West. On Friday, 11 people were killed in a protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

For more on this story, see the April 7 edition of the Navarre Press or subscribe online.

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