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While numerous scholars explain Quranic phrases on violence to be only in the context of a defensive response to oppression; [2] [3] violent groups have interpreted verses to endorse their violent actions [4] and made the Quran's teachings on violence and war a topic of vigorous debate, though it is clear that the Quran does not condone ...
Blasphemy in Islam is an impious utterance or action concerning God, Muhammad, or anything considered sacred in Islam. [136] [137] The Quran admonishes blasphemy, but does not specify any worldly punishment for it. [138] The hadiths, which are another source of Sharia, suggest various punishments for blasphemy, which may include death.
The report also found that only one of the service members assigned to transport the books to the burn pit knew they were carrying religious books. Even after commanders at the detention center realized a mistake was being made, the troops they dispatched to stop the burning went to the wrong location and didn't find the truck with the books.
Muslims in eastern Pakistan engaged in violent protests on Wednesday, spurred by accusations of desecration of the Quran by a Christian man.. The interim government of Punjab launched a probe ...
Sweden reportedly withdrew the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of public desecrations of the Quran this year but put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in ...
The U.N. human rights chief used a special debate on Tuesday about burnings of the Quran in Sweden and other European countries to tread a fine line between freedom of expression and respect for ...
On 20 July, Momika planned another Quran burning in Stockholm, which resulted in protestors storming the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and committing arson. [2] This resulted in several follow-up protests in Denmark, in which the Quran was burned outside the embassies of several Muslim-majority countries. Counterprotests, in the form of violence ...
The German Evangelical Alliance formally dissociated itself from the proposed Quran burning, because of the widely circulated report that in his time in Cologne, Jones had been associated with the evangelical alliance. [16] [54] The Al-Falluja web forum threatened a bloody war against America in response to the burning of the Quran. [55]