{"id":1436,"date":"2011-04-03T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2011-04-03T11:58:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T11:58:40","slug":"new-afghan-rallies-rap-quran-burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2011\/04\/03\/1436\/","title":{"rendered":"New Afghan rallies rap Qur&#8217;an burning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan_rallies_quran\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan_rallies_quran.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"193\" \/>Hundreds of Afghans have staged a new rally in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern city of Kandahar and other districts to condemn the desecration of the holy Qur&#8217;an by a radical pastor in the United States.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, Afghans took to the streets of Kandahar a day after 16 people were killed and over 80 injured during similar protests in the city, a Press TV correspondent reported.<br \/>&#8220;Death to the US,&#8221; the demonstrators, mostly young men, shouted during the demonstration.<br \/>Police and security forces are on alert to prevent violence in the city, and the main bazaar of Kandahar was closed down due to the protests.<br \/>Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the provincial administration, said that demonstrations were held in different locations in Kandahar and Panjwayi district.<br \/>Some reports say at least one people was killed and three other wounded in the protest in Panjwayi on Sunday.<br \/>The Saturday rally in Kandahar turned violent after police blocked the protesters&#8217; march towards UN and government offices.<br \/>Earlier on Friday, thousands of people poured into the streets in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of the northern Balkh province, protesting the burning of a copy of Islam&#8217;s holy book by the American pastor in Florida.<br \/>Ten foreign workers for the United Nations, including Norwegian, Romanian, Swedish and Nepalese nationals were killed during the Friday protests after a small number of furious protesters stormed the UN headquarters in the northern Afghan city.<br \/>On March 20, Pastor Terry Jones, who had already caused an outrage worldwide by threatening to burn copies of the Qur&#8217;an last September, broke his earlier promise and burned the holy Qur&#8217;an after holding a mock trial at his fringe church in the city of Gainesville.<br \/>Afghan President Hamid Karzai has strongly condemned sacrilegious acts against the holy book of Qur&#8217;an in the United States.<br \/>The presidential office on Thursday described burning of the holy Qur&#8217;an at a Florida church as &#8220;disrespectful and abhorrent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Press TV<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Afghans have staged a new rally in Afghanistan&#8217;s southern city of Kandahar and other districts to condemn the desecration of the holy Qur&#8217;an by a radical pastor in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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