Bomb kills at least 20 at Pakistan shrineISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — An apparent suicide bomb detonated Friday as hundreds of Shiite Muslims recited verses from the Koran during a religious festival at a shrine near Pakistan's capital, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens, witnesses said.
Pakistani Muslim devotees mourn Friday's deaths near Islamabad.
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Rallies abroad protest alleged desecration of KoranISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Thousands of Muslims marched Friday in Islamic countries from Asia to the Middle East, burning symbols of America to protest the alleged desecration of the Koran by military personnel at a U.S. prison in Guantanamo, Bay, Cuba.The rallies in Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon, Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere followed an admission Thursday by U.S. investigators that Islam's holy book was mishandled at Guantanamo. But American officials claimed it was often inadvertent and denied that any Korans were flushed down a toilet, as Newsweek magazine had reported in a now-retracted article.
Now if certain persons who called themselves "Christian" were to protest maltreatment of the Bible and then go to a church and blow up the congregation, everyone would say those persons were:
- Not Christian
- Sociopaths