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Unlike those Americans who can't comprehend the extraordinary significance of the Quran in Islamic life, Dr. Glenn Miller, a religious scholar at the Bangor Theological Seminary, understands completely how recent reports of alleged desecration of the holy book managed to trigger deadly anti-American protests in Afghanistan and other Muslim countries.
What he can't understand about the Newsweek report that U.S. interrogators of Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had defiled at least one copy of the Quran, which the magazine has since retracted, is why the journalists responsible didn't realize beforehand that such a story could actually be so inflammatory.See the full content of this document
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Quran Fury No Surprise, Scholar Says
"And I'd have to say I'm shocked that we in the West would not have expected such a thing to occur, or that people have been so critical of the Muslim response," said ...
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