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Quran-Burning Pastor Stirs Up Dearborn

Apr 23, 2011
Pastor Terry Jones, whose supervision of a Quran burning touched off deadly riots in Afghanistan early this month, has set his sights on a mosque in Dearborn, Mich. A judge has barred Jones from the mosque's property, and he now plans to protest in front of it.

U.N. Staffers Killed in Afghan Protest

Apr 2, 2011
The threatened, and now fulfilled, Quran-burning gesture by Florida pastor Terry Jones (pictured) sparked fatal consequences in Afghanistan on Friday, when protesters in the northern city of Mazir-e-Sharif stormed a United Nations compound and killed at least 20 employees.

‘Daily Show’: Islamophobiapalooza

Sep 14, 2010
Several of Bill O'Reilly's colleagues at Fox News clearly don't subscribe to his patented "No Spin Zone" formula, as the spinnage happening on the Murdochian channel about the Islamic cultural center near Manhattan's Ground Zero is enough to power a generously proportioned dynamo.