MS: ANTI-ABORTIONISTS' BURNING OF QURAN CALLED 'HATEFUL' - TOP
Jean Gordon, Clarion-Ledger, 7/20/06
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Jackson Muslims and a statewide interfaith group reacted with
disgust Wednesday to reports that the national anti-abortion group
Operation Save America burned a Quran during a Tuesday night
gathering at a Pearl church.
"A group that acts in such a hateful way does not really represent
the word of God," said Emad Al-Turk, co-founder of the International
Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson.
Activists from Operation Save America, formerly known as Operation
Rescue, have been in Jackson since Saturday for eight days of
protests against the state's only abortion clinic, the Jackson
Women's Health Organization in the Fondren neighborhood.
During a demonstration at the Capitol on Tuesday, anti-abortion
activists tore up pages from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, along
with a gay pride flag and copies of six U.S. Supreme Court rulings
related to religion in public schools, sodomy and abortion.
The group intended to burn the items at the Capitol but couldn't
because it didn't have a permit, said Operation Save America
volunteer Pat McEwen, a retired college professor from Palm Bay, Fla.
Instead, the activists burned the Quran and other items Tuesday
evening in the parking lot outside Making Jesus Real Church in
Pearl, McEwen said. Police confirmed the burning. (MORE)
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