BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: A leading Iraqi intellectual on Friday called for respecting Christians and sparing them any harms as part of reactions to a U.S. pastorÂ’s calls to burn books of the holy Quran on the 9/11 anniversary.
“We have to prevent any possible harms against our Christian brothers as reactions to the U.S. pastor’s call to burn the Holy Quran,” according to Khalid al-Mulla, the leader of Iraq’s scholars and intellectuals association, in statements to Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The stand adopted by the Christian clergymen has become very clear as they offer an apology to their brothers in the Muslim world and express respect and appreciation for the Quran,” Mulla added.
Christian local residents of Baghdad denounced plans by a U.S. church to burn books of the Quran on the 9th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
Iraqi Christians in the capital Baghdad agreed that the plans to burn the Muslim holy book are running counter to the teachings of the Christian faith that respect all divine religions. |