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Channel 4 News foreign editor Ben De Pear blogs on the involvement of Dr KA Paul in the Koran burning controversy in the United States.
As the furore over the threatened Koran burning by a US pastor continues, Samira Ahmed visits a mosque in Surrey where local religious leaders and councillors “made a stand for reason and tolerance”.
President Obama warns burning the Koran would endanger troops as Sarah Smith gauges reaction from Muslims while a pastor flies to New York to confront the backer of the planned Islamic centre.
The spokesman for the pastor who is threatening to burn the Koran looks familiar to Foreign Editor Ben de Pear, who watched him lauding former Liberian president Charles Taylor in 2003.
The pastor who planned to burn copies of the Koran is reconsidering his decision to call off the protest amid a row over claims a proposed New York mosque would be moved.
Gary Gibbon
Just been speaking to Tony Blair at his Faith Foundation on the Koran burning threat in the US. I asked what it said about the fragility of relations between East and West that one pastor with a tiny following could threaten havoc?
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair tells Channel 4 News that plans to burn copies of the Koran do not represent the west, as President Obama warns it could be used as an al-Qaeda recruitment tool.
Jon Snow
So an obscure cleric in an obscure Florida church wants to set fire to 200 copies of another faith’s Holy Book. Fifty years ago we would never have known. But thanks to the “communications revolution”, the world knows about Pastor Terry Jones and his animus against Islam. At one level the absurdity of such antipathetic…
As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls the plans by a radical pastor to burn copies of the Koran a “disgraceful act”, Channel 4 News asks whether anti-Muslim sentiment is echoed across America.
A radical pastor is set to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks despite condemnation. Sarah Smith says the US government is “terribly worried” about the backlash.
Channel 4 News presenter Samira Ahmed was asked by the Teach First charity to tutor an English lesson in an inner-city London school. She writes about engaging the students of Lambeth Academy.
A tenth man is arrested by officers investigating the Hatton Garden heist as eight others appear in court.
Manager Roy Hodgson wants a balance between youth and experience in England’s 2014 World Cup squad. But John Anderson says his selection is hardly a blueprint for world football domination.
England manager Roy Hodgson has several issues to resolve before next year’s World Cup in Brazil, and Friday’s international friendly against Chile gives him the chance to experiment.
A former policeman and prison officer are imprisoned after selling information to the Sun newspaper about celebrities and James Bulger’s killer, Jon Venables.