Koran News

Bruges - A court in Belgium has sentenced a man to four months in prison for tearing up a Koran, which was thrown at his head by a group of angry Muslims.

Cardiff - Media sources in the UK are reporting on the outcome of a case in which a mother murdered her young son, apparently over the Koran.

Cardiff - A woman in Britain has been convicted of murdering her seven-year-old son and then setting his body on fire because he could not memorize the Koran.

Gainesville - Controversial U.S. Pastor Terry Jones has burned copies of the Koran and a depiction of the prophet Mohammed in protest of imprisonment of Iranian Christian clergyman Youcef Nadarkhani.

The plan was for the U.S. to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by 2014. However, this withdrawal may not be as full as planned.

Kabul - Protests broke out in Afghanistan on Tuesday after news was spread that NATO personnel set fire to bags filled with Korans and other sacred books of the Islamic religion at the Bagram Air Base.

The growing influence of Islamic teaching in U.S. public schools is causing concern in several different states such as Massachusetts and Virginia.

There are some in Britain, the US and elsewhere who are intent on portraying the West and Islam as a clash of civilisations or as democracy versus the forces of darkness, but is this really the case?

Dearborn - Tensions in Dearborn, Michigan were eased on Friday after a planned protest at one of the largest Islamic centers in the country by a small group that included controversial Pastor Terry Jones was cancelled.

A British man who faced prosecution for apparently burning a copy of the Koran has had the case against him withdrawn by prosecutors.