Report: Torn Quran in Mich. prompts church fire in India Jim Lynch / The Detroit News The desecration of a Quran in East Lansing this weekend may have sparked violence in the Indian state of Punjab, according to published reports.
Torn pages of the Quran were found at the front of the Islamic Center of East Lansing on Saturday. Those pages may have been smeared with feces, according to officials.
Today, The Times of India website reported that unknown vandals set a wooden plank on fire at a church in Malerkotla after rumors circulated about the discovery of the pages. In addition, protestors tried to set a police motorcycle on fire and were eventually driven off when officers fired shots in the air.
An indefinite curfew is now in place in Malerkotla.
In Indian Kashmir 14 people have been killed and 45 injured in some of the deadliest violence witnessed in the region since mass demonstrations against Indian rule erupted three months ago.
Officials say several people were killed when police fired on hundreds of Muslim protesters who set fire to a Christian missionary school and some government buildings in Tangmarg and Budgam districts in Indian Kashmir.
Officials say the protests were partly fueled by reports on an Iranian state-run channel that a Quran had been damaged in the United States during the weekend.
Kashmiri protesters burn an effigy of President Barack Obama during a protest in Srinagar, India, 13 Sept. 2010. Indian forces battled protesters in the disputed territory during demonstrations fueled in part by a report of the Quran being desecrated in the United States.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
