Antara News, Thursday, September 9, 2010 17:43 WIB
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has sent a letter to US President Barack Obama to stop and prevent a plan to burn copies of Islam`s holy book, the Quran, by Pastor Terry Jones.
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Yudhoyono has written to Barack Obama to urge the US president to intervene to stop the Koran burning |
President Yudhoyono, in his letter, also reminded Obama, burning the Quran could threaten world peace.
Indonesia, as the world`s largest Muslim majority nation, will condemn it if the Quran burning happens, he said.
Meanwhile, US State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley, in an effort to dissociate the US government from pastor Jones` plan, said the intended action was "un-American."
"We are conscious that a number of voices have come out and rejected what this pastor and this community have proposed," Crowley told a news briefing in Washington DC recently.
"We would like to see more Americans stand up and say `this is inconsistent with our American values.` In fact these actions themselves are un-American," he said.
He repeated warnings from officials including overall U.S. commander in Afghanistan David Petraeus that the proposed burning could undermine President Barack Obama`s efforts to reach out to the world`s 1.5 billion Muslims as well as trigger reprisals against US soldiers in Afghanistan.
"People around the world need to also understand that America is not represented by one pastor or 50 followers. We are a nation of 300 million people and the vast majority of Americans are standing up this week and saying that these contemplated actions are inappropriate, they`re abhorrent, and they should not happen," he said.
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center church in Florida has launched a campaign of Quran burning plan.
Jones said he would torch copies of the Muslim holy book on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in an effort toward "exposing Islam as a violent and oppressive religion."
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