Obama calls for religious tolerance

11-09-2010

President Obama has called on Americans to maintain respect for other religious faiths, as protests continue in the Muslim world over a threat by a fringe American church to burn copies of the Koran. The pastor behind the threat, Terry Jones, now says he's been persuaded to suspend his plan to burn the Koran. Mr Obama said burning religious texts was contrary to the values on which the United States was founded.

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