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Atul Aneja
MANAMA: A wave of anger has swept through the Arab world following reports about the desecration of the Koran in the American detention facility of Guantanamo Bay. The report has evoked loud protests across the region including Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, Egypt, Gaza and Iraq. At the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, around 2,000 Palestinians marched through the streets, holding aloft copies of the Koran. The protestors waved flags of the radical Palestinian group, Hamas. Demonstrators who had assembled after Friday prayers burnt American and Israeli flags. Around 400 persons mounted a similar protest in the West Bank city of Hebron. In Saudi Arabia, which is the guardian of Islam's holiest places, authorities urged Washington to carry out a speedy investigation and take "dissuasive measures." In Egypt, the banned Muslim Brotherhood expressed "extreme anger" and called for a public apology from the U.S. Government. The fallout of the incident was also felt in Iraq, where both Shia and Sunni clerics condemned the alleged incident.
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