Muslims in US plan novel stir against Quran burning

Muslims in US plan novel stir against Quran burning TIMES NEWS NETWORK  Washington: In an effort to overturn the image of Muslims as fire-breathing, sword-slashing conquerors and avengers, a Muslim group in America will resort to a pacific response to the provocative burning of the Quran by a fundamentalist Christian evangelist.     Pastor Terry Jones, the notorious Christian extremist who riled Muslims across the world with his inflammatory burning of the Quran in 2011, has upped the ante by threatening to burn 3,000 Qurans on September 11, the anniversary of the terrorist attack on America that killed nearly 3,000 people.     But instead of getting provoked, the “World Muslim Congress” in the US said it will “reclaim the standard of behavior practiced by the Prophet concerning scurrilous and hostile criticism of the Quran.”     It cited a quranic verse that says, “To overcome evil with good is good, and to resist evil by evil is evil” and said it is also strongly enjoined in the Quran in the same verse 41:34 that “Good and evil deeds are not equal. Repel evil with what is better; then you will see that one who was once your enemy has become your dearest friend.”     The Texas-based outfit said many Muslim organizations across America will go on a “blood drive” to save lives and serve humanity with kindness on the same day Pastor Jones has said he will burn the Qurans.