British Muslims to flag protest

British Muslim activists plan to burn the US flag outside the US embassy on September 11 to confront the plan by a US Christian pastor to burn copies of the Quran the same day.

It is expected more groups to stage flag burnings in the United States, Belgium, Ireland, Lebanon and Indonesia.

The planned Quran-burning on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, attacks attracted worldwide condemnation and already set off protests in Afghanistan and Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country.

Choudary, a British activist of Pakistani ancestry said: that no Muslim would ever burn a Bible or Judaism’s holy book, the Torah, as they believed these contained the word of God. The flag, in contrast, was an appropriate target.

He said: “We have called for the people to burn the American flag so that instead of being humiliated or being intimidated they can make this day a day to remember the atrocities being committed in Muslim lands and to expose the aggressor.”

The date of the 2001 attacks on U.S. cities had become symbolic of “the conflict between Islam and the enemy of Muslims, nowadays represented by the American regime, and manifest in their occupation of Muslim lands,” Choudary said.

He also mentioned a time for the London burning had not been fixed. An Islamic website, RevolutionMuslim.com, said the London event would take place at 1 p.m. local time.