>>>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/03/AR2007010300075.html
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>>Actually swear on Koran not a muslim treatment. It's forbidden for muslims. A muslim only swear on Allah. But a few muslim know that.
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>Metin.
>I can agree with that. After all the Koran is just collection of writings and can be reproduced easily. But Allah/God is... well God.

Yes, you got the issue... :)


>But why were there such anger in the Muslim community when there was that report of US soldiers "mistreating" one book of Koran?

A flag is only a few tatters, but if you mistreate a flag, it become an insult for a countries symbol. These are same things. US soldiers insulted to islam.