Cairo: Arab League chief Amr Mousa on Wednesday dubbed a Florida pastor who wants to burn copies of the Quran to mark the September 11, 2001 attacks a "fanatic" and urged Americans to oppose his plans.
Mousa, who heads the 22-member pan-Arab body based based in Cairo, said: "There is an increasing majority in the United States against this fanatic. We want to see the reaction of the educated in the United States against this fanatic’s destructive approach,” he told AFP.
The Dove World Outreach Centre, a small church in Gainesville, Florida, has vowed to mark Saturday’s ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks by burning Qurans as they remember the almost 3,000 people killed by Al Qaida hijackers.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has denounced the plans of the church's pastor, Terry Jones, as "disgraceful."
