Despite the two articles being about the same general event, they are very different. An aspect in where they are different are the point of the article. The point of the article on yahoo news is just to summarize the event and tell how everyone, even Americans are strongly against it. The second article, however, from an Indonesian site, focuses on how Muslims can join together and to protest against this event. However, some aspects of both articles are similar. Both articles provide examples of how most people in the world are strongly against this. For example, the second one provides a quote from Faisal, a spokesman of a conservative Islamic organization, stating how God should curse Terry Jones. It also provides a quote from an American, Jennifer S. Byron, who strongly urges against the “Burn a Quran Day”. The first article shows that world leaders like the Secretary of State and the Defense Secretary, celebrities (who are also linked to political organizations like the U.N.) like Angelina Jolie, and countless others have been fighting against Jones’s intentions. Rather than being offensive toward the Muslims, the article in the yahoo news websites and the article from the Indonesian website seem to have similar standing points, respecting both Christianity and the Muslim religion, while standing against Jones’ Quran burning event.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100908/ap_on_re_us/quran_burning
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