WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Saturday the killings in Afghanistan after a fundamentalist Christian U.S. preacher burned a Koran were "outrageous" while calling the desecration of the holy text an act of bigotry.
"The desecration of any holy text, including the Koran, is an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry," Obama said in a statement released by the White House.
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