{"id":48387,"date":"2023-09-09T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/us-describes-attacks-on-holy-books-as-abhorrent"},"modified":"2023-09-09T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:30:11","slug":"us-describes-attacks-on-holy-books-as-abhorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zambia\/all-news\/us-describes-attacks-on-holy-books-as-abhorrent","title":{"rendered":"US describes attacks on holy books as \u2018abhorrent\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zambia. <\/strong><\/span>US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday said the disrespect shown towards sacred texts following the attack on the Quran outside the Turkish Center in New York was \u201cabhorrent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we find the act of desecrating any religious texts to be abhorrent, the US supports freedom of expression as an essential element of any democracy and as enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution,\u201d the secretary said in a statement to Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, which said that details of the incident were not being pursued and no comments were to be made on the matter, conveyed that the US condemned acts of hate and highlighted that such actions could harm individuals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have expressed our deep concern with acts of desecration to the Holy Quran, and we repeat those sentiments. 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