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- Published on 09 September 2010
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News published at CNN website on September 9, 2010 – Updated 1154 GMT (1954 HKT)
(CNN) – President Barack Obama on Thursday said a Florida church's plans to burn dozens of Qurans this weekend would be a "recruitment bonanza" for al Qaeda.
His comments came amid increasing international condemnation of the planned event on September 11 with prominent politicians in Indonesia and Pakistan voicing their disapproval.
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wrote a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to stop a Florida church that said it will burn copies of the Quran.
Also on Thursday Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik called on Interpol, the international police organization, to also take action.
Terry Jones, the head of a small church in Gainesville, Florida, says he will go ahead with plans to burn Qurans on Saturday, to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
In his letter to Obama, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged him "to ensure that this hideous act is not carried out," said Teuku Faizasyah, a presidential spokesman.
"It's a very dangerous situation and we are very concerned," Faizasyah said.
Indonesia, which has a population of 230 million and is the world's most populous Muslim state, is worried that burning the Muslim holy book would incite hardline Muslims in Indonesia and around the world, Faizasyah said.
Similar concerns are being echoed in Pakistan where there has been growing anger at the planned burning.
On Thursday Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik called on Interpol, the international police organization, to stop the church from carrying out its plan to burn the Quran.
Malik called the planned burning "a crime against humanity" and said that it falls under the category of an international crime since "it will inflict the international peace and harmony."
The plan, if carried out, will bring "irreversible damage to the world peace especially when the world is fighting against all kind of act of terrorism," Malik said.
Meanwhile hardline Indonesian Muslims are threatening retaliation. The Islamic Defenders Front, told CNN it will protest the planned burning and will issue a death sentence on Terry Jones, if he carries out his plan.
There is also increasing opposition to the planned event in the U.S. amid increased warnings that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans worldwide.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned the planned burning.
Speaking Tuesday at an iftar meal in Washington to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Clinton said: "I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths ... as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion makers."
Earlier this week, the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, warned that the plan "could cause significant problems" for American troops overseas.
In response Jones said: "We are burning the book, we are not killing someone. We are not murdering people."
