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Angelina Jolie gestures as she speaks with media during a visit to the Jalozai flood victim relief camp during her visit to flood affected areas and relief camps supported by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. (REUTERS)
Actress Angelina Jolie on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of opposition to plans by a US pastor to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, amid fears it would fan religious hatred.
The Quran-torching event Saturday planned by Pastor Terry Jones, who heads a tiny, little-known church in Florida, is fueling growing fears about heightened Christian-Muslim tensions in the United States as well as elsewhere in the world.
Oscar-winning Jolie, who is visiting Pakistan to highlight the plight of millions of people devastated by the country's worst-ever floods, said she would never support any such plans.
"Of course not. Of course not," she told a news conference when asked if she supported Jones' plans.
She said she had "hardly the words" to express her opposition to burning someone's religious text.
She hailed the US government's opposition to the plans, which have already triggered angry protests in Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting Taliban militants.
US military commanders in Kabul have warned the spectacle could endanger American lives in Afghanistan while the White House and State Department weighed in with stern warnings making clear that President Barack Obama's administration deplored the plan.
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