Students hold placards as they shout anti-U.S slogans during a rally in Pakistan on Feb. 27. About 40 students gathered to protest and condemn the burning of copies of the Quran. The banner reads, "Those that desecrated the Koran in Afghanistan should be publicly hanged."

Mohammad Saber Yaqoti Hussaini Khedri , second left, the calligrapher of the biggest copy of the holy Koran in the world, stands with his nine students around the Koran ahead of its unveiling at a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan. 12, 2012.

Hussaini Khedrit and his students display an oversized page from the Koran at the Naser Khusro Balkhi Library during an opening ceremony in Kabul on Jan. 12, 2012. The Naser Khusro Balkhi Library was founded by The Aga Khan Foundation in Kabul.

An injured Egyptian anti-government protester reads the Koran, Islam's holy book, at Cairo's Tahrir Square on Feb. 10, the 17th day of protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime.