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Planning a Quran Burning Is Costly, Plus 5 Other Lessons Terry Jones Taught Us
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 21) -- America's favorite controversial, mustachioed pastor, Terry Jones, learned a hard lesson today: Quran burnings are expensive. And now that the hullabaloo over his planned sacrilegious bonfire has died down, it might be a good time to ask what other lessons he has taken from his experience. But since Jones has not been forthcoming about any lessons learned, we at Surge Desk would like to suggest a few items to consider before attempting to stage such an ill-advised event. 1. How much cheddar is this going to cost me? Quran burning is not free. Jones is looking at a bill for at ...
Florida Pastor May Reconsider Cancellation of Quran Burning
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- A Christian pastor today canceled his controversial plan to burn copies of the Quran, saying he had received a "sign from God" when a Muslim cleric agreed to move an Islamic center planned for a site near ground zero in New York. But the cleric said there was no such deal, and the preacher later said he was having second thoughts. Terry Jones said tonight he had been "clearly, clearly lied to" about what he said was a promise to change the location of the New York mosque. Jones, head of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., sparked an international uproar when he ...
Did Media Devote Too Much Attention to Quran Burning?
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- The Rev. Terry Jones has about 50 members in his church, but his bully pulpit is much, much larger. News of the preacher's plan to burn the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, dominated the 24-hour news cycle. It sparked fears of violence and prompted public figures ranging from President Barack Obama to Angelina Jolie to speak out against the act. Jones announced this afternoon that he was calling off the event, but said later that he was rethinking the cancellation. John Raoux, AP The Rev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in ...
State Department Issues Travel Warning Over Quran Burning
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- Another hour, another warning about the dangers of burning the Quran. Today, the U.S. Department of State issued a travel warning for Americans traveling abroad based on this weekend's proposed burning of copies of the Muslim holy book at the Dove World Outreach Center church in Gainesville, Fla. The warning reads as follows: The Department of State is issuing this Travel Alert to caution U.S. citizens of the potential for anti-U.S. demonstrations in many countries in response to stated plans by a church in Florida to burn Qurans on the anniversary of the September 11, 2001, ...
Obama Urges Fla. Pastor to Cancel Quran Burning
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- President Barack Obama called upon a Florida pastor not to burn the Quran, denouncing the act as "completely contrary to our values" and warning that it could become a "recruitment bonanza" for al-Qaida. "If he's listening, I just hope he understands that what he's proposing to do is completely contrary to our values," the president said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" today. "This country has been built on the notions of religious freedom and religious tolerance." Obama said a plan by the controversial pastor, Terry Jones, to burn the Quran on the ninth ...
Who Is Pastor Terry Jones, and Why Is He Burning to Torch the Koran?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyPastor Terry Jones sure seems like an unlikely fellow to become America's most inconvenient man. A grizzled 58-year-old who packs a .40-caliber pistol on his hip, Jones heads a small congregation -- maybe 50 members in all -- on a pine-studded tract of land in Gainesville, Fla. The Dove World Outreach Center, as the church is known, is in fact the kind of local, spirit-filled, Pentecostal-style church that is found in cities and rural areas across America, and have been since the earliest days of the Republic. Think Robert Duvall in "The Apostle," the 1997 Oscar-nominated film about the ...
Sarah Palin on Facebook: Don't Burn the Koran
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySarah Palin was once accused of trying to ban books in her hometown library. But as for burning the Koran, she's opposed. On Wednesday, Palin wrote a Facebook post entitled "Koran Burning Is Insensitive, Unnecessary; Pastor Jones, Please Stand Down." Book burning, she wrote, is "antithetical to American ideals." The post was in response to Gainesville, Fla., pastor Terry Jones and his church's plan to burn more than 200 copies of the Koran on Sept. 11. Jones is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, "a New Testament, Charismatic, Non-Denominational Church," according to its Web site. ...
Sarah Palin Tells Pastor Jones to 'Stand Down' on Quran Burning
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Building an Islamic community center near the site of the destroyed World Trade Center is a bad idea, but so is burning copies of the Quran, Sarah Palin says. In Facebook and Twitter posts this afternoon, the former Alaska governor came out staunchly against the Dove World Outreach Center's plans to torch copies of the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11. Here's an excerpt from her Facebook post (you can read the whole thing over at Facebook or down below): People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation -- ...
Can the Quran Burning Be Stopped Before It Starts?
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- Terry Jones has a constitutional right to burn the Quran, and there is very little the law can do to stop him. An uproar is growing as the Florida pastor moves forward with his plans to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by setting fire to copies of the Muslim holy book. But Jones' plan is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech, and experts say stopping the pastor would be difficult, if not impossible. "It would be almost inconceivable to stop this, legally," Frederick Schauer, a law professor and First Amendment scholar at the University of ...
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg: Terry Jones Has Right to Burn Quran
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is defending the Rev. Terry Jones' right to burn copies of the Quran on Saturday, in what the controversial pastor has deemed "International Burn-a-Quran Day." "In a strange way, I'm here to defend his right to do that. I happen to think that it is distasteful. I don't think he would like it if somebody burnt a book that in his religion he thinks is holy," Bloomberg said Tuesday at a news conference about the status of the World Trade Center site, according to The Wall Street Journal. "But the First Amendment protects everybody," Bloomberg ...
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