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Pastor Seeking to Protest at Mosque Briefly Jailed
By not in system - AOL NewsDEARBORN, Mich. -- A Florida pastor's planned demonstration outside a Michigan mosque was scuttled Friday after a jury determined the protest would constitute a breach of the peace and he was briefly jailed for refusing to pay what authorities called a "peace bond." The Rev. Terry Jones, whose past rhetoric against Muslims has inflamed anti-Western sentiment in Afghanistan, said he refused to pay the $1 bond because to do so would violate his freedom of speech. He later paid it and was released. Jones had planned a demonstration Friday evening outside the Islamic Center of America in ...
Terry Jones Unapologetic for Violence After Koran Burning [VIDEO]
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UN Envoy: UN Workers Killed Running From Bunker
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church. Hope wasn't enough for three of them. They were hunted down and brutally slain - their bodies found later in three different parts of the compound in northern Afghanistan. Eric Kanalstein, UNAMA / AP In this photo taken Saturday in Kabul, Afghanistan, UN personnel carry the casket of one of seven colleagues killed in an attack on the UN operations center in Mazar-i-Sharif on ...
The Top Stories in Religion and Politics in 2010 -- What They Mean, Why They Matter
By David Gibson - Politics DailyJournalists are making their lists and checking them twice in a post-Santa tradition that rewards both the naughty and nice by highlighting the major episodes of the past year, whether they were horrifying or edifying. Religion writers are no different in this regard, and we had lots of material to work with. The Religion Newswriters Association, which is the professional society for journalists covering the "God beat," has its own ranking of the Top 10 religion stories from 2010, which starts with the so-called "Ground Zero" mosque controversy that riveted attention during much of the ...
Fla. Preacher Terry Jones Faces Ban in Britain
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LONDON (Dec. 13) -- Terry Jones, the firebrand Florida preacher who threatened to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, could be banned from visiting Britain. Jones has been invited to speak about the "evils of Islam" at an event run by the English Defense League (EDL) -- a far-right, anti-Islamic group headed by former soccer hooligans -- in the U.K. in February. However, British Home Secretary Theresa May said this weekend that she was "actively" considering whether to block the controversial Gainesville, Fla., pastor from entering the ...
British Girl, 15, Arrested Over Alleged Koran Burning
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 25) -- A 15-year-old British girl has been arrested on suspicion of inciting religious hatred after she allegedly set fire to an English-language copy of the Koran and posted footage of the incident on Facebook. The unidentified teenager is accused of torching the Islamic holy book at her school in Sandwell, near the city of Birmingham in central England, as other students watched. She was questioned by police on Friday and was released later that day pending further inquiries. Police also arrested a 14-year-old boy on Tuesday on suspicion of making threats on the social ...
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 ...
Justice Breyer on Koran Burning and Supreme Court Nominations
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWhen the two aged Jewish men, Larry King and Stephen Breyer, alter kockers of a sort, sat down to kibbitz Wednesday night on CNN it had all the makings of a public relations catastrophe for Gerald and Anna's son, Stephen, the lawyer, who also happens to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Just a few days earlier, Justice Breyer had implausibly roiled Washington's sensitive court-watching community when he said, of the First Amendment and last week's Koran-burning controversy, and on Good Morning America no less: "And you can say -- with the Internet, you can say ...
Pastor Who Threatened to Burn Quran Now Threatening to Move Church
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- The radical Christian pastor who threatened to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks says he plans to move his church. Terry Jones, the 58-year-old leader of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., says his small congregation may move to the Tampa area by the end of the year, according to a report in The Tampa Tribune. "A fresh start is a good term," Jones told the Tribune today. "There's a more favorable atmosphere for the church and our message in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area." Mohammad Sultan, imam of the Islamic Society of ...
Skateboarder Foils Quran Burning, Becomes Web Hit
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Sept. 14) -- A shirtless skateboarder has become an Internet sensation after he foiled an attempted Quran burning by a radical evangelist in Texas on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Amarillo Globe-News reports that skateboard-toting Jacob Isom, 23, grabbed the Muslim holy book from David Grisham -- head of the Christian activist group Repent Amarillo -- on Saturday as the evangelist argued with a group of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists who were protesting the planned torching. "I snuck up behind him and took his Quran," Isom told KFDA-TV. "He said something ...
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