Terry Jones, the Quran, and Obama

[hjmick]

Terry Jones has been reported as saying that he would cancel his festive burning of the Quran if he were to receive a phone call from the White House. Robert Gibbs indicated during today's briefing that this was being considered, discussed even.

In my opinion, bad idea. If one moron from the fringe of religious society can bend the President to his whims, where would it stop? Who would be next? The precedent it would set is disturbing to think about.

What say you?

 

[del]

i'll eat my broccoli if obama calls me

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - Give `em Hell, Terry...

US pastor says anti-Islam protest will continue
Sunday 3rd April, 2011 - Extremist US pastor Terry Jones has announced he will lead an anti-Islam rally outside the largest US mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, on April 22nd.

The Florida minister provoked an international outcry last year when he announced plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks in 2010. He reconsidered his decision on that occasion but supervised the burning of a copy of Islam's holy book on March 20th this year.

Jones, the pastor of a fringe church in Florida has been unrepentant about the bloodshed set off by the burning of the Koran. The event led to deadly protests in Afghanistan and has stoked anti-Western sentiments in many Muslim communities around the world.

Ten foreign workers for the United Nations were killed by furious protesters in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Pakistanis also took to the streets in a nationwide move to condemn the Koran-burning, calling it a threat to religious harmony.

At least ten Afghans were killed in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the desecration of the Koran. Jones has now defiantly vowed to lead the protest in Michigan, still claiming the Koran incites violence.

US pastor says anti-Islam protest will continue

 

[Avatar4321]

This guy has some issues with fire. Shame he doesn't know the fire of the Holy Spirit.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Dat's right - dey snookered him...

Pastor Who Burned Koran Says He Was Duped Into Holding Back
April 16, 2011 — The pastor who stoked violence in Afghanistan earlier this month by burning a Koran in March produced a recording on Saturday that he said proved he was deceived last September when he agreed to cancel plans to burn 200 copies of the Koran.

The pastor, Terry Jones, played the recording — which he said was made on Sept. 9 on his assistant’s iPhone — of a conversation between him and Imam Muhammad Musri, an Islamic leader in Florida. At the time, Mr. Musri was trying to persuade Mr. Jones not to burn the Korans as part of a demonstration on Sept. 11. After the Sept. 9 meeting, Mr. Jones announced that as part of a deal brokered by Mr. Musri to relocate a proposed Islamic center near ground zero in New York, he would not burn the 200 Korans. But almost immediately after the announcement, Mr. Musri, who had attended a news conference with Mr. Jones, told reporters that he had made no such deal and no such promise. The pastor, he said, had backed down because of pressure from President Obama and the rest of the world.

“This does definitely prove he lied to the news media and has lied the whole time,” Mr. Jones said from behind his desk, on which rested a pistol, a Bible and a rental copy of the film “Se7en.” Mr. Jones played the audio on his computer while his assistant, Wayne Sapp, displayed the file on his phone. Mr. Sapp said he discovered the five-minute recording only two weeks ago, having believed he had failed to properly record the conversation between Mr. Musri and Mr. Jones. On the recording, Mr. Musri is heard affirming that he had spoken with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the New York City project, and that Mr. Rauf had been willing to move the Islamic center.

“Let me get your, umm, your message straight,” Mr. Jones is heard saying on the recording. “Your message is you talked to the imam, and uh, he is willing to, uh. ...” “He is willing to relocate,” says Mr. Musri, who is the president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida. “He is willing to relocate,” Mr. Jones repeats, at which point Mr. Musri cuts in. “The mosque from ground zero,” Mr. Musri says. “O.K.? To an alternative location that is not controversial at all, away from ground zero. O.K.?”

In a telephone interview on Saturday, Mr. Musri said he believed the recording was a fake. It is, he said, simply another plea for attention on the part of Mr. Jones and an effort to rationalize to his dwindling supporters why he chose not to burn the Korans last year. “I don’t think it’s authentic,” Mr. Musri said, adding that he never spoke with the New York imam and made no such promise. “Even with whatever is in that transcript, it does not say I am promising him it will be moved.” “He made it up, as simple as that,” Mr. Musri said. “Nobody gets it that this guy keeps making up stuff to get attention.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17jones.html

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Whew!!!!

It's lookin' like ANY clown, in Florida, could get a concealed-weapon license!!​

"The outspoken pastor, 59, of Gainesville, Fla., was getting in the passenger side of his car at 11:10 p.m. after an interview when the Taurus handgun went off, sending a bullet into the floorboard, Southfield Police Lt. Nick Loussia said today.

"Officers heard a gunshot, approached the vehicle, asked Mr. Jones if he was OK," Loussia said. Jones and the driver were in the parking lot of Fox2 studios on West 9 Mile. "He was, and they also observed he had a gun in his hand."

As he entered a Dearborn courtroom this morning, Jones told reporters that he had been up since 4:30 a.m. and firing his gun was "an accident."

Pastor Terry Fucks-UP!!​