Son Says Jones Won't Burn Qurans on 9/11

The son of a pastor who suspended plans to burn copies of the Quran (Koran) to mark the 9/11 anniversary says Islam's holiest text will not be torched at their Florida church Saturday.

Luke Jones, the son of the Rev. Terry Jones, told reporters Friday that the event will not take place Saturday. But he says he can't speak about whether there will be a future event.

The pastor called off the Quran-burning event after claiming he had commitments from Muslim leaders that a mosque would not be built near ground zero in New York. When that was met with denials, the minister said the burning event was suspended.

The pastor says he will to fly to New York to meet with the imam overseeing the mosque project there.

However, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said Friday that he has no plans to meet Saturday.

"I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace," Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf said in a prepared statement. "We have no such meeting planned at this time. Our plans for the community center have not changed. With the solemn day of September 11 upon us, I encourage everyone to take time for prayer and reflection."

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The statement appeared to leave open the possibility of a meeting but did not mention Jones by name or say specifically whether Rauf believed the pastor was a peacemaker who deserved a meeting.

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Jones created outrage in the U.S. and around the world by threatening to have his small congregation burn the Quran.

The anti-Islamic pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., had said Thursday that he would back off his plans for the Quran-burning based conversations with a Florida imam who, Jones said, offered to have the New York project moved.

Then Jones reversed course and lashed out at the local imam, Muhammad Musri of the Islamic Society of Central Florida. No firm deal to move the New York Islamic center ever existed.

Jones' daughter, Emma, said in an interview with the German news website Spiegel Online that she begged him in an e-mail, "Papa, don't do it," but he didn't answer. She said she hasn't had contact with him since 2008, when he was ousted by members of a church he had founded in Cologne, Germany.

[babooph]

Republican politicos must not be too critical-they may offend their deliverance base...

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by jackpenn September 11, 2010 12:32 AM EDT
I think this pastor Jones is right about one thing, and that is; Christians need to make a stand for their beliefs as well as the Muslims do.
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WRONG.
ALL of you need to shut the -- H E L L -- up and stop trying to force
your twisted beliefs onto others.
Practice your religion IN PRIVATE.
LIVE AND LET LIVE.

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by LiberalismIsMentalIllness September 11, 2010 9:55 AM EDT
"Son Says Jones Won't Burn Qurans on 9/11"

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I am frustrated and disappointed.If Pastor slappy-Jones doesn't burn Qurans I'll do it with or without mosque in ground zero.I am curious to see what happens in the Muslim countries when the retarded Muslims see their "holy" book burning hahahahahahaha.
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You and your fellow Morongelical christians are GARBAGE.

[slappy-jones]

by jackpenn
surroundedbystupidity: I also have a personal relationship with our Father God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will all bow before Him, and stand in judgement before Him, as individuals, not as a group of religions

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So which dogma or theology do you use which espouses following Jesus Christ?


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[jackpenn]

All that you need to know about the Lord Jesus Christ, is written in His Word, the Holy Bible. Read it, and believe it or not. This is your own personal choice.

[jackpenn]

surroundedbystupidity: I also have a personal relationship with our Father God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will all bow before Him, and stand in judgement before Him, as individuals, not as a group of religions. I have no time for religions, because they are man made instruments of destruction, leading to fanaticalism, like the Muslim terrorists, or the so called Catholic and Protestant terrorists that existed in Ireland. God gave us all the right to choose as individuals what we choose to believe in, and He gave us His Holy Word as a true source of what to follow in order to live a righteous life here on Earth. It is up to all of us to decide whether we want to believe what God says in the Bible, or not to believe it, and to live whatever way we choose to. Then, in the end of our days on Earth, we will be judged by our Father God in Heaven, on whether we were His good, and Faithful servants here in this life. You get to choose.

[Surroundedbystupidity]

All that follow HIS Word will be saved. Period.

[slappy-jones]

Whose word?

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Here's the link stupidity: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905651,00.html

BTW, ignorance is define as not having knowledge of something; ignorance is define as having foreknowledge but not accepting or understanding it.

[Surroundedbystupidity]

Thanks for the link alert. And you are correct about my ignorance; I was not aware of the specific incident. it was a terrible event but that 1972 article is more about racism than about religious intolerance.

[slappy-jones]

"ignorance is define as"... the statement to the left of this one.

[jackpenn]

I think this pastor Jones is right about one thing, and that is; Christians need to make a stand for their beliefs as well as the Muslims do. Most Christians seem to lay back and let everything ride, so to speak. I do believe Christians need to be more aggressive in their stand for what is right, but not in the way this pastor Jones is going about it. It must be done in a way that Jesus would have approached the situation, in a peaceful way, with a mutual understanding for another person beliefs. Through an example with a sincerely good representation of how a Godly person would try to negotiate a peaceful compromise to a certain situation that involves a persons religious beliefs.

[Scimajor]

If you're suggesting that everyone should be tolerant of other people's beliefs or lack thereof I with you on that one. In that same vein I'd like to see people stop trying to push their belief system on other people.

I have no trouble with letting people believe what they will. I do, however, have trouble with people who judge others based on their beliefs (or lack thereof).

[jackpenn]

I wanted to add an old proverbial saying: "You can draw more bees with honey; than with vinegar."

[on_alert247]

My father was shot at several times back in the 1970s trying to protect people who were being massacred by radical black Muslims who believed that their new found faith allowed them to kill the non-Muslim white man. I was just a kid back then and despite having read the Quran and parts of the Hadith, I can't find any redeeming qualities in this militant, intolerant and backward religion.

[Surroundedbystupidity]

Your post really makes no sense. Please provide a link to to support your assertion. Sounds like a croc to me.

[on_alert247]

Here's the link stupidity: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,905651,00.html

BTW, ignorance is define in not having knowledge of something, stupidity is defined as having foreknowledge but not accepting or understanding it.

[Scimajor]

I love the bit today where Obama asked for "religious tolerance" about this issue.

"religious tolerance" is a oxymoron if I every heard one. We're talking about groups of people who all have the same basic philosophy that "If you don't believe as we do then <insert something nasty and everlasting here>". We also talking about people who "fear their god" by their own admission.

Well, if the events in their books really are true then they have very good reason to fear their god because he's/she's pretty intolerant himself/herself.

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by markenriquez71 September 10, 2010 10:09 PM EDT

jmichael07 i agree with your assessment of curse, It would be a waste of my time

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Indeed, any attempt to convince me that we should be a theocratic nation would be a waste of time.

[curse914]

Our Humanist Founders thought otherwise or they not have separated church and state. It was no coincidence given that conservatives in Britain at the time claimed the aristocracy were appointed by "god."

[markenriquez71]

so the reaction of the Muslim nation did not force the hand of Obama to speak, it didn't force the FBI to talk to the nit wit pastor, and the pastors hand wasn't forced by the Muslim pressure, he just changed his mind on his own, um ok.