Sept. 7, 2010
Like the prophets of old, Terry Jones has a message -- and it's fiery. The controversial Florida preacher called for people around the world to set fire to copies of the Koran, is now at the center of an international conflagration.
Jones' plan to set ablaze thousands of copies of the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11, a day he's dubbed International Burn a Koran Day . . .
What has been seen for weeks as a strange front in the culture wars, this weekend became a front in America's real war.
Gen. David Patraeus weighing in to say he believed the display would be detrimental and dangerous to U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Jones recently told ABC News he and his flock would continue "to pray" on whether they would follow through with the bonfire, but suggested they would indeed burn the books on Sept.11.
Watch Terry Moran's interview with Terry Jones on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
Like the prophets of old, Terry Jones has a message -- and it's fiery. The controversial Florida preacher called for people around the world to set fire to copies of the Koran, is now at the center of an international conflagration.
Jones' plan to set ablaze thousands of copies of the Muslim holy book on Sept. 11, a day he's dubbed International Burn a Koran Day . . .
What has been seen for weeks as a strange front in the culture wars, this weekend became a front in America's real war.
Gen. David Patraeus weighing in to say he believed the display would be detrimental and dangerous to U.S. troops fighting in Afghanistan.
Jones recently told ABC News he and his flock would continue "to pray" on whether they would follow through with the bonfire, but suggested they would indeed burn the books on Sept.11.
Watch Terry Moran's interview with Terry Jones on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
Jones,
58, is perhaps the unlikely face of what's become a small but
international movement that preys on growing hostility and uneasiness in
the lead up this year's 9/11 anniversary of the U.S. terrorist attacks.
A former hotel manager, Jones, who worked as a missionary in Europe for 30 years, took over as head of the Dove World Outreach Center, a fundamentalist Christian church in Gainesville, Fla., in 1996.
A former hotel manager, Jones, who worked as a missionary in Europe for 30 years, took over as head of the Dove World Outreach Center, a fundamentalist Christian church in Gainesville, Fla., in 1996.
He is often seen on the church's 20-acre compound with a pistol strapped to his hip.
Jones is the author of "Islam Is of the Devil." That phrase also adorns several billboards on his church's property. Jones said he first began using the phrase with sermons . . . about Islam and the dangers he believes are inherent in the faith.
In August 2009, two children, a 10-year-old and a 15-year-old, who belong to Jones' church, were sent to school wearing T-shirts that read "Islam Is of the Devil." They were sent home for dress code violations.
See the rest of the story at http://abcnews.go.com/US/terry-jones-pastor-burn-koran-day/story?id=11575665
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