Terry Jones: 'We will not burn the Quran'
Fla. pastor says on NBC's TODAY show that his church will never carry out
plan
msnbc.com and NBC News
updated 9/11/2010 9:47:26 AM ET
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Pastor Terry Jones told NBC's TODAY show on Saturday that his church in
Gainesville, Fla., would not burn Qurans in protest to the building of an
Islamic center near the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
"We will definitely not burn the Quran, no," he said.
"Not today, not ever," he said when pressed about whether his planned
demonstration might happen at a later date. He explained that it would not
happen even if the Islamic center is built near ground zero.
Jones flew to New York to appear on NBC's TODAY show and told interviewer
Carl Quintanilla that there was no meeting set up with New York Imam Faisal
Rauf.
He said he hoped a meeting would take place, however.
"Even though we have not burned one Quran, we have gotten over 100 death
threats," Jones said. "We feel that God is telling us to stop, and we also
hope that ... maybe that will open up the door to maybe be able to talk to
the imam."
Jones said that his church's goal was "to expose that there is an element
of Islam that is very dangerous and very radical."
He told NBC that "we have definitely accomplished that mission."
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