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The 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy arose when pastor Terry Jones of the small, Christian non-denominational Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, United States, planned to burn copies of the Qur'an on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, which he called International Burn a Koran Day. The planned event was widely condemned by politicians and religious groups. Jones eventually declared the book-burning canceled and announced his intention to fly to New York to meet with the imam of Park51, Feisal Abdul Rauf.[1]

He later stated that the burning was suspended, not canceled.[2] However, on September 11, he said "We will definitely not burn the Quran... Not today, not ever."[3]

Background

Dove World Outreach Center, where the Qur'an burning was to occur, is a small congregation in Gainesville, Florida, with approximately 50 members. The church is led by pastor Terry Jones and his wife, Sylvia. The church gained notoriety in the late 2000s for its anti-Islamic and anti-homosexual messages. In 2009, Dove World posted a sign on its lawn which stated in large red letters "Islam is of the Devil".[4] Members of the church have also sent their children to the new school year with T-shirts saying on the front "Jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the life; no one goes to the Father except through me. I stand in trust with Dove Outreach Center." and on the back "Islam is of the Devil".[5]

Pastor Terry Jones

Terry Jones (born in 1951 or 1952[6]) has been the senior pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainsville, Florida since 2001.[7] In 2010 Jones published Islam is of the Devil, a polemic denouncing Islam as a violent faith.[7][8]

He attended Cape Girardeau Central High-school in Missouri where he graduated in 1969.[9] After being a hotel manager, Jones then worked as a missionary in Germany for over 30 years.[10] He founded and led the Christliche Gemeinde Köln (CGK), a church in Cologne, Germany, from 1981 to 2008[11][12] which was initially a branch of the Maranatha Campus Ministries and a sister church to Dove World.

A leader of the Cologne church said “He (Jones) didn't project the biblical values and Christianity, but always made himself the center of everything." German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported that church members said Jones ran the Cologne church like a sect leader and used psychological pressure on members, “subordinating all activities to his will.”[13]

Although he received an honorary degree from the unaccredited California Graduate School of Theology,[14] in 2002 he was fined $3800 by Cologne courts for using the title “doctor”.[15] In 2008, he was ejected by the congregation in Cologne for being a Christian fundamentalist,[16] and due to untenable theological statements and craving for recognition, according to the German Evangelical Alliance,[17][18] amid allegations of financial impropriety and creating "a climate of fear and terror".[14][19] Following Jones' departure, the CGK closed,[11] then reopened under new, independent, leadership.

Jones believes Islam promotes violence and that Muslims want to impose sharia law in the United States.[7] He became widely known after announcing plans to burn copies of the Koran.[20]

Actions against Dove World Outreach Center

The Gainesville fire department refused to grant the church a burning permit, stating that open burning of books is not allowed in the city due to fire hazards.[21] Regardless, the church planned to proceed with the event despite the potential of being fined.[22]

Since the announcement, the bank where the church has a $140,000 mortgage loan, has demanded immediate repayment of the balance and Jones has also had his property insurance canceled.[20] A lighted sign and an acrylic cross on the property were damaged by rocks.[23]

On September 8, 2010, Rackspace, the provider of web hosting service to the Dove World Outreach website, disconnected the site, citing a violation of their terms of use policy.[24] A spokesman for Rackspace told news media that the shutdown was not "a constitutional issue," it was "a contract issue." [25]

Death threats

Terry Jones has said that he hopes the event does not lead to violence. He says he regularly receives death threats since the event was announced.[20] Evan Kohlmann of Flashpoint Global Partners, a firm that "tracks radical militant websites," said that a suicide bomber has threatened to drive a truck into the church and others have discussed setting the building on fire, though it was not known if the discussions were serious. The Wall Street Journal quoted an individual calling himself Abu Dujanah from a jihadist website, "Now, I wish to bomb myself in this church as revenge for the sake of Allah's talk...And here I register my name here that I want to be an intended martyr."[26]

When death threats directed against Jones were mailed to The Gainesville Sun in a letter postmarked from Johnstown, Pa.,[27] the American Muslim Association of North America issued a statement signed by 15 imams including Ahmed Al Mehdawi of the Islamic Center of Gainesville condemning the death threats.[28] During Jones' September 11 visit to New York, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that police plan to keep a "close tab on him" for his own safety.[29]

Reactions

Protests

Local

A Gainesville Interfaith Forum which was established in November 2009 in response to earlier anti-Islam activities of the church requested for the declaration of September 11 as "Interfaith Solidarity Day", a request that was honored by current mayor Craig Lowe.[30] The Forum scheduled a "Gathering for Peace, Understanding and Hope" at Trinity United Methodist Church on the day before the planned burning.[31] Mayor Lowe referred to Dove World as a "tiny fringe group and an embarrassment to our community".[32]

Twenty local religious leaders gathered Thursday, September 2, 2010, to call for citizens to rally around Muslims “in a time when so much venom is directed toward them.”[33]

National

Protest against International Burn a Koran Day held in India.

Shortly after the event was announced the National Association of Evangelicals recommended that the event be canceled.[34] The World Evangelical Alliance "asks Muslim neighbors to recognize that the plans announced by a Florida group to burn copies of the Qu’ran on September 11 do not represent the vast majority of Christians." "It dishonors the memory of those who died in the 9/11 attacks and further perpetuates unacceptable violence." The event is broadly condemned by American religious leaders.[35]

John Rankin, President of the Theological Education Institute in Connecticut, has started a "Yes to the Bible, No to the Burning of the Qur'an" effort. Also Jennifer Bryson is advocating Christian intra-faith dialogue and Christian rejection of "Burn a Koran Day".[36]

Feisal Abdul Rauf, the cleric behind the move to build a mosque near "Ground Zero" said should the burning of Korans have gone ahead "It would have created a disaster in the Muslim world. It would have strengthened the radicals. It would have enhanced the possibility of terrorist acts against America and American interests." He also add that retracting the decision to build the mosque would send a wrong message that "moving it is that the headline in the Muslim world will be Islam is under attack in America."[37]

International

The German Evangelical Alliance formally dissociated itself from the proposed Qur'an burning, because of the widely circulated report that in his time in Cologne, Jones had been associated with the evangelical alliance.[17][38]

The Al-Falluja web forum threatened a bloody war against America in response to the burning of the Qur'an.[39]

The head of Iran's Islamic Culture and Relations Organization labeled the Qur'an burning proposal a "Zionist" insult.[40]

Various other Muslims, such as the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community have argued that the Dove World Outreach Center is not following the true teachings of Christianity of tolerance and love.[41][42] They quote Jesus: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you..."(Gospel of Matthew 5:44-45). The Head of the Community, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has stated that "Religious extremism, be it Christian extremism, Muslim extremism or any other kind, is never a true reflection of the religion".[43][44]

Other critics include

On August 27, approximately 100 people protested in Indonesia outside the U.S. Embassy. Roni Ruslan of Hizbut Tahrir, which advocates Islamic law, said, "No one will be able to control this reaction ... We urge the U.S. government and Christian leaders to stop the crazy plan from this small sect. It's an insult to Islam and to 1.5 billion Muslims around the world."[26] On September 4, thousands of Indonesians, mostly Muslims, took part in events across the country organized by Hizbut Tahrir. Rokhmat Labib, chairman of the group, called the planned book burning a provocation and predicted that Muslims would fight back should it take place. Lahib said that Muslims must not stay silent when their faith is threatened.[46]

The World Evangelical Alliance condemned the plans to burn the Qur’an.[47]

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement declaring that "A key tenet of our faith is to accord everyone the freedom to worship as they choose. It is regrettable that anyone would regard the burning of any scriptural text as a legitimate form of protest or disagreement."[48]

On Friday, September 10 in the northern Afghan city of Fayzabad, thousands took part in a protest against the planned Qur'an-burning following Eid ul-Fitr prayers. Violent demonstrators threw stones at a German-controlled NATO base. Initial reports said troops inside opened fire, killing up to three people and injuring several others, but a local police official said that only local police, not the NATO troops, were involved in the shooting.[49][50] According to the acting police chief of Badakshan the protesters broke down the first perimeter gate surrounding the base and beat Afghan security guards and police on duty with sticks. Before opening fire police allegedly fired warning shots and were also fired upon from the direction of the demonstrators, said the police official.[49] A local police chief talking to the BBC gave his estimates of the number of protesters to around 1,500 but said that the incident that led to the shooting was a separate one with 150 people participating. This official also said that private security guards where the ones who fired at the people who tried to force their way inside the base.[51] NATO has launched an investigation into the incident.[52]

Protest rallies were held in several other Afghan provinces: Nimruz, Kunar, Nangarhar, Parwan, Baghlan, Kunduz, Balkh and Farah. The Afghan President Hamid Karzai also spoke out against the burning of Qur'ans saying, "By burning the Koran, they cannot harm it. The Koran is in the hearts and minds of one-and-a-half billion people. Insulting the Koran is an insult to nations."[51] Protests continued throughout next two days, with three protesters wounded on September 11 and four on September 12 as Afghan security forces shot into groups of protesters, some armed with sticks or throwing stones, to disperse them.[53] Two died in hospital due to severe gunshot wounds.[54] On September 11, protests continued in the country, when Afghan security forces fought back thousands of demonstrators. Four demonstrators were wounded by security forces; firing when they tried to storm several government buildings in Pul-e-Alam, in Logar province. They also hurled stones at such buildings as the department for women's affairs. In Badakhshan province, another thousand people protested three separate districts, though the police chief said it was peaceful.[55]

Small rallies were reported in Pakistan in Karachi and the central Pakistani city Multan with around 200 protesters.[51] There were also protests in Indonesia, Gaza, and India, a non-Muslim majority country.[56] On September 13, a protest over the Koran burnings in Kashmir resulted in the death of 14 civilians through police firing.[57]

Political reactions

 Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the leader of Canada's minority Conservative Party of Canada government, condemned the planned Koran-burning in unequivocal terms. "I don't speak very often about my own religion but let me be very clear: My God and my Christ is a tolerant God, and that's what we want to see in this world," Harper remarked in response to the reports of the planned demonstration.[58]

 Cuba Former President and current First Secretary of the governing Communist Party of Cuba Fidel Castro described the event as "a huge media show, the complete chaos expected of a sinking empire," that had made "even US and European military commanders in punishing war missions tremble at a news item they considered put their soldiers at risk." Later, he added, "we got news the pastor had relinquished (his threat). It would be nice to know what the FBI agents who visited him said 'to persuade him.'"[59]

 Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel, who directs Germany's Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union-led coalition government, also denounced the Qur'an-burning at an awards ceremony honoring controversial Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard to defend freedom of speech. While speaking in defense of Westergaard who in 2005 angered Muslims worldwide with his satirical Muhammad cartoon she said of the planned Florida event that "[i]t is plainly disrespectful – even abhorrent. It's simply wrong."[60]

 Indonesia President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono warned in a televised speech that the plans to burn the Qur'an threatened world peace.[51]

 Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the plan a "Zionist plot that is against the teachings of all divine prophets. [The] Zionists and their supporters are on their way to collapse and dissolution and such last-ditch actions will not save them, but multiply the pace of their fall and annihilation."[61]

 Iraq Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani cautioned people to show restraint labeling the act "expression of hatred of Islam."[51]

 Jordan The Islamic Action Front, which is the political arm of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, condemned the event and added that it would be be "a declaration of war." They issued the statement saying that "Claiming that burning the Koran is a part of freedom of expression is ridiculous and does not make any sense." The statement also insinuated that the U.S. Government was inciting people against Islam using 9/11 as a pretext.[62]

 Lebanon President Michel Suleiman denounced the plans saying he "condemns the announcement of a religious group in the United States of its intention to openly burn copies of the Quran. [Burning Islam's holiest book] is a clear contradiction of the teachings of the three Abrahamic religions and of dialogue among the three faiths (Christianity, Islam and Judaism). [Christianity teaches] love and respect for one another [and people should reflect on that]."[63]

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Organisation of the Islamic Conference expressed deep concern and alarm at the burnings.[64]

State of Palestine Palestine In Gaza, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called Terry Jones a "crazy priest who reflects a crazy Western attitude toward Islam and the Muslim nation."[51]

United Nations UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon issued his concern on September 8 that he was "deeply disturbed" and also asserted his belief that such a gesture would be intolerable by any religion.[65]

 United States President Obama said "I just want [Jones] to understand that this stunt that he is talking about pulling could greatly endanger our young men and women in uniform who are in Iraq, who are in Afghanistan."[66] He also told a morning news and talk show that the planned event was being used as an al-Qaeda recruitment tool. [67] He urged for the cancellation of the event which he said violated U.S. principles of religious tolerance. The president also expressed frustration that under the law nothing could be done to confront the book burning other than citing the church under local ordinance for public burnings.[67]

 Vatican City The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue issued a statement saying that the book burning would be "an outrageous and grave gesture," with a headline in L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, reading "No one burns the Koran."[68]

Media reactions

Some in the media attributed the event to silly season and sensationalism.[69]

James Poniewozik, of Time magazine gave a few reasons for media coverage of the event: "tiny groups of fringe idiots" often get coverage, presumably because the vast majority of readers find them strange and different. The event also happens to coincide with a seeming American "Islamophobia" and concern over the "Ground Zero mosque;" he also added that "This is, unfortunately, one of those cases in which, by having become news, the story is now making legitimate news." Slate's David Weigel, said reporters should "Ignore This Idiot" (the title of his blog post on the controversy). "[Jones] gets to hold the country, or at least the part of the country that pays attention to such news, hostage, with reporters getting the secretary of state and our general in Afghanistan on the record to condemn this nobody. Instead of dying in obscurity, he'll die a has-been. Good work." ABC News' Chris Cuomo wrote that the "media gave life to this florida burning ... and that was reckless." Roger Simon, a columnist for Politico responded to David Petraeus' remarks saying "The issue is not the images; it is the acts."[69]

Both the Associated Press and Fox News stated their intention to ignore it.[69]

Other media reactions

The conservative Powerline blog stated it was against the Quran burning, but also said that "what gives rise to this dilemma, of course, is the fanaticism of radical Muslims, who have, indeed, responded violently to real or perceived slights to their religion." John Hinderaker, a lawyer and freelance writer, argued that "Perversely, the crazier radical Muslims behave, the more it benefits them (those burning the Korans). Today it is burning Korans, but the broader objective is to outlaw, de facto, any criticism of Islam." Another conservative writer Michelle Malkin, echoed an article by Christopher Hitchens, when she bemoaned "the eternal flame of Muslim outrage. When everything from sneakers to stuffed animals to comics to frescos to beauty queens to fast-food packaging to undies serves as dry tinder for Allah's avengers, it's a grand farce to feign concern about the recruitment effect of a few burnt Korans in the hands of a two-bit attention-seeker in Florida."

A Facebook page support the pastor's plan got more than 16,000 fans by eve of the event, while fans opposing the event numbered in the hundreds of thousands.[66]

"Copycat" protests

Within hours of Jones' cancellation announcement on September 9, Westboro Baptist Church member Megan Roper announced via Twitter that the church will proceed with its own Qur'an-burning ceremony in the case that Dove World will not do so;[70] Roper's mother, Shirley Phelps-Roper commented before the cancellation that she was angry about the lack of similar intensity of press coverage for WBC's own 2008 Qur'an-burning ceremony.[71] Phelps announced his intention to "burn the Koran and the doomed American flag at noon on September 11."[72]

In Washington, D.C., a small group of Christian activists including Randall Terry and Andrew Beacham read passages from the Koran urging hatred toward Christians and Jews, then ripped up the pages, carefully placing them into a plastic bag to avoid littering. According to Beacham, "The only reason I will not burn [the Qur'an] at the White House is because to burn anything on the Capitol grounds is a felony;"[73] his own claim to leadership within the Tea Party movement was heatedly disputed by several Tea Party activist bloggers[74][75][76]

Protester Duncan Philp of the Wyoming Tyranny Response Team obtained a permit to protest outside the Wyoming State Capitol from 11:00 to 13:00 on September 11. He expressed the intent to set a Qur'an on fire at noon, or, if the public burning was not permitted, to tear up the Koran and move the pieces in a garbage can to a private business to be burned. Members of the local Unitarian Universalist Church planned a counter-protest.[77][78][79] However, at the protest the group, describing the exercise as a test of free speech, announced that they would not desecrate or burn the Koran on state property.[80]

In Nashville, evangelical pastor Bob Old and another preacher burned a Qur'an with lighter fluid in a private yard.[81]

In lower Manhattan, one protester against the "Ground Zero mosque" tore out pages from the Qur'an and made vulgar gestures with them,[82][81] and another tore pages from a Qur'an and set them on fire.[81][83][84] The latter, who refused to identify himself, was reported to have been "escorted away to safety a few blocks away" by police after burning a few pages.[85]

Alex Stewart, evangelical atheist and research lawyer at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia rolled "joints" (which he said were actually rolled from lawn clippings) using pages from the Koran and the Bible and smoked them in a YouTube video, ranking the Bible as the "better burner." According to Michael Cope, president of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, "I don't think on the face of it that what he's done is an offence...nor do we think it should be," referring to the Queensland Anti-Discrimination Act. Anglican Church spokesman Dean Peter Catt described it as a stunt that was humorous on one level "But I can accept that some people would be scandalised by it."[86][87] Stewart was placed on leave by university vice-chancellor Peter Coaldrake pending a review under the university's code of conduct, who told reporters, "The university is obviously extremely, extremely unhappy and disappointed that this sort of incident should occur... It may have occurred in the individual's private time or on a weekend - it doesn't matter... There is always, in the community, collateral damage to these sorts of things."[88]

In South Africa, on September 10, Johannesburg businessman Mohammed Vawda had announced his own intention to burn the Bible on September 11 in the Johannesburg CBD in response to DWOC's own announcement[89]. However, an Islamic lawyers' association, Scholars of the Truth, quickly intervened by filing an injunction against Vawda in court on the basis of opposition against burning any religious texts[90], and Judge Sita Kolbe of the South Gauteng High Court granted the injunction, thus prohibiting Vawda's announced burning[91]. Lawyer and Scholars of the Truth spokesperson Yasmin Omar, who spearheaded the injunction with her husband Zahir, stated that the judge's ruling established that "freedom of expression is not unlimited if one exercises freedom of expression that is harmful to others"[92].

With mainstream media sources including FOX News and the Associated Press pledging to limit coverage of Koran burning, publications by individuals via YouTube took on greater significance. Receiving 24 hours of video uploads per minute, YouTube does not prescreen videos, and generally responded to complaints about the issue by placing warnings about offensive material.[93][94]

Cancellation and abandonment

On Thursday September 9 Jones announced the cancellation of the event, and a plan to fly to New York to meet with the Imam of Park51, Feisal Abdul Rauf.[1] In an interview on the morning of September 11, the day of the intended protest, he said, "We will definitely not burn the Quran...Not today, not ever."[29] Despite the cancellation, visiting protesters from both sides attempted to reach the rally, but a heavy police presence dominated the area. Some vehicles were turned away, and a visitor from Atlanta who attempted to burn a Qur'an had his book and lighter seized by police.[23]

See also

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Leader condemns Quran desecration

  • [1] Christian Extremist Evangelical preachers burned copies of the Koran in Tennessee
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