The priest in a small church in Florida has threatened to reconsider its decision to abandon plans for an event weekend Quran fire.
A few hours after the call for the ceremony, much criticized at the time of the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, Terry Jones backtracked and said that the pastor had just been suspended. "Right now we're just putting a temporary suspension of our planned event," he said.
The Dove World Outreach Center Pastor had said earlier that his change of attitude during the event was in exchange for an agreement to move a controversial mosque near Ground Zero in New York. However, the alleged agreement was thrown into confusion
when the imam who heads the project for the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Feisal Abdul Rauf, was quick to deny any such agreement. Pastor Jones said he had won assurances from Orlando a magnet as an intermediary, Muhammad Musri, Iman that Rauf was willing to make sacrifices and meet with him in New York on Saturday to discuss.
"We put a stay on this because right now we are very disappointed and very shocked, because if it proves to be true, he [the Imam Musri] very clearly lied to us," said Mr. Jones later, after the refusal of Imam Rauf. "We'd have to reconsider our decision because we cancel it from his words." I understand he [Imam Musri] is now around and said he did not say tha
A few hours after the call for the ceremony, much criticized at the time of the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, Terry Jones backtracked and said that the pastor had just been suspended. "Right now we're just putting a temporary suspension of our planned event," he said.
The Dove World Outreach Center Pastor had said earlier that his change of attitude during the event was in exchange for an agreement to move a controversial mosque near Ground Zero in New York. However, the alleged agreement was thrown into confusion
when the imam who heads the project for the Islamic Cultural Center of New York, Feisal Abdul Rauf, was quick to deny any such agreement. Pastor Jones said he had won assurances from Orlando a magnet as an intermediary, Muhammad Musri, Iman that Rauf was willing to make sacrifices and meet with him in New York on Saturday to discuss.
"We put a stay on this because right now we are very disappointed and very shocked, because if it proves to be true, he [the Imam Musri] very clearly lied to us," said Mr. Jones later, after the refusal of Imam Rauf. "We'd have to reconsider our decision because we cancel it from his words." I understand he [Imam Musri] is now around and said he did not say tha
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