September 13, 2013
On Wednesday, Rev. Terry Jones was arrested before he could burn 2,998 Qurans, as he had planned, in an effort to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
Jones, an outspoken critic of the spread of radical Islam, is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida.
ABC News reports:
The Polk County Sheriff's Office reports that Jones and Sapp drove a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with kerosene-soaked Qurans to a park, where they had intended to burn them — one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Jones, along with his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp, were charged with the unlawful conveyance of fuel, a felony. Both were held overnight and released the next day on $1,250 bail.
Jones was also charged with unlawful open-carry of a firearm.
Jones has been the target of hundreds of death threats. The Muslim terror group known as Hezbollah has even placed a $2.4 Million bounty on his head, according to the FBI.
In 2010, then-Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, personally phoned Jones, urging him not to go through with his plan to burn a Quran on September 11.
Jones complied with the request. (read more here)
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