Pastor Terry Jones suspends Qur'an burning

by pankaj kumar | September 10, 2010 at 01:31 am

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Speaking outside his Dove World Outreach Centre church in Gainesville, Florida Terry Jones said: "As of right now, we are not cancelling the event, but we are suspending it."

The Florida pastor who threatened to burn copies of the Qur'an on the anniversary of 9/11 has "suspended" the event, amid conflicting claims over a deal involving a planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York.

The extremist preacher, Terry Jones, first said he had cancelled the bookburning, after condemnation by Barack Obama, the Pentagon, the state department and international outrage.

Jones then said the event was only on hold, claiming he had been "lied to" over a deal to call it off in exchange for a promise to move a planned Islamic centre away from Ground Zero.