Pastor who planned to burn Quran on way to NYC

[mike r]

Source: Associated Press

An acquaintance of the pastor who once planned to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says the Rev. Terry Jones is headed to New York aboard a Friday night flight.

K.A. Paul, a Christian evangelist who runs a ministry in Houston, says he bought the ticket for Jones to fly out of Orlando and land around 10:15 p.m. in New York. Paul provided The Associated Press with a copy of the itinerary and flight confirmation number.

Jones has said he planned to meet with the imam overseeing a proposed mosque and Islamic center to be built near ground zero.

Paul says Jones was able to sneak out of his Gainesville church without the media noticing.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2010-09-10-pastor-quran-nyc_N.htm

[tularetom]

1. This isn't gonna end well

And you can bet the liberal media will be doing their best to make sure it doesn't.

[Tx4obama]

2. Here's a question ....

Excerpt from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39094190/ns/us_news-security/

"I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace," a statement from Imam Feisal Adbul Rauf said. "We have no such meeting planned at this time. Our plans for the community center have not changed. With the solemn day of September 11 upon us, I encourage everyone to take time for prayer and reflection."
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So, if Jones is flying to NY who the heck is he gonna talk to?

I'm wondering if he is going there so that he can say "no one would meet with me".
Extending his 15 minutes - which is already too long!

[mike r]

3. Hookers at Times Square?

[msanthrope]

16. No more Hookers in Times Square...you gotta walk West.

(Or East.)

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[Tx4obama]

6. LOL....

In the future when I watch anything about the Colosseum - I'll be thinking about Pastor Jones, Fred Phelps, and Rev. Old.
Thanks, it all makes a lot of sense now ;)

[ObamaIn2012]

14. Violence solves everything!

:D

[Webster Green]

21. Just looking for a little fun, not a solution to anything.

I would enjoy seeing someone beat the fuck out of the asshole.

Sorry. :smoke:

[opihimoimoi]

23. Plus me and 86970978747747 others :o)

[Phil The Cat]

26. Deadly violence is a progressive ideal?

So much for "Give peace a chance"!

Thank you so VERY much for helping the RW justify their violent views as being "self defense"!

So sad! SOOOOO incredibly sad!

:-(

[Webster Green]

27. Eat my shorts.

I've made an exception and compromised my "progressive ideals" for this mutherfucker.

Nobody's perfect. :rofl:

[Tx4obama]

5. More info

Excerpt:

Meanwhile, in the latest development in Jones’s off-again-on-again pledge to burn copies of the Islamic holy book at his small central Florida church, he says he’s going to New York Saturday to meet with Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi Muslim imam leading the effort to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site known as “ground zero” for the terrorist attack nine years ago.

But Mr. Rauf says there’s no such scheduled meeting with Jones.

"I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace,” he said in a statement Friday. But, he added, “We have no such meeting planned at this time.”

And just to make it clear about the proposed Islamic center near ground zero, he said, “Our plans for the community center have not changed.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/325068

[Matariki]

7. He must feel very important right now.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. I think he's making an escape...

he'll fly back outta NY on a late night flight to nowhere.

imo

[Brother Buzz]

11. As soon as he scrapes together some scratch

More limbs to shake in NYC 911 ground zero circus than Gainesville, that's for sure, but alas, he's toast.

[RedCloud]

9. That guy is Jed Clampett on crack!

[Hissyspit]

10. Well, whoopee-good-do. I went to New York in May.

No one alerted the media.

[mitchum]

12. It beats working

[KaryninMiami]

13. He'll probably show up at the 9-11 anti Mosque rally for the media attention

Think of it- he's hijacked the media for the past 2 days, now he can bring more attention to the tea party/racists who are planning to march at the WTC tomorrow. Perfect setting for him to continue his hate and rage- this time, he can say that he flew all the way to NY and was promised a meeting with the NYC Imam who he'll claim "no showed". Just watch.

[Tx4obama]

15. I wonder if he took a Quran and matches with him.

Wonder if he took a bodyguard with him.
Wonder is he's gonna ride in a New York taxi :)
So many questions ...

p.s. The Iman said late this afternoon that there is 'no' meeting planned.
So if Mr. Jones tries to pull that 'no one showed up for the meeting' BS,
then everyone will know that he is just lying again.

[Tx4obama]

17. Interesting tweets on Twitter....

RT @stephenlundberg: Best idea I heard today- we'll give you Pastor Terry Jones if you give us Bin Laden

RT @samhampton: Apparently it was a huge misunderstanding. Pastor Terry Jones was only going to burn the Koran onto DVD

RT @ CFHeather: Limbaugh Surprised to Learn He Went to High School With Pastor Jones | The Blaze http://ht.ly/2CEpH

[msanthrope]

18. No report of landing in NYC media. n/t

[Tx4obama]

19. CNN UPDATE: Pastor who planned 9/11 Quran burning arrives in NYC

The Rev. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who has garnered worldwide attention for his plan earlier this week to burn Qurans on September 11, arrived in New York City late Friday night, according to footage provided by CNN affiliate WABC.

"I don't have anything to say right now," he told a group of reporters who followed him out of LaGuardia Airport and to a taxi cab.

K.A. Paul, an evangelist in contact with Jones, has said that there will be no burning of the book Saturday evening, as had been originally planned.

Jones has said he was scheduled to travel to New York City on Friday night for a still-unscheduled meeting with the imam in charge of the New York Islamic center planned near ground zero.

The planned meeting, Jones had said, helped persuade him to halt the planned burning.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/11/pastor-who-planned-911-quran-burning-arrives-in-nyc/

[msanthrope]

20. I hope his LaGuardia cabbie drops him off in "Central Park."

Fuck.

[onehandle]

22. He should check out the Ground Zero New York Dolls.

Sacred boobies.

[alp227]

24. If not meeting, then to protest/greet other fundies.

Those who oppose the cultural centre might as well see Pastor Jones as a folk hero, eh? :shrug: But I wonder what's gonna happen at his church come tomorrow morning. I'll check the news during college football gameday tomorrow.

[Mz Pip]

25. It really annoys me that this clown

is trying to make 9/11 all about him. Fucking drama queen.

Get off the stage. The curtain has come down. Your show is over. There is no standing ovation. Please exit the theater.