Who thought Pastor Jones was finished?

[Bragi]

Don't look now, but Pastor Terry Jones is back for another multi-week media run, he hopes.

He's declared this coming March 20 to be "International Judge the Quran Day" at his Dove World Outreach Center.

"We are accusing the Quran of murder, rape, deception," he said, "and being responsible for terrorist activities all over the world..."

He said a jury of about 30 people, made up of Christians and Muslims, will decide.

"If found guilty," he said, "there are four forms of punishment: burning, drowning, shredding or firing squad." Jones' website, Stand Up America, contains a survey on which visitors can pick a punishment.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41039985/ns/local_news-tampa_fl/

Can't see any Muslims taking offense at any of this. I'm sure the exercise will calm things down a whole lot.

I wonder if the White House still has the Pastor on their speed dial from last fall, back from when he most spectacularly was talked out of burning a Quran?

It's probably the WH's turn to move now. I wish one of their press corp types would at least ask about how they intend to handle this.

Or is everyone just going to pretend it isn't happening, until about March 7 or 10, when it's clear that it is going to happen?

[tularetom]

1. Ah'm pickin a farrrin squad

Kin I really git ta shoot some a them mooslims?

[Drale]

2. Any Muslim who would go along with that man

is either being payed very well or isn't really a follower of Islam. Bet he would have a heart attack if someone tried to do this crap to the Bible.

[scarletwoman]

3. If it's not on TV, it didn't happen.The absolutely best way to deal with this is to ignore the jerk.

He's a publicity hound, don't give him any.

[Bragi]

4. Which media?

I don't think a media curtain around Jones to make him invisible to Americans will matter much.

What matters first of all is whether any radical Islamic group decides to grab onto Jones again to create an aggressive anti-Quran-burning campaign around his planned event.

This may already be happening:

http://pakistancyberforce.blogspot.com/2011/01/cursed-terry-jones-filing-case-against.html

It also matters how the major media outlets in the Muslim world in general cover it.

If you view this as principally an American happening, I think you risk missing most of what's important.

Americans may even be who Jones is playing to, but I don't think that's the most important audience watching this train wreck once again coming down the track.