Plan to burn Koran on 9/11 anniversary
Sep 9, 2010
Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones of Gainesville, Florida and his congregation plan to burn Korans on September 11, 2010. The small Florida church shrugged off global outrage and vowed to go ahead with a Koran burning ceremony on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on US soil amid growing fears it will ignite a wave of Islamic fury.
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Dove World Outreach Center Pastor Terry Jones updates the media on Sept 8, 2010 outside his Gainesville, Florida, church where he and his congregation still plan to burn Korans on September 11, 2010. AFP Photo / Paul J. Richards -
Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, addresses reporters after meeting with Pastor Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida on September 8, 2010. AFP PHOTO/Phelan M. Ebenhack -
Journalists watch a video message by pastor Terry Jones,on the Dove World Outreach Center website. AFP PHOTO/Phelan M. Ebenhack -
A journalist looks at the website "Islam is of the Devil" featuring a book for sale written by Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER -
Signs against Islam stand at the entrance to the Dove World Outreach Center as members of the media park behind them in Gainesville, Florida. AFP PHOTO/Phelan M. Ebenhack -
A Malaysian Muslim recites the Koran inside a mosque in the last days of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Kuala Lumpur. A wave of anger spread throughout the Muslim world after a small Florida church has vowed to mark the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks by burning Korans as they remember the almost 3,000 people killed by Al-Qaeda hijackers. AFP PHOTO/ Saeed KHAN -
A group of Indonesian Muslims and Christians rally at a Jakarta traffic roundabout to denounce the plans to burn the Koran by an US evangelical church. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD -
A group of Indonesian Muslims and Christians rally at a Jakarta traffic roundabout to denounce the plans to burn the Koran by an US evangelical church. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD
