GAINESVILLE - Terry Jones, the man who caused an international scandal in Afghanistan by combustion of a sacred book Muslim and show on the Internet, has been in the Chair Sunday.
A day when three persons more died in violent demonstrations, Jones approached the front of the World Outreach Center, laid down his weapon of handguns and Dove his Bible on a music stand and said that he was feeling not responsible for the violence in the Muslim worldtriggered by the burning of the book.
Then, in the locked sanctuary, Jones delivered a sermon which relies on the founding fathers, the early Christians and Martin Luther King Jr. They were risk takers, Jones told the Congregation, and so it is.
"When the civil rights movement came first of all, many people died." That this fault by make [King] "?" Jones asked the parishioners. "No!" is the response of his flock, about 20 people, excluding journalists.
Three deaths Sunday have to 24 the number of victims of violence when Muslims learned the Koran burning 8,000 miles away in Gainesville.
The dead included several members of staff to the position of the United Nations in Kandahar was invaded by protesters angry that disarms the guards. Two were reportedly beheaded.
Jones was first drew attention to himself last year when he threatened to burn a Koran on the anniversary of the attacks of September 11. These threats, he landed the obscure preacher and his flock fringe international features. Politicians, members of the clergy, even high level members of the US Army pleaded with him to stop the threats. Ultimately, he announces the Koran burning off is, to the relief of this university town, which is proud of its tolerance and diversity.
Two weeks ago, with no notice, the fire was on once more. The Koran was burned after a mock trial in which the book was found guilty of various transgressions.
Once more, Jones found in projectors, spoke on CNN and Fox News, sounded topic on blogs and Web sites of national news. Saturday, he spent various new interviews.
"Why do what I do?" he said on the fly Sunday. ""Because I am more afraid of God that I am you".
TELEPHONE CALL
It took a telephone call Friday from Garrett Garner ruin.
Garner, a Deputy political for the Mayor of Gainesville Craig Lowe, sitting on his couch at home, his flashing television images in black and white of a documentary of the second world war. Then the phone rang. He was the Mayor of say things had already been bloody in Afghanistan.
Immediately returned Garner open his laptop and is computer went to GoogleNews to know what would all the agitation.
Then, he saw: "Afghanistan..." Koran combustion...? Church of Gainesville... people dead. ?
No day more offshore...
In a few minutes, Garner was at City Hall, in collaboration with the Mayor and communications manager Bob Woods on a response.
Lowe, Jones and his supporters are more than a nuisance; they are an embarrassment to his city.
Later in the afternoon, Lowe addressed the news media. "" The world that we live in is a volatile place, ", he said. "While there is absolutely no justification for these horrible deaths and injuries, Terry Jones and his supporters were well aware that his actions could trigger these types of events".
Police intensified their presence around the Church. Would be soft Mayor to Pastor?
没有评论:
发表评论