http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7019669768
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Kris Alingod - AHN News Contributor
Gainesville, FL, United States (AHN) - The city of Gainesville has prohibited a church from holding an "International Burn a Koran Day" next month. The event has drawn worldwide attention and incited anger among conservative and liberal members of the local community, who plan to hold an interfaith gathering in protest of the burning.
City officials have refused to issue a permit for the Dove World Outreach Center to burn the Koran on Sept. 11. According to the Gainesville Sun, the fire ordinance bans open burning and outdoor burning unless otherwise specified.
Dove World Outreach Center, which last month held a rally outside the city's Islamic Center, has sent out a newsletter to the Sun saying it will go ahead with its the burning despite the denial of a permit. The church would likely be fined if it holds its event.
Mayor Craig Lowe, who was the subject of a protest this month from the group for his being the city's first openly gay mayor, has condemned the planned event as "offensive."
"The Dove World Outreach Center is a tiny fringe group and an embarrassment to our community," Lowe said in a statement early this month. "Gainesville is a place that values every person. We may be of different religions, sexual orientations, races, genders, national origins, or ages, but all are welcome here in our efforts to build a better community both locally and globally."
Over the weekend, however, a group that describes itself as an "armed Christian conservative" organization warned it would protect the controversial church.
“We fully support Dove World Outreach Center and its efforts to put an end to the notion that Islam is a peaceful religion. Islam is a violent cult with the goal of world domination," Shannon Carson, founder of Right Wing Extreme, said in a statement to World Correspondents.
Dove World Outreach Center, a New Testament Church, says it will burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 this year "to stand against the evil of Islam." Its senior pastor, Terry Jones, is author of a book, "Islam is of the Devil."
"There is only one true book, and that is the Bible," Jones says in an episode of his Braveheart Show on YouTube. "Demand that all Moslems that are here must adapt to our values, that they become Americans... You come here... you adapt to our values, our Constitution, our way of life... We should stop, immediately, the building of all mosques in America."
Religious leaders in Gainesville have organized an interfaith forum in response to Jones and his church's controversial activities. Dan Johnson, senior minister of the Trinity United Methodist Church, will lead a gathering of Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish and other faiths on Sept. 10, the night before the planned burning of the Koran.
"The action the Dove World Outreach Center is proposing is absolutely wrong and counter to the Life and Teaching of the Jesus whom we love, follow and call Savior and Lord," Johnson said in a statement.
"The Jesus that the vast majority of Christians know is a person of extraordinary love and compassion. He extended grace to persons of other faiths and treated them with respect and understanding," he added.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has urged American Muslims to host "Share a Koran" dinners as part of their observance of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. The civil rights group believes distributing copies of the text to the public, law enforcement officials and journalists will provide accurate information about Islam and thereby decrease anti-Muslim bias.
The controversy over Dove World Outreach Center's planned 9/11 activity comes amid debate about the construction of an Islamic communiy center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero.
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I'm not particularly supportive of the burning of books but I do find offending terrorists hilarious. Hopefully this story will be wide spread and the morons in their caves can hate us all the more.