Preacher Cancels Quran Burning Over ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ Claims
The leader of a Florida church says he called off his planned bonfire of Islamic holy books because the imam of the community center to be built near Ground Zero "has agreed to move the location." However, one of the developers of that project has reported: "We don't know anything about it."
The leader of a Florida church says he called off his planned bonfire of Islamic holy books because the imam of the community center to be built near Ground Zero “has agreed to move the location.” However, one of the developers of that project has reported: “We don’t know anything about it.”
Read the preacher’s statement here.
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Terry Jones said he was calling off the event after the group behind a planned Islamic centre near Ground Zero in New York agreed to relocate it.
But the cultural centre’s organisers said they had no plans to move it.
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