Posted on 09/11/2010 6:02:12 PM PDT by presidio9
Florida pastor Terry Jones vowed never to burn a Koran hours after he arrived in New York on the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"Not today, not ever," Jones said on NBC's "Today" show Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Jones, who created a firestorm across the world this week with plans to burn Islam's sacred book, was widely criticized for coming to New York City on the mournful anniversary.
"Who's going to be the next person looking for their next 15 minutes of fame? I'm appalled by it," Gov. Paterson said Saturday. "More and more, particularly this year, I feel that the memory of those who were lost is being disrespected."
Jones cancelled the planned Koran bonfire Friday, hoping he would secure a meeting with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, leader of the community center and mosque being built several blocks from Ground Zero. Jones wants Rauf to agree to move the center, called Park 51.
"There is no meeting," Jones said Saturday. "We just have that hope that one would take place."
On Friday, Rauf said he has never spoken with Jones and had no plans to meet with him as of yet.
"I am prepared to consider meeting with anyone who is seriously committed to pursuing peace," Rauf said.
Jones' comments Saturday seemingly end a tension-filled week over his plan to burn Korans at his Gainesville church, the Dove World Outreach Center.
Outcry against Jones spanned across the globe, with violent protests in Afghanistan and Indonesia, as well as pleas from U.S. military commanders, President Obama and even Jones' own daughter.
Jones said the publicity he received bolstered his "mission" to bring attention to Islam's "radical" elements.
"We feel we have accomplished our goal," Jones said. "We feel that God has told us to stop."
Patterson should know from appalling, given his artificial term in office.
I’m appalled that Imam Rauf still thinks he outranks Rev’rund Jones in the cheap publicity whores sweepstakes.
how is a trip to NYC appalling??
I guess they need to stop all tourism!
Seems to me Jones did a good thing and did it right. Great handling of the media to make a point — by accident or design.
lol! A turd is a turd is a turd.
Coward, he should have lit them up and had a helluva weenie roast and said “bring it muslim”.
Zero/Holder’s FBI basically told him that they would not protect him. Zero corrupts everything he comes into contact with.
More like the IRS told him.
Jones is the John Brown of the anti muzzie movement, and the coming next civil war.
The genie is out of the bible, time to choose sides, either stand with the muslims like the faggot POTUS Hussein Obama, or stand with the USA.
Imam Rauf gets the gubmint paycheck to swan about the world but Rev. Jones has Obama and half the cabinet personally begging him on national television not to do something.
I don't know. I found the homeless pissing on the sidewalks appalling. I found the overly aggressive panhandlers I encountered on the subway appalling. I found the rag-headed taxi drivers' continued attempts to run me down appalling. I found the price of a beer in Times Square appalling. There is a lot that is appalling in NYC.
He doesn't, because his "book" was supposedly dictated by Allah to Mohummad. It bases itself on the earlier Hebrew and Christian religions. Unfortunately the Quran contains many, way many significant incosistencies with the Jewish and Cristian accounts, which were painstakenly copied by a millenia of Rabbis and Christias, working seperately. God doesn't make mistakes. Islam is nothing but a con-job.
You are, apparently.
I mean, you didn't have to comment at all, but then, you're an elitist politician & can't help yourself.
More and more, particularly this year, I feel that the memory of those who were lost is being disrespected.
Oh, spare us. What an arse.
NYC is appalling. I was just talking about the trip. lol.
TERRY JONES IS AN IDIOT!
Anyone siding with this CRAZY person should have their head examined (regardless of what one may think about Islam).
The actions he has taken for his ‘15 minutes’, has sacrificed and overtaken whatever proper decorum was to be observed on this date to honor the victims of 9-11.
:-)
CHALLENGE. In the fourty years that I have lived in an around NYC, I have never (EVER) seen a "homless" person pissing in the streets of Manhattan. If you were emotionally traumatized by such a spectacle, I suspect that you had gotten off the typical tourist path. Perhaps you went places typically avoided by tourists. Were you trying to buy drugs, or were you looking for a transvestite hooker? Every other city in the world has those, and the neighborhoods they hang out in. That's where you'll find the dreaded homeless urinators.
If Reagan was POTUS on 9/11 this would have been done 5 years ago.
I have seen plenty of hobos pissing and sh*tting in NYC. Maybe you should venture out of your luxurious 300 square foot apartment.
Ran across a comment on Hillbuzz stating that Jones is a registered Democrat. Didn’t trace down the source. If true, Jones was a plant, with the intent of disgracing conservatives.
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