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Pastor Terry Jones was arrested in Florida yesterday just as he was about to burn thousands of kerosene-soaked copies of the Koran. The pastor had said he was planning to burn 2,998 of the Muslim holy books— one for every victim of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Sheriff’s deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested Pastor Terry Jones, 61, and …

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An Egyptian court has sentenced Florida Pastor Terry Jones to death for his alleged role in the creation of an anti-Islam movie. Seven others reported to be involved in the film were also sentenced to death.  All, including Jones, were sentenced in absentia. The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United …

Canada yesterday blocked Florida-based Pastor Terry Jones from crossing the border to deliver a planned speech in Toronto. Jones told CBC News he may appeal. But for the time being, he said he would head back to Florida. The Canada Border Services Agency made Jones go through a secondary inspection when he arrived at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., …

While many news outlets quickly corrected initial reports to point out that crackpot Florida Pastor Terry Jones “only” had a hand in promoting the anti-Islam film now inciting violence across the Middle East, the man that many publications then named as film’s producer does not exist. The mysterious “Sam Bacile” supposedly spoke to The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal …

The American ambassador to Libya has been killed in the violent reaction to an anti-Islamic film made in the U.S. and promoted by Florida’s Pastor Terry Jones. The attacks occurred Tuesday night in the eastern city of Benghazi by protesters angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, according to Libya officials. Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed when he …

Egyptian protesters today overran the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and tore down the American flag after seeing clips from an anti-Islam film produced by Florida-based Pastor Terry Jones. [SEE UPDATE BELOW] The movie apparently depicts Mohammed as a homosexual and child molester. Nearly 3,000 demonstrators, most of them hardline Islamist supporters of the Salafist movement, gathered at the embassy in …