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Koran Burning is Off Says Pastor

*The Florida pastor at the center of an international firestorm for threatening to burn the Koran reaffirmed that he would not go ahead with the event on Saturday.Radical evangelist Terry Jones first announced on Thursday he had scrapped the mass burning of the Muslim holy book on September 11 after a day of high-stakes religious [...]

The Quran burning that wasn't.

Swivel-eyed, moustachioed US pastor Terry Jones , of the Dove World Outreach Centre in Gainesville, Florida, says his bonkers plan to set fire to copies of the Quran on the front lawn of his church is "on hold". Get it? Not off, not cancelled, but "suspended", he says.

Facebook becomes Koran-burning forum

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- Two Facebook pages have become forums for competing vitriol about a Florida church's plans to burn 200 Korans to mark the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Facebook - Florida - Warfare and Conflict - War on Terrorism - September 11 2001

Copy of Quran only book saved from Union’s 1865 burning of UA

A copy of the Quran dating from 1853, its spine missing, its pages browning and its front cover almost detached, sits today in a library at the University of Alabama.

Flight 93 memorial: ‘Is this all there is?’

Red Tape Chronicles: On the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the site of a planned memorial to the heroes who died aboard United Flight 93 remains a barely active construction site. Yet, a woman who would have every right to be angriest about the delays -- the mother of the youngest victim on Flight 93 -- recently showed the best kind of patience and a heroic grasp of a concept in ...