<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Guardian at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/florida-pastor-terry-jones-qurans">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/12/florida-pastor-terry-jones-qurans</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "></p><h1 itemprop="name headline " style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2px; border-collapse: collapse; border-right-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); border-left-color: rgb(214, 29, 0); font-weight: normal; width: 460px; border-top-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 1.154; font-size: 2.166em; font-family: georgia, serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Florida pastor Terry Jones arrested on way to burn Qur'ans</h1><p itemprop="description" id="stand-first" class="stand-first-alone" data-component="Article:standfirst_cta" style="padding: 0px 0px 34px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; width: 460px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); line-height: 1.25; font-size: 1.333em; font-family: arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; ">Jones is stopped in pickup truck towing barbecue-style grill before planned burning to mark 9/11 anniversary</p><p></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/florida" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Florida" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; text-decoration: none; ">Florida</a> pastor was arrested on Wednesday as he drove to a park to set fire to nearly 3,000 Qur'ans to mark the September 11 terrorist attacks.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sheriff's deputies in Mulberry, Florida, arrested Terry Jones, 61, and his associate pastor, Marvin Sapp Jr, 44, on felony charges of unlawful conveyance of fuel as they travelled in a pickup truck towing a large barbecue-style grill filled with Qur'ans soaked in kerosene.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jones had said he was heading to a nearby park to burn 2,998 Qur'ans – one for every victim of the 2001 attacks. Sheriff's officials said that Jones was also charged with the unlawful open-carry of a firearm and that Sapp faced a charge of having no valid registration for the trailer.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Both were being booked into the Polk County jail, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mulberry's mayor, along with area elected officials, a sheriff's deputy and several Polk County residents, have talked about the need to express love and tolerance for all faiths on 11 September.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jones is the pastor of a small evangelical Christian church who first gained attention in 2010 when he planned to burn a Qur'an on the anniversary of 9/11, although he eventually called it off.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His congregation did burn the Muslim holy book in March 2011 and last year he promoted an anti-Muslim film. All three incidents sparked violence in the Middle East and Afghanistan.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The most violent protest happened after the 2011 Qur'an burning as hundreds of protesters stormed a UN compound in Mazar-i-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, killing seven foreigners, including four Nepalese guards.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jones has repeatedly ignored pleas from the US military asking him not to stage his protests. Military officials say his actions put US and western troops in Afghanistan and elsewhere in danger.</span></p><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mulberry is a town of about 3,000 between Orlando and Tampa and has no connection to Jones's church.</span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><br></div></div></body></html>