Islamic Group Places $2.2 Million Bounty on Head of Koran-buring Florida Pastor

by Howard Portnoy
Hot Air
March 24, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1243/islamic-group-places-22-million-bounty-on-head

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Well, Florida pastor Terry Jones has gone and done it. The evangelical minister, who threatened last September 11 to burn a copy of the Koran and then backed down in the face of public pressure, has made good on his incendiary promise. With 30 people present as witnesses, he set fire to a copy of the embattled religious text.

And, as happens in the event of real or imagined slights, the other shoe summarily dropped. No sooner had Jones fired up his Bic than an Islamic "court" in Pakistan found him guilty of the crime of desecrating the religion's most holy book. The court then issued a fatwa—loosely translated as "death order—against him, as is their wont.

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