[An Nahar] An American evangelical pastor whose church's burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan announced on Thursday that he plans to run for president in 2012.
In a campaign manifesto titled "Stand Up America!," Terry Jones pledged that on entering the White House he would immediately stop government overspending, bring all foreign-based troops home, and deport all undocumented Democrats.
The mustachioed pastor also vowed to bring down America's stubbornly high unemployment rate by reducing corporate taxes and cutting bureaucratic red tape to encourage people to start new businesses.
Jones's presidential run is only wishful thinking as he and colleague Wayne Sapp are notorious for their ceremonial "trial and execution" of the Koran in March at their obscure Florida church, the Dove World Outreach Center.
U.S. President Barack On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes -- and I see many of them in the audience here today Obama was forced to request that he not burn a copy of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in 2010, but Jones and Sapp went through with the burning anyway six months later.
Angered by their act, demonstrators in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif stormed U.N. offices on April 1 and killed seven United Nations ...an international organization whose stated aims of facilitating interational security involves making sure that nobody with live ammo is offended unless it's a civilized country... staff. More than 20 people were killed in total in a series of protests.
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so am I ...
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Maybe the End of the World Guy can be his running mate...
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Terry Jones is an obnoxious unfashionable bitter clinger with a grating personality.
But he helped expose some inconvenient truths about our confrontation with Islam. His uncompromising defiance is preferable to the slow suffocating self-finlandization that the West has imposed on itself since at least 9/11.
Like e.g. Richard Dawkins who is similarly unsympathetic to many (and who has profound philosophical differences with Jones), he is basically one of the good guys.
The vilification of Jones, and the casual dismissal of his rights to free expression and free exercise of religion has exposed deep character flaws in our elites.
Terry Jones is a canary in the coal mine, and we ignore the abuse and the injustice he suffered at our own peril.
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An American evangelical pastor whose church's burning of a Koran sparked deadly violence in Afghanistan announced on Thursday that he plans to run for president in 2012.
