Secretary of States Hillary Clinton said: "It's very regrettable, a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, who led a small church with a congregation no more than 50 people, could make plans extraordinary evil and malicious like this and then drew the attention of the world-but that's the world we live in together. It indeed unfortunate, but that obviously is not the identity of the action all of us. "
As widely reported in recent weeks, the firebrand preacher named Terry Jones, church leaders Dove World Outreach Center. In July 2010, he announced it will hold the "International Day Burn a newspaper" or "International Day of Burning Qur'an." When it chooses is this Saturday, 11 September 2010, exactly nine year anniversary of the Al Qaeda terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, New York. The plan she posts on Facebook and soon spread throughout the world.
Who actually Terry Jones?
Jones was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1952 or 1953. So, this time he was 57 years old. He led the Dove World with his second wife, Sylvia.
To trace who is Jones, a leading German newspaper Der Spiegel interview with Andrew Schafer, a Protestant church officials responsible for overseeing the various streams of trust in the Cologne area-where Jones had led about 100 congregations.
Schafer stated emphatically, "Terry Jones appeared to have a delusional personality."
Search The Times of London found that Jones' background 'interesting.' Written paper, "He (and his second wife, Sylvia) left Germany in 2008 after one of their three children ... together with an old man at her church the previous ... accuse them of financial irregularities and employment ... Jones Church in Florida funded by the TS & Company, furniture delivery company in the field owned by the church, who buy vintage furniture from Europe and re-sell in the U.S.. Employees at these companies are the followers of Jones, who worked without a salary and live without needing to pay at the building owned by Jones who weathered and dirty. "
Because there is a link to TS & Company, Alachua County Property Appraiser been investigating the tax-exempt status in March 2010 the church's past.
Dove World Adah charismatic Christian church which is very small and non-denominational (stand alone, not association bergabungan with any Christian church). His congregation numbered only about 50 people.
Dove World was founded in 1985 by two pastors, Donald O. Northrup and Richard H. Wright. After Northrup died in 1996, the leadership turned to his wife, Dolores. Jones took over the leadership of this church in 2008. A year later, Dolores Dove finally out of the World because it did not agree with the ways Jones.
Dove-World has a boarding school, also located in Gainsville, who was named Dove World Outreach Academy. According to local daily Gainsville Sun, students at the academy was forbidden to communicate with outsiders and their families, including not allowed to attend family weddings and funerals. They are also required to work to sell, pack, and send the furniture TS & Company. All without a salary.
This church has long since rekindle the spirit of anti-Islamic. Already since the late 1990s, they put a variety of banners anti-Islamic and anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) prominently in front of their church. Earlier this year, Jones published a book entitled "Islam is of the Devil." It describes Islam as the religion advocates violence and terror.
Earlier, in the year 2009, the congregation sent their children to public school with a t-shirt bearing the title of the book. Tail, the children were sent home from school and ordered to change clothes.
They are also very opposed to the homosexual militants. In March 2010, Dove World uploading a video as opposed to the nomination of Mayor Craig Lowe (Lowe latter remains elected and became the first mayor of Gainesville who openly as gay). When they put a campaign banner that read "No Homo Major."
Jones torn crazy plan enrages citizens of the world - not just Muslims, but also other faiths, including Christian and Jewish circles. And now Jones had to pluck the fruit which he had planted it.
Feeling weary wave of antipathy to see it, Jones expressed his hope hurry so crazy that digagasnya event did not encourage violence. He also admitted receiving several death threats since the announcement. Not only that, menguncurkan bank credit to the Dove World property worth U.S. $ 140 thousand, or about Rp1, 3 billion, is now demanding that Jones immediately repay all his debts. Not enough, the insurance company that refuses to immediately cancel the insurance church ridiculous Dove World.
