Florida Pastor Suspends Koran Burning…

…probably only because he cannot get a large enough crowd to come and watch his play.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church says he was lied to and is rethinking his decision to cancel burning Qurans to mark 9/11.

Pastor Terry Jones earlier Thursday had backed off his threat to burn the Quran after he said he was promised that a planned Islamic center and mosque would be moved away from New York's ground zero. Muslim leaders denied there was such a deal.

   And if this pastor actually believed that the mosque would be cancelled, then I’ve got some serious swampland out in southern Arizona that I would like to sell to him. It is humorous that a thief would get upset over being lied to, isn’t it?

Jones and Imam Muhammad Musri stood side by side in a news conference where the pastor said he would cancel Saturday's event.

Musri later told The Associated Press there was only an agreement for him and Jones to travel to New York and meet Saturday with the imam overseeing plans to build a mosque near ground zero.                            Source

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