The Dove World Outreach Center, a non-denominational church founded in Gainesville, Fla., in 1986, has outlined its plans on its website and Facebook page.
It says the burnings will be held on church grounds "in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!" The church sells "Islam is of the Devil" T-shirts.
In response, The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on American Muslims to host educational "Share the Koran" Ramadan fast-breaking dinners at which copies of Islam's holy text will be distributed to neighbors, public and law enforcement officials and journalists, the Orlando Sentinel
Religion News Service quotes Outreach Center senior Pastor Terry Jones as saying the Facebook response has reports.prompted people to mail Korans to the church to burn.
Jones, according to the RNS, says organizers got the idea, in part, from another Facebook page campaign called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
That was started in reaction to threats against cartoonists and artists drawing images of the prophet Mohammed, which is forbidden in Islam.
Another story below.
Muslims outraged as U.S. church plans to burn Koran
Florida's Dove World Outreach Center to burn the Islamic holy text on church grounds in remembrance of the victims of 9/11.
By The Associated Press Tags: Israel news US
The world's pre-eminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning has condemned a Florida church's plans to host a Koran-burning ceremony on September 11.
In a statement carried by local media on Thursday, Al-Azhar's Supreme Council in Egypt accused the church of stirring up hate and discrimination and called on other American churches to condemn the event.
The Dove World Outreach Center is planning to burn the Islamic holy text on church grounds in remembrance of the victims of 9/11. Organizers are using its website and social-networking sites like Facebook to promote the event.
The Gainesville church, which also campaigns against homosexuality, made headlines last year after distributing T-shirts that read Islam is of the Devil.
It says the burnings will be held on church grounds "in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam. Islam is of the devil!" The church sells "Islam is of the Devil" T-shirts.
In response, The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on American Muslims to host educational "Share the Koran" Ramadan fast-breaking dinners at which copies of Islam's holy text will be distributed to neighbors, public and law enforcement officials and journalists, the Orlando Sentinel
Religion News Service quotes Outreach Center senior Pastor Terry Jones as saying the Facebook response has reports.prompted people to mail Korans to the church to burn.
Jones, according to the RNS, says organizers got the idea, in part, from another Facebook page campaign called "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day."
That was started in reaction to threats against cartoonists and artists drawing images of the prophet Mohammed, which is forbidden in Islam.
Another story below.
Muslims outraged as U.S. church plans to burn Koran
Florida's Dove World Outreach Center to burn the Islamic holy text on church grounds in remembrance of the victims of 9/11.
By The Associated Press Tags: Israel news US
The world's pre-eminent Sunni Muslim institution of learning has condemned a Florida church's plans to host a Koran-burning ceremony on September 11.
In a statement carried by local media on Thursday, Al-Azhar's Supreme Council in Egypt accused the church of stirring up hate and discrimination and called on other American churches to condemn the event.
The Dove World Outreach Center is planning to burn the Islamic holy text on church grounds in remembrance of the victims of 9/11. Organizers are using its website and social-networking sites like Facebook to promote the event.
The Gainesville church, which also campaigns against homosexuality, made headlines last year after distributing T-shirts that read Islam is of the Devil.