PASTOR TERRY JONES- ARRESTED- POSSESSION OF CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Pastor Terry Jones, the man who tried to organise the upcoming "Burn a Quran Day" has just been arrested by police on charges of possession of child pornography. Humiliated in front of his very own congregation and in front of the entire world.
He wished to mock Islam and encouraged his followers to burn copies of the Holy Qur'an on September 11, which has resulted in them indirectly helping many Muslim organizations generate huge revenue by their purchasing copies of the Holy Qur'an, and while he goes to jail he leaves behind his followers with copies each of the Holy Qur'an.May Allah Almighty grant them guidance!
Jifunze kufanya uchunguzi kabla ya ku-report habari. Msimamo wako wa kidini isiwe sababu ya kuchukua habari ambazo sio za kweli na kupotosha umma
Hebu soma hapa chini:
he big buzz on the Internet today is the claim that Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center was arrested on charges of child pornography. True? False?
A little digging turns up no zero not one news story on the subject. No, in fact the story, repeated with glee across the blogosphere, can be traced back entirely to an anonymous August 4th posting on the Gainesville, Florida page of Topix. It reads:
Infamous Pastor Terry Jones, known for his activism against the mayor, and for his Burn a Quran Day has been arrested for possession of child pornography. Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pastor Terry Jones was arrested for sharing pictures of children in various states of nudity over the popular file sharing network Limewire.
A screenshot for your enjoyment (click any for a larger version):
So how did it get spread so far and wide? It was picked up on August 6 by an automated aggregator at NBC.com:
Thence it made the rounds to any number of blogs, aggregator sites, etc., all citing nbc.com as the source. Bloggers and commenters wax poetic about the irony.
Yesterday, it made it to Pak1stanFirst, posted as a letter to the editor, apparently by an overjoyed reader:
They seek to mock Allah, but Allah mocks them (Sura An-Nisa) See how Allah humiliated this man in front of his congregation and in front of the world just like he wished to mock Islam in front of the world. They plan (plot) and Allah plans, and Allah is the best of planners
infamous Pastor Terry Jones, known for his activism against the Gainesville Florida mayor, and for his Burn a Koran Day has been arrested for possession of child pornography. Wednesday August 4, 2010 Pastor Terry Jones was arrested for sharing pictures of children in various states of nudity over the popular file sharing network Limewire
Source :
TV Network for Primetime, Daytime and Late Night Television Shows - NBC Official Site
At this writing, there are 1.6M hits for pastor terry jones child pornography on Google. Of the first page, nearly all are simple reprints of the original anonymous posting.
NBCs page now returns a 403 error. A search of Google News turns up . . . nothing. CNN, nothing. Fox News, nothing. Yahoo News, nothing.
Verdict: Confirmation bias. People saw what they wanted to believe, turned off their critical thinking capabilities, and spread a prank posting far and wide as fact.
Source:
Was "Burn a Koran" pastor arrested for child pornography?