Pastor feels no shame, nor has he any remorse
IN A DIFFERENT country, Pastor Terry Jones might have been arrested. In the US, where the First Amendment guarantee of free speech is sacrosanct, Jones enjoys police protection.
The mock trial and torching of the Koran which Jones staged on March 20th, taking care to stream it live in Arabic on “Truth TV”, precipitated days of mob violence and the deaths of at least two dozen people in Afghanistan…
It has strained the US’s already tense relationship with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who brought Jones’s deed – which went unnoticed in the US – to the attention of his compatriots.
President Barack Obama called the Koran-burning “an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry”.