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|fullname = Terry Jones | |fullname = Terry Jones | ||
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|goals = Criminalize Islam (failing) | |goals = Criminalize Islam (failing) | ||
|crimes = [[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>Fraud | |crimes = [[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>Fraud | ||
|hobby =Preaching the Bible | |hobby =Preaching the Bible<br>Burning the Koran }} | ||
{{Quote|Watch out! Be careful. There is a part of the Quran that is very dangerous, there is an element of Islam that is very dangerous and oppressive. Do not be fooled by all of the peace talk, because behind the peace talk we do not see the fruits.|Jones' warning about Islam.}} | {{Quote|Watch out! Be careful. There is a part of the Quran that is very dangerous, there is an element of Islam that is very dangerous and oppressive. Do not be fooled by all of the peace talk, because behind the peace talk we do not see the fruits.|Jones' warning about Islam.}} | ||
'''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] right | '''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] far-right activist and the pastor of [[Dove World Outreach Center]], a small nondenominational Christian church located, until July 2013, in Gainesville, Florida, United States. He is the President of a political group, Stand Up America Now. He first gained national and international attention in 2010 for his plan to [[Quran Burning|burn Korans]], the scripture of the Islamic religion, on the ninth anniversary of the [[September 11 attacks]]. | ||
He was a self-declared independent U.S. presidential candidate in the 2012 | He was a self-declared independent U.S. presidential candidate in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections. | ||
In 2011, he was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle" | In 2011, he was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle" | ||
==Biography== | |||
Jones worked as an assistant hotel manager in the late 1970s, then became an assistant pastor with Maranatha Campus Ministries in Kentucky. He went to Cologne, Germany with his first wife to work as a missionary and founded and led the Christliche Gemeinde Köln (CGK) in 1981, with that church growing to as many as 1,000 members over the years, initially as a branch of the Maranatha Campus Ministries and a sister church to Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida. | Jones worked as an assistant hotel manager in the late 1970s, then became an assistant pastor with Maranatha Campus Ministries in Kentucky. He went to Cologne, Germany with his first wife to work as a missionary and founded and led the Christliche Gemeinde Köln (CGK) in 1981, with that church growing to as many as 1,000 members over the years, initially as a branch of the Maranatha Campus Ministries and a sister church to Dove World Outreach Center of Gainesville, Florida. | ||
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