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|goals = Criminalize Islam (failing)

|crimes = [[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>Fraud

|hobby = }}{{Quote|Islam is the Devil!|Jones' rallying cry.}}'''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] right wing 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]].

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'''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] right wing 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 U.S. presidential election and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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In 2011, he was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle"

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,~~[12]~~ 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.

On September 18, 1997, Jones spoke during the First Session of the 105th Congress at a hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Washington D.C., concerning the religious persecution of Christians in Europe.

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 |goals = Criminalize Islam (failing)
 |crimes = [[Hate Speech|Hate speech]]<br>[[Islamophobia]]<br>Fraud
-|hobby = }}{{Quote|Islam is the Devil!|Jones' rallying cry.}}'''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] right wing 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]].
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+{{Quote|Islam is the Devil!|Jones' rallying cry.}}
+'''Terry Jones''' (born October 1951) is an American [[Islamophobia|anti-Islamic]] right wing 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 U.S. presidential election and the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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 In 2011, he was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle"
-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,[12] 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.
 On September 18, 1997, Jones spoke during the First Session of the 105th Congress at a hearing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Washington D.C., concerning the religious persecution of Christians in Europe.