Off again, on again: Qur’an burning could go ahead

Pastor Terry Jones says organizers of the Ground Zero mosque broke their promise to relocate.

An evangelist preacher in Florida is holding the world in suspense today, saying that he is still considering carrying out plans to burn copies of the Muslim holy book to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Terry Jones’s plans have sparked outrage around the world, but he said yesterday he would call off the stunt because he had received assurances from the organizers of New York City’s so-called Ground Zero mosque that they would relocate to a site further away from the site of the 9/11 attacks. Organizers of the mosque categorically denied they had made such a promise, prompting Jones to “rethink” his decision to call off the book burning.