Quran burning raises fear of violence here, elsewhere

As he took the pulpit to deliver his Sunday sermon, Terry Jones has acknowledged the potentially violent storm that erupted in response to his church plans to burn copies of the Quran on September 11."Everyone bring a gun to shoot us?" Jones asked, causing a few laughs.
But some posting comments on jihadist websites are not laughing, vowing revenge against his church, the Dove World Outreach Center, which had about 30 participants to its Sunday service.
"Now, I want the bomb in this church as a revenge for Allah's good to talk," wrote someone who identified himself as Abu Dujanah, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
In law enforcement response form region, reports on plans Jones has gone international - from Mumbai to Melbourne, with some media, including the Journal, describing as a Gainesville world Dove "mega-church."
Although city officials are concerned about the effect on the image Gainesville, they say the most urgent is the potential troubles.
The FBI and state and local agencies to monitor law enforcement is the threat of violence has promised, if the church follows through with its plans to burn the Muslim holy book, the Gainesville Police Department Major Rick Hanna said.
"We're over that, and we take it seriously," Hanna said, adding that the Police Department is sharing information with the FBI and police investigators questioned Jones about the threats that he has received.
On the Day of the Dove intention of burning the Koran - plans for which the city denied a permit - thousands of people will be in town for the University of Florida football game against the University of South Florida .Hanna said law enforcement will have "all hands on deck."
And while leaders Mayor Craig Lowe and religious city said they hoped to calm the situation by showing the world Gainesville does not support Dove world, threats rained in.
Evan Kohlmann, who runs the sites activist based in New York Flashpoint Global Partners, said a suicide bomber threatened to drive a truck in the church and others have talked about burning the building.
"It is difficult to say how the discussions are serious, but they talk about it," said Kohlmann.
After a Danish newspaper published caricatures of the Muslim prophet Mohammed 2005, online discussion eventually turned to violence, "he said.
The BBC has reported that dozens were killed in violent protests across the world, and in January an intruder with an ax was shot by police after he broke into the house cartoonist.
Jones plans come amid a national debate over a proposed Islamic center two blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan.
Kohlmann said the anti-Islam rhetoric in the debate on the so-called "Ground Zero" mosque and burning Koran Jones is used as propaganda for Al-Qaeda and other extremists, and he urged Jones to reverse.
"If drawing a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad was not enough to generate suicide bombers and an offer by al-Qaida to give the money to go kill these people, what do you think is going to burn a Koran?" Kohlmann said. "It may not be in Gainesville. It may not be in Tallahassee. It may not be in Florida. But the price will be paid for that."