Quran burning raises fear of violence here, elsewhere

Howard said that a year ago when the church began to post signs stating that "Islam is the devil," he said to set up an appointment with Jones. Jones never returned the call, Howard said.
Jones has not returned phone calls and several e-mails from the Sun seeking comments.
The mayor said he plans to participate in a number of prayers that have been scheduled in response to plans Dove world. Convictions Dove's world also continue to pay the four corners of the globe.
On Tuesday, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Saudi Arabia-based international organization and an observer at the United Nations, expressed "fear that the fire of the Holy Koran, which preaches peace and tolerance and cons the murder of innocent lives, would evoke anger across the Muslim world and cause trouble. "
Others, Atheists of Florida to the National Association of Evangelicals, denounced the burning.
The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which monitors hate groups and domestic terrorists, has also taken note of the dove of the world.
"We do not list as a hate group yet," research director Heidi Beirich said. "You'd better believe they will be on the list next year."
The organization lists 51 hate groups - defined as organizations "that attack or malign an entire class of people" - in Florida, the Nation of Islam to the Ku Klux Klan.
On Sunday during his sermon, Jones acknowledged that the burning of copies of the Koran would not be popular, but he said it was necessary, comparing himself and his church to Mordecai, who in the Bible has refused to comply with government representatives and triggering an angry plot to kill Jewish people.
Jones expressed his disgust at Trinity United Methodist Church a few blocks away that will host an interfaith prayer service on Sept. 10.
Call Dan Johnson, Chief Minister of Trinity, and the congregation of the church "of cowardice, Christians yellow-bellied," he said it was unfathomable that a group of Christians would join with Muslims, Hindus and Jews to vote against a Christian church.
"Our nation is in spiritual ruin," he said