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Controversial pastor gets free car for not burning Quran
The Rev. Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who caused a firestorm last month when he came close to staging a public Quran burning, is getting a new car courtesy of a New Jersey dealership.
In the run-up to the planned book-burning, Brad Benson Hyundai in New Brunswick offered Jones a vehicle if the pastor backed down on his threat.
“We heard on the news that he was going to burn the Quran," Benson Hyundai general manager David Canton told CNN on Saturday.
After condemnations from around the world, Jones called off the burning.
A representative from Jones' church, Dove World Outreach Center, called Benson Hyundai recently to see whether the offer was still good, Canton said.
It was. Jones is getting a 2011 Hyundai Accent, valued at around $13,600.
"He stood up to his end of the bargain and we’re standing up to ours,” Canton said.
A woman who answered the phone Saturday at Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, said Jones would donate the car to a Muslim charity.
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I'm gonna hurl. This is the same thinking that rewards kids for just showing up to school. Epic Fcuking Failure. I don't care that the @$$hat is donating the car, it's the entire premise to begin with.
Unbelievable! Let's reward bad behavior.
@Enoch..apparently you need to shut your stuP!d fu(kin face..you obviously have no respect for members of the military that have fought for your rights..may Allah be with you my friend !
@enoch lol, Im not religous whatsoever but i dont act like im superior to the rest of the world. Also i dont believe in genocides becuase im not crazy.
What an Ass. We are rewarding Bigotry and hatred? What is this Country coming to?
Only in America...
Hey, really, it was one car dealership doing what it could to prevent a possible catastrophe. The guy totally doesn't deserve a car, but major kudos to the dealership for taking a stand and trying to prevent further harm to our troops. I am sure 99% of us (myself included) did nothing to try to stop this maniac but post anger on the Internet.
It was basically our gov'y, FBI that talked this guy out of it, not an offer by a publicity seeking car dealer. Read a newspaper once in awhile.
Can I get some of what everyone in this story is smoking? Must be the good $#!+.
I think he has to pay taxes on the car. I wonder if he has thought about that. I will ask the IRS to check into that.
A Hyundai Accent, he is better off burn the car . What a P.O.S.
i like turtles
They taste good.
win.
Anyone heard of any of the extremist Muslims burning the Bible?
This guy is a F.cking Moron.To be rewarded with a gift what does that tell our society?It sure as heck doesn't show much for that auto maker/Hyundai.Let's bow down and kiss his A..!There's more to this story than meets the eye.This guy is stupid for even thinking of burning a Bible.Rot in hell you stupid S.O.B.!
How many people don't burn Qurans every day? But no new car for us. I think I may just have to change my policy on Quran burning unless I start seeing some of these rewards. lol
if i'd known this is the way to get a free car i wouldnt have bought mines....
Sammy19- ExtremeMuslims don't do anything as drastic as burning the Bible. All they do is kill innocent people.
I will burn Qurans if I don't get a car!!! I'm serious
Muslims and Christians are like oil and water. They don't mix no matter how hard you stir.
You sir are a blemish on society.
But will it blend?
Just another reason to alleviate half the world's population in an all-out War of us vs. them.
I love it – as I sit back and watch it all unfold on my TV from the comforts of my own home;)
everyone freeks out when it's extremist groups performing acts, however, noone lifts an eyebrow to the over 2000 bombs the US has dropped in over Afghanistan and Pakistan in the past 3 months. interesting.
But they make such pretty colors when they do...
Yes they do and they make the most beautiful children 🙂
All the more reason to become an atheist.
All we need is an emulsifier; reason, and rational dialogue.
You are wrong!
Only if you approach the other without an open heart and mind. If you believe yourself superior, then you will not mix. Try reading "3 cups of tea".
Take the egg off both of thier faces, add to the mix and they might mix when stirred.
Did you graduate kindergarten? you must need some sort of social assistance because someone as ignorant and small minded as yourself should not be left alone.
phil, there's such thing as an emulsion.
Jim Jones was not a terrorist and neither was Hitler. Jim Jones was a cult leader and Hitler was a psychotic dictator.
Another idiot whose rock must have rolled away.
Who is oil and who is water?
Maybe they don't mix well, but that doesn't mean they can't work together for something better... like Italian dressing!
Tolerance - the great emulsifier
ALL TERRORIST ARE MUSLIMS WHY?
Well, not all terrorists are Muslim. There are radical elements in every major religion. There is even a militant-buddhist sect.
all muslims are terrorists??? EVERY religion has extremists INCLUDING christianity.
That, my friend, is about the most inaccurate thing I've heard in a while.
I didn't know Tim McVey was a muslim. Was Jim Jones a muslim or is there another definition of terrorist?
Will, reference your thinking that Christians have NEVER been terroist. In Northern Ireland, Christians would routinely kill innocent children and adults with bombs in Catholic neighborhoods. So you are wrong in assuming that Christians have never been terroist
No there are terrorists like you also.
NO!!! Wrong, wrong, wrong. There are plenty of Christian terrorists, too – think KKK, the pro-lifers who harass women going into abortion clinics, shoot the doctors and bomb the clinics; the IRA and their Protestant counterparts in Northern Ireland – and there's the Basque group ETA (not religious, just political). Do a little research and get your facts straight before you make irresponsible and uninformed comments like that.
why? well for starters it simply is not true.... but all the terrorists are muslims in your eyes because the fox/republican/radical right media has convinced you to be afraid and your too stupid to use your own mind and look for yourself
Because you are forgetting about Timothy McVeigh, Adolf Hitler, the Crusades.
You don't go to school much, do you?
Was McVeigh muslim?
The Plague of the masses: to eat whatever diet you're fed and to hell with nutrition!
Only few take responsibility for the information they consume; for how many sources they tap into. Under these conditions, any crowd is the most dangerous weapon out there!
And Timothy McVeigh was a.....what? A Christian Army Veteran. All Christian Army Veterans are terrorists.
As people have pointed out, you are so wrong, it's pathetic. There are countless Christian militia groups in the U.S. that are on the terrorist watch list. The Ku Klux Klan and Neo Nazi groups are terrorist groups. Timothy McVeigh was Christian and a terrorist. There are Irish Catholic terrorist groups in Northern Ireland. There have been Jewish terrorist groups in Israel for years, although they have lessened over the last decade or two. Throughout the 70s and 80s, there were Jewish terrorist groups that were as bad, if not worse, as Hamas. We only hear about the Islamic terrorist groups more because they come in direct conflict with the U.S. and U.S. interests.
isnt this getting kinda old?
Are all catholics rapists? Are all catholic churchers part of huge pedophile ring?
What do you call the people killing scores of people in Mexico clown? What do you call the pilots dropping bombs on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan clown? What do you call the American government responsible for the unexplained infant deaths at the Fort Bragg Army base, which are more than likely from the army's illegal use of chemical weapons or the use of depleted uranium in Iraq and Afghanistan? The next time you hear of a navy airshow in your area go. Especially if it features any of the F series of jets. The sound breaking sound of the jets is terrorism in itself. Imagine that sound flying over your own neighborhood hour after hour. You are a clown John and remember you reap what you sow and be careful what you wish on someone else because it'll come back on you 10 fold.
John, you have to watch something other than fox. We have a Homegrown American terrorist problem. Bath Michigan- Andrew Kehoe (christian) Killed 45 injured 45 – 38 students. Angry at the local government over taxes. May 18, 1927. Luldow Colorado – Private security guards at a mine killed 19 striking miners on the picket line in a massacre which the US govt. declared a terrorist attack. Unabomber Ted Kazcynski – Oklahoma city – Timothy McVeigh, Ted Nichols. Colombine Colorado – 12 students and 1 teacher killed. The students was christian. Anthrax attacks in 2001 Bruce Edward Ivins Christian. 2010 Irs attack by plane. Andrew Stack – Angry at George Bush and Bailouts of financial industry – Christian. 1975 Fraunces Tavern Killed 4 in New York with bombs. Peurto Rican US citizen – Catholic.
Eric Rudolph – Christian Army of God. Atlanta olympics, Abortion clinics and gay and lesbian bars. Richard Butler – White Neo-Nazi. Church of Jesus Christ – Christian. Robert Jay Matthews " The Order" Killed Alen Berg radio host. White supremiscist leader. Meir Kahane 15 terrorist attacks by the Jewish defense league. 335 attacks on 1980 US citizens by these Home grown terrorists. Not all Muslim and Just as deadly and dangerous. From all religions.
Frankly, Rev. Terry Jones (a so-called "Christian"?) is, himself, a terrorist. He purposely decided to do something that incited violence here and around the world. Whether the violence was religiously-based or not is irrelevent. According to the Patriot Act definition of a terrorist, Terry Jones fits it perfectly!
I hear ya momo!
Dont feed the troll...
ALL PEOPLE THAT USE CAPLOCKS ARE TOOLS WHY? (Because it's the equivalent to shouting, schmuck.)
That's it?
God is worth a SAAB?
What a sell out. He lost all of his political power in a greedy decision. Who will be the Tea Party Presidential candidate now?
Jeez, if I had a nickel for every bad thing I didn't do today.....
If God needed a car it sure as heck wouldn't be an ugly sob...
He had better get rid of that car. Who would want to start up that vehicle?
They should have given him a free razor – that 'stache has gotta go. Ugh!