Koran-Burning Pastor Was Once The GOP’s Poster Child For German Intolerance Of Christians | Talking Points Memo

Terry Jones, the pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center who plans to burn Korans on Saturday to the chagrin of many anti-Islam and anti-mosque advocates, has a long history of claiming that he is the one subjected to discrimination. Before he moved to Florida in 2008 to take the helm of the DWOC, he had a small church in Cologne with some pretty big problems — and plenty of prominent Republicans had his back.Jones went to Germany in 1981 to found the Christliche Gemeinschaft Köln (known in English as the Christian Community of Cologne), Americans would recognize as a Pentacostal church in the charismatic tradition. A recent observer, for instance, described services there as energetic and saw a congregation member speaking in tongues.


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