Terry Jones (preacher)

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Terry Jones at the Lincoln Memorial in March 2011 .

Terry Jones (* 1951 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri ) is an American Islamophobic hate preacher from Gainesville , Florida , where he and his wife direct the “Dove World Outreach Center”. In September 2010, he caused a sensation worldwide with his announcement that he would carry out a public burning of the Koran , but he canceled it. In 2010 he published the anti-Islamic polemic "Islam is of the Devil". Jones does not belong to any established religious denomination.

Act

Christian community Cologne

After working as a hotel manager, Terry Jones worked as a missionary in Germany for a total of 30 years from 1978 , initially for the Maranatha Campus Ministries . For this he founded the "Christian Congregation Cologne" (CGK) in 1981, which he headed until 2008. In the mid-1990s, the young free church had around 800 to 1000 worshipers. Jones is said to have operated this with hierarchical structures through manipulation, obscure promises of salvation, fear and control. It was more and more about money, teenagers worked for free in the special-purpose enterprise “TS & Company” and were sent to the Dove World Outreach Academy for “pastor training”, where they were completely isolated from the outside world. The time was marked by "hate sermons". In 2008, Jones was released from the line for "reputation".

In 2002 Jones was sentenced to a fine of 3000 euros by the Cologne District Court for holding a doctorate that was not permitted in Germany. In 2004, parallel to his Cologne congregation, he became pastor of the approximately 50-member independent fundamentalist community Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida.

In Cologne, Terry Jones has been linked to financial irregularities. The congregation condemned this and other behaviors in the strongest possible terms and released him in 2008 "because of untenable theological statements and obsession with the leadership". His Cologne congregation accused him of not carrying the biblical standards and values ​​outward, but rather himself as a personality. In retrospect, the CGK describes itself as a sect for the time under Jones' leadership .

Dove World Outreach Center

The Dove World Outreach Center (DWOC) is a small, 50-member free church in Gainesville, Florida, founded in 1986 by Donald Northrup, who died in 1996, with co-pastor Richard H. Wright and has been led by Terry and Sylvia Jones since 2004. Jones and Northrup both belonged to Maranatha Campus Ministries , where they first met. The DWOC does not belong to any Christian denomination and has no contact with other pastors in the city.

In the USA, the community had already attracted attention before the conflict over Burn a Koran Day with its methods reminiscent of sects, anti-Islamic and homosexual actions, which had brought it criticism since its worldwide fame.

The Dove World Church maintains in Gainesville a training center called Dove World Outreach Academy , whose students are kept away from any contact with the outside world and work unpaid for the church. Visiting the family, trips home for funerals or weddings were not allowed.

Because of Burn a Koran Day , Richard Land, President of the Ethics and Freedom Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention , denies the congregation the Christian faith.

With his anti-homosexual and anti-Islam campaigns , Jones caused a sensation and criticism internationally. The sect representative of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland , Andrew Schäfer, describes Jones as a fundamentalist and reports that the pastor practiced a "pronounced demon doctrine" and brainwashing and urged parishioners to chastise their children with the rod.

"International Burn a Koran Day"

Internationally, the Evangelical World Association (WEA) and numerous other organizations distanced themselves from Jones and the planned action and condemned the project as an "unbearable provocation". The US Commander in Chief of the ISAF in Afghanistan , General David Petraeus , saw the planned burning of the Koran as a threat to American soldiers. In Germany, among other things, the evangelical umbrella organization, the German Evangelical Alliance, condemned the planned burning of the Koran with clear words. The second chairman of the Christian community in Cologne, Stephan Baar, also said: “We are very saddened by this project. He himself brings the spirit that Jones accuses - this violence, this fanaticism. "

In late September, American media reported that the city of Gainesville had sent Jones a $ 200,000 bill for security measures created by his actions. Jones said paying that sum would bankrupt his community. He announced that he would take legal action against the claim. His congregation was moving to Tampa because Gainesville support was poor.

In early 2011, Jones was denied entry to the UK due to the action and other comments .

On March 21, 2011, after a sham trial of the Koran in the church, the Koran was burned in the presence of Terry Jones as a “witness”. In response, violent protests erupted in Afghanistan, killing seven UN workers and injuring 76 people (including three NATO soldiers).

Jones was arrested in 2013 in Mulberry, Florida while driving to a planned burning of the Koran on the occasion of the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11th . He was traveling with a pickup truck with about 3,000 copies of the Koran soaked in petrol, a large grill and a reserve tank of petrol. He is threatened with charges of illegally transporting fuel and carrying a gun openly.

Entry ban in Germany

In September 2012 the Federal Ministry of the Interior imposed an entry ban on Terry Jones on the initiative of Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle . He was previously invited to Germany by Manfred Rouhs , the chairman of the right-wing extremist party Bürgerbewegung pro Deutschland, to present the Islamophobic film Innocence of Muslims in Germany. An entry of Jones, described by Westerwelle as a " hate preacher ", would contradict the "interest in the maintenance of public order". Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle justified the entry ban with the words:

“We don't want any hate preachers in Germany.” Just as there are extremists in the Arab world , there are also fundamentalists in the western world. They will prevent "such people from doing mischief here." "

- Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle , in the report from Berlin , Berlin, September 16, 2012

The entry ban was formally justified by the Schengen Agreement and the German law on foreigners .

Condemned in 2012 in Egypt

In November 2012 , Jones was sentenced to death in absentia by an Egyptian court for blasphemy in connection with the film Innocence of Muslims, along with seven other men . The verdict was upheld on January 29, 2013.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CBS / AP: Pastor: I Know Quran Burning is Insulting. CBS News, September 9, 2010; archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Accessed on September 9, 2010 (English): "The threats started not long after the 58-year-old minister proclaimed in July that he would stage" International Burn a Quran Day "."
  2. ^ Assault on UN office: US hate preacher calls for retaliation. In: Spiegel Online . April 2, 2011, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Andreas W. Quiring: Terry Jones is not an evangelical. In: Medienmagazin pro . Christian Media Association KEP , September 8, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; accessed on September 8, 2010 (German).
  4. ↑ US pastor Terry Jones cancels Koran burning. on: BBC news. September 10, 2010.
  5. ↑ Terry Jones: Islam Is of the Devil Lake Mary, Florida: Creation House, A Strang Company, ISBN 1-61638-172-8 .
  6. ↑ a b William Branigin; Michelle Boorstein: Obama Urges Fla. pastor to call off plan to burn Korans on Sept. 11. In: Washington Post . September 9, 2010, archived from the original on September 10, 2010 ; Retrieved September 10, 2010 (English): "Jones doesn't belong to a religious denomination and doesn't appear to know fellow pastors in his town."
  7. ↑ Andreas W. Quiring: Terry Jones is not an evangelical. Media magazine pro , archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Retrieved October 22, 2010 .
  8. ↑ a b Yassin Musharbash, Dominik Peters: Koran-hater Jones: Zündler with a German past. on: Spiegel-Online. September 8, 2010.
  9. ^ Russell Goldman, Who Is Terry Jones? Pastor Behind 'Burn a Koran Day'. on abcnews. September 7, 2010, accessed September 8, 2010.
  10. ↑ Jane Stancill: Group awaits word of its fate: UNC-CH revoked its fraternity status , The News & Observer. February 28, 2005. "In the 1980s, Lewis was affiliated with Maranatha Christian Church, a national organization that disbanded after complaints about cultlike practices." 
  11. ↑ Joanna Rubick: Cult banned from K-State sues Minnesota , Kansas State Collegian. April 26, 2004. "A cult that was banned at K-State over 20 years ago has shown its face again on a different campus." 
  12. ↑ Tanya Gazdik: Some colleges warning Students did Cult-like Methods are Being Used by Christian fundamentalist groups , The Chronicle of Higher Education. November 15, 1989. 
  13. ↑ a b c Megan Rolland: The church behind the signs: A close-up look at the church whose "Islam is of the devil" signs continue to spark controversy . The Gainesville Sun. July 19, 2009. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
  14. ↑ a b Dr. Terry Jones answers your questions about overcoming adversity the apostolic way
  15. ^ Yassin Musharbash and Dominik Peters: Zündler with a German past. In: Spiegel-Online. September 8, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Retrieved on September 9, 2010 (German): “The US fundamentalist Terry Jones, who wants to burn Korans in Florida on September 11, was still inciting against Muslims in Cologne until recently. Former parishioners report hate sermons, pressure to donate and forced work. Last year they threw him out. "
  16. ↑ a b c Jürgen Werth : German Evangelical Alliance distances itself from burning a Koran. German Evangelical Alliance , archived from the original on September 8, 2010 ; Retrieved on September 8, 2010 : “We hope that this group in the USA will abandon their nonsensical project. In any case, this has nothing to do with Christian faith! The right to religious freedom is indivisible and cannot be exercised by a specific group alone to the exclusion of others "
  17. ↑ a b c Radical pastor was already disturbing in Cologne. Archived from the original on September 8, 2010 ; Retrieved September 8, 2010 .
  18. ↑ a b Homepage of Dove World Outreach Center. In: doveworld.org. Archived from the original on June 7, 2004 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 (English).
  19. ^ A b Dolores Northrup: About Dolores Northrup, author of the book The Unlimited God . Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  20. ↑ Advertisement Gainesville Sun . Gainesville Sun. March 14, 1987. Retrieved September 8, 2010.
  21. ↑ Koran burning on anniversary of 9/11 examined by Dr. Richard Land. Washington Post , September 7, 2010; archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Retrieved on September 9, 2010 (English): “The behavior of this church is not Christian. I cannot imagine Christ burning any religious texts. "
  22. ^ Yassin Musharbash, Dominik Peters: Zündler with a German past. In: Spiegel-Online. September 8, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Retrieved on September 9, 2010 (German): “The US fundamentalist Terry Jones, who wants to burn Korans in Florida on September 11, was still inciting against Muslims in Cologne until recently. Former parishioners report hate sermons, pressure to donate and forced work. Last year they threw him out. "
  23. ↑ Geoff Tunnicliffe: Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance condemns burning of Qur'an. World Evangelical Alliance , September 9, 2010, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; Retrieved September 9, 2010 (English): "The WEA, on behalf of its member churches, Christian organizations and bodies, strongly condemns the Dove World Outreach Center's plans to burn copies of the Qur'an."
  24. ↑ Reymer Klüver: The pastor who wants to burn the Koran. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutsche Zeitung GmbH, September 7, 2010, accessed on September 8, 2010 .
  25. ↑ The Inglorious Past of the Florida Evangelical Pastor. In: The time. September 8, 2010.
  26. ↑ cf. z. B. Florida Pastor Who Vowed to Burn Koran's Billed for Security; Says Church Would Go Bankrupt , abcnews.go.com, September 21, 2010 .
  27. ↑ 'Burn Koran' pastor slams 'unfair' UK ban , breakingnews.ie, January 20, 2011
  28. ^ After the Koran was burned in the USA - dead again in protests in Afghanistan , tagesschau.de, April 2, 2011 ( Memento of April 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  29. ↑ Media: Public burning of the Koran in USA prevented. In: religion.orf.at. September 12, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2013 .
  30. ↑ Westerwelle: Entry ban for US hate preachers ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  31. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tkeOod5Cr8
  32. ↑ Interior Ministry imposes entry ban on hate preachers Spiegel Online, September 16, 2012. Retrieved September 17, 2012
  33. ^ "A question of public peace" ( Memento from September 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau.de, accessed on September 17, 2012
  34. ↑ Death sentences in absentia for the Mohammed film ( memento from November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Tagesschau from November 28, 2012
  35. ^ Sarah El Deeb, " Egypt court sentences 8 to death over prophet film, " Associated Press , November 28, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Jones, Terry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Pastor of the Dove World Outreach Center Congregation in Gainesville, Florida
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Girardeau (Missouri)