US pastor puts Koran-burning on hold | Bangkok Post: breakingnews

A Florida pastor at the center of a global firestorm insisted Friday he would not proceed with a planned Koran burning ceremony, but failed to stem a tide of Muslim outrage.

Dove World Outreach Center while Pastor Terry Jones speaks with reporters after earlier delivering the news Septemer 9 that Korans will not be burned at the church in Gainesville, Florida on Sept 11, 2010. Jones insisted he would not carry out a plan to burn the Koran, but failed to stem a global tide of Muslim outrage.

"Right now, we have plans not to do it," Terry Jones told ABC news, despite saying late Thursday he could go back on a pledge to call off the incendiary gesture.