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Christian minister Dr. Terry Jones burns a Quran off-camera during video promoting his 'worldwide burning of 2,998 Qurans' event planned for Sept. 11, 2013.
Christian minister Dr. Terry Jones burns a Quran off-camera during video promoting his "worldwide burning of 2,998 Qurans" event planned for Sept. 11, 2013. | (Photo: YouTube screen grab)

Not to be confused with the Monty Python cast member of the same name, Terry Jones is the Florida pastor who gained public notoriety for his threats to burn copies of the Qur'an.

In early 2013, in response to then President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage, Jones opted to burn him and former President Bill Clinton in effigy.

"The results of the election were either a fraud or a continuing example of how the American people have been duped," stated Jones in a 2013 press release.

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"Obama has continued to lie and deceive the American people, to break countless promises, running our country into a debt from which we can only with great difficulty recover."

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