The Dove World Outreach Center Church in Florida run by Pastor Terry Jones has made plans to have a 'burn the Qu'ran' day on 9/11 “in remembrance of the fallen victims of 9/11 and to stand against the evil of Islam." Needless to say, this has attracted some attention and a great deal of anger in the Muslim world. Even though the Dove World Outreach Center Church is a small, no...

Panic Surrounding Rogue Pastor's Plan To Burn A Koran On The Anniversary Of 9/11 Political Correctness Run Amok As The President On Down Beg The Pastor From Florida Who Has About 50 Followers To Reconsider His Koran Burning Plan The fear in the west concerning the potential backlash from the proposed burning of the Koran is most probably warranted. One need only look at the worldwide reaction...

Gordon Brown has held discussions with world leaders in New York on the state of the world economy, as US president George Bush unveils a $700 billion (£377 billion) rescue plan for America's banking system.

Welsh pensioners are buying books as fuel. Discounting differences in book size, and assuming you could gather all copies of the same title, which books would you burn? On his deathbed, the poet Virgil requested his friends to burn his "Aeneid". Does an author have the right to do this?

Foreign Secretary William Hague will join world leaders today at the first formal meeting of the Friends of Libya, which is being staged at the United Nations talks in New York.

Heinrich Heine’s famous aphorism has it that ‘wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings’. But because those words are a classic soundbite and not a literal truth, there remains in a liberal democracy the right to burn books. Dove World Outreach Center – a tiny hardline pentecostal sect in Gainsville,

This Thursday over on Radio Free Scotland I'll be presenting a truly magnificent Wicker Man special on The Scottish Patient to celebrate the finest music festival that takes place anywhere in the world. Aye, and it takes place this weekend near Dumfries featuring The Fall (the best band in the world ever, no arguments please), Alabama 3, and over 40 homegrown Scottish bands and artistes. And that'...

Stephen Glover, writing in the Daily Mail, says: Nobody outside the BBC seems remotely upset. Angry mobs are not burning down its offices in Rawalpindi or Nairobi. But the BBC wallahs are in a dreadful tizz. Well, yes, we do have rather more important things to do with our lives than burn badly constructed effigies

The Dove World Outreach Center, A Fringe Religious Group, Plans The "International Burn a Quran Day" For September 11 To Remember 9/11 And To Take A Stand Against Islam Instead, What They Will Accomplish Although They Are Small In Size And Even Smaller in Reach, Is An Incredibly Large And Unnecessary Backlash Against The West. Readers of this page know only to well the position here regarding the ...

We're only three days into the World Cup, and already I'm tired of the drone. I speak not of the Vuzuvelas, but of the naysayers who dismiss the World Cup as being somehow xenophobic. Laurie Penny was at it last week, now quoted approvingly by fellow Orwell Prize nominee Madame Miaow.