Describing the tape, King says he reminded Jones that this fall -- after international, interfaith outcry over Jones' plans to burn a Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 -- the pastor told King he would "never burn the Quran."
Jones had been well warned about the potentially lethal repercussions to U.S. and international forces in the Middle East if he did burn the Islamic holy scriptures.
And then he did it anyway, with a reporter from Agence France-Presse present whose story went world wide.
Reaction traveled below the radar initially, until the photos of a burning book turned up on Jone's Dove World Outreach Center web site -- a site that gave a church of 30 people a worldwide presence as an online provocateur.
And now, as Jones was forewarned. People have been killed in the angry aftermath. A mob charged a U.N outpost in Afghanistan and as many as 12 were killed.
hat did Jones say to that? Plenty, says King. But it was all "too hateful" to air. After long discussion within CNN, King told viewers, the interview would not be shown, even though, King says, he "pushed back hard" at Jones' anti-Islamic remarks.
I think this is a different situation than the decision to post coverage of the Quran burning when it happened, something I brought up in an earlier post. That news was already loose in the world and not telling Americans about it wouldn't bring it back. Silence would also mean shutting off any opportunity to speak up as they did in September to denounce Jones.
That said, the CNN interview decision is a different call. King's push-back could easily have been edited out to create a fake broadcast of anti-Islamic rhetoric to accompany the inflammatory photos.
Worse, Jones,as reported by King, has nothing new to say. No apology. No regrets.
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