A Pentecostal preacher in Florida who believes that Islam is the work of the devil is vowing to go ahead with the burning of 200 copies of the Qur'an on Saturday in the face of expressions of horror and foreboding from across America and the rest of the world.

The extremist views of the pastor, Terry Jones, and his Dove World Outreach Center, a small church with about 50 members, do not normally attract much attention. But Jones's threat to create a bonfire of the Islamic faith's holy book on the lawn of his church on a day that heralds both the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and Eid, the end of Ramadan, has put him at the centre of a storm.

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