Pastor Terry Jones Banned From UK

Florida's Pastor Terry Jones has been banned from entering Britain over his unfulfilled plan to burn Korans in protest of the mosque proposed to be built near the former site of the World Trade Center.

Speaking after the UK's Home Office announced it would not allow him to enter the UK, he insisted he was not against Muslims or Islam, only the “radical element of Islam”. He told Sky News: “I have no intention of doing anything against British law. We feel this is definitely against constitutional rights to travel, freedom of speech. “We believe that our visit there could be beneficial.” He also had personal reasons for wanting to come to Britain, he added, since his daughter lives in England and his grandchildren are English and live in the country too. “I feel this ban is very unfair,” he said. A British Home Office spokesman said: “The Government opposes extremism in all its forms which is why we have excluded Pastor Terry Jones from the UK.”

Despite his complaint about now being unable to visit his daughter and grandchildren, Jones was actually planning on traveling to address the British right wing group, England Is Ours.