Looks like Terry Jones called off the Saturday burning of Korans in what was reported as a deal with Imam Rauf to move the location of the Ground Zero Mosque.

Punked.

“GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The anti-Muslim leader of a tiny Florida church backed off his threat to burn the Quran, defusing an international firestorm Thursday after he said he was promised that a planned Islamic center and mosque would be moved away from New York’s ground zero. The imam planning the center, however, quickly denied such a deal.

The Rev. Terry Jones had been under intense pressure to abandon his plan to burn the Quran on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. President Barack Obama urged him to listen to “those better angels” and give up his “stunt,” saying it would endanger U.S. troops and give Islamic terrorists a recruiting tool. Defense Secretary Robert Gates took the extraordinary step of calling Jones personally.

Standing outside his 50-member Pentecostal church, the Dover Outreach Center, alongside Imam Muhammad Musri, the president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Jones said he relented when Musri assured him that the New York mosque will be moved.

Jones had never invoked the mosque controversy as a reason for his planned protest. He cited his belief that the Quran is evil because it espouses something other than biblical truth and incites radical, violent behavior among Muslims.

But he said Thursday that that he prayed about the decision and concluded that if the mosque was moved, it would be a sign from God to call off the Quran burning.”

Well turns out that Imam Rauf never agreed to move the GZM. So will Jones recant his offer? In the meantime Westboro Baptist Church and the nutbag Fred Phelps will go ahead with a plan to burn Korans. However there are scattered reports on some of the list services I belong to that indicate that at least ten Churches throughout the US will hold their own Koran burning on Saturday and the list is growing.

Regardless of the deal with the devil that Jone seemingly made, there will be some burning Korans on Saturday.

UPDATE: Jones repents?

UPDATE: I have the list of the Churches that will join in on Saturday, but there is no need to name them. However 2 are in Georgia, 3 in North Carolina, 4 in Florida, 1 in Alabama. I don’t think publicizing the names is helpful. As I said I support the freedom of speech – as should all Americans. I also believe that Christians should not bow to other gods, but stand firm against them. But simply burning Korans isn’t the way I would go about reaching the lost.

But again this is America and our constitution protects the act that these Churches will perform.