Dove World Outreach Center

Dove World Outreach Center
Dove World Outreach Center

Location Gainesville, Florida
Country United States
Denomination Non-denominational
Membership 50 (2010)
Website http://www.doveworld.org
History
Founder(s) Donald O. Northrup
Richard H. Wright
Significant events *Islam Is From Satan
*Islam Is Of The Devil
*International Burn a Koran Day
*International Judge the Quran Day
*No Homo Mayor
*Anti-Park51
Clergy
Pastor(s) Terry Jones
Wayne Sapp

Dove World Outreach Center is a 50 member non-denominational charismatic Christian church in Gainesville, Florida led by pastor Terry Jones and his wife, Sylvia. The church first gained notice during the late 2000s for its public displays and criticism of Islam and gays, and was designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.[1] It became widely known for its pastor's controversial plan to burn Qur'ans on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. On September 11, 2010, Jones announced his church would never be burning Qur'ans and that he had reached his goal of exposing elements of Islam as dangerous and radical.[2] On March 20, 2011, however, Jones carried through on his threat, and burned the Qur'an. On April 1, 2011 protestors in the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif, protesting this burning, attacked a United Nations Assistance Mission, killing at least 12 people, including at least 7 U.N. workers.[3]

The head of the church Pastor Jones described Islam as "a false religion" that will lead people to hell,[4] and urged to Muslims that the Bible is the only way to God. The congregation has also held rallies against Gainesville mayor Craig Lowe and his staff denouncing their liberal policies.

Terry Jones was invited to an English Defence League rally in Luton in February 2011 to share his views on Islamic extremism. Anti-fascist group Hope not Hate successfully petitioned the Home Secretary to have Jones banned from entering the UK.[5][6]

A Dove World congregation also held a protest against the building of Park51.[7]

Contents

History and organization

The Dove World Outreach Center was founded in 1985 by Donald O. Northrup, his wife Delores,[8][9] and co-pastor Richard H. Wright.[10] The church was initially a branch of the now defunct Maranatha Campus Ministries. Northrup remained with Dove World from its inception until he died in 1996.[8] Dennis Watson then took over as pastor,[11] with Northrop's wife, Dolores, continuing as Woman's Pastor until 2004.[8] Between 2001 and 2008, Jones and his wife served as the part-time pastors of the Florida church, and as heads of a church in Cologne, Germany;[11] by 2004 they were senior part-time pastors of Dove World, shuttling back and forth to Germany.[12] Jones assumed full-time duties at Dove World in 2008 after his German church was closed. Delores Northrup subsequently left Dove World, telling a reporter who contacted her regarding Jones' 2010 proposed Koran burning, "I was not happy with the program. I think this is completely wrong".[9]

In 2004, when Jones took over as senior pastor of Dove World, it had approximately 100 members;[11] by September 2010 it was said to have 50 members,[13] with about 30 members reportedly attending services.[11] As of September 2010, Wayne Sapp was serving as assistant pastor, with Jones' son serving as youth minister. Associate pastors are ordained within the church by other pastors, with no classes or specific qualifications required.[11]

The church sells t-shirts, caps, mugs, books and other items entitled with "Islam is of the devil".[14]

Terry Jones was invited to a rally in Luton in February 2011 to share his views on Islamic extremism. Anti-fascist group Hope not Hate successfully petitioned the Home Secretary to have Jones banned from entering the UK.[15][16]

Buildings and property

In addition to the church, the Dove World Outreach Center maintains an unaccredited boarding school, called the "Dove World Outreach Academy".[11] According to the Gainesville Sun, the academy has a bootcamp-like atmosphere.[11] Students are prohibited from outside and family contact, including attendance at family weddings and funerals. They reportedly work without compensation, selling, packing, and shipping furniture for TS and Company, a business owned by Sylvia Jones.[17] Tuition for the six-month semester is $500.[11] The church maintains a partial tax exemption for its non-profit activities, but has been assessed some $3100 per year in property taxes[9] for using a portion of its property to conduct a for-profit business, TS and Company, which sells donated furniture on eBay.[9][18]

Jones told the New York Times in September 2010 that following his July 2010 announcement of the book-burning event, the bank which holds a $140,000 mortgage loan on the church demanded immediate repayment of the balance and Jones had his property insurance canceled.[19] The church campus is currently on the market, with the asking price reduced from $2.9 million to $1.1 million.[20]

Pastors

Pastor Terry Jones

Jones is a native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri and was born in October 1951.[11] He graduated from Cape Girardeau's Central High School in 1969 and was a classmate of Rush Limbaugh.[11] He then attended Southeast Missouri State University for two years. Jones received no academic degree in theology but was given an honorary degree from the unaccredited California Graduate School of Theology in 1983, which now seeks to disassociate itself from him.[11]

Jones worked as an assistant hotel manager in the late 1970s, then he became an assistant pastor with Maranatha Campus Ministries in Kentucky.[11] He went to Cologne with his first wife (who is now deceased) to work as a missionary [11] and founded the CGK in 1981, with that church growing to as many as 1,000 members over the years.

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Jones came to lead the Florida church by way of his association with the Marantha Campus Ministries. Jones founded and led the Christliche Gemeinde Köln (CGK), a church in Cologne, Germany in 1981 [17][22] initially as a branch of the Maranatha Campus Ministries and a sister church to Dove World. In 2002, Jones was fined $3800 by a Cologne court for falsely using the title "doctor" when all he had was an honorary degree from an unaccredited school.[23] According to the German Evangelical Alliance, Jones was released from the leadership of the Christliche Gemeinde Köln in 2008 due to his indefensible theological statements and his craving for attention.[24] The Gainesville Sun reported that he left the church in Germany after being accused of fraud.[11] A leader of the Cologne church said that Jones, "didn't project the biblical values and Christianity, but always made himself the center of everything." German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur reported that church members said Jones ran the Cologne church like a sect leader and used psychological pressure on members, “subordinating all activities to his will.”[25] Following Jones' departure, the CGK closed,[17] then reopened under new, independent, leadership.

Anti-gay & other activities

The Dove World Outreach Center is considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, first making the list for its anti-gay activities.[1] In March 2010, Dove World posted a video which decried the possibility of an openly-gay mayor of Gainsville, and a lawn sign saying, "No Homo Mayor". The church changed the sign to simply read "No Homo" after Americans United requested the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the sign as an undue participation of a tax-exempt church in the political process.[26][27]

In April 2010 church members participated in a joint protest against homosexuality with the Westboro Baptist Church, a group known for disrupting the funerals of U.S. soldiers.[28] Church member Fran Ingram posted an article on the church's website affirming the church's endorsements of the Westboro Baptist Church's protests against homosexuality but stated that "[w]e do not agree with all of Westboro's methods".[29]

No Homo Mayor

Gainesville mayor Craig Lowe was subjected to a week-long fringe[30] demonstration with signs reading "No Homo Mayor". During mayor run-off elections against Don Marsh, Lowe and his staff were harassed for their progressive views by pastor Wayne Sapp, with fliers, mailers and online slurs.[31]

Terry Jones has also rallied against abortion in the past.[32]

Anti-Islam activities

Lawn signs and t-shirts

In 2009, Dove World posted a lawn sign which stated in large red letters "Islam is of the Devil", (and which later became the title of a book published by Jones in 2010).[33][34] The signs drew protests and picketing by local activists and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).[33] CAIR responded to another sign which read, "Koran 9:5 Kill the disbelievers wherever you find them."[35][36] saying the quote was out of context, and aimed at antagonizing Muslims.[36]

In August 2009, several children of church members went to their public schools wearing t-shirts reading "Islam is of the Devil" on the back and were sent home for violating the school district's dress code. The ACLU challenged the constitutionality of policies or practices which permit school administrators to ban any messages on clothing which they find “offensive to others” and which permit school administrators to allow messages which they determine to be “positive” while banning messages they determine to be “negative.”[37] According the Dove World Outreach Center's web site the school is now permitting only plain or blank T-Shirts to be worn by students.[38] Legal experts said the policy was likely legal and did not violate the First Amendment. Jones said he had had the t-shirts printed by an internet company because local companies did not have the "guts" to print them.[39]

2010 "International Burn a Koran Day"

Main article: 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy

The church espoused anti-Islamic view on its lawn and in Jones' YouTube videos for about one year [11] before the July 2010 announcement that on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks it would hold an "International Burn a Koran Day", during which church members would burn hundreds of copies of the Qur'an.[40] Even though Jones has admitted that he has not read the Koran, he defended the plans saying the Koran is "full of lies".[11][19] As the media began to carry the stories about the planned event, threats, protests and condemnations began.[11]

The Gainesville fire department refused to grant the church a burning permit, stating that open burning of books is not allowed in the city due to fire hazard.[41]

Jones attracted thousands of fans and critics on Facebook and said he regularly received death threats after the event was announced.[19][42] The American Muslim Association of North America condemned the threats against Jones.[43] The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemned all forms of extremism, stating that it is "never a true reflection of the religion."[44][45]

On September 8, 2010, Rackspace, the provider of hosting service to Dove World Outreach website, pulled the plug on the site, citing violation of their terms of use policy.[46] A spokesman for Rackspace told CNN that the shut down was not "a constitutional issue", it was "a contract issue".[47] As of April 3, 2011 the organization's website is operational. A whois lookup indicates that it is registered with GoDaddy.com by one David Ingram of TS and Company.[48]

Criticism

Reactions were widespread ranging from the local level to the international and were largely negative. A sampling of these reactions follows.

Twenty local religious leaders gathered Thursday, September 2, 2010, to call for citizens to rally around Muslims.[49] The Gainsville Interfaith Forum's request for the declaration of September 11 as "Interfaith Solidarity Day" was honored by Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe.[50] and The Forum scheduled a "Gathering for Peace, Understanding and Hope" for the day before the planned burning.[51]

President Barack Obama,[52] called the planned burnings "a recruitment bonanza for Al Qaeda" that could result in serious violence against American troops.[52] David Petraeus, U.S. forces general in Afghanistan, stated that it could endanger troops and the overall effort there[13] and said "it is precisely the kind of action the Taliban uses and could cause significant problems." [53] U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said "It is regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, with a church of no more than 50 people, can make this outrageous and distrustful, disgraceful plan and get the world's attention".[54] The U.S. embassy in Kabul issued a statement condemning the plans.[13] Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, criticized the plans stating "any type of activity like that that puts our troops in harm's way".[13]

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that the church's plans would violate NATO's "values" and may have a negative impact on the security of its soldiers.[13]

Sarah Palin said the burning would "feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appear as nothing more than mean-spirited religious intolerance."[55]

Other negative reaction and condemnation came from: the government of Canada,[56] the Anti-Defamation League,[57][58] Al-Azhar University,[59] the National Association of Evangelicals,[60] the German Evangelical Alliance,[24] the International Humanist and Ethical Union,[61] the Organisation of the Islamic Conference,[62] and many others.

Protests

Protests ensued against the proposed burning event:

  • On August 27, 2010, approximately 100 Indonesians protested outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.[63]
  • On September 4, 2010, Indonesians took to the streets to protest, with thousands, mostly Muslims, taking part in events across the country.[64] Rokhmat Labib, chairman of the Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir that organized the protests, called the planned book burning a provocation and predicted that Muslims would fight back should it take place. Lahib said that Muslims must not stay silent when their faith is threatened.[64] The Pluralism Care Movement, a multi-faith group asked for the U.S. government to prevent the burning and for Indonesia to show its tolerance for religious differences.[64]
  • On September 6, 2010, hundreds of Afghans had protested in Kabul against the planned Qur'an burning event, chanting "death to America" and throwing rocks at a passing military convoy. Military officials also expressed fears that the protests would spread to other cities. Military officers at the Pentagon consequently said they hoped the rare incursion into politics by a military commander would convince pastor Jones to cancel his plans. Jones said, "We are sure that [General Petraeus'] concerns are legitimate. [Nonetheless] [w]e must send a clear message to the radical element of Islam. We will no longer be controlled and dominated by their fears and threats."[53] By September 12, 2010, three Afghans were killed in protests over the Qur'an burning with incitement by the Taliban, anti-Afghan government, anti-American and anti-Jew sentiments contributing to the outrage, according to the New York Times.[65]

Outcome

In the wake of international condemnation and personal threats, Jones said he would not "back down because of fear."[9] After canceling,[66] then suspending the event in the days immediately preceding September 11, 2010, Jones ultimately said his church would not be carrying out the plan to burn the Korans and that he had attained the goal of exposing the fact that an element of Islam is "very dangerous and very radical".[2] At a press conference Jones said that he planned to move the church to St. Petersburg, Florida as soon as the Gainesville property was sold.[67]

An article dated April 2, 2011 indicates that a recent burning of a Muslim holy book at Dove World Outreach has fueled a second day of deadly violence half a world away in Afghanistan, where demonstrators set cars and shops ablaze Saturday in a riot that killed nine protesters, officials said.

Jones said he backed out of the burning because Imam Muhammad Musri deceived him by saying that the proposed ground zero mosque would be relocated.[68]

2011 "International Judge the Quran Day"

Main article: 2010 Qur'an-burning controversy#2011 burning of the Qur'an

After the pressure over the "Burn the Qu'ran" controversy had died down, Jones established a new organization, "Stand Up America Now". On March 20, 2011, Jones officiated as judge over a mock trial operated by SUAN [?] in which the Qu'ran was found "guilty" of a variety of crimes, including "murder, rape, deception, being responsible for terrorist activities all around the world"; over 30 people attended the event, including Ahmed Abaza and other converts from Islam to Christianity testifying against the book and Sheikh Imam Mohammed Hassan, a former candidate in the Sudanese presidential election, 2010 and current Texas-based Sunni cleric, serving as "defense attorney".[69] A copy was then ceremoniously soaked in kerosene for an hour and burned on a barbecue grill in a ceremony officiated by Wayne Sapp.

Response

At first, the response was minor compared to the previous September's "Burn the Qu'ran" episode. Ibrahim Hooper of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said that "Terry Jones had his 15 minutes of fame and we're not going to help him get another few minutes."[70]

Later, protests erupted in Pakistan where the Jamiat-e-Ulema-e-Islam organized a road blockage and burnings of effigies and American flags in the province of Sindh[71] and mobs proceeded to protest against the Punjab neighborhoods of Pakistani Christians.[72] The leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, Amir Hamza, announced a Rs 10 crore bounty for Jones' murder.[73]

The Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaee, condemned the burning and called for Jones' prosecution.[74]

On April 1, 2011 a mob, inflamed by a mosque sermon describing the burning of the Muslim holy book, attacked a United Nations compound in a northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan.[75] A mob of 1000 angry people attacked a U.N. compound. The attack resulted in the killing of Nepalese guards. According to Sherjan Durrani, a spokesman for the provincial police “four rioters had also been killed and that more than 100 others were injured in the outbreak of violence in the northern city, normally one of the calmer corners of Afghanistan.”

President Obama strongly condemned both the Quran burning, calling it an act of "extreme intolerance and bigotry", and the "outrageous" attacks by protesters, referring to them as "an affront to human decency and dignity." "No religion tolerates the slaughter and beheading of innocent people, and there is no justification for such a dishonorable and deplorable act."[76] U.S. legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, also condemned both the burning and the violence in reaction to it.[77]

Criticism

The church was strongly criticized by local religious and political figures in Florida for its stances against homosexuality and Islam. Gainesville Mayor Lowe referred to Dove World as a "tiny fringe group and an embarrassment to our community".[78] A Gainesville Interfaith Forum was established in November 2009 with participation from the University of Florida Hillel, Congregation Bnai Israel[79] and individual Muslim residents.

See also

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