on this shift. that s for sure. no, it really isn t. but i think we re all guilty. we all think that we eat healthier than we do and then you write it down and you think, once a week, i had a vegetable? with your pants these days, you don t have to worry about it. vanity sizing. good morning. i m rob nelson. i m vinita nair. after announces he would call off plans to burn the koren pastor jerry jones now says he s reconsidering. jones said he thought he had a deal, he would cancel his the burning of the koran if the imam would move the project to a new location. the imam now tells abc news there was never any deal. t.j. winick has been following it. reporter: the international police agency interpol had actually warned governments worldwide of an increased risk of terrorist attacks if the burning had gone forward. pastor terry jones announced he is calling off his 9/11 koran
the ostensible reason for burning the koran. i think in trying to get out of the box he was in, he tried to shift and do bait and switch and shift on to the mosque issue and so i think that s a little bit of at least a strategy of jones trying to put the onus back on imam rauf and say this is his issue, he has to deal with it when pastor jones was hijacking the nation with this ridiculous koran burning attempt. faiz shakir of think progress, recounting his conversation with the wife of the imam in new york, thanks for being with us on short notice. thank you. whether the florida pastor goes through with his pledge or not, the cliche of fahrenheit 451 coming to life has already sparked anti-american protests. in our fourth story, those demonstrations most notably in afghanistan and already an attempt by insurgents there to capitalize on it with anti-american pamphlets. also, the state department has issued a travel alert to americans traveling abroad.
can i have the question again, keith? are you concerned about the risk that s been increased no matter what happens or doesn t happen in florida over the weekend? like i said, to a certain extent yes. the reason being, you know, my son is over in afghanistan fighting to defend this country and defend our freedoms and defend the constitution and so this gentleman in florida that wants to burn the constitution i mean, burn the koran, you know, that s his choice under the first amendment. we re kind of conflicted here. we re fighting to defend the constitution yet people are upset about his right to burn the constitution. kind of conflicted there. as a former police officer, i ve operated under the concept of reasonableness and you know is this a reasonable thing at this time? i don t think so. has your son expressed to you either before this became an issue or since it s become an issue how fragile the sentiment
i did not think they were connected at all. i thought that he connected them clearly when he stepped out in front of the cameras but inside i told him those are two separate issues completely separate. and the issue of burning the koran is something that will trigger reaction across the muslim world and it is not congruent with his christian beliefs but the project in new york is something totally different. it is not breaking any law. it is in the constitutional rights of the muslim community of new york to do it. i told him my personal take on it that respecting the wishes of large number of americans who feel the controversy could be avoided by relocating the mosque, i said i m for that
destroy in florida. again, she said that she emphasized that the meeting was not planned for saturday but rather at a point in the future when people have had time to reflect on it. the last point she made was we do not want to take away from the solemn day of 9/11. that s why they don t want to meet on saturday. she said our center is not about 9/11. the koran is not about 9/11. we wish to commemorate 9/11 with prayers for the families of the victims. did the imam in orlando, did he call with an offer basically or how did this transpire? do you know the nature of the transaction supposedly involved here and how that happened? from what we understand imam musri called saying i m here talking to pastor jones and i want to give him something to try to negotiate this compromise. initially he said would you be willing to renegotiate the location of the center. she said no, of course not.