Anti-Koran Freak, The Early Years

Read the fascinating, bizarre and vaguely comic background of Pastor Terry Jones, the guy who wants to hold the Koran-burning festival down in Florida. Before he and his wife were expelled from Germany in 2008, he ran a charismatic church in Cologne for more than two decades. There he was in constant trouble for tax problems, accusations of being a cult, tragically failed faith healings. And it was there that he got increasingly involved in anti-Islamic rants. He also became the darling of Senate Republicans who claimed he was the victim of religious persecution in Germany. We’ve got the whole story here.