Terry Jones

Who is Terry Jones?

Terry Jones is the pastor of Dove World Outreach Center, a small nondenominational Christian church located, until July 2013, in Gainesville, Florida. He is the President of a political group, Stand Up America Now. He first gained national and international attention in 2010 for his plan to burn Qur'ans, the scripture of the Islamic religion, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

He was a self-declared independent presidential candidate in the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, and is listed as a candidate for the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.

In 2011, he was listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as one of 10 people in the United States' "Anti-Muslim Inner Circle".