Two reports – one from Florida, one from Kansas – add details to this story and change the venue for the expected Saturday crisis.

As previously reported in The Aquila Report, the Rev Terry Jones said Thursday that he was calling off the Qur’an burning event. He told reporters that he and his church are now against any other group that intends to burn Qurans.

“We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans,” the minister said during Thursday’s press conference. “We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.”

However the biggest news from Gainesville is that Jones told reporters he had received a guarantee from the Muslim group behind the proposed Islamic center and mosque in New York City that it would move the facility to a location other than the one near the World Trade Center site, as originally planned.

Jones plans to fly to New York to speak with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf about the move. “If it’s not moved, then I think Islam is a very poor example of religion,” he added.

While the commitment from the group behind Park51 could not be immediately verified, some media outlets reported that Jones and the leader of the effort had spoken earlier Thursday.

In a later story Thursday night, James Hart reports in the Kansas City Star On-Line edition that Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church plans to burn the Qur’an and an American flag on Sept. 11, though the exact time and location haven’t been determined, a church spokeswoman said.

The church’s spokeswoman, who is the pastor’s daughter and the church’s attorney, Shirley Phelps-Roper announced Westboro Baptist’s plan. She said they don’t think that pastor, Terry Jones, will carry out the burning. Westboro members burned a Qur’an two years ago in Washington, D.C.

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