Yesterday, radical anti-Islam pastor Terry Jones was arrested while transporting nearly three thousand copies of the Koran that had been soaked in kerosene which he intended to burn in protest of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Jones was charged with illegally carrying a firearm and unlawful conveyance of fuel and the latter charge struck Bryan Fischer as laughable as he defended Jones’ right to burn the Koran on his radio program today, saying that using this sort of trumped-up charge to stop him “is really no different than what the Pharisees did to Jesus.”
“They had to find some kind of trumped up charge,” Fischer said, “in order to accuse him and convict him before the Sanhedrin; they tried to suborn testimony, they couldn’t even get these counter-witnesses, these false witnesses to agree with each other but that was what they were trying to do, find some kind of trumped-up charge to get him in trouble. So that’s what they did with Terry Jones”:
