Pastor Terry Jones Speaks!

And while the underlying message is less ignorant than normal, the speech is lacking in both coherence and eloquence. Let's take a look:

[First words inaudible]...

Best part of the speech.

...what would have to happen for us to call our event off. As we prayed about that, in the past we did have one idea.

I'm guessing it wasn't having pretty much the whole world opposing your event...

This idea we put out in prayer to God. That if he would want us to call this off, if we have accomplished our goal, then our thought was the American people do not as a whole want the mosque at the Ground Zero location.

The American people do not exist as a whole. Don't attempt to force homogeneity on one of the most diverse nations in the world.

That if they were willing to either cancel the mosque at the Ground Zero location, or if they were willing to move it away from that location, we would consider that sign from God.

So God doesn't so much move in mysterious ways - he is actually full-on fucking obscurantist. He talks to rednecks on Florida through the mouthpiece of Muslims in New York - and said Muslims aren't even talking about the same thing as Jones and his idiotic ilk. Yep, this may be a sign from God, but even if it is a sign from a fictional deity, it remains very open to interpretation.

We have, or he has [indicating Iman Muhammad Musri, standing beside him], been in contact with the imam in New York City.

I, with the imam here, will be flying up there on Saturday to meet the imam at the Ground Zero mosque.

Has the Ground Zero mosque actually been built yet? Or is Pastor Jones so delusional that he thinks he's going to meet people at a place that hasn't even been built yet?

And, by the way, the proposed mosque isn't on Ground Zero. By all means go there, Jones, but you're going to be a couple of blocks away from where you need to be.

He has agreed to move the location. That of course cannot happen overnight. But he has agreed to move that.

Except reports say that those behind the mosque haven't agreed to move the location.

We felt that that would be a sign that God would want us to do it.

Like a transatlantic mobile phone call, the coherence of Pastor Jones's statement is starting to become garbled, incoherent, and not worth going on with.

The American people do not want the mosque there.

Well, some American people don't want the mosque there. Others do. Like the people building the fucking thing two blocks away.

And of course Muslims do not want us to burn the Koran.

Which is precisely why you said you would do it, you antagonist, fundamentalist little twat.

The imam has agreed to move the mosque. We have agreed to cancel our event on Saturday.

Again, the first half of this sentence may well not be true. But hey, if delusion has got Pastor Jones to cancel his little book burning, then so be it. After all, it was the delusional belief in an ersatz God that created it the idea of a book burning in the first place.

And on Saturday I will be flying up there to meet with him.

Good. Enjoy New York. Take in a show, have a hot dog. And enjoy the celebrity while you can. Because hopefully you, Pastor Jones, are about to disappear from the public eye forever.