ISP pulls burn Qu’ran church site
2010-09-09 18:43
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Gainesville - The small Florida church that has sparked global outrage with its plan to hold a Qu’ran burning event had its website pulled from the internet on Thursday by its host.
Dan Goodgame, a spokesperson for the San Antonio, Texas-based web hosting firm Rackspace, told AFP the evangelical Dove World Outreach Centre church had, "violated the Offensive Content section of its Acceptable Use policy".
The policy forbids content or links to material that is "excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence, or contains harassing content or hate speech; and creates a risk to a person's safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security, or interferes with a(n) investigation by law enforcement."
It was no longer possible to access the site www.doveworld.org, which up until Wednesday had contained information on the church and the anti-Islamic preachings of its firebrand pastor, Reverend Terry Jones.
Jones and his 50-strong congregation plan to burn 200 Qu’rans on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Goodgame said the company had received several complaints regarding the vitriol on the Dove World Outreach Centre's website, which included a link to buy Jones's book Islam is of the Devil.
"We have terminated them as a customer of Rackspace on Wednesday," he said.
"As a customer of Rackspace, they agree to adhere to the policy and they didn't."
Goodgame said officials from the web hosting firm had spoken with Jones on Wednesday afternoon and informed him that he had until midnight to migrate to another site after complaints about "hate speech".
"It was a fairly short conversation in which we reminded him of the accepted use policy," Goodgame said.
"He (Jones) said he intended to still post his anti-Islamic messages."
- SAPA