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As some of us suspected, the pastor behind the \u201cBurn a Qur\u2019an Day\u201d event cancelled it on the understanding that he could\u00a0in so doing\u00a0secure\u00a0the relocation of Park51\/Cordoba House. <\/p>\n

And since he seems to have been misinformed about that, he may now go ahead with the burning<\/a>. And so as of this time, there is no news one way or the other<\/a>, as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

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As some of us suspected, the pastor behind the \u201cBurn a Qur\u2019an Day\u201d event cancelled it on the understanding that he could\u00a0in so doing\u00a0secure\u00a0the relocation of Park51\/Cordoba House. And since he seems to have been misinformed about that, he may now go ahead with the burning. And so as of this time, there is no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBreaking Non-News? 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