Reviled Florida pastor Terry Jones has upset legions of unemployed Brits by burning OK! magazine as preparation for his burning of the Koran. The pastor, who claims that he only discovered fire two weeks ago, has been “warming up” for his incendiary celebration of mong-dom by burning a variety of lesser publications.
“The Koran is dang hard to burn,” said Jones at his Florida ranch yesterday. “I mean, this is one heck of a heavy book. It’s hard-back, it has stitching, and a special kind of paper that I ain’t never seen before. You’re going to need some pretty dang good incendiary experience here, and I ain’t got that. I only discovered fire two weeks ago when I went out into the woods and rubbed a couple of sticks together. I said to myself then and I say to myself now, I ain’t never seen anythin’ like it, so I said – hey man, I could use this to destroy that Muslim book, the Ko-whatsit.”
Jones returned from the forest and started small, burning pages from the phone directory one by one. However, it was his admission that he had burned a copy of OK! magazine that has riled the British public.
“It’s not just any copy of OK! magazine”, ranted regular OK! reader Sharleennee Spitrash, from Essex. “It was the one wiv Jordan and Peter Andre on the front cover about how they is maybe gettin’ back together or something, and they had a well good special on how some celebs have too much cellulite or something. This Florida guy is deliberately taunting us. Apparently he burned each page individually, starting with the story about Cheryl Cole getting out of a car and flashing her knickers, and finishing with the one about Gok Wan’s ‘man bangers’.”
“This stuff is too important to burn,” she spat. “He has no idea how important it is to us.”
Hundreds have joined in marches to protest against the burning of OK! magazine, with one demonstration in Blackburn getting out of hand when an effigy of Terry Jones was set alight and trampled upon by Burberry-clad OK! readers brandishing “the holy magazine”, and holding aloft banners that read “Kill da paster OK!”
Jones himself though is unrepentant: “These people have to realise that the ultimate aim is the burning of this Muslim book, the Ko-thingummyjig. So if a few magazines get burned along the way, we have to look at the big picture. Only yesterday I angered three elderly people by burning Reader’s Digest – but these are hard times, and we have to endure. Magazines and books will get burned along the path to religious righteousness.”