In response to a fringe US pastor's call to burn the Muslim holy book on Saturday, Jordanian Muslims marched to a church in downtown Amman to plant flowers.

Zaid Al-Awedi, one of the organizers, said he came up with the idea to make two points, that Islam is a religion of love and forgiveness and as a reminder that a radical American pastor "represents only himself, not all Christians."
Al-Awedi's group, according to Jordanian media quoted by the Dubai-based Arabic-language TV network Al-Arabiya, laid a wreath and planted flowers at the Church of the Annunciation as a Muslim response to the since-cancelled event in the US state of Florida that has angered Muslims around the world.

Father Constantine Qarmash applauded the initiative on behalf of the Jordanian church and agreed with the Muslim volunteers that pastor Terry Jones, whose congregation numbers only a few dozen, "has malicious intentions and is not a Christian clergyman. Christianity is a religion that is based on love," he said.
Christians make up about six percent of Jordan's predominantly Muslim population.

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