<p>Jones said that "trial" of the holy Quran was held on Sunday by a jury of 12 church members and volunteers, with a Dallas Imam as a defence lawyer.<br /><br />"We had a court process. We tried to set it up as fair as possible, which you can imagine, of course, is very difficult," Jones told The USA Today.<br /><br />The punishment — burning the book after it had been soaked in kerosene for an hour — was determined from four choices on his organisation's Facebook page.<br /><br />The Muslim community in the United States has declined to respond to such an act by Jones and his small group of followers.<br /><br />"Terry Jones had his 15 minutes of fame and we're not going to help him get another few minutes," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.<br /><br />Jones, however, considered the burning of Quran as a one-time event and said that he had no plans to do it on a mass scale.</p>
<p>Jones said that "trial" of the holy Quran was held on Sunday by a jury of 12 church members and volunteers, with a Dallas Imam as a defence lawyer.<br /><br />"We had a court process. We tried to set it up as fair as possible, which you can imagine, of course, is very difficult," Jones told The USA Today.<br /><br />The punishment — burning the book after it had been soaked in kerosene for an hour — was determined from four choices on his organisation's Facebook page.<br /><br />The Muslim community in the United States has declined to respond to such an act by Jones and his small group of followers.<br /><br />"Terry Jones had his 15 minutes of fame and we're not going to help him get another few minutes," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.<br /><br />Jones, however, considered the burning of Quran as a one-time event and said that he had no plans to do it on a mass scale.</p>