Terry Jones led a cult in Germany

We are learning much more about the crazy pastor in Florida who has created a world-wide uproar by threatening to burn the Koran on Sept. 11.  It turns out that Terry Jones is well known to German authorities since for 20 years he led a "Christian" sect in a working class neighborhood of Cologne:

In the United States, Jones has already attracted attention on
several occasions as an Islamophobic provocateur. What is less well
known is that the pastor led a charismatic evangelical church, the
Christian Community of Cologne, in the western German city up until
2009. Last year, however, the members of the congregation kicked
founder Jones out, because of his radicalism. One of the church's
current leaders, Stephan Baar, also told the German news agency DPA
that there had been suspicions of financial irregularities in the
church surrounding Jones.

A "climate of fear and control" had previously prevailed in the
congregation, says one former member of the church who does not want to
be named. Instead of free expression, "blind obedience" was demanded,
he says.

Jones' daughter still lives in the Rhineland region and has this to say about her father:

Jones' daughter, Emma Jones, who still lives in Germany, was one of
those accusing her father and stepmother of wrongdoing. Emma Jones had
broken with the church, calling it a "cult" that "forced us with
oppression to be obedient."

"They used mental violence. They'd say, 'If you're not obedient, God will punish you,' " Emma Jones told The Gainesville Sun.
Other former church members in Florida and Germany also described Jones' style as abusive and cult-like.

In Cologne, Terry Jones preached hatred of Muslims and Gays and encouraged his followers to beat their children. The city of Cologne itself, Jones preached, was the "gate to Hell."  The German members of Terry Jones' "church" finally had the good sense to send him packing.  Back in the US, Jones was viewed as something of a hero by leaders of the Republican Party – a poster-boy for "Germany's persecution of Christians."  Still, Pastor Jones only managed to find a handful of followers and would have faded into obscurity if GOP leaders such as Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin hadn't created an atmosphere of anti-Muslim hysteria in the US.

Terry Jones' former followers in Cologne have renounced him completely, but the crazy pastor still has some fans in Germany.  The right-wing hate blog Politically Incorrect sees him as a hero, and endorses the logic of burning the Koran:

…der Koran als Leitfaden des Menschenhasses, der Unfreiheit und
Unterdrückung (darf) natürlich verbrannt werden, weil jeder Koran weniger dazu
beiträgt, die Welt zu einem besseren Ort zu machen.

(Of course the Koran should be burned since it is a guideline for hate, bondage and oppression, and each Koran that is destroyed makes the world a better place.)