After an outpouring of condemnations from a multitude of diverse groups both inside and outside of the United States, a Florida pastor suspended his plan to burn copies of the Qur’an at his Gainesville, Florida church on Thursday, September 9.

Pastor Terry Jones of The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida says he will burn copies of the Qur’an on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Pastor Terry Jones said that the his original decision to cancel the event was part of a deal with Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf to move his planned Cordoba Islamic Community Center to a different location than the planned one a few blocks away from Ground Zero in New York City, but a statement from SoHo Properties, the project’s developer, said that there are no plans to move the center. Jones then said the plans were suspended for the time being.

The White House was considering placing a call to Jones urging him to stop the burning, which President Barack Obama condemned and called a “stunt.”

Obama also said “Burning the Qur’an is contrary to our values−this country was built on the notions of religious freedom and tolerance” through an online Twitter post.

Others coming out against the event included the Vatican, which said on Wednesday that the Qur’an-burning would be “an outrageous and grave gesture.”

The United Nations called the planned burning an “abhorrent” act,  and others who condemned it included UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Former U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John McCain of Arizona, and Pentagon officials including U.S. Afghan war commander Gen. David Petraeus.

Petraeus  said that the planned burning of the Qur’an could be a propaganda coup for the Taliban in Afghanistan to stoke increased anti-U.S. sentiment across the Muslim world.

In addition, the leader of the world’s biggest Muslim nation Thursday joined growing international condemnation of a planned Qur’an burning ceremony and urged President Barack Obama to personally intervene to stop it.

Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono wrote to Obama to express his fears that if the burning went ahead, efforts by both countries to build a bridge between the Western world and Islam “would be useless.”

“There is a deep concern over the planned Qur’an burning ceremony as it could spark conflict among religions,” his spokesman said.

Florida’s Dove World Outreach Center was planning to burn copies of the Qur’an on Saturday’s anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York.

The 50-member congregation’s Facebook page shows the motto “Islam is of the Devil.”

In addition, Reverend Bob Old of Springfield, Tennessee said he plans to burn a copy of the Qur’an before posting a video online.

The nation of India called on the U.S. authorities to take “strong action” and for Indian media to impose a blackout on images of the planned Florida event.

“While we await the actions of the U.S. authorities we appeal to the media, both print and visual media, to refrain from telecasting visuals or publishing photographs of this deplorable act,” Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram said.

India has the world’s third-largest Muslim population after Indonesia and Pakistan.

In France, home to Europe’s biggest Muslim community, Paris Grand Mosque rector Dalil Boubakeur called on fellow Muslims “not to succumb to provocation, and to respond wisely by expressing their compassion” in reaction to the plan.

Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, who sparked Muslim outrage in 2006 with a drawing of the Prophet Mohammed, told German media that satire like his was “provocation. Provocation should lead to reflection, to enlightenment, to knowledge. In this case, this is really not the case.”

Canada’s government said the torching plan “flames intolerance” and could incite violence against Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

Malaysia branded it a “heinous” act that represented an attack on Muslims, and joined calls on Washington to stop it from going ahead.

“There is no doubt whatsoever that it is an attack on Muslims, it will not only anger the Muslims in Malaysia and throughout the world,” Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said.