The estranged daughter of a Florida pastor who has threatened to burn copies of the Koran believes he has gone mad and needs help, she said in a German media interview conducted on Friday.

Emma Jones, the estranged daughter of Pastor Jones, told Spiegel Online she had e-mailed her father urging him to drop the plan to burn the Koran.

“As a daughter, I see the good-natured core inside him. But I think he needs help,” said Jones, who lives in Germany.

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“I think he has gone mad.”

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