Hasta La Gadget!

Religion tolerance is a powerful force–so is the lure of fabulous prizes. A car dealer in New Jersey made controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones an offer he apparently couldn’t refuse. In a radio spot for his dealership, Brad Benson offered Jones a new car if he went back on his plans to burn a Quran on the anniversary of the September 11th attack.

After much protest, Jones eventually canceled his controversial protest, stating, “We will definitely not burn the Quran… Not today, not ever.”

And now he wants his car.

A representative for the church called a surprised Benson, asking after the vehicle. “They said unless I was doing false advertising, they would like to arrange to pick up the car,” Benson to the Associated Press. Benson chalked the whole thing up to a joke, asking Jones to fax a copy of his license.

It wasn’t a joke.

Jones, it seems, actually had some fairly noble plans for the 2011 Hyundai Accent. “We are not trying to profit from this. We are not keeping the car for ourselves,” the pastor said in an interview. Instead, he plans to donate to a charity benefiting abused Muslim women.

Jones will ultimately have to go to the South Brunswick dealership to pick up the $14,200 car–he’ll have to sign all of the appropriate paperwork first.