A radio commentator here said the following, in a rather sarcastic tone:

"Since when has anything bad happened when people decide it is OK to burn books."

If the idiots in Florida go ahead, the following will happen:

1. Moslems in many countries will make big bonfires and burn copies of the New Testament.

2. There will be massive protests in Islamic countries, and they will put a price on the head of that pastor, just like they did with Salman Rushdie.

3. Al Qaida will come out and say "we told you so", referring to how "American imperialists hate Islam".

3. There will be an increase in terrorist attacks against both military and civilian targets both in the Middle East and elsewhere.

In the mantime that pastor will get more people into his church, which means more notoriety and more money for him. I doubt that his motives are fuelled by a "Christian" sentiment, or any real sense of loss after the tragedy of 911.

I wonder how Christian would feel if somebody did the same with the Bible. Say, a bunch of Communists decided to commemorate the birth of Karl Marx by burning the New Testament. The man who is trying to burn the Koran is either too selfish and too stupid to even realize what he is doing, or he is too destructive and wants to provoke Moslems.