Do you remember the kook a few months ago who wanted nothing more than attention .. and attention he got! .. by threatening to burn the Quran? His name is Terry Jones of the World Dove Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida. This is more of a cult than a church. Back in September, he eventually did call off his Quran burning, but not after a swirling few weeks of media spotlight .. his 15 minutes of fame, if you will.

Nut-job Jones wasn't finished. On March 20th, he held a mock "trial" of the Quran and videotaped a burning ceremony. This video made its way around the Internet, all the way to Afghanistan's President Karzai, whose office issued a statement on the issue. At that point, Afghani Muslim radicals did just exactly what you can expect Muslims to do when they feel their wonderful, serene, peaceful religion has been dissed … they started killing to show how wonderful, serene and peaceful they are.

Over the weekend there were riots – more than 80 people were injured, nine Afghans and at least eight UN workers were killed (two of them beheaded). There were shootouts with Afghan security forces. Demonstrators chanted "Death to America" and "Death to the slaves of the infidels." In a Wall Street Journal article, a 25-year-old religious student who took part in the protests explained. They are killing our people here while in the U.S. they burn the Holy Quran. America just wants to humiliate the Muslim world."

Already we have had politicians in Washington reacting to the riots in Afghanistan. PrezBo described the Quran burning as "an act of extreme intolerance and bigotry." He's exactly right … Terry Jones is an ignorant bigot. In response to the riots he said, "to attack and kill innocent people in response is outrageous, and an affront to human decency and dignity." Obama is right there, as far as he went. He could have added "But this is exactly what Harry Reid is contemplating whether or not there needs to be hearings in Congress over the burnings. Harry just wants to be part of the story. There is no role for him or congress to play here. And Senator Lindsey Graham .. now get this .. he says that in light of the Quran burning, we may need to limit some forms of free speech. He says, "I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war." Don't you just love politicians who come up with the "free speech is OK …. but" line? That's the first step toward attacking our liberties.

Terry Jones is an ignoranus .. and there are no shortages of his type in the ranks of Christian demagogues. It is sad that he managed to get as much publicity as he did. But … are these deaths on his head? After all, you could have Muslims burning a copy of the Bible in Kabul and Christians wouldn't start killing people in Florida. Sure, there was a time in history when Christians were every bit as violent as Muslims are today; but we're living in 2011, not the 1480s in Spain. Islam in 2011 is a violent religion .. and the greater the numbers the more violent it gets.

By the way, here's a discussion that we will NOT entertain on the show today …. Whether burning the Koran is worse than burning the Bible. We'll leave that up to the moonbats at MSNBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoCo3WDj-hQ