Thank you Saltwyn, for stating that - we don't even have the entire interview, only a selectively inflammatory snip.

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I totally disagree. Yelling fire in a crowded theater causes those around you to panic and attempt to escape as quick as possible. It's understandable that a crowd might react with panic if they think they're in a burning building. Burning a Koran causes NOTHING unless you are aiming to argue that Muslims are so out of control that they can't be accepted to react rationally to criticism. If a guy burns a Koran in Mississippi and then a radical Islamist blows up a crowd of people in Europe you can't blame the dude in Mississippi. The radicals have to be held accountable for their own damn behavior. It is NOT reasonable at all to expect and accept that radicals will blow people up just on the rumor that someone is going to, may have, or might possible burn a book on the other side of the globe.

The only reason burning the Koran causes a knee-jerk reaction is because there are so many extremists and nutcases who believe in it.