A deranged Christian extremist in Florida, Terry Jones, burned a religious book and across the world an enraged Afghanistan crowd tore several innocent U.N. and police workers to bloody pieces.

There has been outcry from officials that these deaths were the – which it did last month with the most vicious intentions of denouncing Islam. So you’ve got one extreme religious group insulting, destroying a religious symbol, because in its eye the other is too extreme. Talk about calling the kettle black.

I’m not personally saying the church was justified in burning the Koran, but they absolutely have the right. You can burn the United States flag, the Bible, or the Constitution if you want and no one can do any thing about it. This is a free country, and you are free to express yourself even when it includes burning cultural, government or religious symbols in legitimate protest, for no reason at all or for a really offensive and stupid idea.

So after the church burned the Koran, thousands of people in Afghanistan, whose enflamed passions were fanned by Muslim religious extremists, stormed U.N. and Afghan police buildings in response, killing about 20 people in the name of Allah.

If Allah, or any God, would condone any such action, then I’d be more than happy to burn his book. Of course what the Bible, the Koran or any religious text really says depends almost exclusively on what the reader wants to see in it.