One guy, a pastor of a 50-member congregation in Florida, plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. His actions will disgrace the memory of those whom died on September 11, and as Gen. David Petraeus warned, could put American military lives in danger and empower extremists. Also, it could cause al-Qaida jackasses to attack innocent Christians. This sickening wave of Islamophobia in America could weaken the bonds of civilization.

American religious leaders are condemning this anti-Muslim frenzy, which is gripping America, and have voiced their concern over the growing religious intolerance. On last night on the PBS News Hour program, the Reverend Richard Cizik, an evangelical Christian, and a member of a group of interfaith leaders who gathered yesterday in Washington to denounce what they see as creeping Islamophobia, said,  (Transcript) --

The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good: Those mainly conservative Christians who are responding to their Muslim brothers and sisters, their fellow Americans, with anti-Muslim bigotry or hatred, they are openly rejecting, you see, the First Amendment principles of religious liberty, which we, as evangelical Christians, benefit daily.

Watch out for so casually trampling on the religious liberty of others. You may be able to do that when you are the majority. But, if you undermine liberty for other people's children today, your own children may one day see their religious liberties deprived from them.

Earlier at the news conference of the religious leaders, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the archbishop emeritus of Washington, said, "Religious leaders cannot stand by in silence when things like this are happening." " Burning the Quran, "he warned, could be"'taken by some as the real story of America, and it is not."