the planned book burning event. lit feed the fire of caustic rhetoric and appears nothing more than mean spirited religious intolerance. don t feed that fire. and joining us now iszakaria fareed zakaria gps on sunday mornings. so why, fareed, is it that one pastor of a small congregation in florida can threaten to start burning a couple hundred copies of the koran and it can create a huge uproar endangering lives of u.s. military personnel? i think there are two things going on here, wolf. the first is that the koran is seen by muslims as the holy book, the word of god. it is seen as the unaltered word of god and it has a special significance beyond even something like the bible. there is a sense in which it is seen as the literal word of god.