To burn or not to burn?

How a Florida minister got it in his head that it would be a good idea to burn Qurans on the 9th anniversary of September 11th is beyond me.  But that is exactly what Terry Jones and his congregation has planned to do tomorrow evening.  The problem is that according to General David Petraeus and many other international organizations the burning of the Quran could cause widespread retaliation in the Muslim community. 
In the religion of Islam the Quran is considered the holy word of God and is to be treated with the utmost respect.  There are very few reasons why a Quran can be burned or buried and when a person handles the Quran they must be in the right state of mind.
So what could be the consequences of this scheduled burning?  Well according to high-ranking officials U.S. soldiers' lives could become endangered because of the backlash that this event would cause.  Members of the Muslim community have already begun to cry out their outrage over this issue.  Multiple people have warned that this could insight more extreme violence around the world.  Not only that but terrorist organizations could and probably will use this as a recruiting tool.  Our goal in the Middle East is not to wage a war on Islam but to bring peace to the region.  Pissing the Islamic people off by burning their sacred book is not going to help our cause.  Our soldiers are over there right now fighting for us.  They understand the consequences of what could happen because the retaliation would happen to them.  Mr. Jones would still be in Florida all safe and sound and would not even know what problems his actions caused for our men and women fighting.  He says that maybe we should stand up and fight, well what the hell does he think we are doing over there????  He would be just as outraged at the Muslim community is if they all got together and burned his holy book, so why does he think it would be so different if he burned theirs? 
September 11, 2001 was a day that every American will remember.  We lost many many people that day.  Yes it was a terrorist attack and yes they were Muslim, but that does not mean that all Muslims are like that.  Not all Muslims are extremists and as Americans we need to get that in our heads.  It would be like Muslims thinking that all Americans are extremists like Terry Jones down in Florida wanting to burn the Quran.  What's the point?  All it's going to do is anger people more.  We've been fighting too hard and too long to mess things up now.  Let's just all hope that Mr. Jones changes his mind in the next 24 hours.