What happens when age-old crusading mentalities bump up against the saturation television and internet coverage characteristic of 21st century global media? Few could have guessed what followed when the plans of a lone pastor in Florida with a church of not more than 50 followers to burn copies of the Quran were broadcast worldwide. The threatened act of religious bigotry drew reactions from across the globe including from General David Petraeus, who commands US troops in Afghanistan, and who warned that the act, if carried out, endangered the lives of his men.
