I have a quiz for my fellow DUers... how many riots happen when a Bible is burned?

[Judi Lynn]

56. John Lennon said,at the beginning of Beatles' fame in the US that they were more popular than Christ

and the Christian fundies went postal, wild, foaming at the mouth. And that's a far cry from burning Bibles.

These drooling, red-faced idiots swarmed, stomped, waddled, staggered into parking lots of churches, grocery stores, etc., and burned Beatles records in bonfires.

More popular than Jesus

Angry reactions flared up in August 1966, after John Lennon's remark that The Beatles had become "more popular than Jesus" was quoted by the American teen magazine, Datebook. Lennon originally made the remark when an English newspaper reporter, Maureen Cleave, interviewed him at home for a series of articles on the lifestyles of the four individual Beatles. When published in the United Kingdom in March 1966, Lennon's words provoked no public reaction.

When Datebook quoted Lennon's comments five months later in August 1966, vociferous protests broke out in the southern United States. The Beatles' records were publicly burned, press conferences were cancelled and threats were made. The protest spread to other countries including Mexico, South Africa and Spain; there were anti-Beatles' demonstrations and their music was banned on radio stations. The controversy erupted on the eve of the group's US tour, and the anger and scale of the reaction led their manager, Brian Epstein, to consider cancelling the tour.

Two press conferences were held in the US, where both Epstein and then Lennon expressed their regret at words taken out of context and offence taken. Christian spokesmen pointed out that Lennon had only stated what the church was itself saying about the decline of Christianity. The US tour went ahead but there was disruption and intimidation, including picketing of concerts by the Ku Klux Klan, and at one concert the group mistakenly believed they were the target of gunfire. From the close of the 1966 tour until their break-up in 1970, they never played another commercial concert.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus

Odd you wouldn't realize this kind of behavior has happened in the U.S. already, and with more outrageous, hideous, tragic consequences than anything you're trying to hold up as an example of Islamic inferiority to good ol' U.S. Christianity.