Still, the blockhead Barak was characteristically way out of line in calling the perpetrators “terrorists.” Hardly. Terrorists cause terror, hysterical fear, and this act of vandalism scared no one. Barak, remember, at the height of the Oslo madness was also a left-wing peacock preening his moral equivalence when he said that if he were a “Palestinian,” he would be a terrorist too. So what is this criticism of terrorism all about? There is a contradiction here.

He was also out of line in assuming Jews did this when the Arabs are perfectly capable, as in the alleged killing of the boy Mohammad ad-Dura, of staging such a deception to smear.

And no less in the realm of unacceptable, witless, even brainless behavior was that of Rabbi Shlomo Riskin of Efrat and Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein of Yeshivat Etzion who not only paid a kind of condolence call on the mosque, they came bearing replacement copies of the burnt Qur’ans.

I find this is just intolerable. It’s a fair bet that both of these learned rabbis have spent no time reading the Qur’an and discovering why Geert Wilders this very week is on trial in Holland for, inter alia, wanting to see the Qur’an banned like Mein Kampf.

The Qur’an is an abomination of a book, at the root of all the evil Muslims are wreaking in the world these days. It is an antisemitic book which no rabbi should ever be replacing. It is one thing to reject the behavior of such crude vandalism and quite another to replace these texts. If the target of these vandals had been a clubhouse of Nazis in which copies of Mein Kampf had been burnt, you just know these two otherwise estimable rabbis wouldn’t even think of replacing the damaged books with new ones….