13 months after he set parts of the Middle East aflame in anger by doing the same thing. Pentagon officials asked Terry Jones (photo) not to light up any more Qorans for fear it would prompt attacks on US troops in Afghanistan, but he ignored those pleas. This time, Jones said he was burning Qorans to protest the imprisonment in Iran of Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who has been threatened with execution. In addition to the Qoran, Jones also burned a depiction of the Prophet Mohammad; Jones obviously didn’t understand that pictures of the prophet are frowned upon in the Muslim world and would be burned there as well. After the incineration, the fire department in Gainesville, Florida, issued a citation for violating the city ordinance against open fires. City officials have said that is all they can do legally. In Tehran, the Foreign Ministry condemned the burning, calling it “insulting and provocative,” and urged the United States to apologize. The Fars news agency reported: “Qoran burning and sacrilege of Islamic values has become a commonplace move by Americans in recent years, while the opposite has never happened and Muslims have never desecrated the values of Judaism, Christianity and other divine religions.”