Date Posted: September 14, 2010

By Arsalan Iftikhar, Special to CNN

Editor's note: Arsalan Iftikhar is an international human rights lawyer, founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and legal fellow for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding in Washington, D.C.

Usually in America, when a lone crackpot of any political or religious persuasion threatens to commit a publicity stunt that will needlessly enrage millions of other innocent people, our basic common sense tells us that our national media should not even give that person the time of day.

Sadly, not only did Terry Jones successfully receive media attention, but because of the overexposure of this one man, we are beginning to see other "copycat" Quran burnings around the country.

Read the rest of Arsalan’s CNN column here: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/09/13/quran.case.roundup/index.html?hpt=C1