Diana West: Demonizing Pastor Jones also means denigrating his rights

Another Sept. 11 is behind us, leaving something new and disturbing — a dark spawn to examine with plenty of careful soul-searching.

That legacy is the reflexive, lock-step process by which an American citizen, Terry Jones, was simultaneously depicted and denounced as a raving lunatic for even conceiving of his plan to burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of demonstrably Koran-inspired attacks.