A book is just a book, but an UN employee is a human being (excluding some corner cases). I fail to see how someone who could rage about a book being burned could even think of ignoring an eightfold murder, yet the whole discussion here is about the book, not about the other (in my eyes more important, but apparently I'm the only one) victims. I never said burning a Quaran could be justified, only that there seems to be a disproportional amount of attention to the inanimate victim as compared to the once living beings.
First of all, it's not just a book, it is a symbol of their faith. If it didn't have any symbolic value, those Christians wouldn't have had any reason to burn it, and the Afghanistani guys wouldn't have been offended enough to kill. Do not try to cheapen it's value by saying it's "just a book", as it obviously is not - you might as well write those eight UN workers of as "just animals" or "piles of carbon". They are more than that, in both cases, and we both know it.
Secondly, however, I will admit to not reading the link in the OP, and I had no idea there was people killed. And when you brought it up just now, I did not see the "responded" and thought it was some completely unrelated event. As you probably can understand, that puts your post in a rather different light.
I was going to put a "thirdly" here before I went to eat, but now I have forgotten what it was. Anyway, lastly, I mostly agree with you. And maybe you are right that the attention is disproportionate distributed. But let's not forget that those Christian fundamentalist and their childish, idiotic behaviour are also part of what caused those deaths. Hate begets hate, violence begets violence, and all that. And one of those causes are very much closer to home than the other.