The power of Abu Lahab will perish, and he will perish.
Abu Lahab will die and be plunged in flaming Fire. His wife will have on her neck a halter of palm fiber.
His wealth and gains will not exempt him.
He will be plunged in flaming Fire,
And his wife, the wood-carrier,
Will have upon her neck a halter of palm-fibre.

Is it as wrong to burn a person as it is to burn the Koran?

I think it is just as wrong to burn a person as it is to burn the Koran.

In fact, it might even be more wrong.

Although obviously I respect the right of Muslims to publish books saying certain people should be burned in Hell.

Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas.(NIV)

Of course, this was a public symbol of repentance and conversion, not a protest. New Christian converts threw their books (i.e., the ones they had been reading and following) into a pile and destroyed them to symbolize their decision to leave their former ways of life and adopt new ones. I highly doubt any members of the Dove World Outreach Center are Muslim. Rather, I think this saying something else. (btw – where are they getting the Qur’ans?)

That said, it’s still no excuse. However deplorable (and it is indeed deplorable), we cannot change the fact that Acts 19 says Christians burned books, just like we cannot change the fact that the Bible endorses slavery and subjugates women. Thankfully, 2000 years later, we have matured to a point to where we have abolished slavery, women have the right to vote, and we don’t burn books. In fact, I can only really think of one place where segregation, subjugation of women, and book burning is still practiced. Can you?

Paul the apostle’s preaching was accepted and the
sorcerers voluntarily burnt a massive load of books.

He’s not even a spoon.