The audience for Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer’s hate rally is really starting to get warmed up for the big event: Man burns Koran pages near Ground Zero.

A hate-filled protester was escorted away from the Ground Zero mosque site this morning after tearing apart a Koran and burning some of the pages — an early sign that the rancor was ramping up as numerous protests were set to begin.

The man, who refused to identify himself, walked up the corner of Murray and Church streets with a green Koran in his hands. Amid a crowd of protestors and media, he first tore a page from the holy book and tossed it into the air.

He then ripped a couple of more pages from the book and lit them on fire.

Some in the emotional, highly charged crowd milling around him shouted down the mystery man, who said little as police escorted him to safety a few blocks away.