It's funny the value people will place on silly things like paper. It will be interesting to see how YouTube (Google) will handle the Draw Muhammad Day. I assume they will do the right thing—which is nothing—in the spirit of freedom of speech.
Which is more offensive?
A). Burning a book
B). Large scale violence/murder for burning a book.
The problem here is that some people learn that violence is the way to deal with those they disagree with. To give into their threats of violence over and over again will cause them to impose themselves more and more onto our way of life (which they disagree with). Many people are trying to be peace-keepers, when in reality they are nurturing this sort of behavior by not condemning it (i.e. they are causing the perpetuation of violence). We should never condone this violence by not condemning it. They need to learn that the reason we protest by drawing their prophet (which is silly when thought about) and burning certain books is because of their violent reactions. Imagine if it were the other way around. What if people overseas were drawing Jesus—causing Christians to flip out by cutting people's heads off and burning effigies in the street?
Here are two common sayings that I think speak volumes here..
"If you give them an inch, they will take a mile"
"The squeaky wheel gets the oil"
Oh, and by the way, isn't idolatry a sin for Muslims? Why do they idolize a prophet and a book? Me thinks Allah might be a little pissed (just kidding, a word cannot be pissed).
Great job: "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. " ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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