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<i>What I do find ironic is a person claiming he is exercising his religious freedom by trying to prevent other people from exercising their religious freedom.</i> Burning a book he bought legally isn't preventing anyone from worshipping, that's ridiculous. It's when one religious group tries to force others to obey their religious beliefs that we hit problems. That can be when fundamentalist Christians try to force their views of relationships onto others by outlawing sodomy or interracial marriage or merely blocking gay marriage. It can be when Muslims demand that their hyperactive sensitivity to insults to their bible, prophet or faith must be followed by everyone. And here you are, saying that just because one group gets irrationally upset when someone disagrees with them, that we should try to assuage their hurt feelings. I think that's blackmail and I'm not buying it. We've learned that the right reaction to burning Harry Potter books or publishing caricatures of the Pope is to call them bigots and idiots, not to try to prevent other "insults". Muslims already have plenty of countries which prohibit religious insults and it doesn't take a political genius to see that they aren't bastions of these liberties you claim to support. You value freedom of speech & freedom of religion? Then the price is living in a society where everyone can be insulted and have their sacred books disrespected and I think an educated person like you should know that.