Suuuuch tender sensibilities. Such inner slime.

Professor Althouse gets it right:

That's exactly right, isn't it? We ought to care about what
religious persons regard as offensive, but we need also to support the right of individuals to speak even when it is offensive. And, of course, those who want us to care about the offense to their religious sensibilities ought to demonstrate their commitment to decent values. It's bad enough when they don't support free speech. (They should argue against the speech, not try to suppress it.) But when they descend into violence and threats of violence, they utterly surrender the high ground. The demands for respect that would have won many sympathetic supporters lose all effect in that ugly form.

"We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible." Ann Althouse, Althouse, 2/3/06.