Reply #48: Those who will riot need to learn that their expectations are merely theirs.

[TexasObserver]

It makes no sense to calibrate our country so that it doesn't offend the most backward persons of some other country. They're free to have whatever rules they wish in their country about ownership and destruction of books, but they're not free to impose that point of view on us.

It's just a book, and no matter how offensive someone in the world may think it is, we should not change our approach to attempt to placate them. Anyone who can be offended by someone burning a book that belongs to the person burning the book should learn that their anger is their problem.

I suggest that those in Pakistan who want to get upset about something look all over their country and see the horrific repression their 7th century beliefs create. They treat their women like second class citizens and summarily execute homosexuals, among other oppressions.