Leveraging your freedoms to its maximum extent, even to the grave offense of others, is not protecting it I disagree, this is the only way to test the limits o

Leveraging your freedoms to its maximum extent, even to the grave offense of others, is not protecting it I disagree, this is the only way to test the limits of our rights. Our freedoms are defined everyday by circumstances beyond what the law states. EDMD is a reaction to the self-censorship of the mainstream media. It's a reaction to a debate, one which has terms of discourse dictated by one side via fear. When a cartoon is so controversial someone gets killed, the public needs to understand the reason, context, and history. This cannot happen without free debate. Censoring the offending image is the anti-thesis of informative journalism. I don't think this issue has much to do with Islam proper, it's more a chastisement of the American media. Burning an American flag would be a good parallel, another sacred cow gets slaughtered. If you can't recognize the underlying symbology of course it seems pointless and provocative.