So many good comments, so many intelligent responses! We Pajama readers should be proud of ourselves. Seriously. One thing I will say. I like book burning no more than anyone else. But I question the premise of Petraeus’s resonse. The jihadists/Islamofascists/Muslim extremists (you pick your preferred term) do what they do. If we go along with the whole “if you do X, then we will do something really nasty to you or yours” premise, THEN WE ARE LIKE THE FAMILIES OF KIDNAP VICTIMS WAITING BY THE PHONE! THEY CONTROL US! Then if they do something really nasty, the world will just shrug its collective shoulders and say “What can you expect? The Americans did X, so it is only natural that Muslims blew up an airplane.” Just normal stuff?? NO WAY. THIS IS PERVERTED. WE CANNOT GET TO THE POINT WHERE THIS IS CONSIDERED NORMAL. There is no way in hell you can equate, say, burning a book and blowing up an airplane. The reason we are fighting them in Afganistan (and more covertly in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia etc) is because they act this way. When the mullahs declared a fatwa on Salmon Rushdie for his “blasphemous” book, we all should have bought copies. When Muslims boycotted the Danish company Lego and attacked Danish consulates throughout the Middle East, we ALL should have bought Legos and taken to wearing t-shirts with the Mohammed cartoon on it in solidarity. Just as the Danes all took to wearing Stars of David when the Nazis made Danish Jews wear them. Although I hate the ‘book burning’ part of Rev Jones “stunt” (to use Obama’s word), I applaud his impulse to protest pro-Islam political correctness and to push back against the incursions of an unenlightened religion. We need to get comfortable saying outloud and in public that we have problems with many of the tenets of Islam. We need to find adult ways to push back and also to support people who are attacked. Keeping our “doubts” to ourselves will only let things get worse.