[WikiEN-l] "I want to at least kill the responsible person."

[James Farrar]

On 04/02/2008, Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think we have to take at face value a lot of the plaintive comments
> in the petition -- "we are people too", etc.  Whoever *started* the
> petition was probably trying to rouse a crowd, but the *signatories*
> seem mostly to think that the depiction of mohammad is a deliberate
> insult aimed at them.

If they're going to be that irrational, why should we pander to them?

Appeasement is never good, it almost invariably leads to further demands.