Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses weighed in too.

That and there aren’t very many Christian groups actively participating in terrorist activities to force compliance with their wishes…

And intend to agree with you CT, that God is a big boy, and He can take care of any slights to Him and His own, I am not necessarily going to do much with my puny mortal self…

However, none of the Christian groups threatened violence against the film maker. The response to these non-violent Christian protests was to accuse them of attempted censorship, and the industry rallied behind the film makers in defense of “free speech” and “artistic expression”, etc.

On the other hand, Random House cravenly abandoned “free speech” and “artistic expression” in the face of criticism from certain followers of “the religion of peace”.

Personally, I think that those groups of Muslims and Christians who protest these perceived blasphemies should heed the advice of Gideon’s father to his townspeople and let God protect His interests (Judges 6:25-31):

That same night the Lord said to [Gideon], “Take the second bull from your father’s herd, the one seven years old. Tear down your rather’s altar to Baal and cut down the Asherah pole beside it. Then build a proper kind of altar to the Lord your God on top of this height…

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the men of the town, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.

In the morning, when the men of the town got up, there was Baal’s altar, demolished, with the Asherah beside it cut down and the second bull sacrificed on the newly build altar.

They asked each other, “Who did this?”. When they carefully investigated, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

The men of the town demanded of Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has broken down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

But Joash replied to the hostile crowd around him, “Are you going to plead Baal’s cause? Are you trying to save him? Whoever fights for him shall be put to death by morning! If Baal really is a god, he can defend himself when someone breaks down his altar.”

Nonetheless, I do find this self-censorship of perceived criticism of Islam concurrently with promotion of attacks on traditional Christian beliefs to represent a disturbing double standard, which has disturbing implications for the future of Western democratic values of free speech and vigorous public debate.