In Afghanistan they were destroying old temples. In Israel they desecrated the burial grounds of biblical prophets. Those are more than symbols.
Those are symbols because they are actual locations.
You know, the Koran is considered by some to be a holy symbol, and yet the majority of people on this board (at least looks like that to me) want us to make Koran desecration a national priority
As if that is going to make terrorists throw down their arms or something. The way to make another 9/11 would happen would be if we started openly being hostile to Islam, because then we would be saying we actual consider this a holy war
In general, I come down on the side of very little regulation of what we do in our personal life, because each little inch you give government, they want a foot. Government is like AIDS, it spreads voraciously, it can't be killed, and it destroys you from the inside.
This being said, if a state government wants to ban flag burning, I'm all for it, but I don't want to give the federal government that kind of power, they have enough as it is.