I don't know. Sometimes I think it does some good to shake these people up. They think we are helpless against them because of our western ways...I don't know. I keep thinking about a recent post where Mulsims at an airport deliberately acted suspiciously so they could scream racism and allow some questionable 'friends' to get by security while security was tied up with them. If Muslims in this country thought their radical 'brothers' endangered them by their actions, they might turn them in more often.
I have no problem with "shaking them up". Frankly, I have no problem with deporting them or even killing them when directly warranted. But does this effigy-burning activity achieve "shaking them up"? I think not, in fact, exactly the opposite. Americans are Christians, Presbyterians, Jews, Baptists, Catholics, etc etc. Yes, and in exquisitely rare cases, even Muslims. We are divided in that sense; the obvious difference being, we in the overwhelming majority of cases respect (or at least ignore) each others' beliefs and religious practices. I think we in this country have to understand (and by "understand", I mean "be aware of", not "give credence to") the notion that these folks pray 5x a day to what is, to them, their unifying deity. They are therefore likely more unified than we will ever be, like it or not. To us, it is a venal sub-religion, probably better described as a cult; and seemingly ALL of the most murderous and vile wretches who mean to kill or harm us anywhere in the world are from this so-called faith. All I am saying is that to my way of thinking, it doesn't do us any good to drive them further into their "faith", which is what this type of thing IMO does. It shows that when given the opportunity, the freedom of speech we cherish over the repression universally present in every one of their native countries can degenerate into the same type of raucous horses**t that goes on in their own countries, many of which are truly miserable crapholes. So on that basis...I'd just as soon not have it happen. Please note that I'm absolutely not advocating kumbaya sessions and diversity training: that's THEIR job to fit in with US, just like it would be the job of ANY alien to fit in (or clash) with ANY culture they decided to transplant themselves to.