Just ask yourself, how would you feel if it were legal to imply that your religion and your God is the devil and causes terrorism?
It
is legal to imply that my religion is evil, and I am perfectly fine with that. People don't get thrown in jail for criticizing Christianity, and that's a good thing. That's a sign of a free civilized society (i.e., not Iran or China or the USSR).
Hell, I
want people to criticize my religion. It's high time we brought deep, meaningful, intelligent debate back to the public square of this country. I want people to think about it and debate it and critically consider its pros and cons and think of it as serious assertions of truth, not as a nice story some people believe in just because they do and that we never talk about.
I would much rather have someone shout "I AM RIGHT AND YOU ARE WRONG" than hear another person say "Oh, well, it's right for you, I guess." I am making absolute claims that, if I am right, apply to all people. And even if criticisms of my religion do annoy me a bit at times, it is not the government's job to keep me from being offended. The government's job is to keep me from getting killed or wrongfully imprisoned and then stay out of my way. There is no reasonable comparison to be made between saying "I'm going to build a bomb in my basement and kill the president" and saying "I don't think your god exists."
I'm not going to try and "win" religious and philosophical debates by running to mommy government, who has no right to intervene in religion anyway.
Remember the last time when someone published a comic that connected Islam to terrorism?
Yeah. Some Muslims, mostly ones from theocratic dictatorships where it's already illegal to badmouth Islam, got mad, and some of them committed acts of terrorism. We should be allowed to make reasonable criticisms of religions, especially ones with a notable percentage of adherents who do stupid crap like that. Saying that we shouldn't say anything to imply, for example, that Islam is a violent religion because if we do we'll get killed by Muslims is not respect, it's cowardice. I will not patronize people of any religion, patting them on the head and saying "oh, isn't that a cute thought." If a religion says something is true that I think is false, I will seriously consider and analyze their claim with the respect it deserves, and that may well entail saying things about it they don't like.
And incidentally, are you trying to say there's not a connection between Islam and terrorism? Whether or not you believe it's an inherently violent religion (the case can be made), it is simple established fact that the people who flew planes into our buildings believed they were following their interpretation of to Koran in doing so. Can we not even say that anymore? What happened to America? Even though said cartoon was in Denmark.
The point of the government is to protect our rights, including our rights to life and freedom of speech. If there is a group of people threatening to kill us because of what we say, shouldn't it be the government's job to stop that group?
Stand up for your rights!!