The furour brought about by threatening to burn the koran has made it all the way to youtube as Thunderf00t has recently had to deal with assertions he is ‘bigot’ and endorses genocide for the nations of Islam.  Of course, he was misconstrued and most likely misunderstood by the people in question.  The key part of  Thunderf00t’s message is simply this: We cannot take a step back from our rights to free speech (a cornerstone of civilized society)when they  cause a violent reaction in the Islamic world.  It is they who have the erroneous expectation that they have the right to apply their religious laws to the rest of the world.  Once the centre of learning and advanced civilization the nations of Islam allowed the radical fundamentalists to plunge their world into a backward state of being resembling the Dark Ages (thank you christianity) of old.

When I rail against religion is precisely because of its threat to modernity and civilization.  Religious thought is antithetical to most human rights, free speech and progress.

Thunderf00t comes to similar conclusions in his video, but of course multi modally thanks to the wonder known as youtube.