While politeness might cause me to not take actions that unnecessarily cause offense, ultimately there is no "right" to not be offended, nor should there be. Dealing with offensive people and situations without pulling out a gun, or calling the police to do likewise, is a sign of emotional and cultural maturity.
While it's easy to point at the over-sensitive Muslims in this story, there are any number of Christians who are just as thin-skinned over their own sacred cows (or equivalent). And some of those groups have similarly sought to make "disrespect" of religion in general (and theirs in particular) illegal. #ddtb
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UK student threatened with expulsion over Mohammed cartoon | Blag Hag
It's not just that it happened away from school. As I understand it, some people threatening him are his own classmates. But rather than protecting him from them, the school seems to be blaming hi…