Frankly, when there are threats of violence against something as trivial as destroying your own private property, you have the duty to go ahead in protest. Your freedoms cannot be held hostage, and others should not step down, interfere, or otherwise enable that hostage taking. That only proves that violence and the threats of violence work. It's the same reason we don't negotiate with (actual) terrorists and kidnappers: doing so turns such crimes into a profitable business model.
As it happens, I would not burn a book, burning is far too symbolic, too much like special treatment, which ridiculous religious reverence does not merit. Tossing it in a bin, followed by your dinner leftovers, that is far more apt. I would join it with any number of other religious texts, and indeed atheist books, just to reinforce the point that holding these items sacred is ridiculous. And when even that elicits a disproportional response? The lesson is that mobs of people will react with irrational freakish hysteria to the idea that other people don't believe as they do. But it is not my responsibility to tip-toe around, watching what I say or do and generally baby-sitting their feelings so to prevent them from being offended.
The problem isn't the desecrators. The problem is the people who have an unwarranted sense of privilege, that their beliefs will not be questioned or criticized, ever, by anyone. And when they are, the offended party is free to confirm to an awesome degree just how mad their beliefs are, with prolonged and excessive outrage. Or not. It is entirely up to them.
It's just a fucking book.
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