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This is about making people aware that ideas do not get special protection just because they are people's beliefs, and the only reason those ideas even need protection is because they're mad.
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So the ideas are mad because they're not the same as yours? This is what you're saying?
Also, it is not the ideas that need protection, it is the people who need respect.
I'm not saying I believe the religious should respond to offensive behaviour toward their beliefs with threats of violence. In my opinion, this guy - assuming the story is true, ohmygosh terrorists threaten creators of popular TV show - is totally fucked-up.
But how does it help anyone, anyone at all, to poke fun at the beliefs of people who are totally sane, just because you don't believe the same thing as them?
It doesn't help anyone, and even if it did that doesn't make it necessary.
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The other issue is that of free speech. We have to make it clear that threats of violence, actual violence or legal action as opposed to meeting on the intellectual battlefield is not a valid tactic, will not cause us to cow away from our rights and views in fear and will lead to a massive backfire.
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So you think drawing stupid cartoons of someone that millions of people love and believe in is, as opposed to meeting on the intellectual battlefield, a valid tactic?