It’s a hard life, burning embassies and effigies. After hours of chanting and shouting through the streets (instead of working, schooling, or some other equally useless activity that might invigorate your economy and lift your people out of squalor), what is a Muslim to do while resting up for tomorrow’s burn-shout-burn-chant-burn-march-burn schedule? Apparently, it’s ‘Roses of the Prophet Muhammed’ for everyone! That’s right, everybody, ridiculous and pointless name changes of popular foods aren’t just for Republican Congressmen anymore.

Oddly enough, this is a protest I can put my support behind. It’s economics, the new battleground. Sure, I hate the idea of a Danish paper having to bow down to some unjustly-enraged fanatics over free-speech content. But in terms of progress for Muslim society, well, this is a big step. Man-on-the-moon big, relatively speaking. Instead of exploding into violence like they have done up until now, this should have been the first move by these Muslim nations. When you want to show the world that you and your country are capable of dialogue, peaceful discussion, and cooperation to relieve a growing problem, economic protests are one way to make yourself heard when governments seem to not be listening to you. This was the complain of the Danish Muslim group, who had run out of regular channels to pursue when the Danish government did not respond to their statements of being offended. The exact opposite of this approach? Everything the Muslims have done up until this point. You know, burning embassies, attacking foreigners in the street (always a great way to encourage economic investment in your country by foreign groups!), and otherwise reducing the population of straw men and foreign flags using pyrotechnics. That, I would venture to guess, is just about the best way to prove to everyone who calls you ignorant, uneducated, and backwards just how grossly ignorant, incredibly uneducated, and totally bass-ackward you really are.