8 UN workers paid with their lives

The reason people are dead is not because someone burned a Koran. That was the reason there was a protest.But this is why people are dead:

But then some demonstrators grabbed weapons from the U.N. guards, opened fire on police and then seized the building.

I am kind of surprised to see this reasoning from someone who is so anti-gun. Your point seems to me to be basically excusing killing out of anger and killing because of destruction of property considered sacred. Would you likewise excuse a construction worker in the 60's turning a gun on a bunch of hippies because one of them burned a flag? After all, he was angry because someone burned his sacred totem?

The reason these people are dead is because they were murdered by the people who killed them.  

The point is not (and will never be) that some free person spoke, or wrote, or illustrated in such a manner as to inflame the Muslim community. The point is that only the Muslim community is combustible in this way. The controversy over Fitna, like all such controversies, renders one fact about our world especially salient: Muslims appear to be far more concerned about perceived slights to their religion than about the atrocities committed daily in its name. Our accommodation of this psychopathic skewing of priorities has, more and more, taken the form of craven and blinkered acquiescence.

There is an uncanny irony here that many have noticed. The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you. Of course, the truth is often more nuanced, but this is about as nuanced as it ever gets: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we peaceful Muslims cannot be held responsible for what our less peaceful brothers and sisters do. When they burn your embassies or kidnap and slaughter your journalists, know that we will hold you primarily responsible and will spend the bulk of our energies criticizing you for “racism” and “Islamophobia.”

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/do-we-have-the-right-to-burn-the-koran/

So do you think moderate Muslims will defend the right to burn the koran, bible, torah...?