Should he? He was a "prick", indeed; and asking for trouble ~ indeed dekiberately out to foment it ~ as he must have known what the likely result would be somewhere in the Muslim world; & so, as you say, it was...

Nevertheless, John; if you had heard that a New Testament had been burned in Riyadh or Amman, would your response to be to get all your friends together after next Sunday's Communion to attack a Muslim organisation's HQ wherever you are {London? NY?}, and behead some of those therein just for being there?

I doubt it somehow...

~Michael~