Safety vs Personal Freedoms is...yeah, a hard one, no two ways about it. The road to hell being paved with good intentions and that. Ben Franklin came out with quite a few good quotes, one of them being:
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Still, what they achieved here, aside from further staining the name of Islam (which, whilst they'll never admit it, is truly their aim in order to make non-Muslims discriminate more against Muslims and push them into extremism) is just to make people more determined to keep that freedom of press and speach alive.