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It is a species of tyranny to elevate religious sensitivity over individual liberty, to accord greater moral worth to the feelings of believers than to the freedom of non-believers. The arrest of a man on suspicion of desecrating a Quran should outrage the liberal sensibility every bit as much as yesteryear’s Inquisatorial assaults on the ‘unchristian’. Freedom of speech absolutely must include the freedom to doubt all religious claims, to deny all gods and prophets, and even to destroy their books. To my mind, burning a Quran is as much an act of free expression as reading the Quran is – and people should be free to do both.