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Quite. A sense of proportion would be nice.

They threw a bit of bacon into a building. An offence requiring no punishment harsher than a fine for littering.

Fair enough they did it specifically to cause offence, but offence against people who believe in gods should not be considered worse than offence against people who believe there are fairies at the bottom of the garden and get upset by someone mowing the lawn.

What these two people did has the potential to stir up violence and hatred between large groups of people. This is partly the reason racially and religiously motivated attacks are deemed more serious. Look at the causes of most of our wars. Race and religion. Anyone purposefully stirring this shit up deserves everything they get.