All of these are things said by people who did not have a gun to their child's head when they said them. In fact, Frederick Douglass is the only one out of the four who was at personal risk due to his beliefs. And he was fighting a government, not a violent reactionary group.
If you bow to terrorist tactics and let the fear take hold of your actions, then you permit them to put a gun to your child's head. It's just like a lie by omission. By giving in to threats of violence, you are positively reinforcing the notion that you can always get what you want by threatening to blow up a building or threatening to shoot someone.
If your life, or the lives of those you love, are on the line, it is because you have allowed them to be through your failure to show that you will not bow to threats of violence. Through your failure, you have put lives on the line.
I know you'll come back with, "Well, they could try to harm you anyway!" My rebuttal? Of course. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Our lives may be on the line either way, seeing as these extremists seem to think our very ways of life are decadent and immoral. This wouldn't be a problem if their solution weren't to
kill all the decadent and immoral people.
If you want to cling to the notion that the threat of death is sufficient to stop you from fighting against oppression, then by all means do so. There are those of us who do not wish to lie down and let people like this run roughshod over everyone. The point of episode 200 and 201 seemed to be that there are all these people around the world, stars and religious figures alike, being poked fun at... And there's one group of people who think that, not only are they better than everyone else and above any criticism but that any criticism is punishable by death. That is wrong. My beliefs may differ from yours, but do I have the right to say that because you think we should bow to terrorists just because a gun is held to our heads that you should die? No, I do not and I will not. No one deserves to die for something they believe or for something they say. Each action merits and equal and opposite reaction, and killing someone over a cartoon is childish, immature, and the pinnacle of arrogance.