It is quickly becoming obvious to many that conservative Islam is bad for tourism. Tourism is a major industry in an affluent society. It is even more important to those less affluent areas where the affluent like to travel to and spend their money.
Conservative Islam will cause their own people to suffer by strangling local economies.

This kind of outrage seems acceptable to the authorities when it comes from people upset about disrespectful imagery of Mohammed.

Reread paragraph #3:
'Its "No Merchant Victim" program now offers a voucher that can be used to buy a gun such as an AK-47 from a local gun dealer, or upgraded security camera equipment...'

This is a B2B deal. For home defense or to protect a business, I would recommend a pump shotgun - aiming is less of an issue (its hard to miss with buckshot) and often the sound of a round being chambered is an effective deterrent.
The AK-47 is a cheap rig for throwing rounds downrange - with lousy accuracy.
Police never prevent crimes - they only show up after all is said and done to call the appropriate clean-up crews - CSI and the Coroner.
When trouble arrives, call on Officer Mossberg and his back-up crew.

Finance 101 final exam (also used for Constitutional Law 101).
Q: Exactly how much more money would the state have needed to spend if the church held Baptisms than if the church only held a barbecue and did not hold Baptisms. Show your work.

Unfortunately government decisions are not made using science.
Civil servants are motivated to appease the whims of their leaders - all political appointees.
The Appointed Ones are similarly motivated to appease the elected officials who nominated/approved their sinecures.
And the elected ones are motivated to reward the donor$ and $pecial intere$t group$ (including 'non-profit' NGOs) who funded their latest successful election effort.
That's called 'political' science.

Ockham's Razor applies. The asymmetry of the Moon is completely explained by the fact it formed in a strong gravity gradient - low earth orbit.

The hypothesis is inconsistent with the Conservation of Angular Momentum. Tracking back to the initial 'birth' of the moon, it must have occurred in a lower orbit. A collision between two bodies in low orbit, near the Roché limit, would require one body to be coming 'uphill' out of the earth's gravity well. No consolidated body can endure within that limit, and the closer a body is to the Roché limit, the weaker the forces holding it together.

There are a lot of enemies and rivals of America who would find it advantageous to them if Obama were re-elected. All the more reason NOT to re-elect him...

Another case of the right thing (culling camel herds) being done for the wrong reasons (methane reduction). The *right* reasons to do this are (1) preventing disease, (2) providing inexpensive meat for humans and other carnivores such as their pets, (3) reducing damage to the outback ecology.