If I was that student I would have taken another piece of paper and written, “Barack Obama” on it.
Then I would have said to him, “Fine. If you stomp on your messiah I’ll stomp on mine!”
What do you think would have happened then???
A couple dozen Secret Service in SWAT gear would have shown up within a few minutes.
Well the teacher would have stomped on it of course since he made up the exercise. So that would not have settled anything. A better action would have been to get the teacher to stomp on the word “mohammad”. The teacher would be happy to stomp on it also but muslims would not find it amusing. They would settle up with the prof. Justice served.
Modifying my earlier post on this, I would have written "MOHAMMED" on it and then show all the Muslim students the sheet and tell them that the prof ordered said student to stomp on it but he refused, but thought his Muslim classmates should know about it - and let nature take its course. (They fight dirty, we fight dirtier.)
A milder diversion would be to show the prof the Mohammed sheet and ask him if it was OK to stomp on that - then watch as the prof - literally - go white.
You see, they feel safe in doing this to Christians because they will do nothing but complain, while the Muslims will just kill you. Along this thought, I always wanted to go to one of those art exhibitions where the artist was present and say, LOUDLY, "I thought your (crucifix in urine, dung on the Virgin Mary) was daring - I understand you are going to do the same to an image of Mohammed" - and watch him soil himself in public.
I'd like to see some kind of counter-attack along those lines become widespread. I suspect this kind of propaganda would cesase fairly quickly.
BTW, I'm not a Christian nor a Muslim.
Your comment reminded me very much of an experience many years ago when I was in my first semester of college. I was taking an elective course titled something like ‘contemporary literature and notable writers’. The prof had a subtle reputation of being a socialist/communist. Among assigned reading we read from writings by world known politicians including Hitler, Lenin and the likes of ‘right wing’ editorial writers. On the final exam there was question/topic to “define propaganda’. I felt this was a better be right gotcha situation. My written answer/response was that propaganda was what we had been experiencing in that class. I got an A on the final and for the course. To this day I think that whatever the prof was politically he had to be fair minded.