Free Speech means just that, anyone can say or write whatever they choose and people to include Muslims can choose to read/listen or not read /listen to them. A group of cartoonists that have made fun of every religion pretty much equally have died for having an opinion and there are several pundits out there saying it could be their fault that they should have been more sensitive, really? For a change can we just call the situation properly, terrorists killed innocent people because those people did not share their opinion, the terrorists acted like thugs and they broke the laws of the land not the paper or its cartoonists.
Any American who tries to say that this paper should have been more sensitive has certainly taken the 1st Amendment for granted to long. I say that Muslims should get a thicker skin and understand that not everyone believes the same not even amongst Muslims, it is the nature of being human to have questions and seek answer and no one deserves to die for seeking those answers in any fashion. We are allowed our own opinions, we are allowed to voice said opinions because that is how discussions start that may have impact on those opinions. If you are so set on changing the world and converting everyone else to Islam maybe you should join the conversation instead and discuss why you are right instead of acting like a group of children throwing a collective fit.
The acts of terror being perpetrated on those people who do not share the same view of Islam as the followers of Islam do prove you do not have anything to say in the defense of your religion and your would rather relay on violence then logic to make your point. This in its self should tell the world all it needs to know about Islam, its teachings and its tolerance. While Christians and others prove daily a message of peace it is the Muslims who prove daily they are about anything but.