You are arguing against something I haven't said or posted about. I am not missing the point I made a point you then built a strawman based around that point. If I wanted to make my point in relation to that I would have and yet I didn't. If you wish to make a general point then do so, as I have suggested. But don't make it to a loosely attributed point, pervert it, presume acceptance of the thing you think is being said and then not expect to get called out for what you are doing.
To clarify my position for you:
The organisers of the troubles should be held accountable.
The people who participated are responsible.
The maker of the video is culpable.
The reaction has to be taken in a broad historical/social context.
Violence is rarely excusable.
In this case it is not excusable it should be condemned.
Both the violence and the making of the video incur blame.
The weighting of that blame is not equivalent.
Freedom of speech is good but it comes with responsibility.
It would be have been easier for cartoonist to discontinue a particular drawing than the average individual believer to give up their faith. Nowhere did I say they should do though it was a statement of fact.
The Western world and the Muslim world have little common ground and therefore that will always cause understanding.
Attributing their thought processes onto the other will always result in problems: the average Muslim in the Yemen will not see the irony in a cartoon about the prophet, the average westerner will not see the insult in the cartoon.
This is not really about religion at the end of the day it's about something wider and more historical. In Iran we have a saying a translation would be as follows "the herdsman cares for the prophet, the ruler cares for the profit". those rulers have been propped up by what is seen as malevolent forces in the West who attempt to exercise control in other peoples countries and overtly display the trappings of that policy.
