@Brian1946 – Very few exceptions here, maybe two incidents every decade (killing abortion doctors or launching molotov cocktails inside the Parisian Saint Michel movie theater because it was showing ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ though nobody was killed, would be other examples). This was different centuries ago, for example when Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic. Insulting Islam today will get people killed. Insulting Christianity today won’t get people killed. Anti-religious people should refrain from distorting this fact. The evidence is out there.
In some countries like Pakistan, a US ally, it’s even the law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law_in_Pakistan
“In October 1990, the Federal Shariat Court (FSC) ruled that § 295-C was repugnant to Islam by permitting life imprisonment as an alternative to a death sentence. The Court said “the penalty for contempt of the Holy Prophet . . . is death.” The FSC ruled that, if the President did not take action to amend the law before 30 April 1991, then § 295-C would stand amended by its ruling.”
It’s even worse in Saudi-Arabia or Yemen or Sudan.