Wednesday Rants: People who piss of Muslims

Okay, so I've gone missing the past two weeks. And my grad school app still isn't quite complete... forgive me for the not so timeliest of topics. Nonetheless, it is still important.

Dear Mr. I'm-going-to-make-a-video-that'll-piss-off-2.2 billion people,
WTF man? I mean really?? Thanks a lot from the rest of us Americans who have to face your consequences.

I get that part of this is an issue in free speech. I believe we do have the right to free speech, even if our opinion isn't necessarily popular. Political Correctness in our country can be a little overdone sometimes. That being said we are also obligated to exercise our rights and freedoms responsibly. We should think about what implications our expression of rights may have on the rest of our society. I get that you might dislike the Islamic religion, or hate the Muslim people (for whatever convoluted reasons you may have). But when you intentionally do something that essentially attacks the core values of nearly 1/3 of the world's population, you have to expect that someone other than yourself might experience the consequences of your actions. In this case, a man who was entrusted with representing this country in an already volatile area lost his life... because one man who had the 'freedom' and 'right' to make an insulting, ignorant video was too selfish to consider that possibility. So many people in the Middle East, Muslim or otherwise, already hate Americans. Was it really necessary to fuel that fire just because you could?

This guys isn't the only one on my list for this reason. His story was just the loudest. Let's not forget the man who shot up a Sheik Temple (having mistook it for an Islamic one) in Wisconsin a few short months ago. The fact that he couldn't take 10 minutes to do a little research is truly beside the point.
And of course just after video guy someone in Europe published a newspaper cartoon displaying Muhammad as an image (rather than a symbol which is against Islamic rule). It's so unnecessary, and quite frankly an abuse of the very rights that we fight for.