But this overreaction is highly expected when you see how religiously conservative the Islamic world is on average.
In Pakistan 84% of the people, according to PEW research polls, believe that country should be run under religious Sharia law and 63% believe that apostasy (leaving Islam) should be punishable by beheading. The less we talk about Gulf and Arabian peninsula states, the better. In Tunisia, one of the most "liberal" countries in North Africa with freedom of religion enshrined in the constitution, they still arrest people for eating outside in daylight during Ramadan. The state says it has a role as a "guardian of religion" which was used to justify the arrests. Even Turkey, formerly a bastion of Muslim liberalism is gradually rolling back Ataturk's reforms and is funding and founding Islamic schools everywhere and weaponising religion.
Most of the Islamic countries are miles a part from Western liberalism. In those countries Islam has protected status, while minorities face ranging amounts of discrimination and even oppression. Most of them have antiquated blasphemy laws. In their eyes, freedom of speech allowing satirists to take swipes at religion is obviously unacceptable. And when Muslims communities in the West share the same view in large numbers, then we have a serious problem.
People can just blame it on "a few lunatics" all they want. But everyone knows there's deeper issues and those radicalised lunatics are just the evident tip of a wider problem.
