I think a lot of people are looking at the result - the burning of the embassies, killing of diplomats - and forgetting the reason.
To me, the reason is that some moron willfully and with total disregard to anyone's life made a movie that was questionable about the Islamic Prophet.
It doesn't matter that Christians have had movies made to poke fun of Jesus; that's not the point. The most anyone's going to get is the crazy right protest, bitch, moan and complain and that's it. Maybe a lunatic crackpot break open his weapons and kill someone, but that would be rare.
The point is this guy knew there would be a reaction - likely negative - and did not give two fks about it.
Honestly, I'm sick of innocent people paying for the stupidity of others with their lives. To me this "director" on purpose made this movie for the precise reason to stir the crap-pot the Middle East is in, cause chaos all to prove that "Islam is Evil". Whether it's Evil or not is moot, the fact he provoked this is worse, it's totally despicable and inhumane.
I think by now the world - those who aren't Muslim - "know" that the life of Muhammad is questionable. So there's no need, at all, for films, books and so on to be done when the reaction is this overreactive.
It's like poking a chained, rabid dog. Poke it enough in it's insanity it will break free somehow and bite the holy hell out of you and you get rabies. Guess what, it's your fault, AND it's your fault that the dog goes on to bite others. And if one person dies of it, you're the dipstick who should be held accountable.
So should this guy.
(I'm not saying the reactions of the people should be ignored - hell, they need to be dealt with ASAP; what happened was just as stupid as the film itself, just as despicable, just as thoughtless. But truthfully, come on, there's no such thing as "We didn't know they'd react like that" when it comes to Islam.)