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It is one thing to have the right to free speech and another thing to exercise it. Most people show restraint all the time (don't criticize excessively, highlight the positives in your kid, tell your wife/GF that she is looking good on a bad hair day, etc.).

Why is it so hard to extend the same courtesy to Muslims?

[tome]

Nobody's suggesting we personally thrust picutures of Mohammed in the faces of muslims.

Posting something on the internet (or broadcasting a TV show) that no-one has to see if they don't want to is something entirely different.