Most religions don’t like it when you insult there religious leader in most cases. Islam or Muslims hold the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH – peace be upon him) to a higher standard. Since he is the one who helped establish Islam for his people and the rest of the world. I have read on different occasions were someone insults the Prophet through cartoons, writings and etc and that person or organization is put on notice. Some demand the death penalty or flogging etc.

If you are a non-Muslim and insult Islam or the Prophet in anyway a Muslim may come up to you and inform you kindly that you are insulting the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and try to refrain from doing it any further. If you are in Iran the people and government take it more seriously and often hang those who do insult the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

Is that what happened to the Dutch politician that was shot dead?

Islam is currently where Christianity was in the Dark Ages where religion controls the state and exercises state power to silence any dissent or challenge to its power. Seem to recall many Americans moved to the New World to excape religious persecution, and now the religious zealots there want to go back to the old days...bizarre. Religion should have nothing to do with politics, it eventually uses the state as a coercive force to instill fear into the population and enforce subjugation. A guaranteed receipe for tyranny.

Here is a current article from the Guardian commenting on the systematic abuse of blasphemy laws in Pakistan. The article is fair comment, but is rich in irony coming from a lib-left publication which for years has played down the implications of Sharia law being introduced piece meal into western Countries. Sharia is Gods law for those who believe and being the literal word of God all of it applies. You don't have Sharia lite, just Sharia in installments. I mention this only as blasphemy laws are part of the Sharia package.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/05/pakistans-blasphemy-laws-colossal-absurdity?newsfeed=true

The country's blasphemy law is overwhelmingly being used to persecute religious minorities and settle personal vendettas. As the case of 14-year-old Christian Rimsha Masih gains global attention, why have politicians failed to act?