Anti-Islam movements going all around me, news about civil riots breaking out in the Middle East, in what it feels like every other country in that region. This news irks of how easily the human race can devolve into a bunch of maniacal miscreants. Even though currently the issues circling these very riots is a movie made by a group of people that has incited the very root and beliefs of Muslims all over, a number of other issues have found their way to make matters worse, including, Iran's stubborn stand on producing more nuclear weapons. 

The President of United States of America, while addressing the UN Assembly, has very vehemently stated how Iran shall not be allowed to manufacture any more nuclear weapons, be it at the cost of breaking down peaceful talks down the road. Another point made by the President was how the Freedom of Speech, a fundamental right of every American, would in no way be curtailed, even if it has resulted in civil unrest in countries throughout the world and people ending up losing their lives on this front.

I personally completely am in accordance with Mr. President on this issue, at least to the point that this fundamental right should never be curtailed. But as one famous person, Uncle Ben, from Spiderman once said, "With great power, comes great responsibilities", every person on this planet, including the group of people who were responsible for making the famous movie, 'Innocence of Islam', should realize to what end it is that they plan on utilizing these rights. 

True, the law allows each of them to express themselves in any manner they would desire, does that entail that they use these rights to incite and ignite feelings among other individuals belonging to another sect, community or creed, in a manner that would lead to destruction? Does it not also require that individuals balance and exercise their rights in manner that would bear fruit and prove beneficial to others? Agreed, that they have certain beliefs, certain frustrations within themselves. Why does it require that they shout out the same from rooftops and that too in a manner that would put the others directly on the defensive? There always is a middle path, a way in which healthy discussions can take place, a process through which erroneous ideas about certain "facts" can be sorted and thus a meaningful conclusion reached. Making a flamboyant narcissist movie, depicting an immensely important religious figure in derogatory and exaggerated role, is definitely not one of them. 

On the other hand, I believe that, reacting to a comment, a movie or an article in a manner that leads to chaos and havoc is  not justifiable. What I think that the people, who currently seem to be at the edge, waiting to burst out the doors to create another civil disturbance, need to understand that the religious beliefs they hold in their hearts, need not be shared by others equally, even minutely. These beliefs do not need to be reciprocated by others or even revered. The movies, comments or articles cannot and never will change one thing that Muslims hold close to their hearts, and it is their belief, a feeling which if is being kept intact in the very first place, does not require them to react at all to others comments or actions. 

These actions, these movies, are made with the intention to create and incite feelings. By reacting in such exact manners, not only do the group of people, responsible for such movies, attain satisfaction, but also go further in pointing out how justified they were in creating these films. It would thus be in the best interest of everyone if careful restraint is exercised from having our primal instinct take over our conscience. 

It also is time that human beings act and behave by at least ensuring that they should not be generalizing when they have encountered only a handful of people from a community they are about to besmirch and berate. I'm sure that, being a Muslim myself, my friends and colleagues would be having a rather pleasing sense about the Islamic world and not wanting to believe all the Anti-Islamic ideologies being thrown out there. The Islamic world is not composed of dogmatic fundamentalists who would want to crash and burn everything non-Islamic. Its the principles and values that just differ from any other religion. They too are peace loving individuals who would appreciate that they should not be generalized over the acts and atrocities committed by just a handful of misinformed and ill-guided people.

Its time that we accept each other wholeheartedly, in all the respects possible, in order to ensure that we do not blow this world apart. Only then will this World come down to any Good!

If you've got the time, this is a good read as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/opinion/the-sin-of-sowing-hatred-of-islam.html?_r=0