Many Muslims complain about the “blasphemy” of cartoonists’ and others’ depictions of Mohammad. More extreme Muslims consider any non-belief in Islam as “blasphemy”.
What if non-Muslims considered any slanderous statements about their beliefs as “blasphemy”? What would Muslims think of non-Muslims shooting or blowing up Muslims who made these slanderous statements. Unfortunately, too many non-Muslims commit these heinous deeds against Muslims, and generally these Muslim victims never made any such statements.
One of the phrases many Americans consider annoying is one made by the Iranian revolutions is “Marg bar Amrika!” “Death to America!”
Fortunately, there are Iranian politicians who would like to see this phrase fall out of use. They figure it is counter-productive to reaching an agreement with the West about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. See
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/10390938/Iran-attempts-to-silence-its-Death-to-America-chants.html
What all those hardliners who profess Christian or Islamic values is a key value of both religions is forgiveness.
