No, the deaths can be blamed on the rioters. They created the situation, they reap the primary blame. Is there secondary or tertiary blame? Sure. But the people reacting to and trying to deal with the situation do not bear primary blame.

I think 50+ years of failed attempts at coddling and walking on eggshells has pretty much proven that weakness does not work when dealing with the radical muslim segment of the world. Being sensitive to their feelings does nothing but encourage them and convince them we are weak and beatable.

It is past the time that we accept that their feelings are irrelevant.

If they can't handle someone putting forth a negative opinion of their "religion", too damn bad. The rest of the world and the rest of the world's religions deal with it on an almost daily basis.

They should focus all that energy on cleaning up their own countries that just happen to be 100% dictatorial tyrranies propped up by human rights abuses and brutal subjugation.