That is a key difference between an actual civilized society and the pseudo-civilizations of the Islamic world. One of the core neccessary features of a civilized society is that not only does everyone have the right to criticize other people's religion or anything else, but no one has the right to use government, violence, or threats of violence to try and stop that criticism. In fact, the merits and progress of any society is based upon not only protecting such a right to criticize anything, but actually promoting such criticism as a noble act that benefits humankind and is the basis of all moral, political, and scientific progress.
There have been many tolerant Muslims. There are many tolerant Muslims.
First, nothing I said implied that individual Muslims cannot be tolerant of free speech. I spoke about societies in which Islam is the rule of law being intolerant of free speech, because Islam is defined by theistic ideas that are inherently authoritarian and intolerant of disobedience.
Second, any Muslim that supports a society based upon Islam is, by definition, intolerant of free speech and countless other things, because Islam itself is inherently at odds with tolerance and liberty. Just as with Christians and Jews, the "Muslims" who are tolerant are those that reject most of what the Koran/Bible has to say about morality and societal laws, and instead rely on secular values while retaining some of the cultural appearances of Islam (like most Christians have come to do over the past few centuries).
Right now the Muslim world is suffering the after shocks of the US terrorist attack of Iraq in 2003 and the brutal decade long military occupation.
The Muslim world is suffering the inherent evil of the Muslim faith, which are in opposition to rational thought, progress, and respect for the liberty of each person to choose all their own beliefs and words, and also actions within the boundaries of causing direct harm to another's body or property.
While US attacks have produced some casualties and hardships, these are nothing compared to those caused by the imposition of Islam onto the people of that region via coercive violence for over a thousands years.
The worst contribution of the US policy to the region has not been the direct effects of its warfare but the indirect of further empowering the leaders of Islam to rationalize implementing the inherently oppressive ideas of Islam into government and stifling any internal progress towards secularization and the demise of Islam's influence that is required for any real moral or political progress there.
And when people are in chaos and being attacked the most radical leaders can take control.
What we see in the Muslim world is not some natural tendency of Islam. It is the rise of widespread radicalism due to incredible violence from without.
Islam is inherently radical and in direct opposition to all modern ethics and progressive political principles. So, any increased influence of Islam is an increase in dangerous radicalism. The US has fueled "radicalism" by giving true believing Islamist an excuse to actually enforce the abhorrently violent, intolerant and anti-reason values of Mohammed and the author's of the Koran, and to use violence to stop any growth of secularism.
Helped quite a bit of course by the US's good friend Saudi Arabia.
You know the people flying the planes on 911.
True, Saudi Arabia is not the US's "friend", nor can it or any country ever be so long as it declares the Koran its constitution and Sharia law the basis of its legislation. But it isn't just the government that is the enemy, but the culture as a whole, just like the prevailing culture of all Islamic ruled countries in the Muslim world. The 911 terrorists were raised in the culture of Islam and were true believers as are most Al-Queda members. Just like conservative Christians have the most honest and accurate interpretation of the Bible (and its inherently intolerant, irrational ideas), "radicals" of Islam are just actual Islamists who honestly and accurately apply the intended meaning of founding religious texts. Radical Islam just means taking the Koran seriously as a source of ideas and values. So-called moderate or liberal Islam has been deradicalized by being watered-down, neutered, and distorted beyond recognition via secular re-imagining that leaves it as dissimiliar to the original as Python's "Life of Brian" is to the New Testament.