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I don't know about Muentzer, but I'll answer "Yes". First of all, suicide bombers don't blow themselves up "because" of Mohammed. They aren't robots. They decide for themselves that they're going slaughter innocent people. Human beings are responsible for their own beliefs as well as their own actions. Mohammed preached what I view as a violent and dangerous religion.

Now, if you're saying that Mohammed had no right to free speech because he lived centuries before the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were written, wrong again. As an American, I know that our Creator endowed in us, as human beings, certain unalienable rights, one of which is liberty. Note I said our Creator, as in God, not the government. These rights are the universal heritage of mankind, and they don't just apply to Americans. Now, I don't believe it is the responsibility of the U.S. government to protect the rights of everyone on Earth, that's not what we created it for. But our normative right to liberty as men exists prior to and independent of the Bill of Rights, and Mohammed ought to have had that right, whether he knew it or not, just as you or I do.

The moment we start picking and choosing which forms of speech are protected and which aren't, we negate the entire principle of free speech.

Sorry, that first paragraph was truncated. Mohammed preached what I view as a violent and dangerous religion, but you, me, the President, the Pope, or anyone else is empowered to decide which religions should be tolerated and which shouldn't, then there IS no freedom of religion.