re: #634 Walter L. Newton

In July 2010, a Seattle cartoonist was warned by the FBI of a death threat issued by al-Awlaki in the Al-Qaeda magazine Inspire.[92] Eight other cartoonists, journalists, and writers from Britain, Sweden, and Holland were also threatened with death. “The prophet is the pinnacle of Jihad”, Awlaki wrote. “It is better to support the prophet by attacking those who slander him than it is to travel to land of Jihad like Iraq or Afghanistan.”

I rate this a “been there done this”

Clearly those people should be protected by the police (didn’t somebody try to murder the Danish guy with an axe at one point?) but it’s not like threatening cartoonists who draw Mohammad is a new feature of radical Islam….