[righttackle44]

"Why, then, the public silence?"

"Dutch Muslim rapper Yassine SB wrote a song about his anger over Van Gogh's murder but scrapped plans to perform it out of fear of being ostracized by the Islamic community."

Not at all difficult to understand all of this. You make a remark, draw a cartoon, write a song and some really bad guys come and blow up your family and castrate you.

I have a business partnership, and we have a Muslim client. She took the work she did and showed it to members of her family. Their reaction both frightened and disturbed her because they interpreted it as took it to be critical to Islam--a fact that was and is furtherest from her mind.

I may not like the collective silence of the worldwide Muslim community, but, given the possibilities of harm to one's self, it is understandable.

[SauronOfMordor]

Not at all difficult to understand all of this. You make a remark, draw a cartoon, write a song and some really bad guys come and blow up your family and castrate you.

In an environment where the "moderates" are in fear of what "extremists" may do, but the extremists have no risk of being strung up, the extremists win