Scott Johnson has a post on the plight of Molly Norris, who had the idea for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” and is now in hiding after a fatwa issued by Anwar al-Awlaki, the Al Qaeda imam.
With this sort of thing happening all the more often, I have a modest proposal. The US government should create a program to protect individuals who get Islamist death threats as a result of their free speech. This would be a concrete step that our government could take to defend free speech, and defending our rights is a core function of the government.
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