john eden
male pale and stale
See above!
Anyway, that's still missing the point - how many authors, or would-be authors, have been intimidated into silence by the mere threat of a fatwa?
Thank you for the example. Clearly we will never know how many authors etc have been intimidated into silence by the threat of religious extremism of any kind.
I'm not one to call for cultural relativism, but I think it's fair to say that Christianity's death-wish manifests itself in a different way from Islam. For example Christian leaders don't actively call for people's death, but they do issue edicts about contraception that lead to many deaths. They also inspire bombings of abortion clinics.
This isn't to make light of fatwah's being issued (which is obviously something I oppose!) but to put things in perspective.