And as for the renewed death threats towards Salman Rushdie...

As night relentlessly follows day and day invariably succeeds night, so the voices of oppression, repression and tyranny lost no time in calling anew for renowned British-based author Salman Rushdie's murder...for merely having the temerity to be seen and heard, in the immediate aftermath of the recent Mid-Easternwide anti-free speech protests over the American 'anti-Mohammed' YouTube clip creator, voicing his own considered reflections, in spite of his own unenviable situation, in favour of freedom of speech. Having personally witnessed this recent, shortish interview, I actually wondered whether or rather how soon such folk would once more be clamouring for his blood, and indeed, I can hardly claim to have been 'disappointed' in terms of that expectation. But can we say or claim that Western - in this case British - 'justice' is itself blameless, seeing as, for instance, during the last worldwide bout of stridently militant Islamist sentiment following the publication of the Mohammed-mocking Danish cartoons in early 2005, those British Islamist (no, I won't dignify them with the adjective 'Muslim') protesters openly baying for death to all such evil-doers were not subsequently, forthwith prosecuted for so doing. And yet hasn't threatening others with death - not 'jokingly', but in deadly, earnest seriousness - ever been a prisonable offence? (In the West, I mean, and especially in the once Great Britain, where people died in the early-1940s for life and liberty. Rallying to Sir Winston Churchill's cries to "fight 'em on the beaches, upon the bunkers and in the backblocks". (Or something like that.))