Add Flemming Rose, cultural editor of the Danish paper that published the “offensive” Mohammed cartoons to the ranks of those who get it:

“As a former correspondent in the Soviet Union, I am sensitive about calls for censorship on the grounds of insult. This is a popular trick of totalitarian movements: Label any critique or call for debate as an insult and punish the offenders.” [emphasis added]

Yes, Islamic extremism is a totalitarian movement, and now Rose has a prominent place on the list of public figures who keep writing about it, talking about it, saying it again and again, explaining it, keeping the subject–and hope–alive:

Paul Berman

Kanan Makiya

Azar Nafisi

Christopher Hitchens

Salman Rushdie

to be continued…