http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7964494.stm
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Following the imams' intervention, the lives of the 12 cartoonists changed irrevocably and they paid the same price as author Salman Rushdie.
Only Mr Westergaard has come out of hiding. The 11 others have followed Danish secret service advice and either have round-the-clock protection or maintain low profiles. One of them is suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.
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I'll have to get behind Skybird on this one. I feel sick after reading this article. For Lord's sake (insert your deity here), what has he/they done to deserve a ransom on their lives? This is just pathetic. Why don't they just pass a law forbidding any satire? If satire, even an insulting one, was a cause to kill someone, The Times would had run out of cartons since a long time ago (go check their cartoon page, it's hilarious yet speaks the truth). Add to this the fact that the PM will have to apologise, it is like putting salt on the wounds of those who cannot sleep at night.
Now, I am not calling for another crusade yet we, Europe and the Muslims anywhere have to realise that we have to live together and that the irrationality of changing religious arguments into political ones must stop. We had our Thirty Year's war to teach us this. They have not.