When you're tired of suppressing Western free speech by having the UN ban "defamation" or by suing Western publishers in Muslim courts or by suing Western countries in international courts or by persecuting Western students or by having Iran threaten whole countries or by crushing new media corporations again and again or by repeatedly trying to murder the same journalist - there's always firebombing:

Scotland Yard's counter-terrorist command yesterday foiled an alleged plot by Islamic extremists to kill the publisher of a forthcoming novel featuring sexual encounters between the Prophet Muhammad and his child bride. Early yesterday armed undercover officers arrested three men after a petrol bomb was pushed through the door of the north London home of the book’s publisher. The Metropolitan police said the target of the assassination plot, the Dutch publisher Martin Rynja, had not been injured... Security officials believe Rynja was targeted for assassination because his firm, Gibson Square, is preparing to publish a romantic novel about Aisha, child bride of the Prophet Muhammad. The Jewel of Medina, by the first-time American author Sherry Jones, describes an imaginary sex scene between the prophet and his 14-year-old wife.

Firebombings were among the threats used to shut down a gallery in Berlin after it offended a certain prominent German demographic. Nice to see that they weren't bluffing. Oh, and by the way:

It was withdrawn from publication in America last month after its publisher there, Random House, said it feared a violent reaction by "a small radical segment" of Muslims. It said "credible and unrelated sources" had warned that the book could incite violence. Random House reacted after Islamic scholars objected to its contents, saying it treated the wife of the Prophet as a sex object. One of them, Denise Spellberg, of the University of Texas at Austin, described the novel as "soft-core pornography", referring to a scene in which Muhammad consummates his marriage to Aisha. She called it "a declaration of war" and a "national security issue".

It's interesting to see liberal American academics acknowledging the importance of national security issues. A large radical segment of Muslims (a) already declared war on the United States a decade ago, (b) attacked US military and civilian personnel throughout the 1990s and through 9/11, (c) after the liberation of Iraq declared that they were shifting their base there, and (d) were handed a decisive and humiliating battlefield defeat. During that period, though, Middle East Studies scholars were strangely muted about national security issues. Maybe they just weren't paying very close attention.

References:
* West Trying, Failing To Block De-Facto UN Ban On Criticizing Islam (Plus: Indonesia As A "Moderate Muslim Nation") [MR]
* Criminalizing Criticism of Islam [Israpundit]
* Muslims Nations: Defame Islam, Get Sued? [Jihad Watch]
* ENTER THE THOUGHT POLICE [NY POST]
* Iran Warns the Netherlands About Airing Anti-Islamic Film! [Gateway Pundit]
* Indonesia to YouTube: Pull "Fitna" or you’re banned [Hot Air]
* Police foil plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist [MSNBC]
* Berlin gallery shuts down after Muslim threats [Elder]
* Purported bin Laden message: Iraq is 'perfect base' [CNN]

Previously:
* Wilders's US Internet Provider Officially Nukes His Site - Because It's Just Too Interesting
* CJHSLA Conference Call: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld And The Saudi Attack On American Free Speech
* American Libraries Refusing To Remove Banned Book On Jihad Financing (Plus: The WSJ's Fight Against Libel Tourism)