So, death threats because of .... this?

Remember these cartoons from a couple of years ago?  The police nabbed a Somali who broke into the house of the Danish cartoonist. 
The Somali group, al Shahab, thinks that this Somali did something awesome; according to the BBC:

Al-Shabab spokesman Sheikh Ali Muhamud Rage told AFP news agency: "We appreciate the incident in which a Muslim Somali boy attacked the devil who abused our prophet Mohammed and we call upon all Muslims around the world to target the people like" him.

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BTW, the New Yorker has an excellent piece on Mogadishu and Somalia

Of course, even academic analysis is subject to this same treatment.  As I blogged earlier,

Yale University and Yale University Press consulted two dozen authorities, including diplomats and experts on Islam and counterterrorism, and the recommendation was unanimous: The book, “The Cartoons That Shook the World,” should not include the 12 Danish drawings that originally appeared in September 2005. What’s more, they suggested that the Yale press also refrain from publishing any other illustrations of the prophet that were to be included, specifically, a drawing for a children’s book; an Ottoman print; and a sketch by the 19th-century artist Gustave Doré of Muhammad being tormented in Hell, an episode from Dante’s “Inferno” that has been depicted by Botticelli, Blake, Rodin and Dalí.