I wish I could say that I was shocked to learn that the office of publisher Gibson Square was firebombed over the weekend, but sadly it was no shock at all. We’re back to the days of the Danish cartoons, when the message of the Islamists boiled down to: “Islam is not a violent religion, we will kill you if you say it is”.

Thankfully nobody was hurt in the firebombing, but it won’t be long before the appeasers start saying we should run and hide from these brutal tyrants. When Islamists murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh for daring to highlight violence against women in Islamic societies, there were those on the liberal-left who whispered that he had it coming to him. Mind-boggling.

Closing thought: in the last 1,000 years, the number of books translated into Arabic is equal to the number that are translated into Spanish in a single year. Go figure.