From the Thursday Morning Jolt:

Our Era of Blasphemy Vigilantism
Which of these represents incitement to violence?
A) Making a film depicting the violent death of the ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong-un.
B) Telling an angry crowd the night of the Ferguson grand jury decision, “Burn this bitch down!”
C) Chanting, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!”
D) Making cartoons that offend Muslims.
As you no doubt have observed, some Americans on the Left would pick A and D, but not B and C. I can see the case for B and C, but I would be pretty wary about prosecuting individuals in either case. If our society is going to bring the force of the law against a person, and either fine them or put them in jail, there has to be a pretty direct connection between their words and the violence that ensued.
A certain segment of Muslims in France — and in just about every Western country — are attempting to implement blasphemy laws through vigilantism. Sure, there’s no law on the books saying you can’t do it, but if anybody catches you doing it, some young man — with seemingly nothing in this world he fears losing if he’s caught or killed attempting to commit murder — will come and find you and attack you. And possibly kill you.
Few American media companies are showing the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo that enraged the rage-addicted Islamists of France. Credit Slate, Huffington Post, Daily Beast, and BuzzFeed for showing them. That’s not an easy decision; You never know when some Islamist out there might decide to show up at the front door of the offices with a knife, a gun, lighter fluid, or a homemade bomb to register their objection to a publication’s decision. Or maybe the bastards look up your home address.
Nonetheless, two of the infamous images are on NRO right now.
The editors, with some real talk beyond the obvious scoffing at the cliché that Islam is a “religion of peace.”
Thus, there are in practical terms two Islams — a religion, if not of peace, then of peaceful accommodation, and a religion of death.
Western political leaders try to dismiss this second death cult as a perverted or false Islam, or even as nothing to do with Islam at all. That dismissal is false and, worse, completely unpersuasive. The death cult has learned imams and sophisticated theologians among its adherents. They can quote Islamic texts in support of their revolting doctrines — and do so far more convincingly than President Obama, David Cameron, or Tony Blair do in support of their own. Their scholarship strengthens the faith of the suicide bombers and child soldiers. And because they justify murder and issue fatwas mandating it, they exercise some intimidation even over the leaders of the other Islam.
Muslim political leaders are far more aware of this than those in the West, and increasingly prepared to fight the death cult. On the eve of the Paris murders, Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attended the Coptic Christmas Mass in Cairo — the first Egyptian president to do so — and reached out to these infidels in the clearest terms: “We will build our country together. We will accommodate each other. We will love each other.”
A week before, on New Year’s Day, Sisi, in the course of an address to leading Muslim theologians, had called for a revolution in Muslim “thinking” to abandon its commitment to texts and ideas that justified killing infidels . . .

The risk of violence is more than zero; the intimidation is real. The only two ways to overcome it are either to root out every Islamist who thinks they have the right to enforce speech restrictions with a gun, or for public entities to stand in solidarity with the alleged blasphemers and give the Islamists so many targets that they recognize it is a futile effort.