Not long after 9/11, some theatre group in Cincinnati announced a play contrasting a Palestinian suicide bomber and the American Jewish girl she killed. Local Muslims complained, and so the production was immediately canceled – because all the arty types who say we need «artists» with the «courage» to «explore» «transgressive» «ideas» fold like a cheap Bedouin tent when it comes to Islam.

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