Writing in the New York Sun, Daniel Pipes examines six cases of Muslims attempting to “intimidate” the West, from the Rushdie affair to the Pope. He concludes:

“No conspiracy lies behind these six rounds of inflammation and aggression, but examined in retrospect, they coalesce and form a single, prolonged campaign of intimidation, with surely more to come. The basic message – ‘You Westerners no longer have the privilege to say what you will about Islam, the Prophet, and the Qur’an, Islamic law rules you too’ – will return again and again until Westerners either do submit or Muslims realize their effort has failed.”