someone rushdie. >> a book called "the satanic verses" and to me it was offensive. there was a death sentence a fatwa put out on him. the british government had a lot of pressure to shut them down as did his publisher and so his book was never fully censored. he survived but we internalize the fatwa now in a sense that it was much more concerned with defense and now it's uncovered a lot of things that were produced , concerts that weren't put on because of our fear that perhaps there will be not necessarily violence but we have internalize this notion that free speech is fine so long as it doesn't bother anybody so long as it doesn't offend anybody. that's not the free speech that we really care about. it's the larry flynt and the salman rushdie and the nutcase down the street who is protecting your speech, not you and me. we just live our lives and so we have come to believe that free speech itself is a risk a source of harm rather than a reward of society. i think the lesson of the lingering conscience from verses and the cartoons in a diverse society offense is n