and modern the program today is zeyno baran he is the director of the center for eurasian policy and a senior fellow at the hudson institute. she's also an affiliate at hudson center for islam democracy and the future of the muslim world. and zeyno is the editor of a notebook of which u.s. and european muslims discuss ideas about countering radical islam and the west. dr. klausen's book has been described as a detective story and a definitive account of the east-west encounter over the danish cartoons. i agree though with the apple phenomenon of yale university press deciding to drop the plates of the cartoons and other depictions, the story actually continues. dr. klausen has written a serious scholarly book that's going to make, i believe, an important contribution to understanding this development in contemporary history. the issue really at hand are the limits of free speech and a pluralistic society. should democratic societies censored because of fear, and if so, fear of what? possible violent backlash, fear of giving offense? this book discusses and probes this issue as well a