The sword is mightier than the pen

A fine piece by Melbourne author Anson Cameron on self-censorship in this age of Islamist violence:

Say what you will about the rights and wrongs of machine-gunning cartoonists at their easels, it is an invigorating lesson to those creative types…

I proposed a novel to a publisher in which a sexual encounter between two Australian schoolboys, one of them a Muslim, is secretly filmed and exposed on Facebook. There follows a sort of queer/religious...