Perhaps this is the best interpretation, if you will, of the whole Islamic-Danish imbroglio, cross-referenced with the Abdur Rahman apostasy event, that I've seen to date, though admittedly it is dated and the subject(s) of the comment were other thuggish men with other thuggish agendas some generations ago . . .

"You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse - a little tiny mouse! - of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."

Winston Churchill, pre-World War 2.