What this article fail/avoids to see is that "intellectuals" put the Right-to-Offense-Some-Categories as their new Cult/Religion. When you put an idea so high that you can't see the other's point of view, well it's called fanaticism.
Voltaire was one of them, & many "journalists" too. But of course some categories should not be offended because, well, we can lunch together tomorrow, so they're "with us".
Those who rush to say "we are all Rushdie" like conditioned Pavlov's dogs are simply fanatics of their Religion doing the same things as the hysterical mobs who burn flags at the other side of the world.
Well, it would be ok, at least, if they would accept to die for the Noble Cause that their Religion is. But you see them shocked & scandalized that their actions can have consequences, whatever unjust or barbaric they may be...