Where Being a Teacher Can Get You Killed...

... and not because s/he gave someone a bad grade. In some countries you'll get killed for teaching about something that offends someone else, that threatens perhaps their way of looking at the world. This threat strikes at the heart of everything you believe in, take for granted, cherish with your death. And then this know-it-all shows up and questions all of that. Imagine...

On a day when "four to five" people shot at academics attending a conference, killing one, Martha Nussbaum's article on terrorism in India hit the blogopshere. Do you think there's any connection? Or that she's on to something?