"At least the media and academia can redeem themselves for their cowardice and obsequious dhimmitude by boldly bashing Christianity at every possible opportunity."

Well, from my point of view, Yale University Press -acting this way - has just proved to be respectable and rational. On the other hand, please note that allover the Islamic world, Jesus - as one of the very close messengers of God - is quite respected and even loved. Nobody ever would even think of making fun of him. Nothing left to be said.

respectible and rational? How about gutless and idiotic. They publish a book about the Motoons and don't have the guts to actually publish the cartoons?

Only liberals would consider that to be "rational".

Well, maybe finally people at yale asked themselves this question :"why do all muslims respect Jesus, though they certainly cartoonize him in a worwe manner than what was done in the motoons case?"
And as they reached the conclusion that all messengers of God should be respected, they behaved accordingly.