PUBLIUS: “The municipal government in Volgograd has decided to close down a local newspaper for printing a cartoon showing Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, and Moses watching a crowd of clashing people while saying, ‘We never taught them to do that…’ The mayor of the city is quoted as saying that the paper was shut down in order to prevent inter-religious strife; meanwhile, the prosecutor-general is looking to file charges.”

Want people to defer to your religious views and refrain from even the mildest of criticism? Threaten to kill them. Apparently, it works pretty well.