BRET STEPHENS: Lady GaGa vs. Global Jihad:

So here’s the latest news from Planet Gaga: Last week, the star announced she was canceling her June 3 Jakarta concert date, disappointing the 52,000 ticket holders who had sold out the show in days. The reason? A group called the Front for the Defense of Islam, or FPI, had threatened to “wreak havoc” at the concert. Their reason? She brings “the faith of Satan to our country and thus will destroy the nation’s morals,” according to an FPI leader.

Then again, who isn’t bringing Satan to the Muslim world these days?

Shortly before Gaga’s canceled appearance, Irshad Manji, director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University, visited Indonesia to promote her moving new book, “Allah, Liberty and Love.” Ms. Manji is a faithful Muslim, a refugee from Idi Amin’s Uganda to Canada, and the author of the 2004 best seller, “The Trouble With Islam.” That book’s subtitle, “A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith,” gives away the gist.

Ms. Manji is also no stranger to Indonesia, having toured the country four years ago to promote her last book. Back then, she found a mostly tolerant country, eager to debate her ideas if not always to embrace them. Not anymore.

Huh. What’s changed over the past four years?