It takes no courage at all to throw something at an American president, as VDH says. Real courage would be throwing a shoe at Saddam or any other Arab/Persian dictator. But that, of course, would get you a noose–if the security police let you live long enough to make it to the scaffold.
UPDATE: Looks like he only got a beating. Tough cookies, Muntazer. Ah, but now he has a new excuse. The old assault-on-the-Koran libel. Bosh.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 