I don't know if he really still needs to be in hiding,
Eeesh, as a woman who escaped DV by going 'into hiding', your words make my uncomfortable. trust me no one goes 'into hiding' and definitely doesn't stay there unless they know that they really, really need to. It's a horrible way to live. You don't just do it for shits n giggles, or to get attention, you know?
On the Batley school incident in general, I feel the teacher could have been more circumspect in what he showed the class. We all know by now that images of the Prophet should not be shown as they are deemed offensive, and certainly that fact should be known in an educational environment.
I do also feel that the teacher recieved insufficient support from the school, the board of governors, and his Union all of whom should have spoken up more loudly on his behalf.
I think part of the problem is that we've never really had blasphemy laws in the UK. We did have laws against heresy but they've not been enforced since, I dunno, the time of James I? Plus, we've got used to seeing Christian imagery everywhere, usually divorced from its religious context and often in the context of comedy, satire or pop music. We're more likely to see sexualised crucifixion imagery in a Sam Smith video than we are in its original religious context these days. So, we've perhaps become desensitised to the fact that religious imagery has deep meaning and there are major taboos and sensitivities for many people.