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Not a joke.

Thankfully, nothing burned down at a Muslim demonstration outside the Danish embassy in New York attended by 1,000 angry protesters today. But the signs were still rather unsettling:

Hat tip: Shawn Wasson
And if someone who knows Arabic can send along a translation of this sign, please do:

Thanks to all the readers who sent variations of this [...]

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Cartoon Jihad continues.
Via Breitbart/AP:
A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country.
Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to [...]

Just a sample of letters, blog reax, and news updates coming in on the story that should be headline news…
The New York Sun:
The Bush administration yesterday failed to quell the swelling tide of opposition to the deal that would give a company owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates control over [...]

I’m scheduled to appear on Fox News this afternoon at approx. 12:30pm EST to talk about VP Cheney and the clown media.

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Forget about the Cheney accidental shooting. Based on my e-mail and the growing outcry from both sides of the political aisle, this was and is the big story of the week–and it’s picking up steam:
[LES KINSOLVING]: The government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has approved a deal that will put [...]

“Gevoelig” means “sensitive” in Dutch.
Just watch the very cool animated cartoon here.
The artist is Joep Bertrams, who won an award last year for being the best Dutch political cartoonist of 2005.
Hat tip: Paul Belien at Brussels Journal.

Let’s hope they don’t get burned…
Last week, I noted that Iran had decided to rename Danish pastries “Mohammedan” pastry as part of the Cartoon Jihad. The AP follows up the story today:
Iranians love Danish pastries, but when they look for the flaky dessert at the bakery they now have to ask for “Roses of the [...]

Yahoo!/AP caption: Aaron Fuksa, right, and Scottie McLaughlin, both employees of Madame Tussauds’ wax museum and Hillary Clinton supporters, chant during the unveiling of the Hillary Clinton wax figure, left, beside a figure of her husband, former President Clinton, at the museum, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006 in New York…A life-sized figure of the former first [...]

…for not wearing a head scarf.

Interpol has issued a global security alert over the escape of more than a dozen convicted Al Qaeda militants who escaped from a jail in Yemen through a tunnel that reportedly led to a mosque. (Click on photo for full-size image.)

Yemen is refusing a US interrogation request. More than 100 people are being detained in [...]

I’m home. And the me-me-media’s circus continues. Growing weary of hearing themselves bray about the Cheney accidental shooting incident and having exhausted their bag full of clown wardrobe tricks, the MSM is now turning on FOX News Channel and Brit Hume, who landed last night’s exclusive interview with the veep.
Oh.
See.
How.
They.
Whine.
Hugh Hewitt wonders: “How bitter at [...]

Al Jazeera reports:
Tens of thousands of Pakistani Islamists wielding sticks and waving green flags have rallied in Karachi against cartoons of Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of protests in which five people have died.
A crowd of up to 50,000 rallied on Thursday in the main commercial district of the sprawling southern city, and [...]

I’m heading home in a bit after an enjoyable event at Oberlin College kicking off the Ronald Reagan Lecture Series. It was refreshing to see a healthy, engaged group of College Republicans on campus, and some wonderful professors on their side grounded in reality. C-SPAN covered the speech, which will probably air in the next [...]

Watching the news in my hotel room before my speech, I just saw CNN air a few of the new, highly inflammatory Abu Ghraib photos now making the rounds.
No pixelation of the nude prisoners in the photos. No disclaimers about paying respect to members of the US military who will be endangered by publication [...]

Harvard Law student and columnist Ben Shapiro takes a look at the Left’s silence on Al Gore’s betrayal of America at the Jeddah Economic Forum this weekend, and examines sedition law.
Meanwhile, NY GOP Rep. Peter King speaks up about Gore’s smears:
House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King yesterday blasted Al Gore as “disgraceful” for claiming that [...]

My syndicated column today contrasts the clowns of the American media hyperventilating about the Cheney shooting accident with the plight of journalists facing retribution for taking a stand on the Cartoon Jihad.
See also Tony Blankley’s column at Real Clear Politics.
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Here’s a report on the EU parliament debate over religious speech regulations. Parliament will vote on [...]

Last Tuesday, during or immediately after my appearance on Fox News Channel to discuss the Mohammed Cartoons, this blog was hit by a large, foreign-based denial of service attack. Last night, my hosting service notified me that it is receiving ongoing threats from individuals vowing to take down this site–and others along with it–which will [...]

There’s a storm brewing at the University of Washington, where students have rejected a proposed memorial to one of the school’s bravest military heroes. WND has the write-up on the debate, first noted by my good friend, stalwart conservative KVI talk show host, Kirby Wilbur:
The University of Washington’s student senate rejected a memorial for alumnus [...]

Boston Globe reports:
A conservative student newspaper at Harvard University has become one of the few media outlets in the country to show inflammatory Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, angering students on campus and prompting a forum to discuss the controversy.
The four cartoons appeared in the Feb. 8 issues of The Harvard Salient, a conservative, [...]

So, Paramount is gearing up to release an Al Gore documentary about global warming. But at least two scientists in the Philippines are rejecting Gore’s hot air. The Philippine Daily Inquirer reports:
Not everyone was pleased with the way former US Vice President Al Gore was given “celebrity” treatment when he spoke as a crusader against [...]

Where’s the ACLU? Via AP:
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Two editors at the University of Illinois student-run newspaper were suspended Tuesday for their decision to run a series of cartoons that have sparked outrage and violence around the Islamic world.
Editor-in-chief Acton H. Gorton said the Daily Illini’s publisher suspended him and the newspaper’s opinions sections editor, [...]

First, Milbank. Now, Begala.

Video at Expose the Left.

Via Drudge/WCBS:
The man shot by Vice President Dick Cheney has shown signs of having suffered a heart attack due to his wounded, medical doctors said Tuesday.
The doctors at the hospital in Corpus Christi say they’ve been consulting with White House doctors about Harry Whittington’s treatment.
Via AP:
The man shot by Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a [...]

Source: Reuters
Much of the American mainstream media has grown bored with the story, but the Cartoon Jihad continues to boil over. AP reports on the worst violence in the Islamists’ pretextual protests against the Mohammed Cartoons today in Pakistan:
Thousands of protesters rampaged through two cities Tuesday, storming into a diplomatic district and torching Western businesses [...]

Saddam Hussein announces he’s on a hunger strike.

Who’s gonna eat his Cheetos and Doritos now?

Source: Yahoo!/AFP
Today marks the first anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri and the birth of Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution.
Half a million Lebanese citizens rallied in honor of Hariri’s memory today (via Reuters):
The turnout was reminiscent of huge protests after last year’s February 14 killing of Hariri and 22 others.
Those demonstrations, coupled with international pressure, [...]

…about the media uproar over the 18-hour delay in public disclosure of VP Cheney’s hunting accident:
Flashback…CNN All Politics, Aug. 27, 1996
WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Aug. 27) — The same day Hillary Clinton was scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention, newly released documents suggest she was behind the 30-hour delay in releasing late White House counsel [...]

Abu Laban, the Danish imam who stoked Cartoon Jihad in the Middle East by spreading a dossier stuffed with the 12 Jyllands-Posten Mohammed Cartoons and unrelated propaganda, is under fire. The Danes, including moderate Muslims fed up with the bile, are fighting back.
Jim Hoft has video, news round-up, and lots of background links.
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Taqiyya: Anatomy of [...]

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Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank turned up on an MSNBC show to talk about the Cheney accidental hunting trip shooting wearing this costume:

Download and watch the video (Windows Media .wmv file).
Hat tip: Tom Elia at The New Editor, who rightly raises his eyebrow at Milbank’s display of less-than-objective journalism.
What does the Post have [...]