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“We don’t joke about that any more.”

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage strikes again.

Burn them!
File this under “No good deed goes unpunished” by the Religion of Perpetual Outrage:
A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah.
The balls showed the Saudi Arabian flag which features the Koranic declaration of faith.
The US military said the [...]

Bull-ets.

SITE reports: Zawahiri views the knighting as an act motivated by sheer anger towards Islam, claiming that Queen Elizabeth II and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair implicitly delivered a message to Muslims that though their forces may be defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan, they can take revenge by cursing their prophet. In response, Zawahiri threatens that a “very precise response” is in the stages of preparation…

Mockery is the best medicine.

Scroll for updates.
3:48pm Eastern update. Peter Clark, head of anti-terrorist command, is giving a press conference to announce the discovery of the second explosive device and second vehicle. Similar materials found in second car as in first Mercedes–fuel, “substantial quantity of nails.”
3:31pm Eastern update. New developments…2nd explosive device found, also in Mercedes…Accomplice of AQ henchman [...]

The manufactured outrage over Britain’s knighting of Salman Rushdie continues. It’s Friday prayer time. Mosques in Pakistan and Kashmir have stocked up on extra matches, effigies, and yes, American flags. Plus: Islamic Rage Boy is back!

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage strikes again.

The Religion of Perpetual Outrage strikes again.

Danish newspaper editor Flemming Rose of the Jyllands-Posten–the publication that bravely printed the Mohammed Cartoons critical of sharia creep and the bullies of jihad–has received an award:
Copenhagen – The Danish newspaper editor who chose to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005 was on Monday awarded a free press prize for his “determination [...]

***update: blogger Ali Eteraz issues a call to action***
ranian jihadists are calling for the death of another writer charged with–yup, you guessed it–insulting Islam. Via BBC (hat tip- Jihad Watch):
One of Iran’s most senior clergymen has issued a fatwa on an Azeri writer said to have insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
The call on Muslims to murder [...]

President Bush honored Muslims who have assisted the War on Terror at an iftar dinner Monday night at the White House. He praised “New York City police officers and a EMT worker who risked their lives to save their fellow citizens on 9/11; a military doctor and a member of the Navy’s Chaplain Corps; members [...]

Robert Spencer looks at continuing Muslim veil rage over former British foreign minister Jack Straw’s comments on this week’s edition of Jihad Watch on Hot Air TV. He points to a candid op-ed published in the Times of London by Saira Khan, “Why Muslim women should thank Straw:”
The growing number of women veiling their [...]

Author Salman Rushdie doesn’t mince words in his defense of former British Foreign Minister Jack Straw, who has been embroiled in Muslim Veil Rage:
Prime Minister Tony Blair and author Salman Rushdie praised a British official on Tuesday for raising the difficult issue of whether Muslim women visiting his office should remove their veils.
The comment by [...]

A former Archbishop of Canterbury minces no words about Islamic violence and the man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II issues a warning to Pope Benedict XVI:
THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily [...]

***scroll for updates…must-read for vital historical perspective: Andrew Bostom at The American Thinker on the Pope, the Byzantine Empire, jihad, and “dialogue”…***
Shot in the back three times. Fox News says four times in the back by two “armed gunmen” with pistols. The elderly victim worked at a hospital for mothers and children. Her bodyguard [...]

Read Emilio Karim Dabul in today’s NY Post:
WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn’t help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on [...]

***scroll for updates…Paul Belien at the Brussels Journal has a dissenting take on the manifesto…***
Danish reader P.H.N. sends an important document published today in the Jyllands-Posten from 12 brave intellectuals:
MANIFESTO: Together facing the new totalitarianism
After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new totalitarian global threat: Islamism.
We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call [...]

The Cartoon Jihadists are winning…

Malaysia:
The Malaysian government shut down on Thursday a local newspaper after it published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, the official Bernama news agency said. Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also the internal security minister, ordered the indefinite shutdown of The Sarawak Tribune with immediate effect, Bernama said. “Internal Security [...]

European readers Brian A. and Kenneth M. have passed along links to an excellent interview with Alan Dershowitz that aired this week on Danish television. I don’t agree with much of what Dershowitz espouses, but on many crucial War on Terror-related issues he is dead-on–as he is here on the Cartoon Jihad and the craven [...]

***scroll for updates…Danish soldiers attacked in Iraq while helping children***
The Cartoon Jihad continues:
Reuters:
Fresh protests erupted across Asia and the Middle East over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad on Monday, despite calls by world leaders for calm after Danish diplomatic missions were set ablaze in Lebanon and Syria.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed alarm and urged restraint [...]

Does freedom of speech include the freedom to criticize Islam? Not in Italy, apparently. Says the IHT:
These are dangerous times for writers or artists who tread into the always sensitive territory of religion, as incidents ranging from the fatwa against Salman Rushdie to the destruction of an art exhibition in Moscow have shown. But it [...]