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***scroll for updates…CAIR calls for Rahman to be freed…yes, CAIR…Australia joins the fray*** Cam Edwards of OnTap e-mailed me yesterday with an excellent idea–a rally for Abdul Rahman outside the Afghan embassy in Washington, D.C. Thanks to the D.C. Freepers, a permit has been submitted to the D.C. police. Cam reports: The way it works [...]

3/22 morning update: Afghan officials are accusing Rahman of being mentally unfit. Watch him for yourself. Who is insane: Rahman or the jihadists who want to kill him? 1015am EST: The White House is “watching the case closely.” Twiddle-dee-dum. Wash Times: “Mr. Burns and State Department officials were clearly struggling to condemn the prosecution without [...]

Over the weekend, I noted the trial of Muslim-born Abdul Rahman, who faces execution in Afghanistan for converting to Christianity. The NYSun headlined the story on the front page today and blogs are all over it, but most of the MSM is ignoring the case. ABC News is covering the story and adds new details: [...]

***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, [...]

Committed “in the name of the prophet Mohammed:” Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings. It was the first major protest to erupt over the issue in Africa’s [...]