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***updated with new Mo Cartoon tie to Germany bombing plot*** Remember them? Indonesian Muslims during Mo Cartoon rage You may wonder, after seven months, why the Mohammed Cartoons graphic remains in the top-right corner of this blog. It’s because while most of the dhimmi press may have “moved on,” the jihadists have not. And some [...]

***scroll for updates…a TV critic attacks Fox News…see below for Fox-hater’s donor record…Aug. 23 1240am…Christian Science Monitor covers the kidnappings and context: “We have confirmed many times that foreign journalists are not to be attacked. On the contrary, we should protect them, because they work very hard to reveal the real image of the Palestinians, [...]

First, take a look at mob scenes across the Muslim world this weekend, ostensibly–ostensibly–in response to the civilian deaths in Qana, Lebanon (via Yahoo! News). Angry Muslims from Beirut to Gaza to Lahore are setting fire to American and Israeli flags. Burning effigies of Western leaders. Raising their voices in death chants: (Tigerhawk has more [...]

Remember? It’s the one-year anniversary of the 7/7 London jihadi bombings. Pajamas Media has extensive, extended coverage throughout the day. Andrew Ian Dodge expresses my feelings today: “I am still incensed that the Muslim community spends more time whingeing about “islamophobia” than they do trying to route out extremism. I am incensed that whenever question [...]

Finally, a major liberal American publication takes the plunge and dares to print the Mohammed Cartoons in full. Better late than never (the conservative Weekly Standard published the cartoons in its Feb. 20, 2006 issue). Hat tip: reader O., who read about the story via Danish TV 2 Nyhederne. Controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet [...]

Remember these thugs? Well, a few of them are headed to court: The former UK head of radical Islamic group al-Muhajiroun has been charged over the Muslim cartoon protests in London in February, said Scotland Yard. Anjem Choudary, 39, of Ilford, Essex, was charged with organising the protest without notifying the police. A second man, [...]

Here’s the full text of an e-mail from Michigan State University engineering professor Indrek Wichman to the campus Muslim Students Association, which organized a protest against the Mohammed Cartoons in February (via the Detroit Free Press): Dear Moslem Association: As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intened to protest your protest. I [...]

I mentioned Mohammed depicted in classical artwork earlier this week when the latest cartoon jihad erupted in Italy. Matthias Storme at The Brussels Journal posts photos of another depiction of Mohammed, a 17th century sculpture housed at a Belgian church, that is sure to set off the jihadists: Writes Storme: The person subdued by the [...]

Nordish reports on our “friends” in Pakistan, where the country’s high court is going after Internet service providers, foreign newspapers, and publishers who have displayed the Mohammed cartoons: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered that a case be filed against the chairman of the country’s telecommunication authority and other officials for failing to block the showing [...]

***scroll for updates*** Update: Reader Andrew passes along a cartoon that he believes is the artwork published by Studi Cattolici. If anyone can translate the Italian captions to confirm, it would be appreciated. Note that Mohammed does not even appear in the cartoon: Lorenzo V. confirms this is it. More here from the Italian press. [...]

Turned out a column for the NYPost published today on Cowardly Central. ***update: Jim Lindgren at The Volokh Conspiracy has an intriguing report on his interview with a South Park executive producer. Excerpt:*** In an interview Thursday evening, South Park Executive Producer Anne Garefino revealed to me that the show was faced with two options: [...]

Longtime readers know I’m not a fan of South Park. But the e-mails I’ve been getting all day from South Park viewers about last night’s episode just might change my mind. The Political Pit Bull has posted a video clip from the show. John Noonan at The Officer’s Club watched it and blogged a comprehensive [...]

Kudos to KATU-TV for covering Cartoon Jihad, and showing all 12 cartoons, in an excellent piece Pakistan’s ban on blogs who have published the fatwa-inducing artwork. Plus Ultra, one of the banned blogs, has video and details. Watch it. More at Nordish, another blog banned by Pakistan. *** Related: Gateway Pundit follows up on the [...]

These White House shake-up rumors been bubbling all day: CNN… Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan and Treasury Secretary John Snow could be next in a shake-up in the Bush administration, according to White House and GOP sources. The possible departure of both men could be among “several senior-level staff” announcements to come within the next [...]

Cox & Forkum skewer Borders Books: Meanwhile, the cartoon jihadists are still going nuts: Yahoo! News: Members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards beat themselves with chains during a religious gathering against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, that were published in European newspapers, in Tehran, Iran March 29, 2006. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl And Andrew Bostom shares his firsthand [...]

Much talk in the blogosphere today about the refusal of Borders and Waldenbooks to carry this month’s issue of Free Inquiry because it reprints Jyllands-Posten’s cartoons of Mohammed. Not much talk, though, about another magazine’s brave decision not only to publish the cartoons, but to put the most provocative one right on its cover. Submitted [...]

Received from the Ayn Rand Institute, which is conducting college campus forums on the Mohammed Cartoons across the country, including an event tomorrow at NYU: NYU’s Surrender Underscores Need to Display Danish Cartoons Irvine, CA–”In a seemingly mundane decision, New York University has sacrificed the principle underlying its flourishing and the survival of civilization–free speech,” [...]

Mark Steyn: The fragile Afghan state is protected by American, British, Canadian, Australian, Italian and other troops, hundreds of whom have died. You cannot ask Americans or Britons to expend blood and treasure to build a society in which a man can be executed for his choice of religion. You cannot tell a Canadian soldier [...]

Ahmed Akkari Danish Imam Ahmed Akkari, who helped inflame the Cartoon Jihad, has reportedly been taped on a hidden camera threatening to kill Naser Khader, a member of Denmark’s Parliament who recently founded an organization for moderate Muslims. According to Bibelen and Agora, this Jyllands-Posten article reports that Akkari said of Khader: “If one day [...]

Well, well, well. The United Nations has removed its anti-Danish poster from its website. This morning, it was featured prominently as a graphic and available as a special download in PDF. It was also available in Arabic: Now, no trace of it at all. No explanation. Dr. Steven Taylor at Poliblog offers a common defense [...]

The latest on the Cartoon Jihad comes from the Pakistan Daily Times (hat tip: Sugiero): Islamabad–The government has blocked all websites that carry caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) on the Internet, and the attorney general has been asked to explore legal avenues for implementing a global ban on these sites. A three-member bench, consisting [...]

***scroll for cartoon-related updates*** One of Denmark’s most widely respected and distinguished journalists, Samuel Rachlin, strikes back at 60 Minutes for its hit piece on the Danish people over the Mohammed Cartoons. An excerpt: The picture of Denmark presented by CBS and its 60 Minutes magazine on American TV as a country of aggrandizing, arrogant [...]

“Sammenhold” is Danish for solidarity. Reader Andrew G. e-mails about the pro-Denmark Sammenhold rally in the Bay Area held today: We started with about twenty people outside the Danish Embassy. There were a number of signs and Danish flags and a few American flags. Someone brought some Danish cookies and cheese and crackers to share [...]

Muhammad al-Asadi : Marked for death for publishing the Mohammed Cartoons The bloodthirsty Cartoon Jihadists want to execute an Arab newspaper editor in Yemen. Via BBC: Yemeni lawyers have called for a newspaper editor to be sentenced to death for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, his paper says. Muhammad al-Asadi was arrested after his [...]

The Sheaf, a student newspaper at the University of Saskatchewan, refuses to run the Mohammed Cartoons, but doesn’t think twice about running a cartoon depicting Jesus doing this (warning – it’s vile):

I made it home. Tons of stuff to catch up on, but I had to post a few Cartoon Jihad items before I crash. Several Danish readers point to this news article detailing a possible threat against the child of one of the Mohammed Cartoonists. Danish blog Agora has more: A group of Moslem males [...]

***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, [...]

The parent company of Dubai Ports World participates in the Arab boycott against Israel, The Jerusalem Post reports in an exclusive today (hat tip Thomas Rosser): “Yes, of course the boycott is still in place and is still enforced,” Muhammad Rashid a-Din, a staff member of the Dubai Customs Department’s Office for the Boycott of [...]

Today in Karachi, Pakistan via Yahoo! News: Pakistani protesters burn Danish flags to condemn the publication of cartoons depicting Islam’s Prophet Muhammad printed by some Western newspapers, Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) And they’ve still got their nooses ready…

Congrats: Copenhagen – Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said. Denmark’s largest daily was honoured with the Victor Prize for “having opened everyone’s eyes by showing how easy it is to introduce cracks [...]