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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 of [...]

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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.
Translation at Never [...]

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: deliver the [...]

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 summary–so good [...]

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.
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Related: Gateway Pundit follows up on the violent imams in Denmark.

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 couple of weeks, [...]

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 account of cartoon [...]

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,” said Dr. [...]

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 serving [...]

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 he [...]

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 of [...]

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 of Chief [...]

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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 bigots, blond [...]

“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 [...]

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 publication, the Yemen [...]

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 have tried [...]

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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 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 Israel, [...]

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 in freedom [...]

Via the St. Paul Pioneer Press (hat tip-LGF):
As violent protests over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad continue around the world, a St. Paul charter school is quietly negotiating the delicate question of how to teach art to Muslims.
Any depiction of God and his prophets is considered offensive under Islam, and disrespectful representations are even [...]

The New York Post follows up today on the Muslim hack attacks being waged on bloggers and websites that support Denmark and publication of the Mohammed cartoons:
Muslim computer-hacker gangs have launched a massive attack on Danish and Western Web sites as part of the mass protests across the Arab world over the publication of cartoons [...]

Your weekend Cartoon Jihad photo album (click on thumbnails for full-size images; via Yahoo! News):
Pakistan…

India…

Indonesia…

Philippines…

Malaysia…

Libya…

Nigeria…

Next?

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 most populous [...]

Flemming Rose, culture editor of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, has an excellent piece defending his decision to commission and publish the Mohammed Cartoons.
Childish. Irresponsible. Hate speech. A provocation just for the sake of provocation. A PR stunt. Critics of 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad I decided to publish in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten have [...]

I’m headed down to Washington, D.C., this afternoon to cover the New Black Panther Party’s protest at the Danish embassy:
Speakers Include: Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, Imam Akbar Bilal, Imam Abdul Alim Musa, Imam Mohammed Asi, Hodari Abdul Ali, and other community and Muslim leaders who will speak in solidarity with the worldwide Muslim Ummah (Community) [...]

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 [...]