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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

***scroll for updates, blog reax*** 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. *** [...]

***scroll for updates*** White House press secretary Scott McClellan is getting mauled over the delay in the public disclosure of Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident. NBC’s David Gregory is fuming (I know, what else is new). Other reporters are shouting and interjecting. More to come… *** Ok, here’s a taste of the MSM hunt: [...]

There are a few brave men left in France. Hooray! Two of them–dressed in pro-Denmark shirts and gear–went to the Islamists’ demonstration over the Mohammed cartoons at the Place de la Nation in Paris, France this weekend. Take a look at what happened to Arthur Wneir and Erik Svane: Watch the movie here. No Pasaran [...]

There is much buzz this weekend about comments that conservative author/columnist Ann Coulter made at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, a speech which I missed due to a book signing at the same event. Ann used the term “raghead” when describing what our homeland security policies should be: “I think our motto should [...]

Can the radical Islamists get any stupider? Having grown tired of burning buildings, tearing flags, hanging effigies, and threatening suicide bombings over 12 little cartoons, they have now superimposed the Queen of Denmark’s head onto the body of a woman wearing a red bikini. Danish reader Michael L. sends the story in Politiken.dk and writes: [...]

Source: Ekstra Bladet Jim Lindgren at The Volokh Conspiracy has an interesting post examining the caption in the above anti-Muslim cartoon. It was one of three pieces of art disseminated by two-tongued, terror-sympathizing Danish imams, who tried to blame the anonymous Muslim-bashing cartoons and photos on Danes in the wake of the Jyllands-Posten’s publication of [...]

I’m hearing from many readers in Sweden who are very upset about this: A far-right Swedish party’s website showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad has been shut down by the Internet hosting company after pressure from police and the foreign ministry, fearing it would fuel Muslim anger. The anti-immigrant Swedish Democrats had invited readers to [...]

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. [...]

Perry de Havilland at Samizdata notes that the “Buy Danish” campaign “seems to be helping.” He provides translation of an article in Børsen, which reports that “Buy Danish campaigns in large markets like the USA and Germany might give Danish companies enough increased turnover to cover the losses from the Arabian boycotts.” Keep fighting Islamism: [...]

The Islamists’ Bogus Anti-Muslim Art (Large images here, here, and here) — Danish TV station, DR 1, aired a valuable news segment yesterday on the manufacturing of the Cartoon Jihad yesterday. The station took the BBC to task for erroneously attributing the now-infamous French pig-squealing contest photo–exploited by a delegation of Danish imams to foment [...]

We should learn from the stand Denmark has taken against double-talking radical imams who pose fraudulently as “moderate” peacemakers (via the Jyllands-Posten): Political criticism of local imams in recent days has led the integration minister to exclude the muslim clerics from discussions of the integration of Muslims into Danish society. Some imams have reportedly offered [...]

Gunnar in Denmark e-mails that an American professor in Dubai was fired for displaying the Forbidden Cartoons to her students. Here’s the Islamist Khaleej Times article on the firing: Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Education and President of Zayed University, ordered yesterday the termination of services of a university English language professor. [...]

The Islamists’ Bogus Blasphemous Cartoons (Large images here, here, and here) I just received a tip from a reader in Denmark with more info about the lying delegation of Danish imams who fabricated anti-Muslim artwork and pinned it on the Jyllands-Posten in December to stoke the jihadists. (See Scott Johnson’s round-up at Power Line.) In [...]

Last week, I noted CNN’s weasel disclaimer explaining to readers why it won’t fully inform them about the Mohammed cartoons: CNN has chosen to not show the cartoons in respect for Islam. Reader Dave R. notices today that CNN has a new, disingenuous excuse: CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of [...]

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 [...]

I am very glad to see American editorial cartoonists weighing in on the right side of the Cartoon Jihad. Here are two good ones. If you spot other examples of artistic spine, send them along: Mike Thompson, Detroit Free Press… Cox and Forkum… Many more over at Daryl Cagle’s Muhammad cartoons archive (hat tip: Sissy [...]