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Inflamed Islamists and their uninformed apologists have demonized the Danish cartoonists responsible for the Muhammad Cartoons. But look at their actions–and compare them with those of their firebomb-wielding, death sentence-issuing critics.
Judith Apter Klinghoffer points to this Jyllands-Posten report that Franz Füchsel, who drew this cartoon, has decided to put his drawing of Muhammed up [...]

It seems that every major TV news report on the Muhammad Cartoons that I’ve seen ends with a tiptoeing disclaimer that Islam considers any depiction of Muhammad sacrilegious (and, therefore, vulnerable to arson, vandalism, and mass riots).
But as Zombie notes in his Mohammed Image Archive, linked last week, “hundreds of paintings, drawings and other [...]

Via Reuters:
Chechnya’s pro-Moscow government on Monday banned Danish humanitarian organisations from the shattered region in response to the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s acting prime minister, was the latest Muslim leader to condemn the cartoons, which were first printed in a Danish newspaper and have sparked protests throughout the Islamic world.
Looks [...]

***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 [...]

Item Number One:

Yahoo!/Reuters caption: Lebanese Islamists tear a Swiss flag in front of the Danish consulate in Beirut February 5, 2006. Angry demonstrators set the Danish consulate in Beirut ablaze on Sunday and the violent turn in protests over publication of cartoons of Prophet Mohammad drew condemnation from European capitals and moderate Muslims. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj
Swiss. [...]

Lorenzo Vidino at The Counterterrorism Blog follows up on his report about how a delegation of Danish imams led by Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban disseminated fake anti-Muslim cartoons and attributed them to the Jyllands-Posten to stir up Islamist rage:
Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam [...]

Reuters:
Ramadi, Iraq, February 5: Militant groups on Sunday called for attacks on Danish troops in Iraq and people from all countries where cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad have been published.
In an Internet statement, the Islamic Army of Iraq, which has claimed responsibility for killing foreign hostages, urged militants to kidnap Danes and “cut them into [...]

I have received a smattering of e-mails from liberals who are siding with Denmark and the European newspaper editors in the Cartoon Jihad. (See, for example, the liberal blogger at Deep Thought.) For the most part, however, the American Left has had nothing to say about the escalating war. Instead, the Bush-deranged faction spent yesterday [...]

Via Reuters, here’s the latest on what’s happening in the Muslim world:
Angry Lebanese demonstrators torched the Danish consulate in Beirut on Sunday, further escalating a violent turn in protests over the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Thousands of protesters, some carrying green Islamic flags, chanted “God is Greatest” outside the burning [...]

Have you noticed how international newspapers and television stations are doing their best to downplay the global conflagration over the Cartoon Jihad?

And on and on and on.
A “row” is a quarrel. Married couples have “rows” over laundry and finances. Friends have “rows” over football game wagers. Neighbors have “rows” over unclipped trees and unruly pets.
This.
Is.
Not.
A.
“Row.”

You’ve seen the pictures of Syrian Islamists torching the Norwegian and Danish embassies.
Now, listen and watch as they scream “Allahu Akbar!” during their Stone Age mob rampage. Over what, exactly? Oh, yeah. A bunch of cartoons. Cartoons.

Download and watch the video (Windows media .wmv file).
Via Yahoo! News/CNN/International TV.
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Instapundit’s round-up of news and blog [...]

I couldn’t sleep at all last night, so I toyed around with Windows Movie Maker and put together a little, 2-minute photo/video montage about the Muhammad cartoons.
It’s called “First, They Came”–and I hope it will speak to many around the world in a universal way.

Download and watch the movie (.wmv file).
Backup site (use if [...]

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Just in from London…

No, you go to hell.
(Hat tip: Allah Pundit)
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Followers of the religion of peace
The “international day of anger”

Blogger E.L. Core e-mailed me with an excellent idea for a Mohammed Cartoons “Blogburst“:
Hi, Michelle. I’m sure I’m not the only small-time blogger who decided to post the cartoons. I actually came out of an indefinite blog suspension just to do that. Maybe you could invite other bloggers to send you a link to their [...]

Guess which side they chose?
The United States blasted the publication by European newspapers of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed as unacceptable incitement to religious or ethnic hatred.
“These cartoons are indeed offensive to the beliefs of Muslims,” State Department spokesman Justin Higgins said when queried about the furore sparked by the cartoons which first appeared in [...]

Watch out. The London Telegraph reports:
A leading Islamic cleric called for an “international day of anger” today over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, and a Danish activist predicted that deadly violence could break out in Europe “at any minute”.
As more European newspapers reprinted the cartoons, what started off as a row between Denmark’s [...]

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Read this CNN report very carefully:
The international storm over cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammad published in European media gathered pace across the Islamic world Thursday with angry demonstrations and the shutting down of the EU office in Gaza City.
In Paris, the daily newspaper France Soir fired its managing editor after it republished [...]

Cartoon of the day from Day by Day’s Chris Muir:

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Meanwhile, British Jihadists are planning a mass demonstration this weekend in London and have issued a call to “Kill those who insult the Prophet Muhammad,” Judith Apter Klinghoffer reports.
And Danish Islamists are faking cartoons to inflame their followers, LGF reports.
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10/2/05: Islamists target Piglet
10/1/05 Kathy Shaidle: Free [...]

***11:20am update…I’ve just learned that the NYSun published two of the cartoons in today’s print edition…will post scans if I can get them…bravo!…scan posted below…***

I have contacted several newspaper op-ed editors urging them to run the Danish forbidden cartoons along with my column this week.
So far, all have declined.
Now, via a tip from Sissy Willis, [...]

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The letter from the Joint Chiefs in response to Tom Toles’ cartoon, blogged here yesterday, appears in today’s Washington Post.
No response from Toles or the editors. Maybe the ombudsman will have something to say. Or more likely, given the rabid reaction she provokes on the Left, maybe not.
Update: Responses from Toles and his editor included [...]

My column today picks up on the blog campaign to “Buy Danish” in support of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten, its cartoonists, and the country now under fire by radical Islamists around the world for printing the Forbidden Cartoons.
Via Real Clear Politics, Kathleen Parker is on the same wavelength.
Meanwhile, Judith Apter Klinghoffer notes that other papers around [...]

Thanks to Gaijin Biker for the icon, which you can download at his blog (on the right-hand sidebar).

See also the new Support Denmark page (hat tip: Paul Belien of the indispensable Brussels Journal).
As I noted yesterday, Judith Apter Klinghoffer is spearheading the Buy Danish campaign.
A few establishments to support:
The Danish Food shop
Danish Deli Food
LEGO
More stuff [...]

Last October, I blogged about a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, and its cartoonists being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive by Islamist p.c. bulllies. See here and here.
For the past four months, The Brussels Journal has relentlessly covered the ensuing uproar from the Muslim world and the battle over [...]

***1/30/06 update. Click here for the latest and for all 12 cartoons.***
Muslim leaders are still having a major snit fit over the so-called Muhammad cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten earlier this month. Paul Belien sends an update at Brussels Journal:
Eleven Muslim ambassadors to Copenhagen, who had protested to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh [...]

***1/30/06 update. Click here for the latest and for all 12 cartoons.***
Brussels Journal reports on how a Danish newspaper and its cartoonists are being threatened by Muslim extremists for publishing cartoons about the prophet Muhammad deemed offensive (hat tip: Paul B.):
The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten is being protected by security guards and several cartoonists have gone [...]