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links for 2008-03-03
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Another one bites the dust. Kill them all.
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And, if you believe this I have a rug I can sell you.
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links for 2008-03-01
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Well, we all knew the Clinton Cabal was going to drop something this weekend against Obama. There ya go.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey refused Friday to refer the House’s contempt citations against two of President Bush’s top aides to a federal grand jury. Mukasey said White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former presidential counsel Harriet Miers co
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Mohammed Cartoon Watch: Solidarity with Denmark
Michelle Malkin asked today that we show solidarity or “Sammenhold” with Denmark over the Mohammed Cartoons or Muhammed Caricatures that Flap has written about extensively here.
This is especially noteworthy since Denmark arrested five jihadists planning the murder of one of the cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard. Here is one of his Mohammed cartoons:
So, Flap calls on all in the blogosphere to show “SAMMENHOLD” with Denmark and for FREEDOM OF SPEECH and republish their favorite Mohammed Cartoon today – two years since the Flap.
And, shame on the American MSM for refusing to publish these caricatures.
Update:
Captain Ed says show solidarity as well.
Flap will be happy to link any bloggers reprinting a or many Mohammed Cartoons today. Either leave a comment or a trackback.
The List:
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Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Danish Court Rejects Suit
Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Iran Protesters Fire Bomb Danish Embassy in Tehran
Muhammad Danish Cartoon Watch: Danish TV Airs Video of Prophet As Beer-drinking Camel
Muhammad Caricature Watch: One Year Later – Danish Exports Prosper
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Teguh Santosa On Trial for Publishing Muhammad Cartoons.
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Caricature Publishers Could Get Death Penalty in Pakistan
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Tens of Thousands Protest Muhammad Caricatures in Pakistan and Turkey
Muhammad Caricature Watch: al-Zawahri – “Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Are Not Sacred Anymore.â€
Muhammad Caricature Watch: North Carolina Terrorist Related to Publication of Muhammad Caricatures?
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Protest Muhammad Caricatures AND President Bush
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Manifesto Against ISLAMISM – Updated
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Pakistani Children – “Hang Those Who Insulted the Prophetâ€
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Continue in Pakistan
Muhammad Caricature Watch: “Death to Americaâ€
The Muhammad Caricature Watch Files
Technorati Tags:Jyllands-Posten, ProphetMuhammad, Islam, Muhammadcaricatures, MuhammadCartoons, MohammedCartoons
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Cox & Forkum on the Muhammad Caricatures: Overboard
Cox & Forkum: Overboard
From Robert Tracinski in today’s TIA Daily comes a must-read analysis of the Mohammed cartoon controversy: Publish or Perish: The Lessons of the Cartoon Jihad
The central issue of the “cartoon jihad” — the Muslim riots and death threats against a Danish newspaper that printed 12 cartoons depicting Mohammed — is obvious. The issue is freedom of speech: whether our freedom to think, write, and draw is to be subjugated to the “religious sensitivities” of anyone who threatens us with force.
That is why it is necessary for every newspaper and magazine to re-publish those cartoons, as I will do in the next print issue of The Intellectual Activist.
This is not merely a symbolic expression of support; it is a practical countermeasure against censorship. Censorship—especially the violent, anarchic type threatened by Muslim fanatics—is effective only when it can isolate a specific victim, making him feel as if he alone bears the brunt of the danger. What intimidates an artist or writer is not simply some Arab fanatic in the street carrying a placard that reads “Behead those who insult Islam.” What intimidates him is the feeling that, when the beheaders come after him, he will be on his own, with no allies or defenders—that everyone else will be too cowardly to stick their necks out.
The answer, for publishers, is to tell the Muslim fanatics that they can’t single out any one author, or artist, or publication. The answer is to show that we’re all united in defying the fanatics.
That’s what it means to show “solidarity” by re-publishing the cartoons. The message we need to send is: if you want to kill anyone who publishes those cartoons, or anyone who makes cartoons of Mohammed, then you’re going to have to kill us all. If you make war on one independent mind, you’re making war on all of us. And we’ll fight back.
Also, the following excellent editorials from the Ayn Rand Institute were added in updates to previous cartoons, but I’m reposting them here: The Twilight of Freedom of Speech by Onkar Ghate; and “Muslim Opinion” Be Damned by Alex Epstein.
(The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed can be seen at MohammedCartoons.com. Our other related cartoons are: Image Problem, A Right to Blasphemy, Western Dhimmitude, and Must-See TV.)
Technorati Tags: MuhammadCaricatures, FreedomofSpeech, Cox&Forkum, Islam, Muhammad,
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Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
Cox & Forkum: Western Dhimmitude
With a great set of links on the Dhimmitude of the Western press:
The Danish cartoons and caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed can be seen at MohammedCartoons.com. Our other related cartoon are: Image Problem and A Right to Blasphemy.
Some on the left appear to be taking a “blame the victims” approach best exemplified by Antonia Zerbisias in Hate behind right-wing blogburst.
As Glenn Reynolds noted: “You’d expect lefties like Zerbisias to side with people like [Instapundit commenter] McDowell, and [Iraqi Muslim blogger] Zeyad, over a bunch of sexist, homophobic theocrats — but that would require that they side with America, too. Which is right out.” (Michelle Malkin also responded.)
Daniel Pipes has a must-read editorial on the subject: Cartoons and Islamic Imperialism.
Meanwhile, AP reported yesterday that Danish Companies Hurt by Muslim Boycott.
You can still help to counter the boycott by buying Danish products. A list of products and information available at the Buy Danish Web site.
Also yesterday, Jeff Jacoby noted that We are all Danes now.
Malkin notes that a couple of additional U.S. newspapers have since reprinted some of the cartoons.
We added this to an update yesterday, but it deservse reposting. From Speigel magazine: ‘Everyone Is Afraid to Criticize Islam’, an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Dutch politician forced to go into hiding after the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh. (via Free Thoughts)
Some anti-dhimmitude in NYC: NY Press Kills Cartoons; Staff Walks Out. (via InstaPundit and Tom Pechinski) New York Press Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel emails, on behalf of the editorial staff:
New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Sun locally and two other papers nationally have mustered the minimal courage needed to print simple and not especially offensive editorial cartoons that have been used as a pretext for great and greatly menacing violence directed against journalists, cartoonists, humanitarian aid workers, diplomats and others who represent the basic values and obligations of Western civilization. Having been ordered at the 11th hour to pull the now-infamous Danish cartoons from an issue dedicated to them, the editorial group—consisting of myself, managing editor Tim Marchman, arts editorJonathan Leaf and one-man city hall bureau Azi Paybarah, chose instead to resign our positions.
We have no desire to be free speech martyrs, but it would have been nakedly hypocritical to avoid the same cartoons we’d criticized others for not running, cartoons that however absurdly have inspired arson, kidnapping and murder and forced cartoonists in at least two continents to go into hiding.
Why is it important to publish the Danish cartoons? Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, a bureau chief of the German newsweekly Die Zeit, explains why in The Washington Post: Tolerance Toward Intolerance. (via TIA Daily)
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: French Weekly Charlie Hebdo Reprints Muhammad Caricatures
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Demonstrators Attack Norwegian Embassy in Tehran, IranMuhammad Caricature Watch: 4 Killed In Afghanistan in Caricature Bloodshed
Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: A Right to Blasphemy
The Cox & Forkum cartoon says it all……..
The Muhammad Cartoons:
Other sites that have the cartoons are:
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Muhammad Caricature Watch: New Protests Erupt Around the World
Muhammad Caricature Watch: The False Cartoons and Danish Imams
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Angry Demonstrators Set Danish Consulate in Beirut AblazeMuhammad Caricature Watch: Syrian Protesters Set Danish Embassy Ablaze Over Cartoon
Muhammad Caricature Watch: Protests Over Muhammad Drawings IntensifyMuhammad Caricature Watch: Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Day by Day by Chris Muir on CNN
Day by Day by Chris Muir on Muhammad Caricatures
Cox & Forkum: Publication of Caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad by a Danish Newspaper
Technorati Tags: Jyllands-Posten, ProphetMuhammad, Islam, Muhammadcaricatures