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Raymond de Souza highlights the deception that most Western media are hiding behind in relation to the Muhammad cartoons:Doug Kelly, the Post's editor-in-chief, told me flatly that his decision not to publish the cartoons to date was an editorial one, made on principle, not from fear of reprisals. He added that he would not publish an offensive image of Jesus in similar circumstances.Given the

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Fry his ass.A 40-year-old Toronto comic better known as the obnoxious Scot who berates bartenders and pub patrons in television commercials for Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale has been charged with possessing child pornography and making it available over the Internet.Robert Norman Smith was charged yesterday after detectives from the Toronto police child exploitation section searched his home

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Salim Mansur has an interesting observation on the ages of religions:Why, then, is there such a disconnect between what Muslims insist their faith represents and the conduct of some Muslims, as we witness it in recent times?For a plausible figurative explanation consider the following: Chronologically speaking Islam is in its 15th century, Christianity in its 21st and Judaism in its 58th.We might

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Hugo Chav-ez is trying to stir up trouble by inflamatory lingo over the Falkland Islands.Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, has called Tony Blair "the main ally of Hitler" and called on him to return the Falkland Islands to Argentina.As part of an ongoing verbal dispute, Mr Chavez said the islands belonged to Argentina and demanded Britain give them back.Mr Blair infuriated Mr Chavez

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Michael Kinsley points out that the Muslim's cartoon of Hitler and Anne Frank merely demonstrates that the West does in fact believe in freedom of speech, despite the craven reactions of many of its newspapers and governments.Meanwhile, whatever point these European Muslims were making with their cartoon of Hitler and Anne Frank is more or less disproved by their very exercise. No one tried to

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So put that pepper shaker away.

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The controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have incited worldwide violent protests are now causing a stir at the University of Prince Edward Island.The student newspaper, The UPEI Cadre, chose to run the cartoons in its most recent edition fresh off the press. UPEI moved quickly Wednesday to stop the paper from being distributed on campus.“When we realized that they were in

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Theodore Dalrymple gives a pessimistic view of Europe's future, which is sadly well-rooted in current realities.The principal motor of Europe’s current decline is, in my view, its obsession with social security, which has created rigid social and economic systems that are extremely resistant to change. And this obsession with social security is in turn connected with a fear of the future: for the

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She will not run for the Senate after all. Damn! What am I going to do with all the popcorn I've been hoarding?

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LOL!THE BILL OF NO RIGHTSby Lewis NapperWe, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our descendants, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the

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Canadi-anna has made a post at her blog in which she supports the non-publication of the Muhammad cartoons in the Canadian media for the reason of not gratuitously causing religious offense to Canadian Muslims. It's well worth a read, and as usual, it is a well written and thought-out post, but I have to disagree with her.When Jyllands-Posten originally posted the Muhammad cartoons, they quite

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Exciting stuff for archaeology freaks!An American team has found what appears to be an intact tomb in the Valley of the Kings, the first found in the valley since that of Tutankhamun in 1922, one of the archaeologists said on Thursday.The tomb contains five or six mummies in intact sarcophagi from the late 18th dynasty, about the same period as Tutankhamun, but the archaeologists have not yet had

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Deserting American traitor Jeremy Hinzman will shortly receive the decision of Federal court.UPDATE: And by "shortly" I mean "could take bloody ages".The soldiers want the Federal Court of Canada to overturn an immigration board decision last March that denied them refugee status in Canada. A decision on this round of the judicial process is not expected for several months, and it could take

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Erm...."They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers" Thanks for clearing that up, then.H/T: Secular Blasphemy

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Next time you read lamentings about how people's real wages have declined, keep this column by Thomas Sowell in mind:Economists' estimates of how much the consumer price index exaggerates inflation range from an estimate of one percentage point by former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan to an estimate of 1.5 percent by Michael Boskin, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to

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Lovely column by Walter E Williams:The way our Constitution's framers used the term, a right is something that exists simultaneously among people and imposes no obligation on another. For example, the right to free speech, or freedom to travel, is something we all simultaneously possess. My right to free speech or freedom to travel imposes no obligation upon another except that of

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At Michelle Malkin, details of how Imams in Denmark fabricated additional (and very offensive) cartoons to inflame the Muslim world.In addition to the fake drawings and photos and the other lies included in the Danish imams' propaganda pamphlet posted over at The Counterterrorism Blog, my reader reports that Danish radio has enumerated additional falsehoods.The imams reportedly spread lies that

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Kathleen Parker tackles the leftist idea that the cartoon portrayals of Muhammad are somehow equivalent to Nazi cartoons of Jews or racist cartoons of blacks:The other argument, also based on a logical fallacy, is that the Danish cartoons are comparable to racist caricatures of Jews in Nazi Germany and blacks in the segregationist South. The Boston Globe, which saw fit in the past to defend "Piss

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Via National Review.So - the New York Times writes about the Danish cartoon controversy, and includes a photo of demonstrators... and one other photo. The caption:Chris Ofili's "Holy Virgin Mary" was at the center of controversy when shown at the Brooklyn Museum in 1999.Yup, it's the Virgin Mary depicted in elephant dung painting.What a bunch of wimps. They'll run photos of art that offends

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Tom Bevan asks the question.And so we wait and continue to wonder: where are the moderate Muslims today? Where have they been for the last five years? We saw protests against terrorism in the streets of Amman last year – but only after the horrendous suicide bombing of a wedding shocked the consciousness of Jordanians. Aside from that, we’ve seen nothing demonstrating the magnitude and

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Michelle Malkin rounds up the largely disappointing reactions of the American media to the Cartoon Jihad. Needless to say, Canadian and UK papers are equally cowardly.

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Daniel Pipes gets it:The key issue at stake in the battle over the 12 Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: Will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise: Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or

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Hirsi Ali is the Dutch politician who was forced into hiding by threats from Islamofascists. She is interviewed at Spiegel Online:SPIEGEL: Why have the protests escalated to such an extent?Hirsi Ali: There is no freedom of speech in those Arab countries where the demonstrations and public outrage are being staged. The reason many people flee to Europe from these places is precisely because they

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Much of the leftwing intellectual elite has been lecturing against freedom of speech, condemning the publication of the Muhammad cartoons, and pontificating that we all need to be more respectful of religious sensibilities, and that the real issue here is Islamophobic intolerance.Meanwhile, leftist actors are involved in this:In a new Turkish movie, "Kurtlar vadisi - Irak" ("Valley of the Wolves-

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Victor Davis Hanson sees hopeful signs that Europe is regaining its spinal fortitude.Yet suddenly in 2006, the Europeans seem to have collectively resuscitated. The Madrid bombings, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the London subway attacks, and the French rioting in October and November seem to have prompted at least some Europeans at last to question their once hallowed sense of multiculturalism in

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