Iowahawk has all the dish on a new cartoon controversy brewing in the midwest!

Man, it’s really taking over!

Kiran Chetry of Fox News had her baby early this morning.

Maya Rose Knowles (her father, Kiran’s husband, is Chris Knowles also of Fox News) was born at 1:18 am

Happy Birthday Maya!

Last night’s program included the following discussion between Bill, Dr. Mamoun Fandy of the Baker Institute for Public Policy (top), and Kamal Nawash of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism (bottom).

O’Reilly: Now for the top story tonight, two views of the Muslim demonstrations over those cartoons. Joining us from Washington, Kamal Nawash, president of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terrorism and Dr. Mamoun Fandy who writes a syndicated column published in the Arab world.

You it’s getting to the point now, Doctor, where I feel very uneasy. I think this whole thing could go up, this whole Muslim versus the West could go up at any time. Am I wrong?

Fandy: I think. I think you are probably wrong, Bill, on this one. I think those cartoons that we are talking about are very offensive to any Muslims. And if we want to enlist the support of one-fifth of mainstream Muslims, one-fifth of the world population on our side in the war on terrorism, you should not attack or defame the very core of Islam, that’s basically Prophet Mohammed. If these were political cartoons about Osama Bin Laden, or about those extremists, I don’t think you would find these riots.

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Still tweaking, please be patient!

Update: I’m categorizing posts from oldest to newest – currently I’m in March 2005…

Update again: I’ve gotten through April 2005. There are a lot of posts and I need to change permalinks to posts in this blog from kasobs.blogspot to musing-minds. What a lot we’ve written! I’ll do more work on the categorizing and permalink changes tomorrow… 🙂

We are moving into new digs, from over at blogger…

We’re moving things slowly, I have all of this month over here now.

I have everything over here now!

More changes to come!

Bloggers from the right side of the political spectrum have long been frustrated by what they perceive as biased reporting of the Mideast. Primarily due to their ideological differences with the Bush administration and the inclination to oppose all things that Bush stands for, the media has often played the role of Devil’s advocate on behalf of radical Islam. “One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter” was a saying that embodied a moral relativism that permeated the mainstream media’s approach to Mideast reporting.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the gourmet cappucino bar. The media seems to have noticed that the front line of the Islamic cultural war may be on their own doorsteps. Perhaps the calls for the death of cartoon writers is just what the Western media needed to realize that one man’s terrorist is really just a terrorist – one who is driven by a belief system premised on hate and intolerance – and no matter how much our belief sytem is premised on equality and tolerance towards others, there is no way to justify or otherwise explain away the hate and intolerance of others.

Perhaps.

Michelle couldn’t sleep last night and put together a 2 minute movie that you just have to see (link to Michelle’s site, download there).

Excellent Job Michelle!

Michelle is hosting the Muhammed Cartoon Blogburst

If you’ve posted some or all of the forbidden Muhammad cartoons on your blog in support of Denmark and the Jyllands-Posten, send a track back or e-mail me your link. It’ll actually be a very useful road map for the enormous number of Internet users around the world who are trying to find the cartoons (just check Technorati and you’ll see what I’m talking about).

Here are the cartoons. Click the image to go to Human Events Online’s Zombie’s Cartoon Gallery.

Jyllens-Posten Mohammed, Mohammed cartoon

UPDATE (13 February 2008): Showing Solidarity Again.
UPDATE (8 January 2015) Changed the link to go to Zombietime instead of Human Events Online

No Surrender

I Received a Take Down Notice for Mohammed Cartoons

My Drawing

Is tolerance of intolerance, in and of itself intolerance?

Fox News is reporting that Boehner has been elected the new House Majority Leader. Blunt will remain the Whip.

Vote was 122-109.

This was the second round of voting. Shadegg received about 40 votes in the first round and dropped out.

Cross-posted at Wizbang Bomb Squad

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