Of the cartoons involved in the recent row about Islam forbidding any depiction of Mohammad, I say to those who (sound of forehead being slapped) are judgmental about other cultures, religions and freedom of the press: BABAGTFOI.

However, in the process of searching for the CIQ (Cartoons In Question) I only encountered one that was actually funny, reproduced here. The rest are pretty pedestrian and/or boring. Big dill.

Some associated links:

– Check out Michelle Malkin;
– BBC News
– NewKerala.com
– Excellent post at The Brussels Journal

And let’s not forget my Terrorists’ Bill of Rights, below!

Preamble: This document shall be known as the Terrorists’ Bill of Rights, and exists solely to allow the unimpeded disruption, paralysis and destruction of necessary infrastructure and the wanton slaying of American civilian innocents as well as military factions, with its goal being the complete and utter fall and elimination of the United States and/or the Zionist State of Israel.

To be enabled by:

Item 1: Acts of terrorism perpetrated against the United States shall be treated as a state felony or a wobbler, not as an act of terrorism committed primarily against civilian personnel and/or targets;

Item 2: The right to carry out terror events on sovereign US soil instead of that of the country of origin; if nothing else this is a matter of convenience and efficacy;

Item 3: The right to strike the US again in any unlimited number of arbitrary and capricious ways;

Item 4: The right to have a criminal case heard before jurists and districts of the terrorist’s choice;

Item 5: The right to subpoena any and all intelligence records, to any degree, from any source and to any depth, in a criminal court, so that said records will be placed in the public domain;

Item 6: The right to negate and eradicate any and all sections of the Patriot Act as it would tend to have a chilling effect on the identification and halting of acts of terrorism committed against the United States;

Item 7: The right to have certain specified American Senators and Representatives tacitly condone or support the actions of outright terrorist states or terrorists themselves by bad-mouthing Presidential policy, war strategies, troop morale and demeanor, or the ability of the United States to defend itself against the predation of terrorists;

Item 8: The right to demand an obvious and clear American policy, reproduced in the American media, regarding military and strategic plans and tactics and, in particular, to ensure that any American administration adheres, due to public and political pressure, to every letter of the aforementioned plans;

Item 9: The right of all American-identified terrorist states, individuals, cells and groups to be secure in any and all forms of communications be they by mouth, in public, in private, in writing, over any electronic communications or messaging form, by mail, by cellular telephone, internet, or any storage and retrieval system, no matter the point of origin or termination, on foreign or US soil;

Item 10: The right to ensure the Fruit of the Poisonous Tree doctrine applies to all criminal cases involving terrorists and/or their acts;

Item 11: The right to ensure that Ramey, despite exigent circumstances, holds and ensures that warrantless searches within the home are per se unreasonable;

Item 12: The right to ensure that no mosque, home, building or place of known habitation or frequency of any terrorist group, cell or individual shall be monitored, at any time, in public or private, for any reason;

Item 13: The right of all terrorist cells, groups, regimes and/or individuals to be privy to classified, sensitive and serious American intelligence data, and to have it compromised and disclosed by American media sources and released into the public domain;

THESE RIGHTS SHALL HOLD FROM THIS DAY FORWARD UNTIL THE FALL OF THE GREAT AMERICAN OPPRESSOR, AND/OR THE ZIONIST STATE OF ISRAEL.

THIS LIVING DOCUMENT IS SUBJECT TO AMENDMENTS OR DELETIONS AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF ANY ISLAMOFASCIST STATE, REGIME OR INDIVIDUAL.

Signed,

Al Qaeda, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hizbollah, et al

P.S.
Thank you, in advance, for your cooperation in this matter.

_______________________________________

From The Washington Post. Reprehensible.

You’re welcome, Jimmy.

Likely bloggers today will be writing about Bush’s State of the Union speech, Alito’s appointment, perhaps even Teddy Kennedy’s blood pressure.

I wanted to do something different.

Initially I was moved to create a Moonbat of the Week post. Then I thought: no. Just portray the facts — facts you won’t read in the DEM, the Defeatist, Elitist Media.

And no Moonbat Award? I declined that as well; Jimmy’s simply too easy, combined with, well, on one hand he’s so Yesterday’s News. Yet, he does provide for good, clean entertainment.

To wit, from the Jim Kouri article, printed in The Sierra Times:

When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they’re not corrupt.

Huh. Hamas not corrupt. I guess Jimmy doesn’t read my blog when I posted yesterday about the corruption rife within Fatah and Yassar Arafat’s regime.

Mr. Kouri continues:

Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people. However, Carter’s comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State.

And Mr. Kouri concludes:

But, as Jimmy Carter said, at least Hamas isn’t corrupt. There’s some bad news and some good news for the people of Israel: the bad news is Hamas attained legitimate power within the Palestinian State; the good news is that Jimmy Carter is leaving the Middle East.

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Draw your own conclusions.