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Australia: "The Mo-toons Made Me Do It!"

He wanted to “kill as many Australians as possible to advance the cause of Islam.”  I guess it must have been ol’Moe who whispered in his ear…..

Australia: Kickboxer-turned-jihadist supposedly “radicalized” by Danish cartoon of Muhammad

The claim of cause and effect does not add up rationally: a Danish caricature of Muhammad leads a successful kickboxer to plot to “kill as many Australians as possible to advance the cause of Islam.” There is much more to the story, including Fattal’s stint in a Lebanese prison where he appears to have been further indoctrinated.

The cartoon is ultimately an excuse seized upon in the context of a broader grievance culture, an obsession with “honor” (more accurately described as pride), and above all, a sense of entitlement to revenge that threatens to destabilize any society in which it takes hold.

More on this story. “Danish cartoon sparked fanatic’s plot to kill Aussies,” by Steve Lillebuen for the Sydney Morning Herald, December 18:

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Litigation Jihad

‘Descendants of Mohammed’ Confront Newspapers Over Cartoons, Demanding Apologies and Eyeing Lawsuits

A Western  government that allows these frivolous lawsuits to go ahead is complicit in aiding and abetting the enemy and in the destruction of our free society.

Update: Andrew Gilligan knows how the Islamo-fascists play their dirty little game:  “We need to ensure Channel 4 receives a strong message from the community by being inundated with complaints,” says the email. That was nearly a week before transmission.  Islamist radicals: Complain early, complain often…/Telegraph/UK


A woman reads the Koran in the Omayyad mosque in Damascus ahead of a holiday on Feb. 26, 2010 marking the birthday of Mohammed, the revered 7th century prophet of Islam. (AP Photo/Ola Rifai)

(CNSNews.com) – After securing an apology from one Danish newspaper for publishing a cartoon satirizing Mohammed, a Saudi lawyer now plans to confront another 15 newspapers, filing lawsuits against them if necessary.

Faisal Yamani says he is acting on behalf of eight Muslim organizations representing “descendants of Mohammed.”

He told the Danish tabloid B.T. that he has 15 newspapers in his sights. His clients have made it clear they are ready to finance a campaign of lawsuits if the papers refuse to follow the example of the liberal daily Politiken and apologize. Yamani did not say how much he would aim to extract from the media organizations but referred to “a long and very expensive legal action.”

Cartoon-mania…

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CNN Host Fareed Zakaria Claims He Influenced Yale to Drop Mohammed Cartoons….

Meet Brother Fareed, Obama’s Cartoon Czar

Thanks to Weasel:

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No, not shocked….

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Yale University has removed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad from an upcoming book about how they caused outrage across the Muslim world, drawing criticism from prominent alumni and a national group of university professors.

Yale University Press, which the university owns, removed the 12 caricatures from the book “The Cartoons That Shook the World” by Brandeis University professor Jytte Klausen. The book is scheduled to be released next week.

“I think it’s horrifying that the campus of Nathan Hale has become the first place where America surrenders to this kind of fear because of what extremists might possibly do,” said Michael Steinberg, an attorney and Yale graduate.

Steinberg was among 25 alumni who signed a protest letter sent Friday to Yale Alumni Magazine that urged the university to restore the drawings to the book. Other signers included John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, former Bush administration speechwriter David Frum and Seth Corey, a liberal doctor.

“I think it’s intellectual cowardice,” Bolton said Thursday. “I think it’s very self defeating on Yale’s part. To me it’s just inexplicable.”

Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, a world affairs columnist and CNN host who serves on Yale’s governing board, said he told Yale that he believed publishing the images would have provoked violence. (can’t have violence unless its Islamic, then its okay…/ed)

“As a journalist and public commentator, I believe deeply in the First Amendment and academic freedom,” Zakaria said. “But in this instance Yale Press was confronted with a clear threat of violence and loss of life.” (Fareed Zakaria is the son of an Islamic scholar and as such an agent for Islamic causes in the US of A. Of course he doesn’t believe in the first amendment, but lying is an art-form in Islam/ed)

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Yale and the dreaded cartoons of blasphemy

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Stand for free speech

Yale & the Danish Cartoons: The Plot Thickens

Pajamas Media/Andrew Bolt

So why did Yale University refuse to publish not only the Danish cartoons, but famous historial images of Muhammad, even when Muslim scholars gave it the go-ahead?

The suspicion was at first the normal one – that the university was simply too scared to stand up for free speech. ButRoger Kimball digs deeper and smells money….

When the Danish cartoons were first published I was completely delighted, and then was just flummoxed when nearly all of a cowardly free press failed to publish the cartoons in a show of support for a) freedom of speech and expression, and b) support and protect the cartoon authors.

The oil-slick princes  of Arabia must be wondering  if there is anything petrodollars can’t buy in a country whose president bowed to a Moslem king as one of his first acts in office:

Follow the money:

…energetic investigative reporters are looking into Yale’s financial relationships with some of the spots where Linda Lorimer, Vice President and Secretary of the University, told Professor Klausen she has often traveled recently: Saudi Arabia, for example. Quite soon, I suspect, we will know why the Yale administration insisted that the Yale University Press dim the lux and veritas when it came to Professor Klausen’s book.

A book about Mohammed cartoons without the cartoons. What does that make us?

Would it surprise you if  Yale is planning to remove the hebrew lettering from its seal because it could be perceived as offensive?

The Crux of the Bisquit

Dhimmitude at Yale University Press: Muhammad cartoons self-censored from book about Muhammad cartoons

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How to strike fear into the heart of Yale University Press

The absurdity of cringing dhimmitude and Fear of Offending Muslims reaches its apotheosis.

“Yale Press Bans Images of Muhammad in New Book,” by Patricia Cohen for the New York Times, August 12 (thanks to Jihad Watch):

It’s not all that surprising that Yale University Press would be wary of reprinting notoriously controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a forthcoming book. After all, when the 12 caricatures were first published by a Danish newspaper a few years ago and reprinted by other European publications, Muslims all over the world angrily protested, calling the images — which included one in which Muhammad wore a turban in the shape of a bomb — blasphemous. In the Middle East and Africa some rioted, burning and vandalizing embassies; others demanded a boycott of Danish goods; a few nations recalled their ambassadors from Denmark. In the end at least 200 people were killed.

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