Pajamas Media has a recap of the NSA hearings yesterday, which includes Paul from Powerline questioning Kennedy and Durbin. There’s a pretty funny quote about 3/4 of the way through.

Durbin: Who do you work for?”

Paul: Pajamas Media.

Durbin: Pajama Media?

Paul: Pajamas Media. And Powerline.

Durbin: Ok, I’m sorry I wasn’t familiar with your publication.

Durbin: [Dodges the question]

Durbin: I’ll check on Pajama Line, but I don’t, I’m not familiar with your publication.

Paul: Dan Rather knows something about it.

Funny stuff, Paul.

M. Zuhdi Jasser is the Chairman of AIFD, the American Islamic Foundation for Democracy. He has been called a dog in an editorial cartoon in the print version of the Arizona Muslim Voice. Why? Let’s let Mr. Jasser explain.

Make no mistake, to call someone or characterize him or her as a dog is to hurl at them one of the most offensive off-color curses one can imagine in the Arab Muslim culture. What is even more vile from the only Muslim community newspaper in the Valley is to depict a devout practicing activist Muslim and physician as not only a dog but one who enjoys cannibalizing imams?

Far beyond the offense to me as a single individual, the more crucial overriding question to our Valley and perhaps the nation is… why?

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With all that I have written and done in the public record in the effort of defending my faith of Islam against radicalism, terrorism, theocracy and Islamism, why such a deep seeded hatred? Why distribute it in all the mosques and ethnic markets in the Valley? I have been asking Mr. Ahmad and his circle of imams and Muslim community activists for years to speak out against radical and evil Muslims in Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, Zarqawi, HAMAS and others by name rather than in platitudes. Their response has always been to deflect naming names as being ‘un-Islamic.’ It appears that they would rather reserve the naming of names and labeling as a “dog” or kelb in the Arabic vernacular not for the ilk of Al Qaeda and the enemies of America but for an activist secular moderate Muslim.

It’s time for Mr. Ahmad and his sympathizers to articulate for us all what it exactly is about my writings and the activities of AIFD (the American Islamic Forum for Democracy) which deserves this ugly hate speech. The public debate is long overdue. It is time that the likes of Marwan Ahmad and his sympathizers in hatred against moderate secular Muslims be finally publicly pressured into an accounting of why vocally secular moderates and vocally anti-terror Muslims bring on their hatred. It reeks of the tired and pathetic technique of the Wahhabi lobby to vilify and demonize those who threaten their control the most rather than to deal with the core issues they raise.

Congrats to Mr. Jasser for standing up against the extremism which has become the mainstream of his religion. Let’s just hope that getting called a dog in a cartoon in the Muslim Voice is the worst thing that happens to him as a result of his beliefs. Maybe he should return fire with a cartoon of his own. Oh, wait, that could be dangerous.

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Michelle looks at the real meaning of incitement.

In what is becoming standard fare in the world of Islam, Imam Ahmad Abu Laban, head of the Danish Islamic Society, has been hawking a phony cartoon he apparently made up showing Muhammed with a pig’s snout.

The problem is that the Imam’s cartoon is an exact reproduction of a photo from a pig squealing contest in France. (See below) Looks like the Imam had his Photoshop out to disguise the crime. (Has the Imam been learning from the liberal Democrats in the U.S.?)

Which means the Imam has been blaspheming Muhammed and should be punished under the Sharia law. Isn’t that like death or something? Fat chance that will happen.

Let’s see… lying, killing, burning, mutilating… all okay for these Imams. The silence of the so-called moderate Muslims is stunning and can only be read as agreement with these barbarians.

Will the Muslim led governments come clean now that this is being exposed? Let’s see if they really want peace. Talk about apologies…

Michelle Malkin has lots more here.

Neandernews has the exclusive scoop. At least one of the three additional fake Muhammad photos being circulated by the Danish Imam Ahmad Abu Laban have been traced to the source, and the Danish Imams are left exposed.

No, not a satire of Mohammed nor any other sacred Islamic figure but a photo of Jacques Barrot, a pig squealing contestant at the French Pig-Squealing Championships in Trie-sur-Baise’s annual festival. NeanderNews discovered this photo, taken by Bob Edme of AP.

On one hand, this is astounding. Absolutely jaw droppingly shocking. On the other hand, it does not come as a surprise at all as there is clearly a concerted effort here, many have speculated in concert with Iran to coincide with the IAEA scuffle, to stir up Muslims to violently act on their hate. I think the piece that’s astounding is not that such a thing was done, but that it was done so stupidly.

Others: Riehl World View, Sierra Faith, Dinocrat, Taking Aim, Gateway Pundit, On the Third Hand.