Nat Hentoff nails the cartoon jihad showing its roots and revealing the real purpose behind the Islamic attacks.

Writing for the Village Voice, Nat demonstrates this is a strategized attempt to incite violence toward anyone that criticizes anything Muslims do.

Hentoff quotes from a letter he received from John Eibner who was instrumental in rescuing Sudanese from the barbaric sword of the National Islamic Front in Khartoum…

The Muslim states resolved, through these many demonstrations, to pressure through a program of joint Islamic action, international institutions, including the U.N., to criminalize insults of Islam and its prophet. [Emphasis added.]

While Nat doesn’t go into detail about Abu Laban, the imam who was responsible for creating the fake cartoons, he does point to those fakes as the wind fanning the flames.

To begin, the three cartoons that have most enraged Muslims around the world were not among the original 12 in the Danish newspaper. Imams in Denmark toured the Middle East with these additional cartoons—Muhammad as a demonic pedophile; Muhammad with a pig snout; a Muslim at prayer raped by a dog—to show, they said, the degree of hatred in Denmark of Muslims. (They also brought the original 12.)

Hentoff continues, pointing out there was no outrage when the original cartoons (not the fake ones) were published in Egypt in fall 2005…

With the game plan set at the Mecca summit, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, and Qatar (and its Al Jazeera network) went on to feed the flames. There was indeed outrage, but there had been no such outbursts in those countries when the Egyptian newspaper Al Fager published the cartoons on its October 17 front page!

And he concludes with the astute observation of Eric Fettman of the New York Post…

Before these yieldings to the Organization of Islamic Conference, Eric Fettman, on the editorial board of the New York Post, predicted: “Showing sudden sensitivity in the face of the murderous mobs . . . is to effectively endorse violent intimidation of the press.” To some extent, this has already begun.

Definitely worth reading… thanks Nat.

Is more controversy on the horizon as an increasing number of scientists come forward to question Darwin’s theory of evolution?

Perhaps this quote aptly describes the growing mood (via WND)…

“Darwin’s theory of evolution is the great white elephant of contemporary thought,” said David Berlinski, a signatory and mathematician and philosopher of science with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. “It is large, almost completely useless, and the object of superstitious awe.”

It’s the subject that won’t go away.

OpiniPundit points to this article.

Yahoo! is banning the use of allah in email names - even if the letters are included within another name.

This was uncovered by Reg reader Ed Callahan whose mother Linda Callahan was trying to sign up for a Verizon email address. She could not get it to accept her surname.

Nor will Yahoo! accept yahoo, osama or binladen. But it will accept god, messiah, jesus, jehova, buddah, satan and both priest and pedophile.

QuickWired has more.

The Democrats and their media propagandists hate the truth getting out. They didn’t like the Swift Boat vets revealing John Kerry’s lies and his treason (he still won’t release all his military records) and they apparently don’t like a new ad campaign running in Minnesota.

What really has the Democrats and their propagandists in the media riled is that the liberal media is criticized for, of all things, censorship. It is common knowledge that the so-called mainstream media is presenting only negative, bad news, whether real or contrived, as a constant drumbeat to try and undermine Bush and the war effort. Both the Democrat Party and their buds in the media have climbed into bed with al-Qaeda while pretending to ’support’ the troops.

They hate this expose as did John Kerry’s cadre of handlers.

What is really humorous is the effort on the part of the Democrats and their accomplices to censor this effort. They also didn’t want you to know about the Muhammed cartoons and to this date have suppressed the fact that some of these so-called egregious cartoons were fabricated by an imam living in Denmark by the name of Abu Laban. Hasn’t the liberal media been whining about “secrecy” or something over the past week with the Cheney incident? These guys are becoming a joke.

The group behind the effort to reveal the truth is Progress for America.

WND has more here.

Watch the new ads here.

The most telling indicator that this is a terrible decision is that Jimmy Carter is supporting it.

The Bush administration got support Monday from former President Carter, a Democrat and frequent critic of the administration.

“My presumption is, and my belief is, that the president and his secretary of state and the Defense Department and others have adequately cleared the Dubai government organization to manage these ports,” Carter told CNN. “I don’t think there’s any particular threat to our security.”

Frank Gaffney has more.