Graphic courtesy Dissident Frogman. There are several to choose from, if you’re so inclined.
A few readers have asked me to set up a post directing others as to how they can help offset the boycott of Danish goods. This list was posted in the comments – feel free to add your own.

If you would like to send a note of support to the Danish Embassy , their contact email address is ottamb@um.dk. For the Danish Embassy in the US: wasamb@um.dk.
And for our faux liberal friends on the left, who stubbornly refuse to “get it”, Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq warns;

A democracy cannot survive long without freedom of expression, the freedom to argue, to dissent, even to insult and offend. It is a freedom sorely lacking in the Islamic world, and without it Islam will remain unassailed in its dogmatic, fanatical, medieval fortress; ossified, totalitarian and intolerant. Without this fundamental freedom, Islam will continue to stifle thought, human rights, individuality; originality and truth.
Unless, we show some solidarity, unashamed, noisy, public solidarity with the Danish cartoonists, then the forces that are trying to impose on the Free West a totalitarian ideology will have won; the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest. Do not apologize.

(moved back to top with updates)
Jeff Goldstein;

[S]uddenly, free speech is not a universal right worthy of the crafting of puppet heads and the defacing of Starbucks� windows, but instead is a culture-specific gift that needs to be filtered through the religious precepts of the culture of the Other. Unless, of course, that �Other� happens to be, say, Evangelical Christians. In which case, such extremists MUST BE SHOUTED DOWN with free speech.
Pretzel logic, clearly�and the dilemma that is at the root of an incoherent philosophical system that favors the sociology of group identity over the universality of individual rights. Ironically, George Bush, each time he argues that freedom is universal, is acting in a manner far more progressive than self-styled progressive activists.
Again: note the crux of the debate, as framed by the voices for Muslim protest, and take care to listen for the broad-stroked rhetoric�usually more carefully crafted by those who have perfected its vocabulary, cadence, emotional appeals, and key words�of the �tolerance� movement, the justificating force that cynically underpins all identity politics:

“The 12 cartoons … have caused an uproar in the Muslim world and drawn a new cultural battle over freedom of speech and respect of religions.”

Translation: �Free speech is good so long as it tolerates our right, as an identity group, to dictate which free speech is authentic and allowable. Otherwise, y�know, we get to torch shit.�

You’ll see some (though not all are guilty) of that pretzel logic on display here, including an admonishment to those republishing cartoons that we are “not being helpful”. One suspects that, if sent back in time some 60ish years, such people would have been completely at home in “occupied” France.
Damian Penny has more on these voices of surrender. (At this rate, how long will it be before we begin to hear calls demanding Salman Rushdie apologize to his offended Islamist “critics” ?)
Sunday Morning Update
Another day, another embassy torched. “It was not immediate clear if the building was empty”.
MIchelle has a lot of new links, including this one to Steyn;

One day, years from now, as archaeologists sift through the ruins of an ancient civilization for clues to its downfall, they’ll marvel at how easy it all was. You don’t need to fly jets into skyscrapers and kill thousands of people. As a matter of fact, that’s a bad strategy, because even the wimpiest state will feel obliged to respond. But if you frame the issue in terms of multicultural “sensitivity,” the wimp state will bend over backward to give you everything you want — including, eventually, the keys to those skyscrapers.

Read this Opinion Journal piece, as well.

Jyllands-Posten decided to publish the cartoons after complaints from an author that he could not find an illustrator who dared to draw images of Muhammad for his book. It was this atmosphere of fear and intimidation that the newspaper wanted to highlight.

In the meanwhile, we line the streets to bear witness as tens of thousands of “moderate Muslims” begin counter-protests around the globe in support of cultural diversity and religious tolerance.
Oh? Was that a pin dropping?
Also – the so-called prohibition against depicting Mohammed – is a little consistency from our “Muslim brothers and sisters” too much to ask?

Victor Davis Hanson annihilates popular geo-political relativism;

Apparently, the West and Israel are not only to give to Hamas some breathing space (“a truce”), but also to subsidize it while it gets its second wind to renew the struggle to annihilate the Jewish state.
All this lunacy is understood only in a larger surreal landscape. Tibet is swallowed by China. Much of Greek Cyprus is gobbled up by Turkish forces. Germany is 10-percent smaller today than in 1945. Yet only in the Middle East is there even a term “occupied land,” one that derived from the military defeat of an aggressive power.
Over a half-million Jews were forcibly cleansed from Baghdad, Damascus, Cairo, and other Arab cities after the 1967 war; but only on the West Bank are there still refugees who lost their homes. Over a million people were butchered in Rwanda; thousands die each month in Darfur. The world snoozes. Yet less than 60 are killed in a running battle in Jenin, and suddenly the 1.5 million lost in Stalingrad and Leningrad are evoked as the moral objects of comparison, as the globe is lectured about “Jeningrad.”
Now the Islamic world is organizing boycotts of Denmark because one of its newspapers chose to run a cartoon supposedly lampooning the prophet Mohammed. We are supposed to forget that it is de rigueur in raucous Scandinavian popular culture to attack Christianity with impunity. Much less are we to remember that Hamas terrorists occupied and desecrated the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in a globally televised charade.
Instead, Danish officials are threatened, boycotts organized, ambassadors recalled � and, yes, Bill Clinton steps forward to offer another lip-biting apology while garnering lecture fees in the oil-rich Gulf, in the manner of his mea culpa last year to the Iranian mullacracy. There is now a pattern to Clintonian apologies � they almost always occur overseas and on someone else’s subsidy.

Read the whole thing.
Meanwhile, the Danish Embassy in Syria is burning, and the western media apologensia are moving to side with the barbarians.
The art of placating Muslim princes has a long history.
Is this latest clash the new millenium’s Archduke Ferdinand moment, as some have suggested? Muslims should ferverently hope not. But whatever the next few months and years have to bring, one thing is certain – the “secular” western left is soon going to be forced to declare just whose side they’re on. Because at the moment, the answer to that question is not entirely clear.
Update – New German Chancellor Angela Merkel is confronting it – in no uncertain terms.

Speaking of Iran, this also marks Day 10,954 of silence from the feminist movement.

Update 2 – now, the not-ready-for-primetime government of Iran is now threatening to impose sanctions – on itself.

So, North American media won’t publish these, because, you understand, people like this deserve our respect.

More protest photos here.
MIchelle Malkin is heading up a blogburst – over 100 bloggers have joined in hosting some or all of the images.
So, here you go – 12 for the price of 1!

Human Events Online has a full gallery.

The Islamic Society in Denmark throws in a few fakes for those not sufficiently offended by the original Mohammed cartoons.

It’s a start;

Newspapers across Europe have reprinted caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to show support for a Danish paper whose cartoons have sparked Muslim outrage.
Seven publications in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain all carried some of the drawings.

Next: Porky Pig in a hajib!
A directory containing the offending cartoons is here
Of course, you’d never seen anything so offensive in the Arab world;

(post updated)

Just heard an English audio translation of the Bin Laden tape. (Who knew there was a word in Arabic for “done deal”?) Apparently, he follows poll results.
Memri has another translation here.
Now, he’s released his Ten Truce Conditions

This doesn’t seem to be getting nearly the same coverage as the original strike did.
CBC

Three senior al-Qaeda members, including one with a $5-million US bounty on his head, were among those killed in a U.S. airstrike in a Pakistani village, say Pakistani authorities. […]
[including] Midhat Mursi al-Sayid ‘Umar, an expert in explosives and poisons who was the target of the $5-million bounty. A third man has been identified as Abu Obaidah al Misri, al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Afghanistan’s dangerous Kunar province.

Perhaps Bin Laden was closer than they thought….

A new twist on on an old question;

Believed to be the first test of its kind in Europe, the southern state of Baden-W�rttemberg has created the two-hour oral exam to test the loyalty of Muslims towards Germany.
[…]
Until now, all applicants have simply had to tick a Yes or No box to answer whether they felt loyalty to Germany.
But now they will be quizzed on their attitudes to homosexuality and western clothing for young women, and whether husbands should be allowed to beat their wives.
Other questions covering topics such as bigamy and whether parents should allow their children to participate in school sports have been called “trick questions”, meant to catch people off guard.
The state interior ministry said the test would be used to filter out Muslims who were unsuited for life in Germany. Those who answered “correctly” but later acted against expected behaviour, such as wife- beating, could have their citizenship removed.

Via Jack’s Newswatch

I posted this earlier this morning at OTB and it has generated some interest. Given the Canadian angle and Kate’s absence, I hereby submit it to sda readers.
The trial of Omar Khadr, the 19-year-old Canadian accused of murdering SFC Christopher Speer, is finally moving forward at Guant�namo Bay.
Pentagon Moves To Try 19-Year-Old (Miami Herald)

The Bush administration moved closer Thursday to putting a Canadian teenager on trial at Guant�namo Bay, Cuba, assigning a Marine colonel to run his war-crimes court even as civilian judges have mostly stalled the process. The Pentagon named Col. Robert Chester, 51, a Marine since 1976, as presiding officer of the military commission for Omar Khadr, 19, who was captured in Afghanistan.
The Toronto-born teen is accused of multiple war crimes, including taking part in a July 27, 2002, firefight near Khost, Afghanistan, in which five Americans were wounded while attacking an alleged al Qaeda compound.
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer, a Special Forces medic from New Mexico, died of his wounds 11 days later, in Germany. Another American lost an eye in the attack, and could be called as a witness.

The irony is that this case is controversial because the United States military is providing less due process than would be the case in an ordinary murder trial, yet far more due process than normally accorded unprivileged belligerents in a combat zone. Khadr should have been given a summary trial in Afghanistan and, if judged guilty, executed there. Taking him to Cuba and allowing this to drag on for years has made him a sympathetic figure.
Elsewhere:

CBC News has an excellent backgrounder on Sadr and his father, Ahmed Said Khadr, a senior al Qaeda leader who was killed in a raid in Pakistan in 2003.
CTV provides a good overview of the issues in this particular case.
Michelle Malkin has been covering this one for several months.

There’s substantial discussion in the comments at OTB about the nature of unprivileged belligerents and the moral issues surrounding this case.

Please let this be true.
Related: Family “severs links till doomsday” …. perhaps because it’s finally safe to say it out loud?
Debka has more;

Exclusive: US forces and forensic experts are examining the bodies of eight high-ranking al Qaeda leaders in Mosul to find out if their chief Abu Musab al- Zarqawi is among them.
November 20, 2005, 8:28 PM (GMT+02:00) A sample of his DNA is in American possession for a match-up. The bodies they are trying to identify are of 7 men and one woman, who blew themselves up Sunday, Nov. 20, after their hideout in northern Iraq was laid to siege by a large US force, backed by tanks and helicopters. The bodies are burned black and unrecognizable. Four Iraqi security officers were killed and 10 injured in the operation.
DEBKAfile’s military sources add that also Sunday, US and Iraqi forces raided al Qaeda sanctuaries in Baghdad and captured several suspects. They followed an intelligence tip which confirmed DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s disclosure (Issue 227 Oct. 28) of the arrival of Zarqawi and his top team to Baghdad on Oct. 15.

Cross your fingers.
Update: ABC has more (promising) details
Monday Update: The White House is throwing cold water on this.

The sound of a terrorist, backpeddling.

India is accelerating the construction of a 2,500-mile fence to seal its border with its Muslim neighbor, Bangladesh. Didn�t the International Court of Justice say (to Israel) that such passive security measures were illegal � and much more objectionable than oh, say, sending suicide- bombers to play at weddings and bar mitzvahs?

More here.

Contemporaries remember his fondness for women, sport, and human detonation.
via LGF
How and why this mild-mannered Malaysian mathematician transformed himself into ‘Demolition Man’, the most wanted fugitive in South-East Asia, is a puzzle which authorities are hard pressed to solve after his violent death last Wednesday.
Azahari bin Husin eluded capture for three years after allegedly supplying explosives to the Islamist extremist group Jemaah Islamiah which has ideological and financial links to al-Qa’ida. Police say his signature car bombs and explosive backpacks were used in at least four suicide attacks against ‘soft targets’ in Bali and Jakarta, leading to the deaths of 245 people, including 26 British tourists in the 2002 Kuta night-club bombings. Azahari was briefly apprehended in Sumatra, but was unrecognised as the bespectacled militant wanted by Interpol for plotting to bomb the US Embassy in Singapore, and he slipped off. But he struck Jakarta’s Australian Embassy in September 2004, personally driving his customised car bomb and parking it 300 metres away. Police suspected him of planting similar bombs in August 2003 at the JW Marriott Hotel in Jakarta, where he was seen sketching in the lobby weeks before the explosions.
Fingerprints taken from one of the suspected militants killed in a police raid on a safe house in East Java on 9 November matched Azahari’s records. An hour-long gun battle ended dramatically when a militant sheltering inside blew himself up, and police found a stockpile of 30 more explosive devices in the rubble. Documents discovered in a cohort’s hideout the plans for a pre-Christmas ‘bomb party’ to be unleashed at Jakarta schools and churches.
Azahari was born in 1957 in Malacca, the cosmopolitan port town 150km south of Kuala Lumpur. At the age of 17, he left home to study in Adelaide, Australia, where he became an avid jogger and a motorcycle aficionado. But the gregarious student dropped his mechanical engineering courses after four years. An Australian classmate, John Cooper, recalls the young Azahari as ‘bright and cavalier. He seemed to have a healthy disrespect for authority.’
When, aged 20, Azahiri returned home, the Iranian revolution was in foment and Islamic students around the world took heed. Asahari did well enough in his statistics coursework in Malaysia to be accepted as a foreign student at Reading University, where he was enrolled in the late 1980s. Contemporaries remember his fondness for women, sport, and fast cars. After submitting his doctoral thesis, he left Britain for employment in Jakarta as a property- market analyst, but found he preferred life in academia. He married a co-lecturer at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia at Skudai, Johor, where he eventually was appointed Associate Professor of Valuation and known for his lively classes.
It was only when his young Acehnese wife, Noraini, had difficulty conceiving a baby that Azahari turned to religion. Following visits to a Muslim faith healer, she became pregnant and bore two children in quick succession. After she was diagnosed with throat cancer, Azahari became extremely pious. He embraced jihad and was drawn to charismatic leaders such as the Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Baasyir, spiritual head of Jemaah Islamiah. With Noordin Mohamad Top, headmaster of a religious boarding school, he promoted a pan-Muslim territory extending from the southern Philippines to southern Thailand and recruited youths to become martyrs for the cause.
Azahari perfected his bomb-making skills at a jihadi camp in Sadaa, Afghanistan, in 1999, after months of training in Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, and went on to design the Jemaah Islaimah bombers’ manual with emphasis on backpack explosives. He attended a meeting in Thailand with Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, who was considered Osama bin Laden’s point man in South-East Asia. After Hambali’s arrest in August 2003, Azahari rose through the organisation’s ranks.
Counter-terrorism experts have described Azahari as a master of disguise. But in the past few years, officials said, he invariably wore an explosive belt around his waist to avoid being captured alive.
One of Azahari’s former students, Lum Chih Feng, recalled his teacher’s enthusiasm for English Premier League football. He preferred close-fitting Western clothes and rarely wore an Islamic skullcap and robe except at the mosque.
Shortly after his second baby was born in 2001, Azahari left home, telling his wife: ‘I have a greater cause in life. It is to serve God.’
Azahari bin Husin, statistician and bomb-maker: born Malacca, Malaysia 1957; Associate Professor of Statistics and Valuation, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 1991-98; married 1994 Wan Noraini Jusoh (two children); died Batu, Indonesia 9 November 2005.

Total scum.
But we learn from this:
a) The necessity to monitor radicalist preachings from mullahs
b) The necessity to take out terrorist host-nations (like Afghanistan)
c) The necessity to never, never, never give up (thank you, Sir Churchill)
Not a bad obit. I think every time a terrorist dies, they should have a special obituary page.

James Joyner reports that “Paris is on high alert after receiving credible threats against popular tourist sites, including the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-�lys�es.”

On the heels of the US laying murder and conspiracy charges against Omar Ahmed Khadr for his role in a 2003 firefight in Afghanistan, civil suits are being filed against the Khadr family;

Meantime, in an unprecedented civil lawsuit filed in Utah federal court, Morris and Speer’s widow, Tabitha Speer, are suing the estate of Khadr’s father, who may have been killed in a firefight in Pakistan, for training his son to be a terrorist. Their attorney, Donald Winder, applauded Monday’s charges and said the civil suit shows “we can fight terrorism on many fronts.”
[…]
Morris, a 19th Special Forces soldier, said the shrapnel that blinded his right eye in the Afghanistan battle came from a grenade tossed by the younger Khadr. When soldiers rushed the compound, wounding the boy and killing all other insurgents, Khadr purportedly threw another grenade that killed Sgt. Speer. Khadr was arrested immediately after the July 27, 2003, battle. The Canadian government has protested Khadr being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because of the boy’s young age.
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Morris said he decided to file a lawsuit after watching on television the boy’s sister saying that the death of a U.S. soldier was “no big deal.”
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Last week, U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell granted a default judgment against the elder Khadr’s estate. Morris and Speer’s widow will now seek to recover assets frozen by the United States, Canada and the United Nations. Attorney Winder said the Utah lawsuit is the first filed by a U.S. soldier against an enemy combatant. He said that al-Qaida operatives are criminals – subject to civil suits – because they are not part a country or political body recognized by any world organization.

Someone ought to point out that they might consider naming former Canadian PM Jean Chretien as a co-respondent.

In detail at the Belmont Club.

Simply put, he’s doing the best reporting to come out of Iraq.

The courage of the Iraqi people that January day planted a seed of confidence in my mind. These were not timid or cowering souls. There I was: an American in a dangerous Iraqi city, at the very polling site that soldiers were wagering would be bombed. I was weaponless and alone. One after another, Iraqis came and shook my hand, showing me their children, laughing, smiling, saying over and over, Thank you, thank you, thank you. I felt like an honored guest, and I felt a twinge of shame that I�d held less confidence in the Iraqis than they�d mustered for themselves.

Read it all here

CBC News;

Speaking to reporters at a break during a security conference in Montreal, [director of CSIS] Judd was asked if Canadians were in Iraq fighting against the American-led coalition. “Yes, I believe so,” he said.
He said there weren’t many, “we’re talking single digit numbers.” But he said “we’re aware of several others who are contemplating leaving.”
When asked if CSIS, or the government, could do anything to prevent people from joining the insurgency Judd said he didn’t think there was anything legally that could be done.

And on the other…

Nothing like having a couple thousand US Marines stay in the crapiest conditions in the world and then take the leash off of them and tell them to hunt down scumbags!! WOW!! I think it should be declared a holiday�� what to name it??��� Freedom day?� Naa���.. Christmas?��� nope, that ones taken (but fitting)��. Monky Stomp Monday?���nice ring to it���..how about�.. � Come to your house and blow your stinking camel licking carcass into small pieces so small we will be able to bury your sorry butt in a thimble����day???????? Kinda short but I like it!

Canadian terrorists head to Iraq – one of those happy little problems that comes with its own solution.

[very crudely paraphrased from the CTV Oct.16 national newscast]

Sandie Rinaldo [anchor]: The vote went ahead with surprisingly little violence but has that changed?
Lisa LaFlamme [from Baghdad]: Yes, Sandie, this morning the sound of explosions could be heard outside the green zone and the US military reported fighting and killing dozens of suspected Muslim militants.
Sandie Rinaldo : What are ordinary Iraqi’s saying?
Lisa LaFlamme : I went down to a pool hall and talked to two of them. They noticed that the insurgency began with the arrival of 150,000 American troops on their soil.
Sandie Rinaldo : It must be frustrating to Iraqis who can remember the days when the Baath Party Benevolant Fedayeen Of Mercy delivered chocolate covered cherries* to every Iraq family to celebrate Ramadan.
Lisa LaFlamme : To a man, that’s what they are saying. And today they are all waiting for the day when the Americans leave so that the insurgency will end.
Sandie Rinaldo : What a quagmire the Americans have found themselves in!
Lisa LaFlamme : Quagmire!
Sandie Reynaldo : Quagmire!
Lisa LaFlamme : Quagmire!

Related and unreported: BECAUSE BUSHCO AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY HAVE FAILED TO QUELL THE INSURGENCY!