The Rant

     The Islamic Conference, comprised of 57 Islamic member states, suggests that the West must replace notions of free speech with different principles fundamentally based upon Sharia law which prohibits any insult to Mohammad.  They previously called upon the U.N. to pass rules prohibiting any negative reference to the Prophet.  This is another example that we do have a war of ideas, a culture war, between Islam and the West, and also that Islam is very willing to make it a fighting war, as reflected in the fact that the author of the Cartoons was the victim of a conspiracy to murder him in retaliation for his silly little cartoon.   Meanwhile, his hotel is so afraid of violent reprisal against him that they threw him out, and the 73 year old cartoonist is now homeless because the brave Danes do not want to face the risk of ending up like the Director Theo Van Gogh (who was butchered on the street by a Moslem for directing a movie about how Islam treats women that the Moslem did not...

     Baghdad, Iraq - -  A suicide bomber killed at least 40 Moslem pilgrims and wounded 60 others Sunday as the pilgrims made their way to the Holy city of Karbala on one of the holiest days of the Shiite Calendar.  Women and children were among the casualties.   The suicide bomber was likely a member of a different sect of Islam, the Sunnis, and probably felt that Allah would reward him by giving him 72 virgins in exchange for his murdering other Moslems of slightly different theology, including women, children and those on a holy pilgrimage.   Not really news in the World of Islam; not man bites dog, but just another typical headline from the so called religion of peace.