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In an otherwise grim week -- at least on unimportant peripheral matters like Iranian nukes -- three things cheered me up. The first was the decision of Iran's bakers to rename Danish pastries "Roses of the Prophet Muhammed pastries.'' Has a ring to it, don't you think? If they're looking for a slogan, how about "Iranian pastry: There's nothing flakier. Except our president." The second cheery sight was the destruction of a McDonald's in Lahore by the usual excitable young lads from the religion of pieces. Apparently the lively Pakistanis had burned every single Danish target in the city --...

[Parvez Ahmed is board chairman of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group. Contact him at pahmed@cair-net.org. ] THE WORLDWIDE FLAP over a series of cartoons published in a Danish newspaper was avoidable had all sides approached the issue with wisdom and restraint. Denmark's Jyllands-Posten published the cartoons depicting Islam's most revered personality, the Prophet Muhammad, in a way that was inaccurate, derogatory and intentionally provocative. Other than demonstrating visceral hatred toward Islam, the cartoons achieved little else. Muslim outrage over the cartoons has lead to boycotts of Danish products across much of...

GLOBAL JIHAD 'Muhammad cartoon'proved fake Imam added 3 especially provocative images to fuel outrage Posted: February 8, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Faxed photo, top, and original AP image One of three especially inflammatory but undocumented Muhammad images distributed by a Danish imam as an example of an "anti-Muslim environment" in the European country turns out to be a poorly reproduced copy of an Associated Press photo taken at a French pig-squealing contest. The weblog NeanderNews pointed out the image used by Imam Ahmad Abu Laban was a faxed copy of AP's Aug. 15 photo of Jacques Barrot competing at...

Duluth, MN-Sunday's edition of The Family Circus incited violent riots among white people because of the introduction of a new playmate for Billy named Mohammed. To better understand why mobs have formed, psychologist Cliff Stevens explained, "For over 40 years, The Family Circus has never had a person of color in its sweet glaze of homogeneity. It's been the only whitebread refuge left in our society; the last stronghold of the innocent past. When confronted by today's moral ambiguity, we could always turn to that place frozen in the glorious time of the 50's. A time before those unnecessary civil...