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Allow me to offer a suggestion as to how our government might avoid the slaughter of our personnel in diplomatic installations around the Islamic world by mobs. It seems to me most probable that insults to the Prophet Muhammad appear regularly in the modern world. After all, insults against revered figures in the world's other major religions pop up all the time. As for Islam, a book such as Salman Rushdie's "Satanic Verses" can be published anywhere. A thirteen-minute anti-Islamic video can arrive on YouTube, and my guess is there are others that have and will appear there. In some...

<p> 63 million page views 21 readers online now Go to Mobile Site Home Articles Blog Reviews Spoken Books Other Languages Biographical Middle East Forum About this site Mailing List Rampaging Islamists by Daniel PipesThe Washington Times September 19, 2012 http://www.danielpipes.org/11960/rampaging-islamists Print Send Comment RSS Share WT title: "Islamic violence advances Shariah law: Is U.S. ready to accept second-class status?"; includes updates When Muslims take to the streets in nearly 30 countries to engage in various degrees of anti-Western violence, something important is underway. Reflections on what this might mean:The Rushdie Rules have gone viral: Ayatollah Khomeini's 1989 masterstroke of...

The authorities in Pakistan have called on the army to control protesters demonstrating against an amateur video mocking Islam outside the US embassy in the capital, Islamabad. Live rounds have been heard and tear gas has been fired as police struggled to contain the crowd of thousands. The film, which was made in the US, is said to insult the Prophet Muhammad. Several people have died in protests in the past week against the film in the Middle East and North Africa. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says some protesters have said they will not leave the diplomatic enclave...

Yemeni police Thursday shot dead four protesters and wounded 34 others when they opened fire on a crowd attempting to storm the US embassy in Sana'a to protest a film mocking Islam, a security official said. The White House, meanwhile, said it was doing everything it could to protect its diplomats in Yemen, where witnesses reported that roads leading to embassy were closed down as the area was calm later in the evening. "Four people were killed and 34 others were wounded in the clashes that lasted from morning until late in the evening" in the area around the U.S....

PROTESTS TODAY BROKE OUT IN SUDAN, KUWAIT AND MOROCCO! (STATE DEPT TWEETS AT LINK) Hundreds of Muslims protested on Wednesday outside the U.S. consulate in Morocco’s largest city Casablanca to decry a film deemed insulting to Islam. (Naharnet) And Morocco– Now Lebanon reported: Hundreds of Muslims protested on Wednesday outside the US consulate in Morocco’s largest city Casablanca to decry a film deemed insulting to Islam that already sparked deadly violence in Libya, an AFP photographer reported. The protesters, numbering between 300 and 400 mostly young activists, gathered around 200 meters from the consulate amid a heavy police presence. Some...

Mike Barnicle has suggested that the Department of Justice consider prosecuting Florida pastor Terry Jones in the death of the American ambassador to Egypt and deaths occurring during riots last year in Afghanistan. Hat tip readers Melody, Jonathan R., Ray R. Barnicle made his suggestion on today's Morning Joe, during a discussion of the attacks on the American embassy in Egypt and the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the American ambassador died after an attack by an Libyan mob. Fellow panelist Donny Deutsch responded by saying he was "thinking the same thing" as Barnicle. View the video here.