Canada’s Western Standard magazine is publishing eight of the twelve Mohammed cartoons in its latest issue. Canada’s Muslims are already threatening to sue. Wouldn’t you think they’d have to leave the lawsuit to Mohammed himself? I mean, we’re talking liability here, right? Defamation, slander, etc… oh, no, wait. We’re talking being “offended” by someone who is not a Muslim having the right to depict Mohammed.

The Canadian Jewish Free Press has also published the cartoons. Both are being threatened with lawsuits.

The head of Calgary’s Muslim community is considering a civil lawsuit against two local publishers for reprinting controversial Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad — images that have sparked deadly riots overseas.

Syed Soharwardy, president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada, said the cartoons have caused Muslims in Calgary, and worldwide, unnecessary stress and heartache.

“We are, on Monday, going to see lawyers. We will try to find out if there is a possibility to have a civil lawsuit. That’s what we’re going to explore,” Soharwardy said Sunday.

“We see these cartoons as racist. We see these cartoons as hurtful, and we see these cartoons as against our religion. There has been damages towards the Muslim community for their losing their peace of mind, and creating stress on people’s heart.”

The Jewish Free Press and Western Standard Magazine, both Calgary-based, are among the first publications in Canada to print the cartoons.

I’m going to make a huge leap of logic here and guess that the Muslim community is probably not the Jewish Free Press’ target audience, and make an even greater leap and say that no Muslim usually reads the Jewish Free Press. I suppose they made an exception in this case, what with the chance to trot out their religion’s thin skin. Oh, and to call the cartoons “racist” again. Go look. Tell me how these are racist, because I’m not getting it.

To prove the point that Muslims like Iran’s nutball president are ignoring, the Jewish Free Press also published some typical Arab world anti-Semitic cartoons.

Jewish Free Press publisher Richard Bronstein said reprinting the cartoons wasn’t meant to offend Muslims, but instead to inform the public about the issue.

“When (the cartoons) dominate the world news for that period of time, to be an informed person you have to see what it’s all about,” said Bronstein.

The paper also published a selection of anti-Semitic cartoons printed in Muslim countries — like a cartoon of hook-nosed, diabolical Jew tunnelling under Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a holy site to Muslims and Jews.

Not that the offended Muslims commented on that at all. But wait, the victimology gets better.

Bronstein would not comment on the possibility of a lawsuit.

He apologized if he insulted Muslims, but stands by his decision to reprint the cartoons.

Soharwardy refused the apology.

“Jewish Free Press, they knew that it is not acceptable, that it is offensive to Muslims, they knew it. They took a calculated risk and they went ahead,” he said. “Their apology is nothing but a hypocrisy — a preplanned apology and I don’t accept their apology.”

That’s what I was talking about the other day when I mentioned that one of the things that disturbs me the most about this is the Muslims insisting on a “sincere” apology — because it seems they never accept any apology, sincere or not.

I really like the words of the publisher of the Western Standard at the end of his column explaining why the cartoons were published:

The Western Standard has no explaining to do. We’re a news magazine, and these cartoons are news. The publishers, editors and TV producers who are behaving as if they live under sharia law, not the Charter of Rights, have explaining to do — to their readers and viewers.

Good for you, Ezra Levant. Good for you.

This is my penance for having voted for Gore in 2000: Seeing him shill for the Saudis at the Jedda Economic Forum, bashing America for oil money. And I thought it was bad enough that the Bushes are in the Saudis’ pockets.

I have ten questions/statements needing Al Gore’s response:

1. Who is funding your appearance at Jedda?
2. You say:

Arabs in the United States had been “indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable.

Please explain the “unforgivable” conditions. Names, places, and conditions, please. Details required.
3. Do you think that lawbreakers (e.g., those who are in America with an expired visa) should be allowed to break U.S. law with impunity? (You may not use the “Clinton did it” excuse.)
4. Please explain why you think it is all right for foreigners to break the laws of the land. (You still may not use the “Clinton did it” excuse) ((Oh, please, he did so break the law, he friggin’ perjured himself)).
5. Please explain what you mean by “terrible abuses” in this statement:

“Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it’s wrong,” Gore said.

Specific cases are required. Names, places of abuses, kinds of abuses.

6. Are you out of your effing mind?
7. No, really, are you?
8. You do remember that you are an American, don’t you?
9. So, you never really intend to get elected ever again, do you?
10. See six. Repeat.

It sure seems to me that the Democrats never want to be in power again. Either that, or Karl Rove’s mind-control machine is working.

More cartoon riots, this time, with tear gas!

Iran moves ahead with its drive to get nuclear weapons.

Saddam Hussein is reminded that he is no longer the dictator of Iraq.

Al Gore proves he’s a whore for Saudi oil money, and will someone please figure out a penance I can pay for having voted for him in 2000?

It’s time to let Ariel Sharon go. Critical but stable means he could have gone peacefully. He isn’t waking up, and if he does, he won’t be Arik.

Behave today.