I swear, it's not going to take much more...
From Cox and Forkum-
The jihad over the Danish Mohammed cartoons continues, and the West appears to be losing the battle for free speech:
From Middle East Times: Muslim gang forces Paris cafe to censor cartoon show. (via Dhimmi Watch and Tom Pechinski)
A gang of young Muslims wielding iron rods has forced a Paris cafe to censor an exhibition of cartoons ridiculing religion, the owners of the establishment said on Friday.
Some 50 drawings by well-known French cartoonists were installed in the Mer a Boire cafe in the working-class Belleville neighborhood of northeast Paris, as part of an avowedly atheist show entitled, "Neither god nor god".
The collection targeted all religions - including Islam - but there were no representations of the Prophet Mohammed such as sparked the recent crisis between the West and the Islamic world, according to Marianne who is one of the cafe's three owners. ...Refusing to dismantle the exhibition, the owners have placed white sheets of paper inscribed with the word 'censored' over the cartoons that were targeted by the gang.
"To take down the cartoons would have been a surrender. But on the other hand we cannot expose ourselves to this kind of violence. This way you can still see the pictures if you lift the paper," said Marianne. ...
"Putting on this type of show in this place was not in the least a provocation. Unless you think that freedom of expression in itself is a provocation," the cartoonist Charb told Le Parisien newspaper.
And from the BBC-
The protesters, most of them Hispanic, marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to the edge of Chinatown carrying banners saying "We are not criminals".
The House of Representatives has passed a bill making it a felony to be in the US without correct paperwork and the Senate is debating other measures.
Other, smaller protests were held on Saturday in a number of US cities.
'Blood, sweat and tears'
The New York protest, stretching a mile long, was a colourful parade bearing the flags of many nations
Banners included slogans such as "If you hurt immigrants you are hurting America", "We are your economy" and "I cleaned up Ground Zero".One protester, George Criollo, told the Associated Press news agency his family, from Ecuador, was in the US illegally but he felt he had to speak up.
"We came to say that we're here. We have to speak, legal or illegal. We have to speak about this issue," he said.
Camella Pinkney-Price, of the Hispanic Evangelical Churches, said: "Why are people called illegal immigrants when they have shed blood, sweat and tears to work in this country?"
The object of the protest is legislation passed by the House in December that defines illegal immigrants as criminals and calls for a 700 mile (1,120km) anti-immigration fence along the Mexican border.
The Senate is now considering a competing law that would give illegal immigrants the chance to become US citizens.
This bill would also toughen workplace rules for immigrants and create a "guest worker" programme that is favoured by President George W Bush.
...and from Iran-
Iran announced its second major missile test in a week, saying Sunday it has successfully fired a high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying huge warships and submarines.
The Iranian-made missile has a speed of 223 mph underwater, Gen. Ali Fadavi, deputy head of the Navy of the elite Revolutionary Guards, said.
He called it the fastest underwater missile in the world - but it has the same speed as the Russian-made VA-111 Shkval, developed in 1995 and believed to be the world's fastest, three or four times faster than a torpedo.
It was not immediately known if the Iranian missile, which has not yet been named, was based on the Shkval, or if it can carry a nuclear warhead.
"It has a very powerful warhead designed to hit big submarines. Even if enemy warship sensors identify the missile, no warship can escape from this missile because of its high speed," Fadavi told state-run television.
The missile test was conducted during the third day of large-scale military maneuvers by tens of thousands of the elite Revolutionary Guards in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
Iran on Friday test-fired the Fajr-3 missile, which can avoid radars and hit several targets simultaneously using multiple warheads. The Guards said the test was successful.
The missile tests and war games coincide with increasing tension between Iran and the West over Tehran's controversial nuclear program.
The United States and its allies believe Iran is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, but Tehran denies that, saying its program is for generating electricity.
The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Iran halt its uranium enrichment activities. But Tehran said its activities are "not reversible."
Think they're not linked? Think again. We're engaged in a global war for our own survival as a society and a culture, and the relativists among us will end up being our downfall if we choose, by inaction, to let it happen. It's a stark choice we have to make, and make soon. The result of inaction will be the loss of everything that we hold dear about the anglosphere.
Where do you stand?