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The feature interview this week is with Kamal Nawash, head of the Free Muslim Coalition Against Terror, who says if people say or write or draw bad things about the Prophet Mohammed, he may be offended, but if so, that’s just tough!

Andrew Ian Dodge joins us from London where the streets are full of Muslim Rage ^(TM), and the bedrooms of Liberal Democrat Party MPs are...well, you don't want to know what they're full of, trust me. Laurence Simon gets his priorities right by focusing on the real news, which is of course Britney's baby!

And we have a new contributor to SNN, it’s Meryl Yourish, who will contribute an item called “On Second Thought” each week. It was about time we stopped sounding like a boys club anyway.

In Blog News, for the second week in a row it’s all cartoons, all the time!

The Egyptian Sandmonkey spills the beans onthe fake nature of the current Muslim Rage ^(TM) by posting photos of the cartoons published in an Egyptian newspaper back in OCTOBER, which provoked a big fat zero on the Muslim Rage ^(TM) meter at the time. Which was Ramadan, by the way.

Michelle Malkin has a roundup of various governmental dissent-crushing efforts, advising newspapers what not to print, pulling the plug on websites which don't toe the official line.....no, not in the Third World - we're talking about Europe here! And New Zealand! Perry DeHavilland at Samizdata says if Muslim pressure forces a law change to prevent free speech in the UK, he intends to go down fighting.

Also courtesy of Samizdata, a BBC interviewer sneers at a Danish MP for imagining that freedom is worth more than profit.

Shrinkwrapped Blog has a big picture post, in which it is suggested that the current Muslim Rage ^(TM) is part of the unpleasantness involving Syria and Iran, and that the alleged spontenaity of Muslim Rage ^(TM) might be a tad disengenuous.

Oh, and I spaz out a bit when Melanie Phillips points out that in the latest opinion poll, 37% of British Muslims reckoned British Jews were a legitimate target. But it’s okay, I took a pill and keep saying “I am sitting on a lotus leaf at the still, quiet center of a calm blue ocean…calm blue ocean…calm blue…THEY WANT TO KILL US ALL!...calm blue ocean…”

Andrew Sullivan reminds us that 'twas ever thus, with a passage from Beaumarchais' "Figaro" about 18th century Muslim Rage ^(TM) which bears a striking similarity to its 21st century cousin.You know, the fact that they've been trying this stunt for hundreds of years actually comforts me not at all?

And Canadian blogger Kathy Shaidle points to something we can all have a good laugh at, frm Religion News Blog. I won’t spoil it for you here, you’ll have to listen.

Shire Network News is the podcast of Silent Running , an Anglospheric group blog. You can contact the presenter, "Tom Paine", here.

The feature interview this week is with Danish blogger Mikkels, who writes the blog Enough. He tells us what it’s like to be at the ground zero of a campaign of violent intimidation aimed at destroying the western right of free speech.

Andrew Ian Dodge in London has the latest on the bizzare stories swirling around the Lib-Dems, who used to be known as the party of beards and sandals, but lately as the party of beards and scandals. Laurence Simon takes on the increasingly sclerotic and past-obsessed US civil rights movement, and makes me think of a Cadbury's commercial. Uh, just listen, you'll see why.

In Blog News, it’s all Danish cartoons, all the time!

Kathy Shaidle suggests a much more realistic name for the international Muslim Day of Anger, while Zombie discovers that the alleged "blasphemy" of depicting Mohammed may not be quite the offence it's being portrayed as. Samizdata suggests a "Buy-cott" of Danish goods, Judith Apter Klinghoffer shows us where we can buy Danish, and Silent Running has your "Support Denmark" t-shirst right here baby! You know you want one. View from the Core is organising a Mohammed cartoon blogburst, with assistance from Michelle Malkin. A Muslim cleric who was given political asylum by Norway declares war on the country, regardless of whether he gets an apology, and CNN acts like a big girls blouse about showing the cartoons. They say it's because they "respect" Islam. Like they show such respect, admiration and sensitivity towards Christianity?

And finally, Laurence Simon changes my mind, and I join calls for a full apology to Muslims for our western intolerance. The key to my change of heart? Let’s just say, location, location, location.