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February 18, 2006

MAINSTREAM MUSLIM LEADER urges violence against gays. In Russia. To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, theocracy is forever descending on America, but somehow it always lands somewhere else.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Sissy Willis.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ann Althouse:

Ah, so the cartoon violence is to work as general threat to suppress all sorts of behavior. Religious fanatics with no power to force others to adopt their religion use violence and threats of violence to force others to behave as if they were followers of that religion.

Indeed.