SoMA whips it out once again with "For the Love of Agape," a fabulous look at what an evangelical sex shop might provide. My favorite excerpt:

New Agape-Approved Sex Books:

• “The Illustrated Song of Solomon.”
• “The Complete Story of Adam and Eve,” with glossy photographs; comes in fig-leaf or no-fig-leaf versions, depending on your inhibitions.
• “Love Stories From the Bible”: Includes: Abraham and Sarah and Pharaoh; Isaac and Rebecca and Leah; King Solomon and Seven Hundred Wives and Three Hundred Concubines (diagrams included).
• “Loving with Authority” (for men only) by Rev. Richard Land.
• “The Women’s Sex Guide: Complete Submission for Complete Satisfaction,” by James Dobson.
• “Celibacy is Not a Hands-On Job: Or Play with Yourself, Play with Fire,” by Cardinal Ratzinger.

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Anyone else thinking we might have invaded the wrong country? I think the Jews were also behind last months "Dogbert's Tech Support":http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20060120.html, Dilbert cartoon that caused such outrage in the Tech Support World. I'll never forget the horror of those Indian tech geeks attacking the US Embassy in New Dehli.

Iranian Newspaper Holding A Holocaust Cartoon Competition

A prominent Iranian newspaper said it was going to hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust in reaction to European newspapers recently republishing the prophet drawings.  Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the Muhammad drawings were an Israeli conspiracy motivated by anger over the victory of the militant Hamas group in last month's Palestinian elections.

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Wondering what caused such backlash against Denmark, and now the entire EU?  Most US papers will not print the cartoon, but you can view it and get the summary from Wikipedia.  This situation is an intereseting test for Wikipedia's format of community editing.  They've had to temporarily close the cartoon controversy article, because of abuse on the page.

There are two great ironies in all this:

1. The editorial and cartoons that caused the uproar was about the inability of an author to find illustrators for a book on Muhammad due to Islams restrictions on making any depictions of their Prophet.
2. The protestors are angry at what they feel is the cartoons portrayal of Muslims as violent people, yet are responding with extreme violence, attacking and burning embassies.

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The drawings, which include a depiction of Muhammad with a bomb under his turban, were purportedly meant as satirical illustrations accompanying an article on self-censorship and freedom of speech. Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, commissioned twelve cartoonists to draw them and published the cartoons in response to the difficulty that Danish writer Kåre Bluitgen had finding artists to illustrate his children's book about Muhammad, because the artists feared violent attacks by extremist Muslims. Islamic teachings forbid the depiction of Muhammad as a measure against idolatry, a form of aniconism. In the past there have been non-satirical depictions of Muhammad by Muslims; however, a significant number of Muslims have publicly indicated their perception that the Jyllands-Posten cartoons imply that all Muslims are terrorists, by depicting Muhammad carrying a bomb in his turban and collaborating with terrorists (by receiving them in heaven).

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