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Dutch MP Geert Wilders (Google Images)

Despite a plethora of absurd legal complaints against him in the Netherlands, not to mention the recent Jordanian attempt to collect him to stand trial in Amman for blasphemy, courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders is now planning a sequel to his controversial film FITNA, it was announced Tuesday in an Amsterdam daily.

It remains to be seen what sort of film Mr. Wilders is planning. To be sure, without risking redundancy there remain uncited by Wilders plenty of offensive passages in the Koran to illustrate the canonical source of jihad violence, if his intention is in fact to pick up where he left off. Truly, if Muslims are incensed by the relatively tame FITNA, they may be in for quite a shock, considering all the Islamic scripture that jihadists routinely quote to justify violence and hatred in the name of Allah. The great majority of that material didn’t make the cut in Wilders’ first movie, but he may just be frustrated enough to go for broke this time around.

What would you do if radical Islamists threatened your life while many of your own people and prominent elements in your own government insisted that you are the criminal? Just try to imagine the stress under which Mr. Wilders must operate, with complaints, threats, fatwahs, charges, proceedings, and vile incriminations coming relentlessly from all quarters. Would you pull out your Edvard Grieg records and sit down to create yet more of that which presently has multitudes hating you? Would you thumb your nose at them all? That takes some super-sized cajones.

My lifelong friend Jimmy Ryan, an octogenarian Irish janitor, accustomed in his time to having his cajones under someone or another’s boot, used to call it, defiantly, despite the anguish, no matter the pain—and the consequences be damned—giving the bastards “a bit o’ the nose.”

This week’s blogburst calls on several high-profile bloggers to join—or make that “rejoin”—the crucial fight against the planned Flight 93 memorial abomination. Of course, the reason the folks noted are heavy hitters is that they feature timely, unique, fresh, and original content on their weblogs, so maybe they feel that the so far weekly blogbursts detract from their power profiles. But the Flight 93 memorial is too important an issue to be subordinated to merely personal concerns. If we lose the no-brainer battles, we certainly cannot expect to win the major battles or the looming war to come, and the Flight 93 monument issue is categorically one such no-brainer. We simply cannot accept this disgrace to our fallen heroes, this slap in the face to the families of the deceased, this patent pandering both to our enemies and to the sniveling cowards who appease and approve them.

The planned memorial is a terrorist memorial mosque. This is an enemy plot . . .

I won’t be able to make the trip to Somerset this August, but I’d love to meet Tom Burnett Sr., father of one of the heroes on doomed Flight 93. I’d also love to meet Alec and all of the other authors from the blogburst blogroll. Mostly, I’d like to see the crash site, where a group of valiant Americans looked past their immediate circle and embraced immortality on behalf of us all.

Except for a few minor changes and corrections, the following is, as before, the work of Alec Rawls. I have turned off comments on the post to encourage you to comment at Alec’s weblog, Error Therapy. Better yet—and I know Alec will concur—tell it to Charles, Michelle, Ed and the rest. Express your astonishment that their illustrious names aren’t found in the blogroll.

Tell ‘em the great Haid Dasalami sent you.

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