There would be riots, fatwas and murder attempts for everyone involved – assuming the show were even allowed to air.

Comedian Larry David is under attack from critics who say he pushed the mocking of religion and Christian belief in miracles over the edge in the latest episode of his HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," which the cable network defended as "playful."

On the show's most recent installment, which aired Sunday, David urinates on a painting of Jesus Christ, causing a woman to believe the painting depicts Jesus crying.

I suppose there is a bit of humor in the story line, but not much. Indeed, most decent people should be appalled by this attention-grabbing stunt. But let’s be honest about it – there isn’t much chance of David and the rest of those involved facing any consequences for their mocking of Christianity. We don’t riot in response to such things – we might complain, but then we turn the other cheek.

Why not be really edgy, Larry? Wipe your but with a page from the Qu’ran and see what happens. Not only would it be equally edgy and disrespectful of the feelings of religious believers, but it would also present the opportunity for some of us to set up a “Larry David death pool” so we can place wagers on how long it might take offended Muslims to hunt you down and kill you – or whether you might be able to survive for a few years under heavy guard like Salman Rusdie.

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Either that, or she does not understand sharia. If either of these two things is true, she has no place holding a position in the American government that relates to Islamic affairs.

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

Miss Mogahed appeared alongside Hizb ut Tahrir's national women's officer, Nazreen Nawaz.

During the 45-minute discussion, on the Islam Channel programme Muslimah Dilemma earlier this week, the two members of the group made repeated attacks on secular "man-made law" and the West's "lethal cocktail of liberty and capitalism".

They called for Sharia Law to be "the source of legislation" and said that women should not be "permitted to hold a position of leadership in government".

Miss Mogahed made no challenge to these demands and said that "promiscuity" and the "breakdown of traditional values" were what Muslims admired least about the West.

Got that -- the Obama Regime is inclusive of those who want women covered and subservient to men, with non-Muslims put into a second-class status with fewer rights than Muslims. Frankly, who gives a damn what such people want, given that it is antithetical to the US Constitution and the entire American tradition.

I'd like to say I'm shocked -- but I'm not.

Disgusted? yYeah -- but not shocked

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Moe Lane points out that one particular prominent hate crime has gone unsolved for 10 months – and the media seems particularly intent on overlooking the offense and ignoring the lack of progress of the investigation.

I posted on this three months ago - and in those three months: if there has been anything done by the current government in investigating this hate crime that would merit an update, I havenÂ’t found it.  Somebody attempted to murder several women and children via arson, and itÂ’s becoming depressingly clear that that person (or persons) has gotten away with it clean.

This offends me.  It should offend you.  If it doesnÂ’t, I donÂ’t really care what your excuse is.

Yes, that’s right – there seems to be no progress in the investigation of the arson attack on the Wasilla Bible Church last year. Want to bet that if this had been an attack on Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ we would have seen massive amounts of federal resources poured into the investigation of the crime – one which would be seen as both a hate crime and an act of political terrorism, just as the attack on the WBC ought to be?

Why the lack of progress? Why the lack of press coverage? Why the lack of public outrage?

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As a Christian, I would never dare to write a post on this blog suggesting that Moses, David, or Solomon (or any of the Hebrew prophets) was quitting Judaism over the policies of the Obama Regime towards Israel or the content of the platform of the Democrat Party. And under no circumstances would I put blasphemous words into the mouths of Jewish politicians and commentators, showing them as condemning any of those revered religious figures for their failure to adhere to the tenets of contemporary liberalism.

Not only that, I would never link to such a post on another blog -- except, perhaps, to condemn it as a vile bit of anti-Semitism.

I therefore feel I am well-within my rights to condemn well-known liberal pundit Alan Colmes, who is a Jew, for tweeting up and blogging about this bit of vile anti-Christian garbage. And what's more, I can't help but note the disingenuous tone he adopts in expressing surprise that Christians might take offense at his having done so.

I don't take offense that Alan Colmes would speak ill of the GOP. I don't even find it troubling that he would be critical of Christianity. Rather, I am offended by the particularly vile and blasphemous way manner in which the post he so approvingly links does both. I guess that in Alan's liberal worldview, respect and tolerance for other faiths does not extend to Christianity -- because unlike the followers of certain other faiths, Alan knows that Christians like those he insults will turn the other cheek rather than seek to take his life in retribution.

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