The United Arab Emirates' top religious authority has issued a fatwa against those annoying plastic horns everyone blows at the World Cup, citing possible hearing damage. Praise Allah. Is it grammatically correct to say something has been "fatwaed?" [AP]

Tonight, Jon Stewart put America's favorite insanity-ridden network in its place when he decried Fox News' anti-Muslim biases regarding NASA's recent foray into diplomacy, as well as the controversy over the construction of new mosques across the country. Video inside.

You know what someone should do something about? All those Muslims who are desperate to escape their religion but just haven't found the courage to do it because Islam is so violent. Luckily this blogger woman will save the day!

A Manhattan Community Board will back a plan for a Muslim community center near the WTC site. Angry people gathered to protest the Muslim plot to provide a "500-seat performing arts center, a culinary school, [and] a swimming pool." [NYT]

Whether anyone likes it or not, "Everybody Draw Mohammed [sp?] Day" is here, thanks to the unstoppability of internet memes. Muslim reactions have ranged from reasonable to unreasonable. But the reaction of the day's (unintentional) creator sums it up best.

Aasif Mandvi is a funny guy. He is also The Daily Show's "Senior Islamic Correspondent." So why would the show ask him not to talk about Muslim extremist threats after the Times Square bombing attempt?

[A man with strong feelings drives in California. Photo via Reddit]

Is nothing sacred? The Danish KFC website was the subject of a Thursday night attack by Muslim hackers, who replaced the site's index file with exhortations to respect Islam, an educational YouTube video, and, uh, winking emoticons.

After an Iranian cleric said earthquakes were God's punishment for scantily-clad women, the pro-scantily-clad lobby of womanity declared today Boobquake, a day to flout and disprove the cleric by baring your boobs. And then a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Taiwan!

South Park made jokes about the Prophet Muhammad. An Islamic group, Revolution Muslim, retorted with thinly veiled threats, and the show was censored. Fans were outraged — and they seem to have fought back by mocking the group's website.

Tragedy in America: A nice patriot from Virginia whose truck had a very patriotic paint job, has been stripped of his right to license plate free speech. The plates carried a coded White Power message, citing Hitler and David Lane.

Jihad Jane had a friend. Meet Jihad Jamie, a 31-year-old Colorado mom named Jamie Paulin-Ramirez who is being held by police in Ireland for allegedly plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the Prophet Mohammed.

Three women and four men were caned in Malaysia for having sex out of wedlock, say the Wall Street Journal. But it's OK, because the home minister has a great justification for the ridiculous punishment.

An ambassador to Dubai has annulled his marriage: his bride had never revealed herself, wearing the full Islamic face-covering Niqab on the occasions the couple had met. After the wedding he tenderly lifted the veil to kiss her...

Okay, maybe that's putting it too strongly. But in the past 24 hours we've learned two strange and delightful things about the cradle of the Taliban that give us hope.

Someone is going to burn in hellfire for eternity: The only question in today's Outrage-Off is whether it will be the relatives of British troops killed in Afghanistan or Democrats.

Good news: The Feds are finally savvy enough to scoop the blogosphere. Bad news: Now we'll never get a screen grab of his Facebook profile. Panty bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's social networking persona is emerging, and it's startlingly banal.

Lynne Torgerson—who is running against Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), a popular, well-respected U.S. Congressman—wants to stop the "globalization of Islam" and "Ellison [who] is a Muslim." She cites 9/11, Fort Hood, and the book Muslim Mafia as evidence.

There are sketchy reports that Maj. Nidal Hasan tried to contact "people associated with Al Qaeda," and some are calling Ft. Hood "the largest single terror act in America since 9/11" — something both terrorists and wingnuts wish were true.

The Associated Press is reporting that, according to Ft. Hood's commander, witnesses to yesterday's massacre say Maj. Nidal Hasan was shouting "God is great" in Arabic as he was firing on his fellow soldiers.