Moderate Muslim watch: Germany

Credit where it's due:

A Muslim cultural institute in Germany on Monday criticized Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad for disparaging the Holocaust, daring him to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp.

"In this place of horror he can again deny the Holocaust, if he has the courage," a spokesman for the Islam-Archiv-Deutschland Central Institute told the German Catholic press agency KNA.

Not sure what the Arab word for 'balls' is, but this will probably suffice.

21:18

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Photographers attacked during Amsterdam Muslim demonstration

Only now has it become known that three press photographers (Maurice Boyer, Phil Nijhuis and Daimon Xanthopoulos) were attacked on Saturday during the Muslim demonstration that got four people arrested. In the case of Boyer, this resulted in some minor injuries, which nevertheless kept him from participating in a running competition on Sunday. Nice.

Meanwhile, a bunch of cowards in Oldenzaal, a city in my native region of Twente, have decided to prohibit Mohammed parodies during the upcoming Catholic Mardi Gras festivities. My beloved late grandmother was from Oldenzaal and if she could hear about this, she'd rise from the grave and give them an old-fashioned ass-whooping.

18:37

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Request to my readers

I am not in the habit of asking for money, but may I ask that, if you enjoy this blog, you visit my tech blog PMM Blognoot once in a while, and perhaps start to use it as your homepage? The friendly people at Planet Internet, of which PMM Blognoot is a part, are kind enough to pay me for my blogging, which in turn enables me to spend time on Zacht Ei. It seems only fair that they would get some extra pageviews as a result. We're doing pretty good already and indeed traffic is at an all-time high, but I feel we can do excellent, and so that's what I wish to aim for. I also would ask that you forward the URL to PMM Blognoot (www.pmmblognoot.nl) to any of your friends with some grasp of Dutch.

Alternatively, sending a winning lottery ticket to my postal address is also much appreciated. (Or barring that, real Jelly Belly beans.)

18:28

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