The Other Fallout from NewsWEAK

Quick note on the current NewsWEAK snafu. Powerline points to recent developments against the batch of unconfirmed judges with NARAL trying to dig up dirt on these "out of touch theological activists" (hat tip to PowerLine and Robert Novak).

This is just one example of the Jihad going on in this country against evangelical Christians. The big mistake at NewsWEAK has fueled that fire as well. See this post from Saturday by "Henry" at Crooked Timber:

It doesn't seem to me to be unreasonable to guess that there's an indirect link between this NYT story on evangelizing Christians making life uncomfortable for non-believers in the armed forces, and the riots in Afghanistan that followed a Newsweek report that a copy of the Koran had been flushed down the toilet by Guantanamo interrogators. Other services than the Air Force have a spotty track record in the area of Christian-Muslim sensitivities; to the best of my knowledge, General Boykin was never disciplined for the flagrantly offensive comments that he made in 2003.

Henry takes the near-recanted/not-recanted/not-accurate-but-accurate NewWEAK article and links it to a story that's been developing for over a month now about a Lutheren minister upset at the Air Force for preaching too much religion ( NewsMax has the backstory on this piece ). Needless to say, the riotous massess killing people across the Middle East aren't the only ones beefed up by this story, just the most violent demonstration of its effect.