Amidst the corporate media feeding frenzy over the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten in September and subsequently reprinted in European media and New Zealand in the past week, one important element has apparently slipped under the wire—the complicity of Danish imams who “circulated the images to brethren in Muslim countries,” according to Charles Moore, writing for the UK Telegraph. “When they did so, they included in their package three other, much more offensive cartoons which had not appeared in Jyllands-Posten but were lumped together so that many thought they had.”

Moore also finds it suspicious that there was no shortage of Danish flags to burn. “I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in Jyllands-Posten broke, angry Muslims popped up in Gaza City, and many other places, well supplied with Danish flags ready to burn…. Why were those Danish flags to hand? Who built up the stockpile so that they could be quickly dragged out right across the Muslim world and burnt where television cameras would come and look? The more you study this story of ’spontaneous’ Muslim rage, the odder it seems.” Moore also mentions Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, head of the International Association of Muslim Scholars, who has called for an “international day of anger” in response to the cartoons.

For Straussian neocons and their fellow “clash of civilization” (war against Islam) travelers, al-Qaradawi is the perfect radical Muslim for their propaganda purposes. He supports Palestinian suicide bombing and opposes negotiating with Israel. According to the neocon and Jabotinsky Likudite organization MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute), al-Qaradawi issued a fatwa calling for the murder of all Americans in Iraq, both civilian and military (as it turns out, al-Qaradawi never issued the fatwa and Straussian neocon lies are legendary). It is also said the imam supports the execution of gay men, although this point is of less importance to the Straussians who run foreign policy in the United States.

As well, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi conforms to the Straussian claim that militant Islam wants to take over the world and convert all infidels. “The influential Qatar-based cleric is best known for his public support of the terrorist group Hamas and his religious rulings applauding suicide bombings, positions which caused the U.S. State Department in 1999 to bar him from entering the United States,” the Boston Herald reported in March, 2004. “Beyond that, however, al-Qaradawi also promises that eventually Islam will prevail over all other religions and a single Islamic state will rule the world…. Al-Qaradawi says some countries will fall to the armed Islamic jihad, but in others, such as the United States, victory will come through Da’awa—the teaching of Islam to non-Muslims—which will trigger Westerners to convert to Islam…”

It is important to note that al-Qaradawi is a prominent figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization long ago penetrated by British and U.S. intelligence. “Dr. John Coleman, a former British Intelligence agent,” explains Peter Goodgame, “states in his report on Iran’s Islamic Revolution that the Muslim Brotherhood was created by ‘the great names of British Middle East intelligence’ …and that their mission was to ‘keep the Middle East backward so that its natural resource, oil, could continue to be looted.’”

Of course, we have little evidence that al-Qaradawi works for British and U.S. intelligence, although plenty of other manufactured terrorists—from Osama bin Laden (also known as “Osama bin London”) and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar—are connected to the compromised organization (along with Islamic Jihad and Hamas).

Once again cui bono—who benefits—enters the equation: Muslims may burn off some of their outrage over what they see as a denigration (through idolatry) of their religion, but at the end of the day the Straussian-Jabotinsky Likudite coalition score big propaganda points as, once again, people in America and Europe (who must be periodically reminded of the necessity for the “clash of civilizations” agenda for total war) are incensed by the violence spreading across the Middle East and are convinced that all Muslims are crazed fanatics who must be ultimately dealt with.