Jane's On The Danish Cartoons

Jane's is the world's pre-eminent defense and intelligence publisher. Here's what their "Islamic Affairs Analyst" publication has to say about the fallout from the Danish publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed:

Although the cartoon crisis has resolved itself on the diplomatic and political front, the speed and sophistication of the jihadist reaction has honed a highly effective weapon for the future. The crisis has provided a nexus between spontaneous public outrage and an articulated jihadist agenda, resulting in a crucial tool in the second front for empowerment - the re-education of the Middle East towards the radicals' worldview.

Comments on the websites of radicals and on jihadist forums have long lamented the inability to gain momentum in this task, with even major cataclysms in Afghanistan and Iraq having failed to light the spark. As such the 'perennial clash of culture and conspiracy against Islam' to which the cartoons have unwittingly given shorthand illustration, is simply too good to disregard. [Emphasis mine - c]

Expect the next email from Osama Bin Forgotten to be a thank you letter to rightwing bloggers, who by their "righteous" outrage and constant harping on the "clash of civilizations" did so very much to create the very rallying call even their Dear Leader's Iraqi adventure was unable to make for Jihad.

As if they didn't know this would happen - after all their own spurious campaign against "the war on Christmas" is designed to create the exact same cultural rallying call for their own homegrown Christian Right jihadists.