Restoring Hate With A Sneer

History will judge the impact that Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on August 28th will have in the long term, much less whether it ever rises to the level of the Martin Luther King "I have a dream" speech that took place at the very same Lincoln Memorial forty-seven years earlier.  But we do know already that Beckapalooza does have some manner of legacy by the Left's now serial attempts to one-up it:

I wouldn't post about it other than for one act that was on the card yesterday: Islamist jihadi wannabe Cat Stevens:

Here's the simple, straightforward question Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert ought to have to answer: Were they or were they not aware that Cat Stevens - aka Yusuf Islam -- joined in Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei's fatwa against Salman Rushdie back in the '80s?:

I suppose it's possible that neither of the Comedy Central mavens was aware that this man once said:

"He must be killed," Stevens/Islam said in 1989 of Salman Rushdie, when asked about the Ayatollah Khomenei's infamous fatwa. "The Qur'an makes it clear - if someone defames the prophet, then he must die." He has never retracted his statements about Rushdie; instead, he has tried to pretend he never advocated what he advocated (and often simply refuses to comment on the issue).

On the other hand, given the propensity of Hollywood leftists toward advocating violence against their political enemies - the classic example in my recollection being when actor Alec Baldwin went on the Tonight Show during the Clinton impeachment and with an entirely straight face called for the murder of the late Representative Henry Hyde (R-IL6) and his entire family, and only later, after the media firestorm, trying to pass if off as "just a joke" - maybe Stewart and Colbert look upon Stevens/Islam the same way.  "Oh, ho ho ho ho, c'mon, guys, he was just kidding, right?"

Ensign Ed notes the stomach-turning irony:

What I find amazing about this is that two stars from Comedy Central would share the stage with a man who supported the idea of murdering an artist for his remarks on Islam. The producers of South Park got death threats from radical Muslims for attempting to depict an image of Muhammed in one of their recent episodes, and the executive management of Viacom forced them to censor the show in fear of Muslim reaction. Now, two of Viacom’s most recognizable television stars have linked themselves to a man who publicly endorsed that exact kind of threat — as a way to “restore sanity.”

Or "establish dhimmihood".  To the [ahem] unserious, there's little difference between "sanity" and rank cowardice.