A few years ago, the great screenwriter Robert Avrech wrote a column, “Help, I’m a Hollywood Republican,” about his predicament as an Orthodox Jewish conservative trying to write certain kinds of scripts. Everything he said is as true today is as when he wrote it. But Hollywood being what it is, things are looking up for one religion and one religion alone: Islam.

A recent piece in USA Today noticed that the “sinister Muslim” stereotype is fading. That’s not good for either Jews or fans of freedom. It means the repressive forces in Europe that have led to riots there over political cartoons that Muslims claim are negative, and lawsuits that have expanded legal protection to Muslims to the point where they can sue over any linkage between terrorism and Islamic Voldemorts, is coming to a screen near you. Like it or not, we are living in an age where there are, in fact, tens of thousands of “sinister Muslims” out there. Handcuffing Hollywood — or Hollywood handcuffing itself — so it would be a “hate crime” to tell certain stories in which You Know Who are the villains has fearful consequences for the Jewish narrative. Even forget for a moment that Jews are often the real victims in stories involving They Who Shall Not Be Named — the assault on free speech for all Americans is chilling. The bad guys are winning. They haven’t won yet, but it looks like rain.

Jonah Goldberg took a look at Hollywood and some modern war movies. Guess who the enemy is?  But Americans aren’t buying: “Nearly all the polemical anti-war” films have flopped.

The Kafkaesque legal absurdities are of a piece with the Flying Imans case, in which it was established that if an airline acts upon suspicious passengers, the airline that is trying to be careful can be sued for by that passenger if that passenger turns out not to be a terrorist. The system is actually daring you to stop a suspicious passenger. Either the terrorist has the right to remain silent and the right to a lawyer, or you will need a lawyer to explain yourself. How much did that Flying Imams lawsuit lead to the hesitant response by the authorities to the Christmas bomber?

Here’s one Saturday morning cartoon — and a second — an a sophisticated, yet chilling, Palestinian music video — that you might like to e-mail to your friends, or to kids in college. Tomorrow belongs to them.