Daniel Pipes has a hell of a column today, in which he slams PBS’s documentary on the Prophet Muhammad, which will debut this week, as an “outrage.” Two things bother him: 1) the film is (in Pipes’ view) “airbrushed and uncritical,” as opposed to a 1998 PBS documentary about Jesus Christ, which presented the latest in critical scholarly thinking about the historical Jesus; and 2) “the U.S. government should never fund a documentary whose obvious intent is to glorify a religion and proselytize for it.”