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Chris Selley’s Full Pundit: The jihadists’ William Hung

Chris Selley  August 30, 2010 – 2:20 pm

Be afraid. Be very afraid.
If you want to be afraid of Canada’s terrorist-infested future, read David Harris in the Ottawa Citizen. We’re all doomed, basically. If you’d prefer to be confused, confounded and perplexed, read the Citizen‘s or The Globe and Mail‘s editorialists: There’s no way to tell who’s a terrorist and who isn’t these days, but it’s our duty to keep an eye out for them — each and every one of us — so let’s get to work!
Meanwhile, the National Post‘s editorialists wish more extremists would make fools of themselves on Canadian Idol. “Jihadis present themselves as serious, dignified people in a serious, dignified struggle,” they argue. “Yet the dominant impression of [Khurram Syed] Sher now is of a somewhat sulky and self-conscious buffoon” — “a sort of jihadi William Hung.” Ideally, this would convince other would-be terrorists that only losers want to blow things up on Parliament Hill.
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Adrian MacNair: Rationalizing ‘homegrown’ terror

Adrian MacNair  August 30, 2010 – 11:32 am

 

It is not surprising to see that the reaction in the Toronto Star to the recent arrests pertaining to alleged “homegrown” Canadian terrorism is one of cautious skepticism. Though we must always remain fair in allowing the legal system to ascertain the guilt or innocence of the accused, it is another thing altogether to rationalize terrorism as the manifested effect of the cause of Western aggression.
But that is precisely what Toronto Star op-ed writer Haroon Siddiqui does almost every time there is a report of homegrown terrorism. His latest missive, an equivocation of a magnitude rarely seen in print, attempts to mask his contempt for the Afghan mission as a sort of rebuke of Canadian journalistic integrity. We have not answered the five Ws, he explains, the most important being the “why.”
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Margaret Wente

A hate-filled product of poverty or a ball-hockey-playing doctor?

The depressing truth is that radicalized Muslims in the West aren’t second-class citizens – they often work in medicine, engineering or computer science

Canadian Muslim 'doctor' failed Canadian Idol AND his med school exams!

Fabtastic!
Major Canadian newspapers My husband (with help from an anonymous physician) writes:

Since Khurram Syed Sher is not listed in the Directory of Fellows of the Royal College of Physians and Surgeons, he is definitely not a certified pathologist, which must mean he either did not take his exam (maybe he was out Jihading that week...) or more likely, he failed them.

#  Kathy Shaidle