A Wakeup Call For Action...

As SDA points out Pleasing your enemies does not turn them into friends.


Doug Saunders

Norway shows we must expose dangerous fictions

Killing innocents to promote an idea is madness, but that doesn’t mean Anders Breivik is incoherent or irrational

Jul 30, 2011 7:01PM EDT 425

Mass murder and the Internet

Don’t blame religion for Anders Breivik

It’s time to confront the ‘counterjihadists’

No twisted religion in Norway tragedy


Coren: Talk about exploitation of the innocents. As soon as it was revealed Anders Behring Breivik was not a Muslim, and not part of some jihadist gang, the knives were out. Because, it was claimed, he was a fundamentalist Christian. Please!

Homegrown Terrorists? Does No One Recall Oka, Caledonia...

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

If A Country Was Predominately Athiest Would They Be Exempt From A Holy Ware?

The global Internet jihad: Web of terror

Margaret Wente

Pricking The Media Bubble

Terry Glavin: The bravest woman in Afghanistan, isn't

Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:25 PM by NP Editor

"Bravest woman in Afghanistan" my ass, Brian Platt, my colleague at the Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee, observes. Brian also discovers that to ask the only pertinent question of Malalai Joya - have you even thought about the implications of what you are demanding? - is to be dismissed and shouted down by Joya's fans for asking an impertinent question.

During my many conversations with feminists and progressives in Afghanistan last year, one thing that came through loud and clear was that the "troops out now" posture so commonplace in polite society in western countries has no support among Afghan women's leaders. What was also clear was that Joya and her backers with the so-called Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, to the extent that they are thought about at all, are regarded as faintly ridiculous and marginal characters, at best.

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Kelly McParland: The one-sided world of Khadr coverage

osted: November 16, 2009, 3:15 PM by NP Editor

If you read the outpouring of coverage on Omar Khadr on the weekend you might be wondering why President Obama hasn't kept his pledge to close Guantanamo by the end of this year, and why he's allowing cases like Khadr's to go to the military tribunals George Bush was so heavily abused over.

You'd think there would be a ready explanation for those two questions. There has, after all, been a flood of coverage on the Khadr case and Guantanamo. A new wave hit on Friday, after the White House decided to split the trials, sending some Guantanamo detainees to tribunals and others -- like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- to a civilian criminal court.

But there isn't. Coverage on Khadr's predicament concentrated on finding critics to blast the decision, without trying to explain it. Maybe that's because the media outlets disagreed with it. But last time I looked, news reports were supposed to inform and explain, not just take positions and then seek out rent-a-quotes chosen because they agree with the reporter's position. That's what we get on Khadr, though: an announcement followed by ritual denunciations by civil libertarians, lawyers sympathetic to Khadr, members of the NDP and "activists" whose expertise, as usual with activists, is limited to their firm belief in the righteousness of their opinions.

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