Islamophobia--Is it justified? CBC & Chatham House Analysis, CBC, Gambling & Khanawake, Ethanol, Communist China's Terror Ties

Islamophobia--Is it justified?

Today was a good day to develop Islamophobia, if you have been holding back due to some warped sense of moral equivalence. A perusal of Saturday's news pointed out why you should be afraid, very afraid, of the way Islam is being used to justify the worse atrocities you could conjure up in a nightmare. Attacks on the Buddhist Thais in Southern Thailand, another bombing of a Turkish resort, a fuel truck suicide mission against the Shi'ites in Iraq--all topped off by a running street battle between Hamas and Abbas's Fateh. That isn't the full account I'm sure, because the nitpicky individual murders by Islamic fanatics just get crowded out by the spectacular massacres. These attacks are all part and parcel of the daily carnage wrought by diseased religious fanatics, who remember how Islam got its converts in the good old days--by the sword.

However as they wage their nihilistic war, our politically correct politicians of the West, along with the imams, try to tell us that Islam has nothing to do with this. In The National Post, (July 16, 05) Robert Fulford exposes the idiocy of such a suggestion. Every one of the endless terrorist acts is buttressed by some tenet of the Koran. And I suspect that every outrage against the West is cherished by millions of Muslims in the East and many in the West. Fulford quotes Hani al Siba'i, the head of the al-Maqrese Center for Historical (Islamic) Studies in London, who said the day after the London bombings, "If al-Qaeda was behind the bombings, it is a great victory; disturbing the G-8 meeting rubbed the noses of the world's eight most powerful countries in the mud." Even the al Jazeera interviewer was shocked at such vitriol. 'Red' Ken Livingstone, London's mayor, claimed that the bombers didn't even believe in any ideology or faith. How brainwashed in socialist pap can one person be? This nonsense is tolerance carried into the realm of treason. It's a wonder he didn't instruct the police not to profile young Muslims at train stations and airports.

Fulford also reveals that the ringleader of the four terrorists was invited to tea by a Labour MP and his poisonous den of a youth center was financed by the British government. How many more Islamic "youth centers" in England are similarly financed? Like Canada, the British have diluted their Britishness to accomodate every immigrant's cultural aspiration. We have seen the result. The BBC has stopped calling the bombers "terrorists" and has gone back to the more neutral "bombers". This is either a loony-left stance or craven cowardice. Having ignored open treasonous fundamentalist street demonstrations, it is hard to tamp down this extremism. It would mean demanding that the viscious imams who control many English mosques be immediately deported, while the law against hate speech be applied vigorously toward their extremist followers.

In Canada, we have as head of our security Deputy PM Anne McLellan, Ms. Weasel Words herself, suddenly admitting that the Liberals have not done enough in security. Nothing will spoil the Liberals' barbecue glad-handing more than a terrorist attack. All their absurd immigration / refugee policies will come back to haunt them. They will be strung up on their cross of mindless 'diversity'. No amount of spin will allow them to tar the Conservatives with their own criminal folly. Their NDP buddies will take a direct hit as well, as they would be even more lax. In their combined desire to garner more Muslim votes, they have allowed a completely alien culture to take root here. They have gained the Muslim vote not because these people admire the Liberals stance on abortion, same-sex marriage, or support for radical feminism, but because the Liberals support their large-scale entrance into Canada--documented or otherwise. My fear is that the Liberals are so arrogant that they will not respond to the threat until we have a catastrophe occur here. Simply, they have ruled for so long they actually believe that their wrong-headed policies are the true spirit of Canada.

© Bud Talkinghorn




And now the Islamic-Canadian response to the London Massacres

I tuned in to CBC too late to catch the woman's name, but she was a mouthpeice for the Islamic Canadian Congress. The CBC interviewer was his usual mush-mouthed self and mainly tossed her puffball questions. Never once did he hone in on the pertinent points. Still, the spokeswoman managed to convey her interesting take on the bombings and the threat to Canada. According to her, if Canada would just abandon any attempt to combat Islamic terrorism, it would be safe. She suggested that we were merely stooges for American "imperialistic" foreign policy in Afganistan. The interviewer failed to mention that previous to allied action there, the medieval Taliban had tried to drag the Afghanis back to some crazed interpretation of Islam's 8th century tenets--whipping women in the streets because their ankles were exposed, no flying of kites, mandatory beards, and other troglodyte strictures. Then there was their hands-on support of al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps. "Bomb the infidels into submission, ya, ya, ya!" Isn't it enough for her that the West sat by while their sworn enemy spent years plotting its destruction?

The woman had been well versed in how to throw in various lamentations about how Islam is being affected adversely by such terrorism. Even as we are the ones being murdered, its always about them, some how. Then she brought up a key idea. Should all Christians feel guilty for the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebenica? Well, Lassie, we do feel some guilt and what's more, the West set up an International tribunal to try those guilty. The President who authorized these atrocities is now in jail facing charges of genocide. Where is the international Islamic court to try the equally fanatic monsters who have turned the entire world into a charnel house? And why, if the jihadis are so intent in driving out the Western soldiers in Iraq, are their targets mainly innocent Shi'ite or Kurdish Muslims? How typical of CBC to fail to bring up such indiscreet facts. And what would ensue, except a massive civil war, if the allies left? Perhaps we should leave it to the Arab League, that sagacious organization, to make Iraq a haven for democracy and security. Sorry, that was a weak joke.

Anyway, it was an eye-opener to see what our Muslim citizens--surely she was picked as a "sensitive" face?--really see as the problem. If she was supposed to be the moderate symbol, then we have a real problem. Unlike her, I don't give a tinker's damn about the Israeli-Palestinian problem. That is their problem (in perpetuity) not Canada's. If I have to take sides, I would back Israel, because it is a democracy and Palestine is either going to be a fascist socialist state like Syria, or a vicious theocracy like Iran. You are living in Canada, lady, so get with the program. Between the CBC and this spokeswoman, the problems looming up before Canada are daunting.

Bud Talkinghorn --If you wonder why I pick on CBC so much, it is only because our other TV channels are almost devoid of any commentary on our current situation. They are more concerned with "amusing us to death" with mindless fare.


Comment 1:

Further to Bud's comment, scroll down for "No Muslim masacres, no Srebrenica -- The real story behind Srebrenica By LEWIS MACKENZIE July 14, 2005" posted yesterday, July 17, 05

In a CBC news item today on the cause of the London massacre, CBC's UK reporter (Cooper?) chose to report the Chatham House analysis

(http://www.riia.org/pdf/research/niis/BPsecurity.pdf)

which attributed the Islamic terrorism to the UK support of the US in Iraq. The UK's Jack Straw was reported as saying that Islamic terrorists had no excuse for 9/11, so the argument doesn't hold. CBC 'balance'. Is nothing so obvious ever allowed to be stated without, in most cases, an inappropriate show of 'balance which just happens to be anti-George Bush and anti-American? Unceasingly, CBC politicks for the Liberals and the leftists. NJC

Who support and fund Chatham House was left unmentioned, so check:

http://www.riia.org/
www.chathamhouse.org.uk

Directory of Expertise

The Chatham House Rule

"WHEN A MEETING, OR PART THEREOF, IS HELD UNDER THE CHATHAM HOUSE RULE, PARTICIPANTS ARE FREE TO USE THE INFORMATION RECEIVED, BUT NEITHER THE IDENTITY NOR THE AFFILIATION OF THE SPEAKER(S), NOR THAT OF ANY OTHER PARTICIPANT, MAY BE REVEALED".

Comment 2:

Last night, our taxpayer funded broadcaster brought us another perky news item -- very positive on poker, the story of one player who was playing for millions. In the end, he won. There was no balancing story of the heartbreak, losses, personal tragedies that ensue. Gambling is just another story which, in the positive telling, accords this accursed pastime the public broadcaster's imprimatur . . . or is that the same as a federal government imprimatur? Unfortunately, provincial governments of all political stripes have grown to depend on the revenue.

Is this what taxpayers are forced to pay their public broadcaster to promote? NJC

Related:

'Sovereign' reserve hits the jackpot -- Hosts online casino sites -- Mohawk Internet Technologies (MIT) Graeme Hamilton, July 18, 05

KAHNAWAKE, Que.-- [. . . . ] According to a recent report by Desjardins Securities, M.I.T.'s computer servers have made the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake the most popular jurisdiction in the world for hosting online gambling sites. Last year, the industry worldwide generated an estimated US$7.5-billion in revenues.

[. . . . ] The bulk of the profits have gone to the non-native operators of the gambling sites, such as PartyGaming and GoldenPalace.

[. . . . ] "We have always asserted that we are a sovereign people, this is our jurisdiction, this is our territory," Mr. Delisle [Chief] said [. . . . ]

Without a formal agreement with Canada or Quebec, one company has pulled out. Chief Deslisle is optimistic about 'developing relationships' and 'negotiating'.

Search: 47 online gambling operators , strengthen the Mohawk language in Kahnawake



Newsstands flush with poker magazines -- Popularity of Texas hold'em spurs publications to lure in younger players July 17, 2005

ATLANTA - Bluff magazine routinely reveals a world at the top of the poker craze that few get to see, of millionaire card sharks who spend money with abandon, use $1,000 chips as coasters and fly like rock stars from one glitzy casino to another.

[. . . . ] “We’re aimed at the new generation of poker players,” . . . .

[. . . . ] poker Web sites that, although not legal in the United States, can advertise because they’re based abroad; [. . . . ]

[. . . . ] Poker has become popular among American youth, thanks to TV shows such as Bravo’s “Celebrity Poker Showdown,” the Travel Channel’s “World Poker Tour,” and ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker. Also helping fuel the boom were the rags-to-riches stories of nonprofessional players Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer, both of whom won the World Series of Poker’s no-limit Texas hold’em World Championship in 2003 and 2004.

Research shows ethanol isn't worth the energy -- Study: Production doesn't aid security, agriculture, economy, environment

[. . . . ] But researchers at Cornell University and the University of California-Berkeley say it takes 29 percent more fossil energy to turn corn into ethanol than the amount of fuel the process produces. For switch grass, a warm weather perennial grass found in the Great Plains and eastern North America United States, it takes 45 percent more energy and for wood, 57 percent.

It takes 27 percent more energy to turn soybeans into biodiesel fuel and more than double the energy produced is needed to do the same to sunflower plants, the study found. [. . . . ]

There are dissenting views.

Search: Cornell's David Pimentel and Berkeley's Tad Patzek , hydrogen , SUNY's College of Environmental Science and Forestry




China-e-lobby connects the dots July 08, 2005

[. . . . ] Communist China has tried to hide their ties to terrorism, but those ties are there for all to see. The Communists have laundered Osama bin Laden’s drug money for him. They have been instrumental in the Iranian mullahcracy’s efforts to become a nuclear power as the Khameini regime was giving aid and comfort to al Qaeda operatives, including many of the 9/11/01 terrorists. They signed an economic agreement with the Taliban the day the World Trade Center fell (second and third items). They installed a fiber-optic network in Iraq to help Saddam Hussein integrate his entire defense network, and then sold him missile gyroscopes and other missile technology for oil-for-food vouchers. They have a long history of economic and military ties to Syria, which was the host of current Communist leader Hu Jintao when he called Israel a “colonialist plot aimed at detaching from the Arab nation a part that is dear to it – Palestine” (sixteenth item). [. . . . ]

There are several links within this paragraph on the website.

Related:

On the Road in China

map PDF

Silk Road treasures united on the web Nov. 11, 02

[. . . . ] The materials recovered from the Dunhuang cave in China in the early 20th Century offer a glimpse into the daily life of merchants, officials, soldiers, monks and farmers in Silk Road towns.

Among the artefacts are hundreds of paintings on silk and tens of thousands of manuscripts in more than 15 languages and scripts.

Material scattered

"The cave was sealed in AD 1000 and completely hidden," Dr Whitfield told the BBC programme Go Digital. "It was discovered accidentally in 1900 and when it was open, it was found to contain these 50,000 items of manuscripts and paintings." [. . . . ]

The collection can be found at either The Collection in China or The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) UK collection

Not to be forgotten: a wonderful collection at the Taiwan National Palace Museum

A Canadian artist: Canada Through Taiwanese Eyes

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