No subject should be outside the realm of debate in a democratic society.
Memo to the Hon. Stockwell Day
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, June 10, 2006
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Fund our security services adequately; don't create new ones. Let the agencies we already have do the jobs for which they have trained and are eminently capable. Then, let the mainstream media and the courts not undo their efforts ... you may have your own examples of this.
[....] First, the current threat environment related to terrorism; and
Secondly, our organization's specific interests in Afghanistan.
Terrorist activities inspired by the "Al Qaida ideology and operational doctrine" are currently the most prominent and immediate terrorist security threat faced globally and domestically. It is a phenomenon that has been manifested in many parts of the world.
[....] There has been, as well, a growing trend towards non-terrorist criminal activity by these individuals and groups to either generate revenue or acquire materials in their terrorist planning.
Canada is not now, nor has it ever been immune to the threat of terrorism. In fact, the committee will know that prior to the events of 9/11, the most significant act of terrorism in contemporary history, if you measure it in terms of casualties, had its roots in Canada. I am speaking of the Air India bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 329 people.
Similarly, Canadian citizens have not been immune more recently as witnessed in the deaths of Canadian citizens in the 9/11 attacks in the United States or in Bali. As well, Canadian military personnel and a diplomat serving in Afghanistan have been killed and wounded in terrorist attacks there and the threat to our forces there remains high.
We have not been immune from terrorism in other ways as well. There are residents in Canada that are graduates of terrorist training camps and campaigns, including experienced combatants from conflicts in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere.
As well, Canadian citizens or residents have been implicated in terrorist attacks and conspiracies elsewhere in the world. For example, a young man is now awaiting trial here in Ottawa because of his alleged involvement in a bombing conspiracy in the United Kingdom. Others have been involved in terrorist plots against targets in the United States, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Singapore, Pakistan and other countries.
Canada has been named on several occasions as one of six Western "target countries" by Al Qaida leaders, most recently last summer.
[.... Afghanistan]
Let me conclude with a few words about Afghanistan. It is a country that has been of interest to CSIS for a number of years. It continues to be of active interest to us for three basic reasons.
First, it has a long-standing association with the global terrorist phenomenon, particularly Al Qaida, dating back to the days of the Soviet occupation. Many foreign nationals were active participants, along with Afghan nationals, in the anti-Soviet campaign. Many of them continued their links with that organization after the Soviet withdrawal. And a good number of them, have since migrated elsewhere in the world, including to our country.
Second, the deployment of Canadian Forces to Afghanistan has resulted in our Service taking an active role to support our military colleagues in the country. While I am not at liberty to discuss the operational details or methodologies of that support, I can say two things about it.
This support has been principally focussed on the acquisition of intelligence to help the Canadian Forces defend themselves against terrorist attacks in that country. This intelligence is known to have saved lives, uncovered weapons and arms caches, and disrupted planned terrorist attacks.
The third reason we have a continuing active interest in Afghanistan comes back to concerns for the stability of the region, more broadly speaking. Afghanistan is the current venue where the terrorist designs of a number of organizations rooted in Pakistan, the central Asian republics and the subcontinent are planned and operationalized, and where individual activists seek support and sanctuary.
Our historical investigations have taught us at some point, this condition of broader regional instability will be the progenitor of terrorist threats in Canada. Therefore, we have to orient our collection programs not only tactically in response to current circumstances in Afghanistan, but strategically as well to better situate the Canadian security intelligence community against future threats.
In the here and now, terrorism and insurgency is being brought to Canadians in Afghanistan. At some future point, if we are to learn the lessons of history, their practitioners may bring violence to the streets of our cities.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Saturday, June 10, 2006
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Re: Our World - Immigration - Questions to be Asked and Answered Posted by Bill Narvey on 13:13:52 2006/06/06. In Reply to: Re: Our World: The path to our destruction posted by mmaxx
[....] If all Muslim immigration is barred, that directly impacts on those barred, but those barred are not yet in Canada, so no rights Canada affords its citizens and those of other status residing or visiting here accrue to those who have not entered Canada? Does such bar on immigration deny the rights of those Muslims already in Canada and if so, what specific rights does such an immigration policy affecting others infringe or transgress? [....]
If all Muslim immigration is barred, that directly impacts on those barred, but those barred are not yet in Canada, so no rights Canada affords its citizens and those of other status residing or visiting here accrue to those who have not entered Canada? Does such bar on immigration deny the rights of those Muslims already in Canada and if so, what specific rights does such an immigration policy affecting others infringe or transgress? [....]
Re: "In more extremely dangerous situations where all Canadians or citizens of other nations are in immediate danger, then one cannot afford the luxury of time [to]consider what the right questions are and to mull over answers to those questions. Rather an immediate response is necessitated by the immediacy of a threat."
I suggest that the laxity on immigration and carelessness about Canadians' security in the recent past and the extremely dangerous situation we are in now, place us in the kind of situation where the PM, his government and the Opposition should act to stem the tide NOW and work out the fine points later. (There have been enough apologies for actions taken in the past, some good, some bad. The times sometimes dictate action, not mulling over.)
That, combined with Muslims using our freedoms and laws to fight every attempt to stem the entry of dangerous people and to force us to accept their ways--radicalized imams preaching hate in mosques and even around or in universities, shariah, demanding too much tolerance related to Wahhabi education, the veil, treatment of women, attempts or refusal to have some (which? all?) burka-clad women's faces shown in passports, et cetera--along with the government's pandering to the "ethical" pronouncements from the UN about "rights" that have been slavishly followed by previous governments to the general detriment of Canadian citizens -- all mean we may have a situation which is already out of control.
No-one asked Canadians what they wanted nor what they want now. From the polls in the Globe and Mail today, I believe Canadians are a bit wiser now. Sometimes, like a parent, a government must put its foot down and declare something verboten, just because there is a sense of danger and it is better act in the interests of safety. That time is now.
I do not at this point care about the rights of immigrants from jihadi producing nations to bring their relatives here. I have a right to feel secure from alien threats and the potential for such. End all immigration of Muslims until the problem of Canadians becoming jihadis is fixed. That is, tackle the problem of how/why these Canadian-born jihadis are being produced and deal with that. Then worry about the rest.
I have heard enough for a lifetime about the "rights" of minorities and people from Canadian sub-groups whose "rights" have trumped my rights, too often. I am concerned about Muslims, not immigrants from Hindu countries (except their Muslims) nor Buddhists, nor Jews nor those from any number of other religious groups.
Get rid of the transnational problem; tackle the national problem; then talk to people like me about how many angels can sit on the "tolerance, reason and rights" head of a pin.
Reasoning and cogitating over the questions Bill Narvey raised--good and reasonable questions--may seem like a worthwhile endeavour, but I want action. The time for too much consideration of the rights of one subgroup [to bring in their relatives] identified by religion is long past.
Is that too right wing for this forum [CCD]? Que lastima! I simply don't care any more. I have the advantage over many in that I am willing to say it and write it ... before I am bombed into jihadi heaven and find there are no ... raisins(?) for women.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, June 09, 2006
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Daimnation! 4 Jun 2006 -- Aly Hindy, imam at the Salaheddin Islamic Centre in Scarborough, said the charges ... The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim, ...
What I want to know is why the Liberals are on record for:
1. After 9/11, Chrétien denied there were any terrorist groups operating in his country until his own security organization went to the media and contradicted him, saying there were 50 such groups on Canadian soil.
2. Chretien also snubbed the World Trade Center tragedy when he refused to have an official memorial service for the almost 40 Canadian citizens who died in its rubble.
3. Chretien excused himself by saying that Hamas has a charitable wing that runs schools and hospitals in the Gaza strip and West Bank; only its military wing, he says, should be sanctioned.
4. "Terrorism should not stop us. Terrorism should motivate us" -Jean Chretien (Sep. 27, 2001 - from a speech delivered in Halifax during a nationwide storm of criticism that his government was not responding effectively to terrorist threats)
Just a matter of where and when
[....] Alastair Gordon, president of the Canadian Coalition for Democracies (CCD), said that whether a group of people are attacked by Islamic terrorists has nothing to do with Iraq or Afghanistan. He noted that many innocents in countries that have nothing to do with American Middle Eastern policy are the victims of Islamist terror, including hundreds of farmers in Thailand, the murder of 300 schoolchildren in Beslan, Russia, the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir, and countless other attacks around the world.
As the "Winds of Change" website has noted, Al Qa'eda has killed at least 4,895 innocent people and injured in addition 12,345 more in 16 countries since 1998. Told of these numbers, Gordon suggests it is folly to imagine Canada can long elude an attack. "Involvement with U.S. foreign policy has no relationship with being attacked by Islamic terrorists." he said. "They hate our way of life."
Liberal Senator Colin Kenny, chair of the Senate committee on National Security and Defence, wondered whether London caught the attention of Canadians, noting "Canada is the only country on the Al Qa'eda list that hasn't been hit yet."
Anne McLellan, [....] "We need to be constantly checking our systems, doing exercises and rehearsing."
Gordon said that he does not know "if psychological preparedness matters." He added, "What matters is prevention. Everything else is a red herring."
[....] While McLellan highlighted a reactive response to terrorism (checking our systems and rehearsing for emergencies), Bell and Gordon advocate a more proactive response that prevents terrorism by punishing and removing terrorists.
[....] In March 2004, in the wake of the Adscam scandal, Auditor General Sheila Fraser released another damning report, this one on Ottawa's inaction on addressing national security concerns. She highlighted the vulnerability of Canada's ports and airports to terrorist attacks, especially with regard to those who work there. She found that 5.5 percent of a sample of airport employees had possible criminal connections, a flag for national security concerns. If extrapolated to the entire airport workforce, there would be 4,500 employees with possible criminal connections the implications being that employees are not being properly screened, and those with criminal connections may also be tied to terrorist groups.
Senator Kenny's Security and Defence committee has released several reports over the last three years raising concerns about the country's lack of preparedness for terrorist attacks. In December 2004, Kenny released the 2005 edition of the Canadian Security Guide Book, which highlighted the same concerns Fraser drew attention to: improperly guarded and underguarded borders, and vulnerable ports and airports. In one example, he noted that Canada's ports of entry were jeopardized by the disappearance of 1,127 uniforms or uniform items belonging to Canadian airport screeners over a nine-month period, including 91 security badges.
Kenny's committee also alleges that the government is "cutting corners on intelligence." This seems to confirm Fraser's findings that nearly $9 billion in anti-terrorism money is not ending up where it is supposed to go, and that there are intelligence gaps resulting from fiscal mismanagement and oversight confusion. Kenny says the problem is not merely money but training; he said it can take years to properly train intelligence officers, but that there is no commitment to train a sufficient number of analysts. [....]
As long as CBC's best funding is tied to a corrupted and leftist/Liberal government, along with all the access, CBC will spout the leftist/Liberal mantras in order to help Liberals get back in power. I think CBC have massaged the Liberal message and bought their own lies for so long--in the service of maintaining their own perquisites and funding--that they no longer search for truth, nor can they see truth ... until it bombs them to smithereens. Then those who are left alive will be searching for root causes.
Yes, I'm cynical about this propaganda organ and everything else that government has funded in the past. Look into the United Nations tentacles in Canada for more. Follow the money.
Then check what the students are taught in schools and universities, the bilge for want of a politer word for what I am thinking. Teachers, like CBC types, are hired as much for their political views/correctness as for anything else. They fall into line. Follow the curricula and then see how hard it is going to be to change not just CBC, but so much else.
A Canadian Muslim friend who lives in Ontario told me recently that he has been unwelcome in his local mosque since the September 11 attacks on Washington and New York. His fellow Muslims have blackballed him because he made public statements critical of the hijackers and of al Qaida and the Palestinians and supportive of the US and Israel. He informed me that while in absolute numbers, mosque attendance in Canada has dropped since Sept. 11, those who continue to attend are fervent in their devotion to jihad against the Western world.
That is, the Muslims who have been forced from the organized Canadian Muslim community are those who believe in Muslim integration in the West while those who remain within that community are radical separatists who cannot abide their pro-Western Muslim brethren.
My friend and his fellow pro-Western Muslims are doubly ostracized. Not only are they rejected by their fellow Muslims who decry their denunciations of jihad, they are also rejected by the intellectual and cultural elites in their countries who insist on apologizing for jihadists in the name of multiculturalism and anti-racism.
The depth of my friend's isolation was made clear this weekend when, in the wake of the arrests of the Canadian jihad cell, Luc Portelance, the CSIS assistant director of operations told his countrymen, "It is important to know that this operation in no way reflects negatively on any specific community, or ethno-cultural group in Canada."
FOR ITS part, the Canadian Islamic Congress (whose leader, Mohamed Elmasry has openly stated his view that all Israeli citizens are legitimate targets for terrorist murder), attacked Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper for what it referred to as his decision to "paint today's arrests as a battle between 'us' and 'them.'" The CIC alleged that "Such statements put all Canadian Muslims in great danger," and demanded that the Canadian government fund "legitimate academic research to diagnose this serious social problem [of Canadian Muslims waging war against their country] and provide scientific solutions to it."
Justifications for the actions of Western born and raised jihadists - and indeed for all jihadists from Osama bin Laden down - like that published by the Telegraph are of course par for the course. As author Bruce Bower exhaustively demonstrates in his book While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, there exists a unity of purpose between Islamic extremists and Western elites in Europe and throughout the world. Both sides wish to hide the fact that Islamists seek to dominate the Western world while painting the US and Israel as the greatest threats to international security.
There seems to be no limit to the willingness of Western elites to justify jihadist acts of war against their societies. The Telegraph's apology for the Canadian jihadist terror group came at the same time as Britain's counter-terror forces were conducting a desperate search for a chemical bomb they fear was built by two British born terrorists who were also arrested on Friday in London. The fact that Britain's own jihadists were planning to attack Londoners with sarin gas made no dent in the Telegraph's willingness to make excuses for radical Islamic warriors.
THIS PATTERN of collaborative dissimulation between leftist Western elites and jihadists manifested itself last week in Winnipeg, Canada. There, as the Ontario 17 steadily advanced their plans of war, Muslims in Manitoba launched an attack against a film that exposes the nature of the global jihad against the West. Last Monday and Tuesday the documentary film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West launched its Canadian premiere in the city. (It will be premiering in Israel at Hebrew University on June 14.)
Obsession, was produced by the media watch group Honest Reporting. It effectively shows the depth of the hatred and indoctrination to jihad that is taking place worldwide. Interweaving clips from Arab television, recordings of mosque incitement, interviews with extraordinarily brave Muslim heroes like The Jerusalem Post's Khaled Abu Toameh and renowned historians such as Sir Martin Gilbert, Professor Robert Wistrich, and Daniel Pipes, the film seeks to fill the void left by the Western media and academia to alert regular citizens to the reality of the threat that jihadist ideology presents to their freedom.
Senator Jerry Grafstein, seconded by Senator Hugh Segal, tabled Senate Bill S-206 in April to cover suicide bombing as terrorism in the Criminal Code. Other Senators, including General Romeo Dallaire and Art Eggleton, support it and you can also help this Bill to pass.
[....] We expect Senate Committee hearings within the next few weeks for Bill S-206. It will need support from as many Canadians as possible to pass in the Senate and move into the House of Commons. Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day and other Conservatives support CANASB but they need public pressure to convince the Government, which has other priorities, to support it.
You can see news about the Bill, the Senate speeches, our new supporters like Major General Lewis MacKenzie, and other important items in our redesigned web site in the Breaking New and Events pages.
If you have not already sent us your support for Bill S-206 please offer support through our web site, www.canasb.ca, which will forward your messages to the Prime Minister, Senators and MPs.
*Bill S-206 is the same as Bill S-43, which died when the election was called.
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David Harris, CCD Senior Fellow for National Security, was interviewed recently by CTV on the catastrophic failure of our security agencies to screen immigrants from terror-exporting nations such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the deadly phenomenon of homegrown terrorists such as the Muslim British citizens who slaughtered London commuters on 7/7, 2005.
May 31 2006 - CTV Canada AM interviews David Harris on Canada's Immigration security collapse & homegrown terrorists
May 31 2006 - CTV Newsnet interviews David Harris on the identified risk of homegrown terrorists and the risk of a London 7/7 bombing in Canada
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code-named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches. At Omaha, the U.S. First Division battled high seas, mist, mines, burning vehicles-and German coastal batteries, including an elite infantry division, which spewed heavy fire. Many wounded Americans ultimately drowned in the high tide. British divisions, which landed at Gold, and Sword beaches, and Canadian troops, landing at Juno beach, also met with heavy German fire, but by the end of the day they were able to push inland. [....]
Total Allied casualties on D-Day are estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. British casualties on D-Day have been estimated at approximately 2700. The Canadians lost 946 casualties. The US forces lost 6603 men. Note that the casualty figures for smaller units do not always add up to equal these overall figures exactly, however (this simply reflects the problems of obtaining accurate casualty statistics). [....]
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, June 09, 2006
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When the shadow falls on political correctness--the terrorism debate
Three years ago, as writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, I was putting the final touches on my book, The Trouble with Islam Today. One afternoon, I took a break to stretch my legs. Strolling past the debates room in the student centre, I saw mounds of shoes and realized it must be time for ''jummah'' prayers -- the communal worship in which devout Muslims participate every Friday. The place was packed with men, mostly young, many wearing logos of local sports teams.
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There is a link error May 20, 2006: #1 Updated -&- May 23, 06 East Coast Development Links
SAINT JOHN, NB, May 17 /CNW/ - Canaport(TM) LNG, the partnership between Repsol YPF and Irving Oil, today announced that it has awarded the on-shore and off-shore Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contracts and issued the final notice to proceed for the construction of the first new liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal on the East Coast of North America in decades. Repsol also announced this week that it has completed the agreements to transport natural gas from the Canaport LNG Terminal to markets in Canada and the Northeast US via the Brunswick Pipeline and an expansion of the Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline system in the US.
SNC-CENMC, G.P., a partnership between SNC-Lavalin Inc., Canada's largest engineering and construction firm, and Saipem S.p.A. of Milan, Italy, was awarded the Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) contract for onshore facilities and jetty topsides, providing full procurement and supervisory responsibilities for the onshore portion of the project.
Kiewit-Weeks-Sandwell Partnership, a consortium of Peter Kiewit Sons Co of St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador; Weeks Marine of Cranford, New Jersey; and Sandwell Engineering of Vancouver, British Columbia, was awarded the EPC contract for the terminal's offshore facilities, including the receiving pier. [. . . . ]
There is a bit of information on each company.
Would MP Paul Zed (who married into the Irving family) have had anything to do with this? Would his being in Opposition now put a spanner in ....... how things have always worked?
posted by News Junkie Canada at Friday, June 09, 2006
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Via The Death of Multiculturalism? BCNU2, 6/07/2006 -- ISLAMOPHOBIA: RACISM? OR REALISM? CBC NEWS: THE NATIONAL PRESENTS THE ENEMY WITHIN TWO-PART SERIES AIRS TUESDAY, JUNE 6 AND WEDNESDAY JUNE 7 AT 10 P.M. ON CBC TELEVISION
Canadian Muslim organizations are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty to hold a summit on youth extremism.
The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations, known as CAIR-CAN, hopes the summit will be held by the end of June. [....]
"They need a safe, constructive way to express their dissent instead of falling prey to people who play on their vulnerabilities," said Shahina Siddiqui. [....]
March 5, 2004 update: In an undated statement, the far-left Tides Foundation announces that is is funding CAIR's "Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes" project with the ostensible aim to promote peaceful co-existence between Muslims and non-Muslims and decrease tolerance for anti-Muslim hate crimes.
[....] May 12, 2006 update: Mohamed Elmasry of the Canadian Islamic Congress addressed the Marxism-2006 conference in Toronto and told the assembled leftists:Now, for the first time in history, the political left is working with conservative Muslims on issues of social justice, with the long-term goal of building a world that lives by peace, through justice. Communists, Marxists, socialists, and nationalists are working with civil libertarians, liberals, and conservatives to achieve this urgent goal together.
[....] It has been called a made-in Canada plot against Canadian targets, but this is only half the story. It's alleged the group's emir, or leader, was Fahim Ahmad, and that he was in touch with shadowy terrorist figures in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Britain.
[....] According to Aly Hindy of the Salaheddin Islamic Centre, Mr. Ahmad blamed constant spying by CSIS for forcing him into criminal activity.
In August, 2005, two young men were stopped at the Canada-U.S. border and searched. Authorities found three handguns, boxes of ammunition and even a bullet stashed in a sock.
The men, Mohammed Dirie and Yasim Mohamed, told authorities they bought the weapons from a drug addict in Columbus, Ohio, for "protection" from criminals. They were sentenced to two years each.
The smuggling incident was brought to the attention of the RCMP-led Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.
They noted that the car intercepted at the border was a rental. And, according to the Crown dossier, the credit card used to obtain the vehicle belonged to one Fahim Ahmad.
It was at that point that authorities began to regard the case as much, much more than a gun-smuggling incident. [....]
When one dandelion plant appears in my lawn, it is a foregone conclusion that in subsequent years there will be many more, and if not dealt with, will obliterate my lawn.
Regular application of a herbicide fixes the problem.
Can we equate Islamofacists to dandelions?
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"The incidence of personal income tax filing for Canadians 20 years of age and over in 1995 was roughly 91%. The comparable figure for immigrants 18 years of age and over as captured in the IMDB was 57%."
So they don't pay taxes that'll fire the economy
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"14.3% of immigrant taxfilers landed since 1980 reported welfare benefits as an income source in 1995, as compared to a 9.6% incidence for all Canadians."
so people here 15 years are 50% more likely to be on welfare, no wonder we need government housing.
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"12% to 18% reported unemployment insurance benefits"
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"In 1995, those with 0 to 9 years of education accounted for 18%"
18% of the adults we bring in have no high school?
Insane I tell you these are adults over 18 all ready for welfare.
[....] We do make sure that when crimes are reported that statistics on race are missing so we can know that in say Norway that Muslims carry out xxxxx% of all gang rapes but in Canada until it hits someone you know the press are not allowed to tell you under the anti truth laws of Canada.
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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs: Go to the federal job website they will post jobs where white males are not allowed to apply. If we needed immigration they wouldn't need to do that. [....]
Abortion Affirmative Action Immigration The Senator of CTV HIV Daycare Kids Scandal and Waste Truth humor Yet Another Scandal Group Action National Action Council on the Status of Women Islamic Hatred Bilingualizm Amount of your taxes wasted on paying for debt UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Canadian Violations Reasons Not To Trust The Lieberals Reload Home Page
On Sunday May 28, there were demonstrations in various Canadian cities to ease the plight of "undocumented" immigrants in Canada. You know, to recognize these folks as beneficial and necessary to the Canadian economy, and to change our laws to 1) make it easier for more immigrant workers to come to Canada, and 2) institute an amnesty so that these poor, undocumented workers can live here without fear of being discovered and deported.
Hello? Undocumented is just a fancy word for illegal. These are illegal queue jumpers who have smuggled themselves illegally into our country, and now they want to stay (surprise!) without having to go thru the onerous task of applying for landed immigrant status.
I kid you not. This lunacy actually took place in various cities this past weekend. Who do these people think they're trying to fool? If Canada brought forward an amnesty so that these undocumented AND illegal immigrants could apply to stay in Canada without having to apply outside the country, as one is supposed to do, wouldn't that send a signal to the world that all one had to do was to sneak into Canada, then announce yourself as an "undocumented immigrant" and presto! Canada will arrange to process your application for landed immigrant status, then you can apply to bring in your family under the "Family Reunification" guidelines.
This isn't just "selling the farm", it's giving it away with both hands!
[....] Using images from Arab TV, rarely seen in the West, Obsession reveals an ‘insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. With the help of experts, including first-hand accounts from a former PLO terrorist, a Nazi youth commander, and the daughter of a martyred guerilla leader, the film shows, clearly, that the threat is real.
A peaceful religion is being hijacked by a dangerous foe, who seeks to destroy the shared values we stand for. The world should be very concerned.
TIMELINE OF ISLAMIST-LINKED TERROR: March 1977 - July 2004
The Islamists have pursued their battle on a variety of fronts, from sectarian violence against Coptic Christians in Egypt , to subway bombings in Paris , to attacks in Russia .
70s: 1977 1979
80s: 1981 1983 1984 1985 1988 1989
90s: 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999
00s: 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
[Obsession ]
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Shahina Siddiqui, the president of the Islamic Social Services Associations told the press, "I want the police to identify this as hate propaganda." So much for free speech, just try to declare something 'hate propaganda' and stop anyone from being able to 'choose' to view it or not. It's not hate if it's true. [....]
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[....] What is going on in Caledonia is not a noble struggle of members of an oppressed minority asserting their civil rights. This is not a 1960 sit-in at a Georgia Woolworth's lunch counter. This is a gang of militant thugs victimizing the law-abiding citizens of Haldimand County, emboldened by the timidity of a province and country paralyzed by political correctness and the fear that one of the occupiers might get hurt.
The Ontario government has responded to the crisis as if it was a teachers' strike, sending in David Peterson to negotiate. But the occupation is not a political dispute; it is a long-running criminal act.
We do not negotiate with bank robbers or drunk drivers. We arrest them and throw them in jail. If they resist? Well, that's why cops have handcuffs, nightsticks and tear-gas grenades.
I'm sure some readers still think the occupiers are the victims, automatically deserving of sympathy as people of colour fighting The Man. Those sympathizers should take note: The Six Nations radicals claim all land within six miles of the Grand River. That includes all of Waterloo, Kitchener and Cambridge. If the occupiers are able to get their way in Caledonia through violence and intimidation, you might wake up next year to find your street under occupation.
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I could not even get this completely posted on June 8 so I have added to it (June 9). What is the problem with Blogger ... or is it a more localized, filter problem? This panel is worth watching.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Thursday, June 08, 2006
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CBC explores multiculturalism's demise in Europe ... in its usual inept manner.
posted by News Junkie Canada at Wednesday, June 07, 2006
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Update: I had published this, or I thought so. There have been problems but I tried several times. I hit publish and once I could see this update all right but it did not show in the blog a few minutes ago. I shall try again and if it doesn't work ... a sunny afternoon ... perfect for a drink and I shall just ... drown out the cares of the world ... forget whether anyone sees my mea culpas. World, you will be sorry ........
"Is this Karim Remtulla the same person as a U of T Grad Studies doctoral student of that name, or is the name an unfortunate coincidence?
[ http://www.sgs.utoronto.ca/english/currentcourses.asp ]"
EDUCATION—ISLAMIC. Books For A New World, Clark, A., JF 98: 32-37. The Islamic Legacy of Timbuktu, ... KING FAISAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH AND ISLAMIC STUDIES ...
We could let Muslims practise sharia law within their own community and guarantee Muslim students and employees set-aside space at schools and work for their five-times-daily prayers, and still the jihadis among us would conspire to buy explosives and plot to blow up Canadian targets until we all agreed to live under sharia law and worship Allah at dawn, mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and dusk.
Radical Muslims are not interested in what we will let them do. "You do your thing and I’ll do mine" is a Western notion. Jihadis are motivated by a desire to make everyone else in the world bow to Muhammad, too. [....]
Updates on the YouthForVolpe.ca website.
Yesterday, a Joe Volpe parody site went up called YouthForVolpe.ca which lampooned the Liberal leadership candidate's drug money (ahem pharmaceutical donations) from children of Apotex execs. [....]
[Senator and chair of the security committee] Kenny said he is happy with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's plans to add 1,000 new RCMP officers, but that 3,000 are needed to recover from the damage done by Liberal cost-cutting measures in the 1990s.
In Washington, Wilson was forced to defend Canada's record on domestic security before an American television audience, when CNN played the ambassador a clip of New York Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives homeland security committee, lambasting Canada's record fighting terrorism.
"There's a large al-Qaida presence in Canada E [sic] a disproportionate number of al-Qaida in Canada because of their very liberal immigration laws," [New York Rep. Peter] King said, before taking a shot at the former Liberal government. "The previous government, quite frankly, in Canada, I don't think was tough enough as far as going after terrorists."
[....] Kenny said Canada's security apparatus, be it the RCMP or CSIS, faces serious deficiencies in battling the emerging threat of homegrown terrorists. All of those arrested Saturday were either born in Canada, or raised in Canada from a young age.Days before the arrests, Kenny's Senate committee heard testimony from Jack Hooper, CSIS deputy director of operations, about the growing threat of homegrown terrorists and the problems battling it.
Kenny said it requires luck "and it requires an intelligence capacity we simply don't have."
Kenny also said it requires the help of particular ethnic communities.
"He speaks out," Mr. Hindy said of Mr. Jamal. "He said we should not let the Khadrs be isolated and we should help them."
Discussing the allegations against the suspects, Mr. Hindy said, "Three tonnes of fertilizer would be delivered to where? These guys are living in townhouses and apartments, in the city," he told The New York Times. "Now I'm hearing this three tonnes may have been organized by the police. Maybe the police tried to frame them, I don't know. There's a lot of uncertainty and I don't think this evidence, when they get to court, will hold up."
[....] Mr. Hindy said four others picked up in the sweep attended his Kennedy Road mosque, including Mr. Ahmad, Jahmaal James, 23, Steven Vikash Chand, 25 -- a Hindu convert to Islam who changed his name to Abdul Shakur -- and one of five young offenders charged with taking part in the alleged plot.
"I am sure, 100%, none of these guys would do anything in Canada," Mr. Hindy said, adding he was aware some of the men from both mosques were being tailed by CSIS and the RCMP.
[....] At the Al-Rahman centre they found a more appealing message and spent time listening to Mr. Jamal. "The Al-Rahman centre was an extremist hub but not a terror extreme, just extreme in their interpretation," said the man. [....]
Aly Hindy was not invited and he's piqued. . . That's the same Aly Hindy, the subject of this: Imam warns Ottawa to back off Muslims and then, there is "Re: Elmasry's fatwa": Mohammed Elmasry: "Muslims told to integrate politically" -- "You have to vote. Voting counts." -- Will voting Liberal ensure no politically incorrect questioning by CSIS about sleeper cells or associations or suspect individuals that might disturb Muslims? No suggestion that Muslims should be co-operating with CSIS without urging? James Rusk, CIC, July 23, 05 posted by Al Gordon of whom Gordon writes: [....]
CAIR Founded by "Islamic Terrorists"? Daniel Pipes and Sharon Chadha, FrontPageMagazine.com, July 28, 2005 -- Remove "?" for the answer. [....]
Check the connections between CAIR (US) and Mohammed Elmasry's CIC [Canadian Islamic Congress]
[....] Dissembling & Misinforming? Ah, cut to the chase: "Islam - Why Muslims Lie" -- Ali Hindy, Guarantor and Friend
Update: this goes along with a post from previously today. I posted on Dr. Ali Hindy and Dr. Mohamed Elmasry's views and activities:
"Honour", Aly Hindy, CSIS, Lying, General Hillier, Elmasry, Anomaly, Restoring the Caliphate
[....] Out of Africa, Al Hindy & Elmasry, Rosset on the UN, Zimbabwe & Mugabe
Refugees -- again
Failed hit in London tied to East Africans -- "British newspapers focused outraged headlines on the fact that each of the four had received around $7,500 a year in housing-benefit payments, and more in income support." Paul Martin (definitely not our PM), Washington Times, July 27, 05
http://
washingtontimes.com
/world/20050726-114924-2592r.htm
[....] "The long and ruinous rule of Mugabe and his cronies."
Claudia Rosset & the UN: "Ruin By Design" July 27, 05, The Wall Street Journal (Opinion Journal and European Edition)
http://
www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media
/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=287091 [....]
Under the old system, when the prime minister was doing a press conference, he would take questions from reporters who would shout them out to him.
In most cases, it was a dozen or two reporters yelling their respective questions in unison, sometimes to the point where the PM couldn't even understand them.
The PM, whether it was Jean Chretien or Paul Martin, would scan the crowd of reporters and choose the question he wanted to answer. Reporters who got their questions answered were usually the ones who could shout the loudest or who were the most aggressive.
Although a little unruly, the benefit of this traditional scrum was that reporters could feed off each other's questions and zero in on important, more detailed lines of questioning.
The downside is not all reporters got to ask questions, especially less aggressive ones who didn't feel comfortable getting into yelling matches with their more vociferous colleagues. [....]
To the immense irritation of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has refused to play by their game rules. Having examined the "game" during the period when he was in opposition and during election campaigns, he apparently concluded that it was stacked against him. And that he would be a fool to play by its rules.
Of course those who made up the rules (the Parliamentary Press Gallery) think them fair and even-handed.
Mr. Harper has adopted the Boston politics ethos: "Don't get mad; get even." And now, from a position in which he can play the game in a manner more to his preference, he is changing the rules. Surprise! The matador, having tired of being gored, is demonstrating his mastery of riposte. [....]
posted by News Junkie Canada at Tuesday, June 06, 2006
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May 1st: International Mobilization For Regularization
On May 1st the undocumented have taken to the streets demanding RIGHTS, DIGNITY, and RESPECT. We publish here a Manifesto drawn up by migrant/undocumented organisations from across the world.
May 1st is Labour Day in most countries around the world, celebrated in honour of those who lost their lives to gain the 8 hour work day. On this day, demonstrations around the world will come together to support the rights of the working class and of the oppressed. It is a day of read more
posted by News Junkie Canada at Monday, June 05, 2006
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