Frome the Ignatieff interview

Solomon: Do terrorists have rights?

Ignatieff: Of course they do.

I guess he forgot that he wasn't supposed to use the "T" word.

Kate, I think an interesting add on to this, is the story that CBC ran in 2004 about CanWest/National Post changing Reuters more PC terms and inserting terrorist. Not long after that, Reuters actually admitted to "appeasing" terrorists by using alternative wordings.
This is the link to the old CBC story:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/09/17/canwesterrorist040917.html

One of my relatives in Sydney NS, who is in local goverment has been emailing with local reaction and details. Nothing new; all the usual suspects wringing their hands in, "Horror, I tell you.". If I get any real insider stuff, I'll email Kate for any follow up.

Professor March should tell his critics to osculari meus podicem

Just asking Ti-Guy .......... are you always such an obvious putz?

Of course the CBC has a political agenda. This isn't the first evidence we thinking folk have seen of that.

Seems they don't follow their own claimed policy, if indeed it is a policy. I'd say their real, hidden policy is to make terrorists look good and the anti-terrorists look bad, in a nutshell.

I don't want the CBC. Love it if it went the way of the dodo.

I agree, who needs the CBC? We can get our fill of left-biased news from Global, CTV, or any number of other outlets.

John

Fox News Canada is what we need.

Have got to agree. It offends me deeply that in my Canada, our National radio system is so twisted and socialist politic motivated. M'thinks that is as bad or maybe even worse than the Red Star.

Perhaps we'll live long enough to see a change in Canada for the better. It's a start and a good one by the looks of it. By the way, you can judge just how good it is by the number of whinings and posturings coming from the left.

Gotta love it!!

CBCniks - oh those rebels! sticking it to 'the man'! power to the people!(or at least comfy bureaucrats)

Worst part is how they work glove in hand with the Liberal Party. They will shower attention on a flavour of the month minority group thus giving their liberal buddies the power to regulate societal laws in order to favour that group, calling it 'social progress'. But, by diminishing laws and cultural norms that made Canada great in the first place - they end up discriminating against everyone, especially taxpayers and future Canadians.

The CBC should be sold to Conrad Black for a dollar - he's got the business savvy to make something worthwhile out of it.

Seriously we really do need Fox News Canada. There won't be a more favourable climate for the introduction of a right-wing news source unless the CPC wins a majority which I won't hold my breath for.

Today I heared a CTV report refer to the "traditional" left and the "new" conservative movement. Its kinda funny cause I always thought the right was supposed to be the side all caught up in tradition. Just another attempt to paint right-wing philosophy as radical.

Why should we have to continue to accept that all our news in Canada is overtly slanted toward the left?

Heavily politicized words frequently used on the CBC:

social conservative

neo-con

fundamentalist

religious radical

hidden agenda

"American" anything ie. tax cuts, health care....

global warming

Kyoto

consensus

West Bank

Gay Rights

gee it would be really hard to report the news if you had to remove from your vocabulary any words that might be too "policized"

"Terrorist" scores 5250 hits on cbc.ca many of them appear in recent articles.

Good News.
Bad News.

saturday, february 11, 2006

A Lesson in Hate

Here’s an excellent piece at Smithsonian Magazine about a man most Americans [Canadians] have never heard of—Sayyid Qutb (lgf: search), the foremost ideologue of radical Islam and violent jihad, whose seminal work Milestones has been called the “Islamic Mein Kampf:” A Lesson In Hate. (Hat tip: The New Editor.)

Born in 1906 in the northern Egyptian village of Musha and raised in a devout Muslim home, Qutb memorized the Koran as a boy. Later he moved to Cairo and found work as a teacher and writer. His novels made no great impression, but he earned a reputation as an astute literary critic. Qutb was among the first champions of Naguib Mahfouz, a young, modern novelist who, in 1988, would win the Nobel Prize in Literature. As Qutb matured, his mind took on a more political cast. Even by the standards of Egypt, those were chaotic, corrupt times: World War I had completed the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and the Western powers were creating, with absolute colonial confidence, new maps and governments for the Middle East. For a proud man like Sayyid Qutb, the humiliation of his country at the hands of secular leaders and Western puppets was galling. His writing drew unfavorable attention from the Egyptian government, and by 1948, Mahfouz has said, Qutb’s friends in the Ministry of Education were sufficiently worried about his situation that they contrived to send him abroad to the safety of the United States.

Some biographical sketches suggest that Qutb arrived with a benign view of America, but if that’s true it didn’t last long. During a short stay in Washington, D.C., he witnessed the commotion surrounding an elevator accident and was stunned to hear other onlookers making a joke of the victim’s appearance. From this and a few offhand remarks in other settings, Qutb concluded that Americans suffered from “a drought of sentimental sympathy” and that “Americans intentionally deride what people in the Old World hold sacred.”

This became the lens through which Qutb read nearly every American encounter—a clash of New World versus Old. Qutb easily satisfied the requirements at the graduate school of the Colorado State College of Education (now known as the University of Northern Colorado) and devoted the rest of his time to his true interest—the American soul, if such a thing existed. “This great America: What is its worth in the scale of human values?” Qutb wondered. “And what does it add to the moral account of humanity?” His answer: nothing. >>> via LGF
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2006/february/presence.php

we should repeat September 12, 1683.

Scary World
I had an argument with a friend today about the Mohammed cartoon, and as it seems today when you talk about such topics the U.S. and "War on Terror" Come up, the same old anti bush things, well I am a husband and father, and to be honest all I see in these protests in the Muslim world is another form of terrorism. Terrorism by the masses so effective that we are having of own educators silenced. I asked my friend a question in the heat of our disscussion where were you 9-11, HAVE WE ALL FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE DAY WE WILL BE TELLING OUR GRANDCHILDREN ABOUT! Now dont get me wrong here I dont agree fully with how Bush went about doing what he had to do, but I think we are all forgetting the dual war that Bush is fighting. A war to preserve the United States as one of the most powerful nations in the world. A- Its a war against a faceless country-less enemy, WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF DEATH! How do you fight that???? Afgan. Russian's tried to invade for 10 freaking years US went in there and in a year the country was turned around. My little girl could go to school now, my wife would not be stoned to death in the street for showing her feet or face. Okay off topic sry. B- It is a war for oil, I said it and I agree it is. The US is running out fast and must secure a reliable source for the good of the US. Bush is in the end doing exactly what he was elected to do protect the United States of America!!! Think about it guys and girls there was a reason why Cheney visited the Fort Mac oil sands and also went for a little helicopter ride 150km east into Sk. Why because Sk. has a bigger oilsand area then Fort Mac.!! A reliable source of energy for the States. Hell we are already supplying most of the US eastern seaboard with power from the Estevan power station, I have heard 80% of the power gernerated there hits the grids in the states. Okay this is getting long and very off topic, one last word-Things will change with this new Govt (i hope), Free speech is a must for a society to function, pretty soon google will block canadians from looking up the cartoon. And finally I rather see 2000 american troops die in Iraq then see 5000 innocent people die in terror attacks on American and British soil-
Sry for any grammer+ spelling mistakes

Read the interview with that Ignoramus guy.

If he were ever in a life threatening situation he'd be dead by the time he got through all the intellectual on this hand...on the other hand BS.

Perfect leftist leader.

CBCpravda is the biggest purveyor of what George Orwell called "right speak" it is only steps away from the "thought police"

Kate
Thanks for the link to the Solomon - Ignatieff interview. I read it in its entirety. I like to think of it as 'keeping an eye on the enemy'.
This man may be just what the Liberal Party needs right now, someone to split them right down the middle and fracture them into little pieces.
Can you believe that he supports the war on terror, the invasion of Iraq, Israel's right to exist (as well as a Palestinain state). He believes that:
Guns were needed in the streets,
in Bosnia
in Kosovo
in East Timor
and in Iraq
and I am not making this up!
Although he is a social Liberal, he is very much in favor of many of the policies of George W and Tony Blair when it comes to things like pre-emptive strikes and military intervention as a last resort to help those incapable of helping themselves.
I wonder how long Bill Graham and Paul Martin can keep the duct tape over this guys mouth. (Perhaps until they can get him deprogrammed... or is it programmed? They may never let another Liberal leave the country again if this is going to be the result!) It is no wonder that he got silenced the other day, having to cancel a previously arranged speech.
Perhaps I was mistaken when I so innocently thought that we still enjoy 'free speech' as a right in Canada.
After hearing about the muzzles being installed at many of our Universities and Press Rooms these past two weeks, one might be forgiven for wondering if the cost paid so dearly for the freedoms we take for granted might have reached expiration date! May it never be so.
Long live Liberty and Freedom... the two great pillars of democracy!
Maranatha

Some Muhammad cartoons cartoons
http://www.cagle.com/news/Muhammad/main.asp

Duplicity and CBC are synonyms.

I'm not a CBC fan either, but I don't think Global and CTV are one bit better. CBC will do some good investigative stuff, such as their piece on Paul Martin's shipping interests (which can be found in the archives section of their website), and I don't know of any other TV network that has investigated the connection between Tamil groups in Canada and a terrorist faction in Sri Lanka. (I can't believe I just defended the CBC)

FarmBoy: "Hell we are already supplying most of the US eastern seaboard with power from the Estevan power station, I have heard 80% of the power gernerated there hits the grids in the states"

The capacity for power on the eastern seaboard is about 124,000 MW. See Page 16 (waring .PDF)

http://www.npcc.org/publicFiles/documents/seasonal/lastYear/NPCC_Reliability_Assessment_for_Summer_2005.pdf

If I add the capacity both the Shand and Boundary Dam power stations together as both are near Estevan (279 MW + 813 MW) = 1092 MW.

http://www.saskpower.com/aboutus/genfac/baseload/doc1.shtml
http://www.saskpower.com/aboutus/genfac/baseload/doc2.shtml

Not taking into account transmission losses that occur for transmitter power over long distances, the Estevan power production is 1092/124,000 = 0.88 % of their requirement. Since when is less than 1% "most of the US eastern seaboard".

The Toronto Star has a column by Mohamed Elmasry that starts thusly:

"Mohamed Elmasry is the chair and president of the Canadian Islamic Congress, the nation's largest non-profit Islamic association, with no affiliation to any particular ideology. He is also a engineering professor at the University of Waterloo."

With no affiliation to any particular ideology? Huh???????????

http://tinyurl.com/7jsdk

Cartoon jihad news

We're publishing them in our next issue, which rolls off the press on Monday. Looks like a small Calgary newspaper beat us to it.

Posted by Ezra Levant on February 11, 2006 at 08:16 AM

Comments:
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2006/02/cartoon_news.html#comments

# 1: ET said:

Good for you and that Calgary newspaper.

Again - these cartoons are political questions, and are legitimate. The Muslim community has to answer them. more >>>

The Calgary paper is publishing the cartoons along with a large selection of anti-jewish cartoons from various Muslim papers.

Apparently "whats good for the Joose is good for the Islamders".

----couldnt help myself.

Re: Ezra, Cartoons and the Western Standard

Saw an interview on Global National last night. Jill Krop was asking Ezra "Why" they were publishing the cartoons.

During the whole clip, it was SOOO apparent the anchor was furious. Her questions and her tone -usually upbeat and pleasant - were terse and abrupt. (One of Ezra's answers weas great, by the way. He simply stated that Canada was not a Muslim country and therefore lived by Canadian laws ie: no censorship - if he were living in a Muslim country he would abide by their laws - lots of censorship). When they finished the interview Ezra smiled and said goodbye but she wasn't even gracious.

Gee, which side is the MSM on? No....wait...we already know.

If it hadn't been for all the uproar I would have never guessed that the cartoons were nasty, inflammatory pictures of Mohammed. Silly old me, I had thought they were political cartoons about Islamist terrorism.

If it's true, thank you Ezra... for some leadership in what should be a free press.

I am very much looking forward to monday's "independant" small Calgary magazine. It'll be interesting to see who carries it, and if any companies will say "it wasn't delivered today, try maybe next week..."

I read "most" of the Soloman - Ignatieff interview, I've not read any of his social policy stance, but I found myself wondering if Mr.I is in the right party? I can see him being a divisive figure in the new Liberal party... I wonder if he'll last for these next 2.. or for +6 years on an opposition bench?
I wonder if he thinks "this is just like lecturing to a first year class of 125 every day" that'll grind on him.
(if he's quick crossing the floor, he won't have to run in a by-election.!) just don't sit beside Garth.

When I get my Beemer I want Kate to airbrush them cartoons on my helmet... just to piss off the jihadi terrorists I may run over... I just hope she can see her way clear for me to pay in Rand and not Dollars.

Qwerty
Thanks for the correct information. I was given my information from an employee who works at the Shand station. Very interesting links, I will have a little chat with my friend. Thank you.