http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2005/12/im_surrounded_b.html

Score one for the Zarkman.

...but it has no pictures. You know the rent-a-mob types can't read...need pictures...

Kate, where do you find these thing?

"We feel there is nothing to gain on the side of freedom of expression and much to lose on the side of hurting feelings," he said."We just thought we would take a pass on this."

What a load of crap!

Censorship & loosing the freedom of the press in Canada hurts my feelings.

OT -- sorry -- but it seems my new best friends are NORWEGIANS! Thanks for the silver. Oh, and the Satanic Verses are OK, but printing some really lame comics are not? No wonder I walk around so confused sometimes.

Are you "allowed" to show a screen-shot of that?

andycanuck, the Saudi royalties go to the royals; I doubt the angry hordes involved in the rent-a-riots have laptops. Kate & her site should be safe.

Air Canada has banned Salman Rushdie -- winner of the Booker Prize in 1981 for his book Midnight's Children -- because the extra security required for him to fly could mean long delays for other passengers.

http://indiabroad.rediff.com/news/2002/mar/16salman.htm

Salman Rushdie is too funny. He spent years writing lame books attacking Christian Churches, Britishisms etc. etc. - the usual stuff. Then figured he could do the same to Islam - wrong! they fatwa'd his ass! But it was his big break too as luck would have it. Oh those cheeky Muslims!

Tom Harpur wrote a book called The Pagan Christ that says Jesus was a fictional character -- an amalgam of various mythical beings from several pagan traditions.

The book is highly offensive to Christians because not only does it dismiss the divinity of Christ, but the physical existence of such a person.

You can find it Chapters/Indigo and McNally Robinson.

They're sure selective in whose sensibilities they refuse to offend.

"The book is highly offensive to Christians"

Many Christians find it humorous. They get their revenge by praying for Tom Harpur. Nothing to lose your head over.

Can anyone tell me if Chapters/Indigo is indeed carrying the lastest Western Standard? I'd like to buy a copy, but don't want to trek down to the store only to come back empty-handed...

Ummmm....funny. (Paul)McNally Robinson are highly endorsed by the Manitoba NDP government.And if you think I'm saying that the Dippers are tards when it comes to freedoms and being cowards in not running these cartoons,you're right. Says a lot when a Jew will run these, but so-called supporters of freedoms,equalities, and rights won't! But then, the Dippers always have been for equality,,,as long as their equality is better then the plebes.

Yeah, I've already read this story too. It's very simple - boycott this store for a month or two and we'll see who wants to start taking stands on what.

All they had to do was be one of the thousands of stores selling The Western Standard Canada-wide, but they CHOSE to make a name for themselves by 'removing' them from the stands. They're not being awfully quiet about it, I don't think we should be either.

Were I an avid book reader, or a Winnipegger (Winnipegonian? Winnipeggite? Winnipeggian? Fronzensuckerforpunishment?), I would not be shopping there for quite some time. At least long enough for them to feel a modicum of economic impact.

Yet more censorship from Chapters. I've been boycotting them for years now since they refuse to carry gun magazines. Hopefully their latest act of stupidity will get even more people to boycott them. I'm a Western Standard subscriber so I don't have to look for the magazine in stores. I also have been known to buy $1000+ of books in a month so Chapters loss is Amazon.com's gain as well as that of numerous small bookstores that I now frequent. A good rule of thumb is, if you can find Soldier of Fortune magazine in a store, they are very likely to carry other freedom oriented magazines. (Chapter's doesn't sell SOF either).

07.02.2006
"We're the new terrorists. Only the Editor-in-Chief can stop us."
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wochenbilder/meinung.asp?7

10.02.2006
"Why the German army should definitely be used during the football World Cup."
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/wochenbilder/meinung.asp?4

Iran demands apology over German cartoon
World Cup jibe heightens Tehran-Berlin tensions
A German newspaper yesterday published a cartoon depicting the Iranian football team dressed as suicide bombers, opening up a new front in the row over caricatures of the prophet Muhammad...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoonprotests/story/0,,1710020,00.html?gusrc=rss

I have been informed via other Internet bloggers that the publisher of the Western Standard, Ezra Levant, is Jewish. I have also been told that one of the lead editors of the original publisher of the cartoons in Denmark is also Jewish. The Jews are hardly neutral bystanders in all of this, and as Jews they should clearly state their bias.

I, for one, am increasingly concerned about the fact that most of Canada's media is now owned by Jews, and if they do not own our media, then it is owned by French people. This even includes the CBC, whose head is Jewish, and the CRTC, which is apparently also controlled by a Jewish person. Heck, even the publisher of the Toronto Star is a Montreal Jew. As I indicated at another site yesterday, ALL Canadians of British Isle ancestry (Celtic/Anglo/Saxon) should be jolted into the realty that we Canadians, in fact all people of the Americas and Europe are being sucked into, and becoming the battle ground for ancient cultures that hate each other. And as Canadians of Celtic/Anglo/Saxon ancestry, I hope that all the rest of the Arab world does not take issue with us because we have practically no control or voice in this country over anything.

That being said, I am also increasingly concerned that Jews now control much of the industriazed world's media, and through that media they are seeking raw materials and our soldiers to die in their battles in the middle east in a war, which IS NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. If Canadians of British Isle Ancestry (the last time I checked we still formed the largest cultural group in Canada) do not smarten up we will be sucked into the middle east hate wars to an extent that we will never be able to turn back from. Israel has to learn to get along with its neighbours on its own, and the Jews in Canada need to expose themselves or be exposed as to their powerful lobbies and control of our media.

In addition to that, and just as an aside, do you know that of the three judges appointed by Martin to the Supreme Court of Canada were Jewish and French? That leaves us with the following demographics in the Supreme Court of Canada (4 and possible another half French, two Jewish, and only one, and possibly a half who is MAYBE of British Isle ancestry) THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR COUNTRY CANADA. The Supreme Court is now just plain scary in its bias.

And as for Ezra Levant, I personally challenge him to publish the terrible racist images from the Fleurdelise, the horrible history book in comic book form that I confiscated from my son's school in Quebec, which basically demonizes English people. I am confident Mr. Levant knows about the book; why doesn't he publish those images which greatly effect the English people of Quebec, and indeed in all of Canada? The Fleurdelise is of greater concern to Canadians than the pathetic cartoons in Denmark. But no, we are blasted with even more of the Jewish/Arab hate propaganda. What do you say Levant, you're full of crap, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BOOK. You're clearly biased as hell, freedom of speech???? B*****IT. There's only freedom of speech in Canada's Jewish controlled press when they're dissing their enemies, otherwise they don't give a rat's butt about Canada or it's people, ESPECIALLY English people.

And for those of you who are wondering, the name of the book is the Fleurdelise, it's published by Guerin in Quebec, and if you want to see some of the images, and a file I put together, then send me an email and I will send it on to you.

I am beginning to believe the Jewish/French controlled Canadian media is using and abusing English Canada.

To Email Chapters Indigo:

If, like me, you want to tell Chapters Indigo what you think of their refusal to carry this issue of the Western Standard, their "Contact Us" email web form page is at- http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/contactus.asp?zxac=1&

Yeah, I knew Ezra was Jewish. If you didn't realise the name itself was Jewish, well, you need to read more than $1000+ worth of books each month. I'm not going to get in a pissing match with you or any other, but I went to university with the man. He's a good man, Jewish or not. He's not a conspiracy theorist like yourself and certainly doesn't fear Francophone Quebecers like you fear/hate Jews.

If you can't distinguish between freedom of speech and skin colour, my friend you have bigger issues.

Indigo is owned by Gerry Schwartz and Heather (daughter of Simon) Reisman, both Jewish, for those who are suggesting Indigo has a Muslim agenda. Indigo doesn't sell "Mein Kampf" either, btw.

"He received his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba and his MBA degree from Harvard University. In 1977 he co-founded CanWest Global Communications Inc, followed by Onex Corporation in 1983.

He has been a director of Scotiabank since 1999.

The Gerald Schwartz School of Business and Information Systems at St. Francis Xavier University was named in his honour in recognition of his donations to the University.

In 2005, he was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2005 Ontario Lifetime Achievement award. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

He is married to Heather Reisman, Chief Executive of Indigo Books and Music and has four grown children and four grandchildren."

Mr. Schwartz, president of Onex Corporation, and the top corporate fundraiser for Paul Martin's successful leadership campaign, will have helped raise an estimated and whopping $11-million by the Nov. 15 leadership convention. Mr. Schwartz's wife, Ms. Reisman, is head of Chapters Books.

"Except for Sheila Martin, Gerry and his wife are the people who have more influence on Martin than anybody," a top Liberal strategist told The Hill Times.

Mr. Schwartz's American Farm Inc. donated $75,000 and Onex Corp. donated another $75,000 to Mr. Martin's leadership campaign.

Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Reisman will also host a fundraiser dinner on Dec. 10 in Toronto. The dinner is expected to raise $2.4-million in one night and could pay off the Liberal Party's $1.5-million debt.

What it's really all about: "The West as scapegoat", by Max Boot, LA Times, Febl 15:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-boot15feb15,0,2322459.story?track=tothtml

Excerpts:

'WHY ARE SO many Muslims so enraged by a handful of cartoons published in an obscure Danish newspaper? It's not enough to point out how the governments of Egypt, Syria and Iran are stoking the protests in a cynical ploy to deflect Western pressure for democratic reform and to curry favor with Islamic radicals. Their strategy wouldn't be so successful if it didn't resonate with deeply ingrained attitudes among the Muslim multitudes.

I got an earful of those views last week in Kuala Lumpur while attending a conference sponsored by New York University and the Malaysian Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. The ostensible subject was: "Who Speaks for Islam? Who Speaks for the West?" We never did answer those questions, but the infidel attendees did get a red-hot blast of indignation from the Muslim participants, who hailed not only from East Asia but also from Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East and South Asia...

IN RECENT years, some Muslims, notably the authors of the 2002 U.N. Arab Human Development Report, have been acknowledging internal problems — a lack of freedom, honest government, gender equality, scientific research and education — that have turned their societies into global also-rans. But in Kuala Lumpur there wasn't much introspection in evidence. Most attendees — and I suspect their views are broadly representative of the Muslim world as a whole — preferred to rant against supposed Western oppression.

The cartoon brouhaha not only confirms this victimization legend, it assuages the shame many Muslims feel over the atrocities committed in their name by Osama bin Laden & Co. To hear many Muslim attendees talk, you would think there is no difference between a cartoonist who injured no one physically and terrorists who kill thousands of innocent people. The trope of the conference seemed to be: "We have our extremists … and you have yours." Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami took this argument to its logical conclusion by equating American neoconservatives with Al Qaeda. As if Paul Wolfowitz were plotting to crash hijacked aircraft into Tehran office buildings.

The most depressing aspect of the whole cartoon affair is not the intolerance for press freedom exhibited throughout Muslim lands. It is the willingness of so many Muslims — even those who would never burn a consulate or threaten a newspaper editor — to scapegoat the West for their own failures. Muslim nations will never make any progress unless they stop focusing on the offenses, real or imagined, visited upon them by the outside world and start looking within for what ails them.'

Mark
Ottawa

dddkinnear---

I am so absolutely disgusted by reading hateful stuff like this. I guess I just like my little bubble too much, but I had pretty much convinced myself that Canada was no longer a racist country, and then I read stuff like yours. Wish Hitler had finished the job, eh?

Do you really think that you give Anglo Saxon Brits a good name? I'm an Anglo Saxon Brit, and you make me sick. I would much rather have Ezra over for dinner than you. And I thank Ezra for preserving the Anglo-Saxon values that this country was founded upon, while other Anglo-Saxons cave in.

And if it is certain Jews that are showing the world the truth of Islamism, that's only because certain Jews (not all) are braver than certain Westerners (not all). Let's not make blanket statements, please? And I, for one, thank those certain Jews, along with the certain Europeans and certain PEI students and certain New York editors, who have chosen to take the same side of freedom.

I shouldn't even be replying to you because you don't warrant it. But I just wanted Ezra to know that he is not alone, and most of us are absolutely sick, tired and disgusted of the racist drivel that is coming out of here.

Now I have to go take another shower.

kkkkinear,

Disgusting little rant you have going there.
It the first time i have heard of a jewish/french conspiracy. They have been branching out apparently.

Canadians of British Isles ancestry, such a grab bag. How nice of you to include the Irish now as racially pure. Guess those "no irish need apply" signs from the past are forgiven. As the pool of eligible master race gets smaller, new applications are being taken?

Twit.
enough

When I read the b.s. from the c.b.c. trying to rationalize thier failure to inform canadians I almost got sick. Then the media blitz against the Western Standard added to my anger. So, I sat down and subscribed to the magazine. Thats the best I could do from way down here by the mexican border. Keep up the good work Ezra

I'm sorry, I didn't realize selling Satanic Versus was currently causing riots in the Middle East or putting our troops in Afghanistan in harm's way. And people on this site say they support the troops. The Minister of Defence would say otherwise.

Plato's stepchild
Thanks for the Iowahawk link.
Very very funny!

Ezra and David Warren are plainly right.
The MSM are pussies holding up their fealty and weakness as virtue for the conned multiculti masses to embrace.

From cbc.ca

Russell Storring is a Master Corporal with the Canadian Army, and has been a signals operator for the 14 years he has been in the military. He recently returned from his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, having served there previously in 2003, and with the UN in Rwanda in 1994. His columns give a first-person account from the field and the life of a soldier.

"Like many people in Canada and around the world, I have watched in horror and disbelief as Islamic riots are waged over the printing of cartoons of Muhammad.
From Europe to the Middle East, Africa to Indonesia, thousands of protests have been staged; many becoming violent as Muslims denounce what they believe is the defamation of their Prophet Muhammad. In Afghanistan, upwards of ten people have been killed with scores injured (including NATO soldiers), as police battle unruly crowds in an effort to protect foreign embassies, personnel and NATO bases.

The Taliban have gone so far as to place bounties of gold on the heads of the cartoonists and NATO soldiers from Denmark, Norway and Germany -- those they consider the chief offenders in this controversy.

Having served two tours of duty in Afghanistan with the military, I have seen first hand how people often do not actually associate a flag with a nation. Rather, all western soldiers are viewed as exactly that – "western soldiers." Sure, once people had an opportunity to talk to us, they recognized that we were Canadian -- but the difference might be moot in a frenzied moment. When someone is looking for a target to hit, whether with an improvised explosive device, a suicide bomb, or something as simple as a well-aimed rock, they are looking for a "western soldier." Whoever generally matches their target ends up their prey.

I had hoped that Canadians serving overseas would avoid most of the brunt of this cartoon controversy as mainstream Canadian media opted not to run the controversial cartoons. Everyday life can often be risky enough for our soldiers (at least in Afghanistan).

I followed the flow of comments about freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and how western countries shouldn't be afraid of protesting or rioting Muslims; that it's our inherent right to print those cartoons. But I couldn't help noting that this slew of "freedoms" come from people who take for granted what our fathers and grandfathers paid for in blood, and what our own soldiers pay for today.

Freedoms are something many people here in Canada and around the world take for granted; the minute someone perceives that those freedoms are being infringed upon, a whole movement begins that can quickly snowball out of control.

I am a soldier that believes deeply in freedom, and by virtue of service for my country I have and am willing to put my life on the line for what my country believes in. With freedom of anything comes the responsibility to make sound decisions and common-sense choices.

Deciding to not print those controversial cartoons has nothing to do with being cowed by fear of Islamic retribution; it has everything to do with respecting another person's beliefs and the common sense that Canadians have always been known for around the world.

When we as soldiers move into another country, whether to keep or enforce the peace, we respect the fact that the host country is unique in its beliefs and culture. We try to leave the country (at some point) with minimal cultural impact.

We respect their holidays and events; we go so far as to try not to eat or drink in front of Muslims during Ramadan out of respect for their culture, even while in our own camp. This has nothing to do with fear of offending them, but has to do with respect and our ability to live in a multi-cultural environment -- whether overseas or here in Canada.

Some publishers here in Canada have used their "freedoms" to inflame an already volatile situation in order, they say, to make a point. If now, like so many European countries, our troops become targets over what boils down to so-called freedoms of press or expression, where will be the position of those Canadian publishers then? If one of our troops is killed as a target of "blasphemy," I highly doubt those publishers will thank the soldier's family for allowing their magazine to express their belief.

Canada has always been a country of tolerance, a country of compassion and a country of moral standards. Now we risk all that for the sake of a few cartoons. I have my doubts that any media organization here in Canada would run a series of anti-Catholic cartoons that the Vatican felt were strongly offensive.

By infringing on other people's freedoms of belief, religion or thought, as an expression of our own freedoms -- what have we accomplished? I truly hope that this isn't the kind of society that we are becoming."

It's In the Koran

Google Video (beta), like Angelfire, has submitted to radical Islam and removed it from view.

You are now at one of the only remaining sites on the web that will let you see it:

"It's In The Koran"

(Click picture to play video. Requires Quicktime.)

UPDATE at 2/14/06 8:14:02 pm:

And it’s also available here, for now: Patrick Henry. via LGF >>>>

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8442014088728649932

Google:We're sorry, but this video may not be available.

Available here:

http://patrickhenry.50megs.com/

Gen Lee: "If you can't distinguish between freedom of speech and skin colour, my friend you have bigger issues."

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Bingo!

dr_dog:
"...Can anyone tell me if Chapters/Indigo is indeed carrying the lastest Western Standard? I'd like to buy a copy, but don't want to trek down to the store only to come back empty-handed..."

It is better to let your fingers do the walking (i.e., phone around). On Monday, I tried 3 places (including the Indigo at Southcentre Shopping Plaza, Calgary), but the salespeople said that they could not find a person to distribute the magazine, but that on Tuesday they would be on the stands. Ofcourse, we all know what happened since, Indigo, Rand McNally-Robinson and Air Canada pulled their copies. I have not tried since to get a copy. I would not mind to get my hands on a copy. Not so much for the cartoons, as I have seen them already on the web, but to see what kind of news and comments it has.

'It's very offensive'
Remark about premier's wife enrages natives

Aboriginal groups are railing against a magazine article that they claim makes offensive and racist references to the premier's wife.
The groups say they are outraged by the article in the Feb. 13 issue of the Western Standard that quotes an unnamed source suggesting that when Premier Ralph Klein retires his wife Colleen will be "just another Indian."
They're holding a press conference at City Hall today to condemn magazine publisher Ezra Levant and Ric Dolphin, the author of the article...

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Alberta/2006/02/15/1443402-sun.html

Free press? What a bunch of Cowards!

I voiced my displeasure with McNally Robinson by writing an e-mail and then mailing my discount card back to them. I will in future use McNally to browse for books that interest me, and then purchase them on-line from Amazon.

It is about time Canadians stood up for what is right and stop acquiescing to the touchy-feely rhetoric of the Left. And, quit supporting the Liberal Party through Chapters-Indigo.

The way to support Ezra Levant is to subscribe to the Western Standard. And if you cannot find an issue at local news outlets, purchase it directly from the Western Standard. They do have a website and I am sure they will not turn away sales.

Just dropped a quick note to Chapters/Indigo.

I feel better now. Thanks for the link.

Peter; It is one thing for us to respect the beliefs of others and behave accordingly in their countries (but I still noted you did eat and drink during Ramadan, only secretly). It is another for us to allow Muslims to foist their beliefs and behaviors on us. The west became strong and rich from a combination of cultural factors including freedom of expression and the dissemination of information. You have to understand. The Muslim is taught from birth that there is a historical determinism that will lead ultimately to Muslim domination. From birth the Muslim is taught that he is superior to the infidel and it is only a matter of time before the world order with the Muslim in charge will be restored. This is of course sheer bloody nonsense.

We can choose between being good dhimmis or fight back. Over the centuries the west has fought back at Poitiers, at Lepanto, at Vienna. For a while the Muslims were quiescent. But they are flexing their muscles and we must fight back with all the weapons at our disposal, including ridicule, mockery and satire if not real weapons of war.

Unless you want to see your descendants in burkhas of course.

All this agitating and Muslim rage has me wondering, well, where is the RCMP in all this? Groups just can't around make violent threats without butting into our legal system.I'd like to hear from the Solicitor-General ASAP, and hear that such invocations will be met with the full force of the law.Is it too much to ask Provincial Atty G's to instruct their police forces to have zero tolerance for Muslim intolerance?

...has anyone stopped to ask/wonder/think that how'd these rent-a-riot outfits got wind of the cartoons?

I mean, wouldn't some of their leaders "need to see" what they were rioting about?

Wouldn't that be as blasphemous looking at them as to drawing it?

Ooops...

dddkinnear:

To quote John McEnroe: "You CANNOT be serious!"

So it's a Jewish-French conspiracy now, is it? Oh, those crafty Semites, up to their old tricks again.

Let me guess, you must hold the prestigious David Icke Chair at the Grassy Knoll Institute...

For the record, the McNally Robinson website does indicate they carry both The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Mein Kampf (I just checked as did Damian Penny). Apparently some feeling are hurt more easily than others.

Re: Mein Kampf

There is some logic to this. Its a best seller in the Middle East.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/mein.html

If Mein Kampf weren't stocked, someone might be offended.

Some of the Arab countries have decided that as they enjoy eating a Danish pastry they would just rename it a Rose (bud) of mo-ham-mad. They have been kissing it for 1400 years. Now they want to eat it.

It's easy to champion free speech if it's someone else who has their life on the line defending your right to silly cartoons.

Making life more more difficult for soldiers defending free speech, in the name of defending free speech, seems a bit of an exercise in futility.

Although not unexpected among the generation who expect immediate gratification of all their lusts.

James 4:1-3, "From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts."

dddkinnear, I so agree with you. If the media isn't controlled by the Jews, then it's controlled by the French. And if it's not controlled by them, it's controlled by the Germans, no wait, the Chinese, no wait, the Botswanese, no it's really controlled by little grey aliens in Roswell, NM.

Call your attendant - your meds need adjusting.

I think they justify The Protocols Of The Learned Elders Of Zion, Mein Kampf, Satanic Verses, etc. because those aren't "gratuitously" provocative. Provocative is ok, but not if it's "gratuitous"--whatever that might mean.

http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=283&type=100

Does McNally Robinson sell the movie Aladdin?

"The MSM are"

Let me complete the sentence:

"Cowardice masquerading as charity."

Heather ( indigo/Chapters) Reisman has been playing the self appointed role of political diversity censor to the public for some years now...it first started when she refused to allow American sport shooting firearms magazines(when the liberals were selling gun fear in the C-68 debates) and extended the censorship to putting most American conservative and libertarian authors on an "order only" list...Why are we not surprised she would pull a western conservative mag from her shelves....this harridan is a partisan schill for the Libreal cult who promote micro managing the population.....it also explains her appearance at Bilbergerg meetings.

I stopped using these partisan book retailer-censors years ago....buy from Amazon .ca....every title you want that has been politically censored at Chapters/Indego/Coles.

Up yours Heather and here's a single finger salute for new role as the liberal cartel's self appointed news censor

I am not buying the Canadian MSM line that they are somehow avoiding endangering our troops by not publishing these cartoons. This is an excuse that has been constructed after-the-fact to justify their actions. I am highly doubtful this was an actual consideration by any Canadian editor prior to their decision.

As Master Corporal Storring noted in his CBC article (reposted above), Canadian troops aren't viewed by their enemies as Canadian, but are simply considered "western soldiers". Based on this my first thought is that they will be targeted whether or not any Canadian news source publishes the cartoons. If Storring is correct in his assessment, Canadian soldiers will be targeted based on the actions of the western world as whole irregardless of what happens here on Canadian soil.

My second thought is that the MSM has in the past run stories that put western soldiers in added jeopardy (and continue to do so today). For example, the photos from Abu Ghraib, Newsweek's Koran abuse story, the first (and now current) alleged British military abuses of civilians. I would suggest all of these stories have made the job of western soldiers much more difficult and more dangerous. I have never heard the CBC or any other mainstream new source advocating the self-censorship of these images or stories to help ensure our troops safety.

Quite simply, the logic of this rationalization doesn't wash.

Disgusting! I took my teenage daughter to McNally the last time I was in Winnipeg. After I wandered around for awhile, I found my daughter had drifted into the "Gay & Lesbian Interest" section. I was outraged! I asked to speak to the manager and suggested they put these types of books behind the counter or in a sectioned off area.

You can't make this stuff up.

Its for reasons like this that I moved my family out of the city and into the rural country. Sure, they may be more likely to inbreed - but at least its with people of the opposite sex!

In a nutshell, the McNally's stand is: yes to freedom of expression, no to nutballs bombing our executives' garages in the suburbs.

I just do not get how so many people fail to see that the real danger is in giving in to the threats of mob violence by refusing to publish some dopy cartoons. Or refusing to carry the legitimate newspapers that will not bow to the threats of "if you offend me a peace loving Muslim, I am going to protest by going on a rampage". And if I get a chance I will slit your throat...again for peace."
If you are really interested in just what is behind those threats including the recent threat by the Council on American-Islamic relations regarding our people serving abroad, go to www.danielpipes.org/article/366 for "Islam and Islamism: Faith and Ideology" National Interest Spring 2000. It is chilling to see how our press, our Prime Minister and the likes of McNally and Chapters are playing us right into the hands of Islamists with their totally submissive acquiescence. I am deeply offended by their LACK OF A BACKBONE.

dddkinnear, me thinks you got yer initals mixed up, should be KKKdinner.

If Kate can censor posts, McNally can censor what they please. After all it is her site and their store.

Perhaps Ezra will be so kind as to show a cartoon of Jesus taking it up the ass just to offend a few of you folks. The guy is a nutbar and is a prime example of why people were so scared off from the right in this country all those years. Maybe they were right to be so.

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to do what Kate did: Take an image of a website? I've tried searching google for a how-to but I'm not finding anything.

Much appreciated

~S