The link doesn't seem to match the picture?

Or did I miss something?

The url for the photo was mentioned at the link.

If you read the story in the link you will understand.

Don't assume it's just another born-again Jesus freak story. It's actually chock full of interesting and important tidbits.

I almost fell off my chair laughing at the story. But then again, it's kind of scary to think how our universities are so Nazified. George Orwell where are you?

Too funny - "peaseful" - and suspended in the halls of our institudes of hier lerning and all.

Support Whirled Peas.

Islam, the Religion of Peace, or perhaps, more accurately, shouldn't that be the Religion of Pieces?

Still, I suppose in a society where many believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, and 'free' health care, there is a chance that the more naieve amongst us will lap up the slogans on those signs without a second thought. Pity.

The "peasful rally" in Calgary today (Sat) was pretty innocuous - about 75 +-, a few speeches, and march around the sidewalks about 3 city blocks to a side. About 15 or so counters who remained quite quiet and some other onlookers as well.

One of the speakers was a young, attractive, gal - the same one I believe who wrapped herself in the flag of Hesballah during the Aug/06 rally.

This time she professed to be a proud Iraqi-Canadian while giving her speech beside an Iraqi flag. No sign of a Canadian nor an Alberta flag along side this one so we can draw our own conclusions.

Calgary City Police were around on their bikes but had to do nothing. The Postal Union Banner as well as the Calgary Labor Council was present as usual. Other than that - no other flags/banners of interest.

Ah yes got it - read further, touching story.

And yes as usual, the irony is astoundingly quiet in the hallways of academia 'pease' land.

I've personally witnessed a university, that spelled univercity on their huge new billboard on upcoming building projects. Quite hilarious considering it was in front of the main entrance to the university for weeks, before someone noticed it.

Actually the spelling error is not the "s" in pease there is acutally a missing "l". If you want to live you will please the islamists. If you fail to please the islamist they will kill you.

"Support Whirled Peas". LOL!

In fact, there's a spelling error on the left-side placcard too -- a missing letter:

"Islam is the religion of carving".

An argument could be made for abortion at least in the case of the student who is pro-Islam and pro-homosexuality, as it might help protect the gene pool.

You're not actually endorsing the lunatic in the linked article, are you?

Not that I have any use for the preachy fellow and his flyers, but he does have every right to pass on his message as any of the other special interest groups on campus. The fact that the enlightened progressives are hypocrites doesn't surprise me in the least.

Islam is appeaseful.

Alex,

Is he advocating to curtail the free speech of others?

Is he calling for the destruction of someone?

You are just as biased and short sighted as the "youkneevercity studants" by caling him a lunatic.

Maybe you too need Jesus in your life.

Ahmadinnerjacket, now THERE is a lunatic.

Except it's not brought to us by the U of R at all. Anyone can hang pretty much anything they like from the rafters in the Riddell Centre. All they need is to have them approved at the URSU desk. It was Islamic Awareness Week and the Muslim Students Association put the posters up. So if you wanna make fun of them go for it, but don't make hasty generalizations.

And seriously - Bill Whatcott as a source? Why anyone would listen to anything he has to say is beyond me. I've never meet a worse human being.

Is he calling for the destruction of someone?

Uh, yeah, basically. He's not directly advocating it, but it's the logical extension of what he IS saying.

You are just as biased and short sighted as the "youkneevercity studants" by caling him a lunatic.

Biased? Certainly. So what? If I were to call the flat-earth society a bunch of lunatics, THAT would also be "biased". There's nothing wrong with being biased; it's the reasoning behind the bias that's important. As for short-sighted? I don't see how. I think you're just mixing insults in the hope that one of them will be correct.

Maybe you too need Jesus in your life.

He's dead, get over it. I don't need a corpse in my life any more than you need Allah in yours.

""""He's dead, get over it. I don't need a corpse in my life any more than you need Allah in yours."""""

Noooope, he's alive and hiding in Argentina

all peas and quit here in the univercity of vagina.....

"Except it's not brought to us by the U of R at all. Anyone can hang pretty much anything they like from the rafters in the Riddell Centre. All they need is to have them approved at the URSU desk. It was Islamic Awareness Week and the Muslim Students Association put the posters up. So if you wanna make fun of them go for it, but don't make hasty generalizations."

Hate to generalize, but I would assume that the "Muslim Students Association" are students attending the University of Regina. I would also assume that "URSU desk" is the acronym for University of Regina Students Union desk and is indeed staffed by a student from the University of Regina or at least someone with a rudimentary knowledge and understanding of one of this country's two official languages. That neither group cannot use or feel no prevalent need to use a dictionary is probably typical of today's student, or would that be too much of a generalization? It's not as if they had to spell flocci­nauci­nihili­pilification!

Reminds* me of the agnostic tearing a strip off the oh-so-understanding multicultural and tolerant Christian: "If I were you, and really believed what your church says, I'd crawl across Britain, though it were strewn with broken glass, just to reach one person with the news of Christ."

*(Paraphrasing from poor memory)

Whatcott's crawling through a lot of glass. I don't think it's an effective approach. Then again, it's a little difficult to put the rose-coloured glasses back on after seeing that flyer, isn't it?

Go back to eating your pease, please.

Rae:

"Anyone can hang pretty much anything they like from the rafters in the Riddell Centre. "

Think they would let you hang a banner with the words of John 3:16 on it......??

.........I highly doubt it

Notasocialist - Hate to harp on semantics but that is why I said 'pretty much anything.' (Although I can assure you they would approve said passage.) If you're trying to draw comparisons however, "Islam - a way of quiet and peaseful life" is hardly the equivalent of a bible passage. If they had quoted from the Quo'ran you'd have a legit case.

Greg Grandy - Yes, you are right. Because it is so fair to judge an entire university comprised of thousands of undergrad and graduate students, research groups, and hundreds of tenured and sessional instructors by a handful of students.

My wager is that the MSA was hoping to provoke discussion on the subject during their awareness week. The very point of awareness is to get people talking. It appears they have achieved some success in this respect.

Ah yes, the U of R: I'm ashamed to say I was there in the eighties. I'm not surprised to see that their educational standards have remained consistent during the past twenty years.
And moonbats? I remember this one TA named Terry who would sit at the front of the lecture theater with the lights turned off at his end because he was convinced that florescent light bulbs fried brain cells. Terry, of course, was a thirty eight or so guy with long hippie hair who had been in college since about 1965 and was still waiting for the revolution to materialize: "It's coming," he would say after this or that rant about the evils of Reagan, Mulroney, or capitalism in general, "It's coming." I'll bet he's still there.

...in other news, remember the Inmans removed from a US Airways jet?

They've picked up the American way...now suing the passengers.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,259263,00.html

...folks, these are our future leaders.

Treat them with kindness, care, and lovingly understand the social pressures they are under in the universities. They are a product of their social environment and upbringing.

Then give them a good swift kick in the rear.

Amazing how the brain will function after a reboot.

...folks, these are our future leaders.

Treat them with kindness, care, and lovingly understand the social pressures they are under in the universities. They are a product of their social environment and upbringing.

Then give them a good swift kick in the rear.

Amazing how the brain will function after a reboot.

Lennon's song to be used by PETA:

Gives Peas some pants.

Lennon's song to be used by PETA:

Gives Peas some pants.

Lennon's song to be used by PETA:

Gives Peas some pants.

interesting how Christ changes the dynamic of some comments

Some years ago I spent a week at Moose Mountain Park in SE Saskatchewan as "artist in residence". I was set up by a window in the Interpretive Center, around the corner from the help desk.

It was very quiet, and a family that walked in to view the small array of exhibits asked a question, - to which the staff member replied that the open plains south of the park's hills had been "cleared of forest by settlers".

After they left, I asked where he'd learned that.

He replied; "the University of Regina".

I pointed out that before European settlement, there were no trees at all south of the park - it was open grassland, kept free of trees by the frequent fires that burned through. A fact easily confirmed by simply checking photos taken in the area in the 1800's.

"Don't assume it's just another born-again Jesus freak story. It's actually chock full of interesting and important tidbits."... if you're a born-again Jesus bigot freak.

Hi, Kate, they had- and evidently still have- a real talent for this sort of thing at the U of R. I took PoliSci classes there in the mid eighties, and I remember that around January- February of 1984 it was the considered opinion of virtually everybody on the PoliSci faculty that Ronald Reagan was doomed to lose the election that year. I can't remember the reasons they gave, but I suspect you could find them for yourself if you want to bother digging up old issues of the Monthly Review or Socialist Worker at the U of R library. They've probably got complete runs of the damned things up there. I couldn't be bothered, then or now. Amazing, really: anyone who'd troubled themselves to read one or two non-crazy newspapers could have figured out that Reagan was going to be very hard to beat that year, especially since the early front runner in the Democratic primaries was, uh, Jimmy Carter's VP, Walter Mondale.
And the winning streak continued a year or so later after the Canadian election: we were all assured, with the complete, total certainty that you only get from reading every issue of the New Left Review front to back, that the Liberal Party of Canada was doomed and that future Canadian elections were destined to be fought between the Conservatives on the right and the NDP on the left, with the Liberals fading away into oblivion. The old Hegelian dialectic as applied to political parties, I assume. Which would have been very consoling to the Tories and the NDP ten years later when between them they couldn't have mustered enough MP's to make an after hours baseball team, and Chretien was playing Sideshow Jean for Bill Clinton.

But I would have given a few bucks to be at the U of R after the fall of the Soviet Union. Something like, "Gee, professor, remember that revolution you were always talking about? The one I used to laugh up my sleeve at while I was sitting in the back of the class? Well golly, you were right after all: there was a revolution; I never would have bet on that- bet against it, in fact, several times. But too bad the bad guys won, though, eh?"

...must be the water around the UofR.

Stale.

Alex,

Jesus loves you no matter how blind, deaf and dumb you are. You can always choose to accept him in your heart. And, as shocking as it may sound to you, he doesn't want anyone dead.

Mohammed, on the other hand, wants your head on a stick and your soul in hell.

Ponder that for a while.

"...folks, these are our future leaders."

Not to worry. Remember, many of the flower children went on to become the establishment, stockbrokers, executives and politicians.

Some of this bunch will too, not counting the illiterate idiots among them who couldn't lead themselves to the washroom. Plus ca change.

Good old Bill. He's the reason I support free speech. If Bill is muzzled, his particular brand of insanity goes underground. I like my loons on soap boxes.

and the said IF MAN WERE MENT TO FLY GOD WOULD HAVE GIVEN HIM WINGS. or THEY WILL NEVER REPLACE THE HORSE or THE TITANIC IS UNSINKIBLE those who put up those posters should be sued for false and misleading advertising

What's with the single long stem rose under the word Islam ?

Do Islamists now believe roses represent something?

Hallmark may call in an air strike of their own.

...personally I still like Mr. Hart's BC comic strip of going to the outhouse and slaming the door in the shape of an "i".

SLAM!

Does something stink in here, or is it me?