As Torontonians we are citizens of our nation�s largest and most multiethnic city. That people of so varied cultures can coexist not merely in tolerance, but in a spirit of mutual respect where all are free to practice their customs without imposition on others, is a testament to the strengths of free expression and secularism.
We cannot expect Canadian soldiers to risk their lives securing secularism and liberty abroad if we are unwilling to make a modest effort at home. We support Denmark in an attempt to honour these values.
A rally is planned for noon to 1:30pm, March 11, at the Danish Consulate, 151 Bloor St. Help spread the word.
Canada supports Denmark in the Long War against Islam: The Religion of the Sword and the Axe. +
Canadian Soldier Injured In Axe Attack In Afghanistan
CTV ^ | March 4, 2006 | Staff
Posted on 03/04/2006 11:15:37 AM PST by Loyalist
A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan is in critical but stable condition after being attacked by a man wielding an axe during a meeting with tribal elders today.
The reservist soldier, Lieutenant Trevor Greene, of Vancouver was initially taken to the Canadian-led multinational hospital at Kandahar airfield where he underwent treatment for head wounds. He will now be airlifted to the U.S. medical facility in Landstuhl, Germany, said CTV’s Steve Chao, in Kandahar.
Early reports suggested Greene was injured in a firefight with insurgents. It was later learned that Greene was attacked during a sit-down meeting with tribal elders when a man struck him in the back of the neck with an axe.
“He was surrounded by many local tribesmen as well as Canadian soldiers,” Chao told CTV Newsnet. “However as the meeting began, we understand, a man with an axe came out and attacked him. Immediately following there was chaos, Canadian soldiers opened fire, we understand, after some grenades were lobbed by some other attackers.
“The initial attacker with the axe was killed on the spot, however the other one appeared to have perhaps gotten away,” Chao said. +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590018/posts
lieut. greenes website
http://www.closingbigger.com
I hope as reports of casualties come in,we are not blighted with DND spin and dis-information on the seriousness of the wounds,and how they occurred…
I hope that casualties are rare and the injured soldiers make a full and quick recovery.
But we all have different hopes eh, kursk?
Unfortunately too many Lefties will be using the injuries and losses of our young men and women of the Armed Forces as political hay!!!
Instead of taking pride in what they are trying to accomplish. In a perfect world soldiers could do their job and return home safely to their young ones. We do not live in a perfect world, hence the need for soldiers.
Personal note…
A young man I have watched grow up has recently joined the Armed Forces. He is an outstanding individual who will serve his country well. I felt a father’s pride, even though he is not my child. I do have personal angst that my one son may join him. However, freedom is never free!!!
kursk
if you want spin and dis-information, keep watching the cbc.
godspeed to the troops.
I merely state the obvious.I believe that if you have read my posts you will know side of the fence i am on in regards to our armed forces.My thoughts are constantly with the troops,so please don’t portray me as anything less than caring or sympathetic. I was a member of the forces for 20 years, and was wounded in my 5th roto in Eritrea.I have served on many peacekeeping tours,and i have seen how DND spins its stories…so please Wayne et al,spare me your snide and sanctimonious remarks
And Wayne,now that i feel really in a pissy mood..My hopes are the likes of you and others would actually get off your ass and support this great country that you so enjoy on a day to day basis.I have done my part,one would hope that you have or will do yours.
Another of my”hopes” is that my son will not grow up in a world cowed by moral cowards who fight their battles from a basement ,instead of confronting real world challenges such as our now ongoing war with terror. Would you like me to explain any more of my “hopes” to you?
asshole..
This is the tale of how a footloose, unfocused Algerian boy, son of a war hero, evolved into a terrorist. How he planned an attack against Americans on the eve of the new millennium. How he nearly got away with it. And how, since Sept. 11, he has been one of the U.S. government�s best resources in the war on terror. BEGIN >>
Ressam
Algerian Ahmed Ressam was captured on Dec. 14, 1999, in Port Angeles, Wash., on his way to detonate a bomb at the Los Angeles International Airport.
THE MAIN CHARACTERS
Several people in this story are key to understanding the roots of terror and the challenges in fighting it.
JEAN-LOUIS BRUGUIERE
Ressam’s chief stalker
ABU ZUBAYDAH
One of Ressam’s mentors
FRED HUMPHRIES
FBI agent based in Seattle
THE SETTING
map
This story takes place around the globe, beginning in Algeria and moving through Europe, Canada, Afghanistan and, finally, the United States. +
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/nation-world/terroristwithin/
via newsbeat1.com
(17 Chapters & Epilogue)+
Excerpt:
Chapter 12:
The Crossing
Ahmed Ressam fails to take into account the diligence of U.S. Customs officials when taking his explosives from Canada to the United States.
VICTORIA, B.C., Dec. 14, 1999 � By 4 o’clock in mid-December, the sun is descending behind the range that runs like vertebrae down the middle of Vancouver Island. On this chilly afternoon, a Tuesday in the off-season, there were only a few cars waiting to board the M.V. Coho ferry from Victoria, B.C., to Port Angeles, Wash.
A green Chrysler 300M sedan arrived 10 minutes before departure. U.S. Immigration inspector Gary Roberts walked up and asked the driver for his passport and driver’s license.
The driver, Benni Antoine Noris, was from Montreal.
“Where are you going?” Roberts asked.
“Sattal,” Noris said, adding something about a two-day business trip.
Driving through the island city of Victoria to get to Seattle from mainland Canada was a bizarre choice � understandable for a tourist, maybe, but not for a business trip. Noris would have had to have taken one ferry from the mainland to Vancouver Island, then this one, then a third from the Olympic Peninsula across Puget Sound to Seattle. It just didn’t make sense. Roberts asked Noris to pull over.
Customs
BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER / THE SEATTLE TIMES
U.S. Customs inspector Diana Dean noticed that Ahmed Ressam was acting ‘hinky.’
Roberts took the license into his office and logged Noris’ name into a computer, searching for outstanding warrants or immigration notices. All he found was a note that a similar check had been run on Noris when he landed at the Los Angeles International Airport in February. Still not satisfied, Roberts walked over to the car again.
How are you planning to get back to Montreal? Noris showed a return ferry ticket to Victoria.
But how about to Montreal? Noris raised his hand, mimicking the flight of an airplane.
Something wasn’t right. Open the trunk, please, Roberts requested. Noris calmly flipped the latch.
Roberts found a suitcase, a satchel and a backpack. He searched the suitcase, finding only clothes. He closed the trunk and waved the Chrysler onto the ferry. +
As Kathy at Relapsed Catholic has pointed out (along with links), there’s a difference between fighting against those wanting to force Islam on the world, and fighting for secularism. I hope Canada is fighting for freedom of worship, not for the state shutting religion and religious-based morality out of the public eye.
Secularism is not exactly an inspiring purpose to die for. What is it in Canada? … fighting and dying for sex clubs, same sex marriage and a get out of jail free card and oh ya … free health care. Or is it just about not having to get up early on Sundays?
What is Secularism anyway? I see it as the shedding of things rather the embracing of anything. Well, I guess there’s the group hug. That’s an embrace eh?
Re the axing in Axghanistan: Don’t hang around with these guys. Shoot them! You can’t talk to them, they have already made that more than clear.
Jaw-waggin’ is for politicians, shooting is for soldiers. It’s pretty simple actually. There is bullshit and there are bullets. Each to his own.
Next time the village elders want to talk, send Svend the extra secular gay jewel thief over. He likes these people. They will love him.
Toronto media is too afraid of Muslim nutbars to support Denmark or Danish media.
The Star is usually too busy insulting Christians and Jews – easygoing, non-murderous type people – than supporting freedom of expression.
Mayor Miller hasn’t a spine either, if a rally to support Denmark upsets the barbarians he would sooner shut it down than shut down a rally by the barbarians themselves. The subtle feel-good racism of liberals will keep racism alive and well for a long time.
Gee kursk
I don’t recall your previous posts and I think its expecting a bunch for somebody to know your 20 years of military experience and problems with head office and then fill it in between the 2 lines of your first comment.
Thank you for your service.
As far as standing on a higher stump and tellin folks that they can’t talk about things because they never servved and got wounded. Well we all serve in our own way.
John Kerry tried to get folks to dance to the same tune and it wasn’t taken well.
Don’t worry about being in a pissy mood and callin me an asshole. It’s way worse when Ferdinand gets in a pissy mood because he really does and always in one of my penny loafers. Neutered Manxes are bad that way.
I would have answered quicker but the bulb burned out in the basement and I couldn’t see the keyboard too good.
On the march in support of Denmark
Whether you agreed with the publishing of the cartoons or not, that a whole country should be punished with boycotts, embassy burnings, and fatwas forcing cartoonists into hiding because a newspaper exercised freedom of the press is unconscionable.
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Marching in support of Denmark would not mean marching in support of secularlism–at least I hope not!
What the secularists must come to understand is that words like rights and justice are not self-referential. They need to be rooted in a world view. What’s good about the West is that all the rights and freedoms have been rooted in a Judeo-Christian worldview.
Secularists want to cut the tree off from the roots and want to banish all forms of religion from the public square.
I have no problem with Muslims who want to pray five times a day, give alms to the poor, make the Haj or whatever. Or with Sikhs carrying kirpans.
We live in a pluralistic society. But the majority religion shouldn’t have to hide its nativity scenes or mention of Jesus in public. And if it weren’t for the majority religion, the kinds of rights we all enjoy would soon disappear.
Kursk, sadly, is right; for a long time, though things may have finally changed, one could only feel shame at fine soldiers undermined by the DND and their political masters. Thank you for your service to the country.
I will be at the ‘support the Danes’ rally, for sure.
Islam, as practised in most islamic dominated countries, leaves little room for other religious beliefs, treating their followers as second class citizens, and leaves no room for humanists or atheists. In some countries, like Saudi Arabia, no other religion but islam is allowed to be practised.
I will be supporting the Danish, because islam is a danger to a multicultural society with its aggressive intolerance, and we need to let muslems know the rules they must live by in this society, for their good and ours.
Re. the Sikh kids being allowed to wear their kirpan, or dagger, to school, a decision i disagree with strongly, i would point out that the reason the dagger is part of their religious garb was to protect themselves from muslem invaders into India; it is estimated that the muslims killed 80 million Hindus during these invasions, and Sikhism developed partially as a way to stop the slaughter.