Does everyone recall this magic multicultural moment at the Liberal leadership convention?
Sources close to Rae say that his wife, Arlene Perly Rae, was approached during last weekend’s convention by a delegate who didn’t realize she was the candidate’s wife. The delegate told her not to vote for Rae “because his wife is Jewish.”
Perly Rae stonily informed the delegate that she was the wife in question. The delegate beat a hasty retreat.
The incident might have been shrugged off if it had been an isolated event. But Rae team insiders contend it was part of a larger pattern of anti-Semitic smears on Rae, who finished third.
A flyer was circulated electronically among convention delegates denouncing Rae for having once delivered a speech to the Jewish National Fund, a group the flyer said was complicit in “war crimes and ethnic cleansing.”
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The Canadian Jewish Congress has condemned the flyer and blamed Khaled Mouammar, president of the Canadian Arab Federation for circulating it. The federation has, in turn, accused the CJC of making “a pitiful attempt to discredit” it and has denied producing or distributing the flyer.
Jan 24, 2008 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Canada’s outright rejection of the [UN anti-racism] conference sends a clear message to the Canadian public that the current government is disinterested in promoting human rights and anti-racism. The very fact that Israel was “attacked” at the previous conference indicates that the international community and human rights organizations are in agreement that the occupation of Arab lands, the mistreatment and killing of Palestinians, and the denial of the right of Palestinian refugees to return is in violation of international law and will be condemned and no longer accepted.
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“We would also like to remind Jason Kenney that he is a Minister of the Canadian government, not the racist Israeli government; still, CAF is not surprised with Minister Kenney’s position given his outright contempt for the Arab and Muslim communities in Canada and his condoning of Islamophobia. This is the same man who attacked a Muslim organization for lodging a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission against Maclean’s Magazine for publishing an inflammatory and bigoted article, and who slandered Canadian NGO’s at an OSCE Conference in front of the international community”, said Khaled Mouammar, CAF National President.
Update – Khaled Mouammar gets around!
Dion hasn’t commented? I would think this is cause for celebration, not consternation. The less I hear of that pipsqueak’s mangled English, the happier I am.
cue the ouragous indignation…
sadly, you have to admire in a small way how the CAF et al, have learned and used the system. It is like getting beaten with your own bat.
Khaled Mouammar- kinsella’s newest hero!
Mr K hasnt commented on this guy at all. Most noticeably when the Liberal convention was on. He found ime to comment on some young Liberal chumps on the train but couldnt find the time to condemn a flyer that was a hate screed….
BTW how come Richard Warman didnt take that one on?
nothing worng with fighting neo nazi’s and white supremecists, an admirable cause….just be nice to see some consistency in the application of the apparent principle.
Condemn overt acts of anti-semitism at the Liberal convention perpetrated by members of the “special relgion”? If the population of the “special religion” keeps increasing Step-On De-Yawn would unashamedly name his next dog “Racist Israeli Apartheid” if he figured it would get him more votes. Knowing the undue weight of influence given to the “special religion” by Liberals why any Christian, Jew, Hindu, atheist, or more broadly, any person with an IQ above room temperature would vote for the Liberals beats the geffilte fish out of me.
Jason must be doing something right to have the islam morons attacking him.
Why would Bob Rae would want to still be part of the Liberal Party after the insults to his wife?? And how can Irwin Cotler stay in the fold? Didn’t his wife tear up her membership due to some other incident a while back?
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I don’t give a damn about Dion.
What we need to see is Bob Rae coming out and saying something. He’s the one currently running for a seat in parliament, he’s the one who wants to represent one of Canada’s most Jewish ridings, and he’s the one running against an NDP candidate with extremist anti-semitic views.
I can understand why Dion won’t say something, but for God’s sake, this Mouammar went after his wife. Has the man no balls?
Danny Williams comments.
http://www.cbc.ca/22minutes/
Bob Rae is a coward and an opportunist.His like were called kapos in days gone by.
Mr rae, in his defence, was one of the people who spoke and did so with an appropriately dignified anger.
The next Liberal leadership convention will bring out the worst in them, identity politics that we are only seeing a hint of in the Democratic party.
You will have muslim groups, sikh groups and others all selling “community votes” for positions. The conservatives can do the most damage by just ensuring that the goings on that will be taking place anyway get appropriate publicity. How the sikh groups and muslim groups will find any common ground is beyond me….
Ahhh Liberal party home of rascists and supremicists….it is barely boliing underneath the surface now.
where will Jason Cherniak go when he finds there is no home for him in the Liberal party as it is torn apart by identity politics.
Liberal Pary:
Home of Fascist socialists and Islamofascist socialists.
Why any Jews (or anyone else for that matter) populate this sewer-dwelling party I’ll never understand.
Note that Ezra Levant, who is Jewish, was criticizing the CJC, and in particular, Bernie Farber, for their turning the HRC into their own particular forum to attack anyone who criticizes Israel. Richard Warman’s filing of ‘hate crimes’ is heavily on behalf of this organization.
I’m unsure why the Canadian Arab Federation wants Canada to attend the anti-racism conference. I think his statement has a different agenda. What is he talking about – ‘occupation of Arab lands’? Does he mean the West Bank? That’s not ‘Arab lands; it’s Palestinian lands. Does he mean Iraq? Come off it – it’s not occupied.
That bit about Palestine is pure nonsense, particularly since, as I’ve outlined elsewhere, the Arab States are using Palestinians for their own very different political agendas and don’t give a damn about the Palestinians.
I wonder if it’s agenda is really about political power here in Canada. That’s why he mentioned Jason Kenny, who recently spoke out against the HRC and the two cases about ‘Islamic hate’, eg, Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. His statement is a warning to the HRC – Decide in favour of the Islamic complaints. Or else.
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warwick – the Liberal Party has deliberately located itself firmly in the various ethnic, religious and linguistic groups and used them a bloc voters.
The Liberal Party is the basic of multiculturalism, a policy that rejects commonalities and instead, defines a population within closed hereditary identities (ethnicity, language, religion, gender, etc). It then sets these ‘blocs’ up as political entities by massive funding grants that encourage tham to maintain their homogeneous isolation. This ensures that each group fights with each other for funding, and ensures their loyalty to the Liberal Party as the source of funds.
It also ensures that they don’t define themselves as Canadians! Their loyalties are elsewhere – to their Original Land, their old religion, etc, etc.
The majority of Jewish people in Canada are Liberals, because of that policy of encouraging Original Identity – and funding. Same with other groups. It’s a deliberate policy of the Liberals. It has nothing to do with benefiting Canada. It’s all about political power. And the Liberals, after all, have only one agenda. Power.
The fight for sympathy from the Canadian public is on. Who will win: a government funded openly rascist-fascist organization bent on replacing western freedoms with legally binding religious oppression or little ‘ole Joe Canuck? Anyone not thinking ‘ole Joe has half a chance?
His statement is a warning to the HRC – Decide in favour of the Islamic complaints. Or else.
I’ll go with the Or else!
Everyone needs to sort through some issues before commenting on them.
First, the FLYER at the Liberal convention was not problematic; it merely described the nature of the Israeli state as being racist, as evident in the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the apartheid-like system that exists today. If you want evidence, see the following books: Uri Davis, Israel: An Apartheid State; Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; Norman Finkelstein, Truth and Reality in the Israel-Palestine Conflict; and Edward Said, The Question of Palestine.
Second, the COMMENT made about Rae’s wife by some UNKNOWN person at the convection was racist. To not vote for someone because they are Jewish or whatever religion is racist.
Third, the recent STATEMENT by the Canadian Arab Federation is NOT racist — it too makes a fair argument about the nature of the Israeli state and the one-sided and out-of-touch positions of the current Conservative Government, which seems to be taking foreign policy advice on the Middle East from Zionist organizations, the Bush administration, and Christian-Zionist currents.
If you can’t sort through these different issues, refrain from submitting useless rhetoric about Dion or CAF or various religious groups.
[quote]hat bit about Palestine is pure nonsense, particularly since, as I’ve outlined elsewhere, the Arab States are using Palestinians for their own very different political agendas and don’t give a damn about the Palestinians.[/quote]
ET,
The Palestine solution should be obvious by your own conclusions. They NEED a state to call home! Where can we find a homogenized nation willing to Slice a sustainable part (i.e. BC) and concede sovereignty to the Palestinians? The World could fund the experiment & buy peace in ME for >200 yrs.
Well wilbur, with that kind of irrational thinking you must be a Liberal.
You either did not read the reason why Canada is not participating, or you have willfully ignored it.
If it is indeed the latter, you are a racist. You are also obviously a bigot with the terms you so easily spit out.
“refrain from submitting useless rhetoric…”
Are you the new owner of this blog, or is it just the arrogant, pompose-ass Liberal fascist coming out in you?
TROLL ALERT… Do not feed “wilbur”
ET, I agree with “It then sets these ‘blocs’ up as political entities by massive funding grants”.
These groups were allowed to operate as if VIP resort members in Hotel Canada PROVIDED they helped keep Librano$ in power.
Therefore, I’m becoming more optimistic that as it appears that Stephen Harper can carry on until Oct 2009 that this Librano$ multi-culti corruption game can be brought under control. This corruption only works if the Librano$ have access to lots of funding.
Librano$ are out of power. They do not have access to the cheque books of the Ottawa bureaucracy, nor can they pay off with patronage appointments.
The multi-culti ethnic community leaders who were relied upon to shake down their community and deliver the vote to Librano$ (just like they did in whatever hellhole they immigrated from) are not going to do this for free.
Also the Librano$ don’t have their crony capitalist friends to write cheques, because the election rules forbid that.
The Librano$ are going to have to win an election based on ideas not payoffs. They have never had to do that before and are clueless as to how to operate in a non-Duplessis, non-graft era.
Soon to be renamed “Dion”?
http://www.torontosun.com/Sports/OtherSports/2008/01/25/4793221-sun.html
wilbur, ya don’t know much do ya. see how fast egypt kicks their fellow arabs back across their border.
KevinB,you’re missing the point. Every time Poindexter Dion opens his mouth the CPC get one step closer to a majority. I wish he’d be MORE loquacious.
I could listen to Dionisms all day “Do you tink it is easy to make hyperbole?”
“It’s bush and the evil Joooooos!”
That never gets old, if that’s all you got.
Wilbur, Wilbur, Wilbur
Who do you think you are lecturing here? Do you think by referencing anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic books (yes, we do know the difference) and certified nut bars such as Finkelstein that you will persuade fair minded educated people that Israel is a rogue racist apartheid state? If you had one iota of rational fairness in you, you would know and admit that the middle eastern state in which arabs and muslims have by far the most that’s m-o-s-t human and legal rights is Israel. Period.
Do you think that there was ever one day from well before the time of Jesus until today that Jews did not live in Israel? Do you think the Jews picked Israel by closing their eyes and sticking a pin in a map? Do you think if people of “the special religion” flooded into Israel and were allowed to vote that there would ever be another truly democratic election in Israel?
Does Israel flog women for the crime of being raped? Does Israel cut of people’s hands for petty theft? Does Israel bar women from driving? Does Israel bar women from voting? Does Israel condemn people to death for bringing pro-feminist information into the country? Does Israel say that homosexuals should be killed, but luckily there are no homosexuals in their country?
On the other hand my dimwitted dhimini, are there are any muslims countries that are guilty of all the crimes you falsely accuse Israel, and more? Why of course there are Wilbur and I think try as you might to reject the truth, you know it true. But if you twist facts, ignore facts, refer to non-accredited resources and plain make stuff up to make others hate Israel and Jews what would that make you Wilbur?
philip shaw – I assume you are joking. I know that in Canada, we’ve tried uprooting whole populations and moving them (Davis Inlet) but that doesn’t work.
wilbur (and eyeswideshut): I don’t think that Finkelstein is a ‘certified nutbar’; I think he’s doing valuable work in ME historical analysis, critiquing those such as Ben Morris and Peters. His fight with Dershovitz is too complex for this discussion. As for Edward Said, I think his work on that area (Orientalism) is empty postmodernism.
I think it’s naive to take a black and white position on the ME (Israel good/Palestinians bad or the opposite).
But Israel is not, as a state, racist. Sure, there are racist people there and everywhere. Yes, the settlers are adamant about the land being theirs by divine right and their actions against Palestinian farmers reveal that.
And there are plenty of orthodox rabbis who say the same. And yes, there are documented complaints of discrimination against non-Jews in Israel. The same goes for the ‘other side’ and the calls for Israelis to be pushed into the sea.
Frankly, that’s not the point, because no govt can legislate about people’s emotions. Or stop them.
The questions to ask are whether or not there is a policy of racism and discrimination in Israel – and, in my view, none exists. Equally, whether or not there are violations of human rights in Israel. No, but I think that there are violations of human rights in the occupied lands, including prevention of access to farms, settler attacks against both property and persons, collective punishment, etc.
The fact that Israel wants a Jewish majority is their decision and is not a racist decision.
As for the Palestinian state – I’ve said quite a bit about the fact that the other Arab states don’t want a Palestinian state (or an Israeli state) because they don’t want civic democracies in their midst.
Eyes. Nice post, and spot on. It is no use, however, “Wilber” is an ass and a inbreed retarded child.
CAF and their idiotic views be damned.
I stand corrected. Bob Rae made a statement today supporting the Tory decision.
As for the NDP – the usual. On the 23rd they wanted to show support for their anti-semitic colleagues in Durban, on the 24th they realized they needed Jewish votes to win in Toronto Centre, so they changed their minds.
Harper giving hell of speech on CTVnet right now
CAF and CJC…two non-secular political pressure groups battling it out for patronage by the venal Librano patronage brokering party…open patronage pimping…it’s enough to make apparatchiks like Cherniack wet his pants 😉
Now the Libs were saying what about separation of church and state?…or does that not include Mosque and state or Synagogue and state?…Gee it’s not like a Liberal to be ideologically duplicitous…is it?
If this is the same Khaled Mouammar who recently commented on the G&M article by the four law students, he doesn’t know the difference between antisemitism and “racism” more generally.
Wirbul: the recent STATEMENT by the Canadian Arab Federation is NOT racist — it too makes a fair argument about the nature of the Israeli state
I gather Israel is racist because it wants to be a Jewish state (albeit containing a Muslim population around 20%). The CAF statement refers to ARAB LAND.
By using this designation, the CAF is thus also racist AND hypocritical
SDA tories are always good for a laugh.
This type of angry, corrosive and narrow reasoning is a nice reminder of why conservatism in Canada is dying off with the protestant rural vote.
Enjoy the remainder of your pathetic minority government. I look forward to the return of the two cents of the GST your “great” economist cut in a pathetic attempt to curry favour with the middle class.
Bopray hat not sayz heez wife ha jewiss prinziss hin dliberal hideeOlagy wid paladistein.
So Q Liberal, who are you guys gonna steal your money from, to run in the next election?
Let’s not forget the territory of Labrador is Quebecois land currently occupied by the newfoundland gouvernment.
The brutal and illegal occupation of Labrador must end now.
PMSH did give a great speech today. But, immediately afterward Newman come on and his panel just talked about detainees. Not one word re the speech. These panelists want to know where the prisoners are, why. I guess they would pass that info on to the taliban so they could attack our troops and plan the great escape.
These idiots should learn that in war, secrets are kept. Giving these secrets to the enemy is called treason or spying or something. But then we have to remember that the liberals are planning to overthrow the government so one never knows what they are thinking.
At least our geniuses know the difference between “cents” and “percentage points”.
It’s only racism if white anglo saxons say don’t vote for so and so because they are Jewish. Thats why the religon of peace gets away with this crap like this.
The last time the world got together for an “anti-racism” conference in Durban, it devolved into a hatefest of intolerance and racism directed mostly at jews by mostly but not exclusively members of a certain unnamed religion.
It was only a few weeks later when members of this same religion flew planes into buildings.
Oh, the irony.
Here we are again. Should I be worried?
Stephan Dion…Any comments, reassurance, or fairy tales you care to impart on a nervous constituent?
In a short time we won’t have the Liberal Party to kick around anymore. It will be the Canadian Islamic Party.
There lots more about this outstanding Palestinian immigrant at Steve’s web page.
http://stevejanke.com/archives/114932.php#more
Ah… Quantum Liberal… another poster child for the chlorination of the gene pool. Are you really that retarded, or are you smoking meth? See, I don’t argue with leftard like you any more, I pray that you get hit by a 20 ton bus moving at 60 mph… a smear on concrete is what you and your ilk are worth.
A Quantum Liberal
I look forward to the next election too, because that’s when your election support teams will dry up because you will not be able to pay them the salaries they became used to while you were in power with stolen taxpayers money. You will understand what “support” really means when the money pit is dry and you realize how many friends you really have.
Good riddance.
What we have to get down to is finding out what it is about the Liberals that makes them so loved by the MSM. It matters not one whit that they’ve lost millions of tax dollars to corruption, have a leader who can’t lead, can’t even speak clearly.
Remembering the first words out of Dion’s mouth after he won the crown through Gerard Kennedy’s maneuvers “we have to get back to power as soon as possible”. Why? Does he have anything to put forward as policy? Apparently all the old Stalwarts didn’t think so, they all took a hike.
It’s going to be an uphill battle for Harper. The media and the Liberals are opposing for the sake of opposing, right is wrong and black is white.
Whatever Harper does they castigate him relentlessly, he’s damned no matter what.
Th Liberals and their minions in the MSM are using Banana Republic tactics, including terms like “overthrow” the government. If people aren’t worried this they don’t care about the country, they belong in ‘what’s in it for me’ crowd.
Who in their right mind can think Khaled isn’t a racist bigot, seeing how he thinks that racism is somehow “anti-racism”? Is he stupid or is he merely propagating the usual Big Lie of the Far Left, the supremacist ISlamists and the MSM?
Let’s call him “either stupid or racist”, then. Let him pick either or both. “Being a good Muslim” isn’t an excuse for being a stupid racist.
We take no lessons from Islamic Fascists.
Islamic Fascism must be treated the same as we treat Skinhead ideology, Nazi ideology, homophobic ideology, any racist/bigot ideology.
Why isn’t Islamic Fascism specifically named in the Human Rights Act as a prohibited, discriminatory, hateful ideology to hold? Why aren’t Islamic FAscists hauled before the Human Rights Commission to be questioned as to their private thoughts about, say, Jews and Israel, and then summarily be convicted of hatred, stripped of thousands of dollars, and have it seen to that they’ll have a lot of trouble ever again getting employed and so on?
Fair is fair. Taking away some folks’ rights is unacceptable. We must equally take away everyone’s rights without exception…. or take away no one’s rights.
This is the decision all societies must make: Either take away everyone’s rights or take away no one’s rights. If we’re going to be equal, we cannot take rights away from some groups and not from others. WE’re either equal in one way or the other. Inequality is not an option. If inequality is the way the Left wants things to be, then they’re exposing all societies to civil war, as history is the precedent for this happening.
No tolerance for intolerance. No apology for being free.
Islamic imperialism is real. Everywhere. Get used to the truth and fight the imperialism.
“Why isn’t Islamic Fascism specifically named in the Human Rights Act as a prohibited, discriminatory, hateful ideology to hold?”
Why, indeed.
However, “Islamic fascism” is not the incitement to hate and to do violent acts. The Islamic texts are the incitement. There can be no Islamic fascism without the Quran.
Take for example, the Toronto 17. Would they have planned this attack without Muhammad’s example and guidance and allah’s blessing taught to them from the Quran, Hadith and Sira?
The ideology as expressed in and fundamentally taught from the Islamic texts is the direct incitement for Islamic violence.
Yet this obvious truth is being subverted and ignored, so as not to cause victimization of a religious minority group. In other words, “Islamophobia.”