A few items gathered while surfing –
The justice of settled science;
Findley said the ruling was among the first from a state appellate court to recognize the new research and reverse a conviction. At the time of Edmunds’ 1996 trial, doctors who raised such questions were viewed as extremists, he said. Now, they are in the mainstream.
Michael Yon is back in Iraq.
Abu Laith al-Libi
Add yours in the comments.
you are not trona so. “no troop for you”
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2008/01/31/army-ghiz.html
Environment Canada has “muzzled” its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with “approved lines.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=277560
Looks like Stevie wants to nazify the civil service.
…must…not…contradict…Dear Fat Leader.
Rove – re: environment Canada’s media rules: NO different than pretty well any organization anywhere.
Or, do YOU and all of the people you work with usually answer media questions about your company so your boss, shareholders, whoever only know what you are saying, your opinion which affects them all and may or may not be accurate when they read it in the press and then have to answer for what YOU said?
The world does not work that way – that is why there are company/government/organization spokespeople.
The fact that was NOT being followed in government depts. is really what should be disturbing to Canadians.
record cold
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/s557.htm
This is so good that I can hardly contain myself: the federal NDP caucus, which persists in its belief that the CPC and Prime Minister Harper are racist bigots, is (I hope you’re sitting down) 97 per cent (29/30) white.
Check out the photographic proof at http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=460866&id=7960839407#pid=460866
Off topic, but as I watch the news of 5 semis smashing up at Lake Louise killing 3 and shutting the highway down for 20 hours, yes the trans Canada I can’t help but wonder, how much hiway could have been twinned through the mountains with the stolen money of the Liberals and their sponsergate, or gun control or hrdc or…
Peter MacKay says that he was in the loop:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080131.wkandahar31/BNStory/Front/
Peter MacKay, lying in parliament:
“Mr. Speaker, first let me say that the Canadian military, in fact all Canadians in Afghanistan are certainly meeting all their international obligations.
There has not been one single, solitary proven allegation of abuse of detainees, let alone juvenile detainees in Afghanistan.
The member likes to extrapolate on evidence. He has not been able to produce one solitary example. Rather than producing hogwash and hornswoggle, maybe he can bring some cold, hard facts instead of this torqued rhetoric.”
(Hansard, November 22*, 2007)
Bin Layton is showing his colors and spewing his bile yet again..
[quote]Environment Canada has “muzzled” its scientists,[/quote]
What Scientist thinks his PEER group is the public. Political scientist?
Why does Environment Canada have any scientists on “staff”?
Canada’s Lady of NUANCE?
Our Lady of antisemitism.
Our Lady of resignation.
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[Canadian] Arbour should have known better
“she should have developed an ear for nuance”
“Her flip-flop this week on the new pan-Arab “human-rights charter” – a watery document at best – was an embarrassment for a woman who is now the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.” http://tinyurl.com/2jp9so (MonGazette)
Thor I just read that article on Gassy Jack and it leaves me in the mood for mass murder. That is why I will never put on a uniform and fight for the Canadian armed forces. We will never win any war we fight as long as leftists have a say in gov’t. It is unfair of our country to allow liberals to send our boys to chitholes like Afghanistan, ask them to fight, die and bleed there – and then jerk the rug out from under them after they have spilled their blood and buried their squaddies there. This is not political dissent – this is friggin TREASON.
A plague on the swine of the NDP. Bast*rds. Bast*rds all.
[deleted. Take comments like that to your own blog, they aren’t welcome here. ED]
Taliban Jack & Citoyen Dion: What a pair of socialists; “the paragon of animals*”.
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What a piece of work is Dion*
John Ivison, National Post
“I hope I will convince him [Taliban Jack-NDP] to change his mind. Canada cannot pull out of Afghanistan all of a sudden, overnight,” he [Citoyen Dion] said.”
Mr. Layton could hardly contain himself after Question Period. “I would urge Stephane Dion not to take the direction that Mr. Harper wants to go. I would like Mr. Dion to join the New Democrats in pressing for a new direction,” he beamed.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=278447
* What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world – the paragon of animals!
Hamlet: William Shakespeare (Act II – Sc. II)
Don Martin describes the “full-court-press pile-on” in the escalating war against the government and their communications people. I guess they don’t like the punishment handed out to Krista:
“Take the case of CBC reporter Krista Erickson, a friend of mine by the way. She flipped another person’s questions to a Liberal MP who, being incapable of independent thought, put them to former prime minister Brian Mulroney during his Schreiber inquiry testimony.”
So Krista is taking the fall for someone else at the CBC?
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=fd9c23d9-05a6-494b-ba72-04ce4c3e2db6&k=18623&p=1
Lte’s hope that seperatism does not die and Quebec actually does leave. Bon debaras!
From the Underground: Maddass Hussein/leftists say it was all about the oil.
“In 2004, Canada replaced Saudi Arabia as the leading supplier of crude oil to the United States.”
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Canada to become next OPEC
Pipeline into U.S. gets regulatory approval
“The United States’ oil dependence on Canada, already America’s largest supplier, is about to grow under a plan to build a new pipeline to transport oil from the tar sands of Alberta into the central part of the nation.”
“According to the Energy Information Administration, the leading suppliers of U.S. oil in Nov. 2007 were: Canada, 2.431 million barrels per day; Saudi Arabia, 1.620 million barrels per day; Mexico, 1.581 million barrels per day; Venezuela, 1.381 million barrels per day; and Nigeria, 1.306 million barrels per day.”
“According to Canada’s Globe and Mail, by 2015 and the completion of the project, Canadian oil exports to the U.S. are expected to increase to three million barrels a day.” http://tinyurl.com/2n46zm (wnd)
I beg to differ . .
al Libi vaporized!
Martin Navias, an analyst with Britain’s Center for Defence Studies, says that the US has often said it would step up operations in Pakistan, but he was uncertain that this latest strike was an expression of this more aggressive stance against Al Qaeda in the region.
**It’s the kind of operation that reflects good intelligence…. It’s significant in the propaganda sense for the Americans, but it not going to have major operational effect.**
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No major effect? Baloney!
It strikes terror into the hearts of sneaky low life pushers of young martyr bombers.
Who is next? = TG
“Can’t Beat Taliban, So lets Leave”
National NewsWatch
Ya lets put up the White Flag Jack.
Jack seems to think that this should be another Bosnia Mission, Which was nothing more then a Cluster F***. shoulder that Weapon Don’t Shootback.
Stay in between the waring factions & Do, & Say Nothing, Regardless of what you see.
Lew(Gen.Lewis MacKenzie) called it right this is Not Bosnia & if turns to that then you better be ready to move quick.
My Son-in-law, his buddies & my best friend who was(MWO) are still reliving a nightmare.
Ya Jack Wave that White Flag, Gawd help Us if guys like this Ever lead this country.
Let the eastern bhjfrgks freeze in the dark? OK.
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McGuinty joins Earth Hour
Provincial, federal governments to turn off lights
“Insisting the planet can be saved an hour at a time,” http://tinyurl.com/3x4ykf (TO Red Star)
“Lte’s hope that seperatism does not die and Quebec actually does leave”
It’s a wonderful thought, bob, but it’ll never happen. Actually, i suspect separatism never existed except as a wet dream among the “intellectual” class who used it to extort power and money from gullible federal governments.
NDP Layton says Afghanistan military mission ‘endless’.
“Can’t beat Taliban so let’s leave.”
This is the same arsehole who marched with the Taliban flag only months ago.
The best friends the Afghani Taliban have in Canada is Jack Layton and the New Democrats.
Which begs the question – are all NDP supporters cowards and Taliban sympathizers or just Taliban Jack Layton, Libby Davies, Joe Comartin and Mulcair the mouthy communist ND MP from Quebec?
Now there is a internet poll worth running.
How about it Kate?
dean – you’re dead-on right. Quebec is stuck to the Canadian teat and there is no letting go.
“Can’t beat Taliban so let’s leave.”
Nor can the NDP win an election. So why don’t they slink away into the night, never to be heard from again?
Lorne Gunter has a nice column in the National Post, affirming The Right to be Loathsome:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=278535
To quote Gunter:
“The tough thing about free speech is that the only true test of one’s belief in it comes from defending those one most vehemently opposes — not merely those one agrees with. The case of Salman Hossain, a Bangladeshi-Canadian university student from Mississauga, Ont., illustrates my point.”
I fully agree.
Further details:
Abu Laith al-Libi, al-Qaeda chief in Afghanistan, killed in missile attack
The Taliban commander who owned the compound, 45-year-old Abdus Sattar, was loyal to one of Pakistan’s most wanted men, Islamist tribal warlord Baitullah Mehsud, the sources said.
Pakistani and US officials have blamed Mehsud, who is based in neighbouring South Waziristan, for orchestrating the assassination of the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in December…
A longtime jihadist, al-Libi was also leader of the now-defunct Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, opposed to the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. He was named in al-Qaeda videos as a senior field commander in Afghanistan and linkman with Taliban insurgents.
According to the American authorities, he masterminded the suicide bombing that killed 23 people outside Bagram air base in Afghanistan during a visit by Mr Cheney in February 2007.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Gannett Co., the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, said Friday its fourth-quarter profit dropped 31 percent on a decline in broadcasting revenue and weak newspaper ad sales.
The adjusted results narrowly topped Wall Street’s expectations.
The McLean, Va.-based publisher of USA Today said earningswas $1.2 billion, down 12 percent from $1.4 billion a year ago. The flagship USA Today newspaper saw advertising revenue fall 16.7 percent in the fourth quarter. Overall newspaper circulation revenue declined 7 percent to $313.2 million.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/lower-broadcasting-revenue-hurts-gannett/n20080201092609990018
“architectural porn”
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The Worst Building in the History of Mankind
It’s the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea, where the world’s 22nd largest skyscraper has been vacant for two decades and is likely to stay that way … forever.
A picture doesn’t lie — the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella’s castle. Not that you would be able to tell from the official government photos of the North Korean capital — the hotel is such an eyesore, the Communist regime routinely covers it up, airbrushing it to make it look like it’s open — or Photoshopping or cropping it out of pictures completely.
Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom (also known as the Phantom Hotel and the Phantom Pyramid) isn’t the just the worst designed building in the world — it’s the worst-built building, too. In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished. http://tinyurl.com/2awrnd (esquire)
Videos included: A bootleg video of the tower from YouTube. How the brazen videographer escaped without being arrested remains a mystery.
More: The Demolition S How video by the Italian architects Extraneo might not be as conceptual as Ryugyong.org, but this piece of architectural porn sure is fun to watch. The video (which you can watch above) was mounted as part of the exhibition Fiction Pyongyang, curated in part by Stefano Boeri, who also collected 120 speculative designs for the hotel in the June 2006 domus magazine. The designs, he says, “have forced it to reveal its icy nature, its irresistible fascination as a fragile alien meteorite.” The worst building in the world is also, we now know, “the only built piece of science fiction in the contemporary world.” And it’s true. Demolition S How is all Blade Runner-style flying ads and soaring concrete, and the video reminds us that the worst building in the world is the closest humans have come to building a Death Star.
Mao Stlong say, herp. Things “snowsnow”.
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SOS,Chenzhou City need help!
the city isolated from heavy snow need your help!
“my wife tells me that what she wish most is a warm-water bath,but now it is a mission impossible!”, Huang, a local citizen, told the reporter.
Since snowsnow assaulted the city in 24th,January, all water and electricity supply to Chenzhou city has been off for 6 days and 6 nights. Some citizens here have ate up their food stock.
Even the electricity supply to hospitcal now is off. Most shops and bank are closed. All ATMs are not available anymore either.
The price of all vegetables doubled. Candles are in urgent demand. ” Now one candle even costs 50 yuan (8 USD) !” Huang said. http://tinyurl.com/2g87y9 (pakdefforum)
Having not been seen for a few days, it appears the moonbats have once again found the hole out of their cave to spread a little dung around like this:
“Let’s hope that Conrad Black dies in jail.”
The NDP doesn’t have the honesty to figure out what Giulliani and Edwards realized. They’d rather continue eating into the taxpayer wallet and in return contribute a toxic anti-Canadian point-of-view. At least they steal votes from the darker side of the Liberals.
bryanr….They did the same thing to my brother and his comrades upon returning from Somalia.
These leftarded moonbats are real quick to send the troops to these 3rd world s@#$ holes, and then act all aghast when the troops have to kill some bad guys.
F#$%ing moronic dippers!
GO ARMY(77-85)
Endlessly divisible Canada
Raheel Raza
This year marks the 20th anniversary of my arrival in Canada. People who have been here for less time are busy trying to change the face of this wonderful country I call home.
Not to be left behind, I take this opportunity to look ahead another 20 years:
There will be a separate school at every corner….
Within the school system there will be division of language….
Schoolbooks will be printed in every language…
While separation of church and state is really not that important, we must separate vegetarian and non-vegetarian….
There will be separate laws for all religious groups….
Loyalty to Canada will not be a prerequisite to living here….
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/299337
See the National Post/Feb 1.
A nice recap/comment on the issues(s) of the AB HRC.
It also refers to a past statement from E. Stelmach in which he apparently suggested during the leadership campaign that any “changes” to the Act re freedom of speech as regards the HRC would not get to first base.
At something like 35% +- in the polls, perhaps he will have to deal with the HRC issue.
One of the interesting things about yesterday’s killing of Abu Laith al-Libi is the press coverage. I’ve checked Fox, CNN, Times(London), BBC, and this Pakistani English newspaper
http://www.dawn.com/2008/02/01/top6.htm
There only seems to be mild mention of the fact that Pakistan does not want US forces operating in Pakistan and yet this drone took out the house. What gives? Is the MSM just quietly accepting that the GWOT has expanded into Pakistan? BTW, I think the Americans are making the correct moves here; I simply expected a different reaction from the MSM.
(Via CSP) Editorial support from The Wall Street Journal:
NATO’s Afghan failure
We feel Stephen Harper’s pique. Maybe France, Germany and other so-called NATO allies will as well and heed the Canadian Prime Minister’s call to share the war-fighting burden in Afghanistan…
The plight of the Canadians ought to shame other allies. Mr. Harper warned that his country wouldn’t extend its 2,500-strong mission in Afghanistan’s unstable southern provinces unless Europe ponies up troops and equipment. His minority party will soon put the deployment to Parliament, where the opposition wants a withdrawal. “If NATO can’t come through with that help, then I think, frankly, NATO’s own reputation and future will be in jeopardy,” he said this week. Canadians aren’t known for hyperbole.
wsj.com/article/SB120182510813133677.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
See also The NATO Emerging in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/31/AR2008013102545.html
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One of the interesting things about yesterday’s killing of Abu Laith al-Libi is the press coverage. I’ve checked Fox, CNN, Times(London), BBC, and a Pakistani English newspaper.
There only seems to be mild mention of the fact that Pakistan does not want US forces operating in Pakistan and yet this drone took out the house. What gives? Is the MSM just quietly accepting that the GWOT has expanded into Pakistan? BTW, I think the Americans are making the correct moves here; I simply expected a different reaction from the MSM.
UN vandals spray graffiti on Sahara’s prehistoric art
Spectacular prehistoric depictions of animal and human figures created up to 6,000 years ago on Western Saharan rocks have been vandalised by United Nations peacekeepers, The Times has learnt.
Archaeological sites boasting ancient paintings and engravings of giraffes, buffalo and elephants have been defaced within the past two years by personnel attached to the UN mission, known by its French acronym, Minurso…
ET: Thanks for the Lorne Gunter link. He’s a terrific columnist. However, in this instance, as argued elsewhere, I think he’s wrong.
There’s free speech.
There’s incitement.
Then there’s plot/operations.
Here’s where he’s wrong: He hasn’t actually plotted to commit any or have others commit some.
You don’t have to actually plot to be guilty of incitement. This is assuredly not in the same category as the Steyn-Levant cases. Plus: we are AT WAR.
On an earlier thread about name calling:
Isn’t your cloud-dwellers tag name calling?
Egyptian security forces in Sinai detain first mixed Palestinian-al Qaeda team for attacks on Israel
Detained Friday, Feb. 1, they were carrying explosives for attacks on Israelis in Sinai and across border. Ten were described as Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, two from “the Gulf.” DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources identify these two as Saudi members of al Qaeda, eight as belonging to Hamas’ military arm and the remaining two as Jihad Islami. This is the first proof of operational links in the Gaza Strip and Middle East between the Palestinian Hamas and its allies, including Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, and al Qaeda…
re: the Edmunds story – Here in Toronto, disgraced forensic examiner Charles Smith apologized to a man who was convicted of the murder of his infant daughter on Smith’s inept and incorrect testimony. The man spent 12 years in jail, lost his job, his home, and his family because of Smith’s errors.
This is as bad as the case of the day care workers in Washington state who were accused of child abuse on trumped up testimony from a psychiatrist with an ax to grind. How many more peoples’ lives are going to be destroyed by these charlatans?
How long before this comes to Canada
No fat people allowed: Only the slim will be allowed to dine in public!
http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-fat-people-allowed-only-slim-will-be.html
For your weekend reading pleasure:
Robert Irwin, Islamic science and the long siesta
Did scientific progress in the Islamic world really grind to a halt after the twelfth century?
How Orwellian, external speed control for your car:
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=f414bfa3-279a-4c40-8e4c-3ed7f16d4524
Gen.Hillier denies rift between him and PMSH..cbc DOESN’T disect this to death,just more or less buries it.No analysis by Julie Van Bad Hair,no picking to death by Susan Whatever,or the new Lawand/Erickson,Rosemary Barton.Hmm,must be favorable to PMSH,so we won’t talk about it.
Tony Blair’s Britian worthy item:
‘Don’t teach children patriotism’
According to an article that appeared at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article3285615.ece, teaching patriotism is a bad thing. The Institute of Education obviously hasn’t any researchers who were around to hear Churchill’s speach in ’40.
Britian has become embarassing to anyone of English heritage. From Empire to milk toast.
Me No Dhimmi – well, we’ll have to agree to disagree with regard to Lorne Gunter’s perspective – and mine.
The fact that we are ‘at war’ in Afghanistan doesn’t negate Hossein’s right to express himself about these events and its agenda. He’s not plotting or inciting.
No, Cloud Dweller’s is not name-calling. I’m not mocking the name of their prophet, I’m not mocking their pronunciation (as does Maz2) etc. I’m providing a visual metaphor for a particular mental state, the utopian mental state, which is amorphous and untouchable.
Ezra Levant has some excellent comments up today, on the sheer illogicality of the Alberta HRC case against someone who wrote a letter against homosexuality to a local paper. The Commission’s ‘judge’, Lori Andreachuk, reaches enormous heights of illogical conclusions:
357. ‘Exposure of __ to hatred and contempt trumps the freedom of speech afforded in the Charter”
357. “It cannot be the case that any speech wrapped in the ‘guise’ of politics or religion is beyond reproach by any legislation but the Criminal Code’
341. It is my view nonsensical to enact broad an paramount remedial legislation such as human rights legislation to protect the dignity and human rights of Albertans, only to have it overriden by the expression of opinion in all forms”.
Whew. Can you believe what she is saying? She is saying that IF someone feels ‘exposed to hatred or contempt’, that this feeling trumps another person’s right to free speech. According to her, there is a basic human right NOT TO BE OFFENDED. And that this right trumps anyone’s free speech.
This reduces speech to platitudes; you cannot offend. Anyone. Because not being offended, according to her, is a ‘basic human right’.
This same case saw the AG of Alberta make such astonishing statements as
240: “It is the Attorney General’s position that there is no such thing as “discriminatory political and religious expression”, speech is either legitimate or it is discriminatory.”
That’s an AG speaking. Notice what he has said. He doesn’t contrast ‘discriminatory’ with ‘non-discriminatory’ and ‘legitimate’ with ‘non-legitimate’. Instead, he jumps the logical hill, and asserts that ‘discriminatory speech’ is not legitimate’. BUT, this means that the only speech that is ‘legitimate’ is ‘non-offensive speech’ because ‘offensive speech’ ..discriminates.
And who makes the decision about what is discriminatory or not? Certainly, the AHRC doesn’t think the citizen does. The State makes that decision. And, according to Ms Andreachuk, this right trumps our Charter and 800 years of free speech.
The NDP are ridiculous. A few thousand terrorists are an insurmountable obstacle – we’ll never beat them, we should just go home, say sorry etc… But the very climate of the earth, a 3 billion year old biosphere – we can change that in 47 months – damn the Tories for not having done it already.
Unrelated: An Iranian student in newfoundland has been handed a two month sentence for shoving his face into a woman’s cleavage on an elevator. His defence “You can’t expect all males to control themselves when the breasts are out”
(Via AEI) Joshua Muravchik and Charles P. Schrom, In Search of Moderate Muslims
Ever since his first post-9/11 speech summoning the nation to a war against terrorism, President Bush has stressed that “our war is against evil, not against Islam.” Indeed, his administration has branded the terrorists as “traitors to their own faith”—outlaws who are “trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.”
There is no reason to doubt the sincerity of such pronouncements. But they also reflect a strategic imperative—namely, to prevent the jihadists from attracting wide support in the Muslim world. The goal of Bush’s policy is, rather, to call forth the Muslim majority against the acts and ideology of the terrorists. As the Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes has put it: “radical Islam is the problem and moderate Islam the solution.”
This is one facet of U.S. policy on which there has been virtually no dissent. But it begs the question: what exactly is moderate Islam, and where can we find it?
Go back to that link for the Justice of Settled….or click on this one ….
Canoe Poll bottom left of page!
There’s a poll about election issues!
What do you think?
From the wikipedia page:
“Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
charles macdonald – there was a more moderate Islam, focused around diverse interpretations of the texts in pre-19th c. Islam. This was overtaken by the fundamentalism of Wahhabism that rejected diverse interpretations and insisted on a fascist, ie, ‘essentialist’ notion of Islam.
There is now, however, a burgeoning re-emergence of the right-to-interpret (which means to debate and accept diversity of belief). You’ll find this in various academic journals on Islam; the authors in them, are Muslims. For example, the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences.
Free Muslims Coalition, Muslim Canadian Congress, people like Hirsi Ali, Irshad Manji, Salim Mansur (his columns are in the Toronto Sun), Tarek Fatah, and a lot of women.
It’s there, it’s fighting back against Wahhabism and fundamentalism.
Saudi Arabia, the centre of Wahhabism, is starting to ‘crack’ in its rigidity.
The ME states will, I think, move out of Islamic Fascism.
The real danger is in the non-Islamic states, that is, in the West. That’s because the Islamic ideology in the West, because of multiculturalism, is isolated from the contextual constraints of the realities of the local economic, political and social environment.
The ideology is not forced to compromise because ofo the contextual effects of interaction with the local economy and political envt, ie, the existence of others who are not of the same religion and beliefs. It becomes ‘unattached’ to reality. It forms a Pure Ideal – that is seen by its followers as not amenable to interpretation or change. This becomes – a cult.
That’s where the danger lies now. The West has to fight back; it must reject multiculturalism and insist on integration, assimilation and living a ‘contextualized life’.