For Muslim purists, there is no other law but sharia:

Qamar David, a Pakistani Christian serving a life sentence for blasphemy against Islam, was found dead in his Karachi jail cell yesterday. David, in prison since 2002, was sentenced for allegedly sending derogatory text messages about the Prophet Mohammad, though his lawyer maintains that the charges were motivated by a business rivalry. He was 55 years old and the father of four sons.
Authorities report that he died of a heart attack, but it is widely suspected that he was murdered by radical Muslims who, in recent months, have sought by violent means to defend Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws.

Previous: In which I consider the peaceful minority:

It is therefore irrelevant in the grand scheme of things whether or not Hardi or Mubarka are “good” people; most people on the planet are, no matter their religion, race, or culture. What matters in the greater sense, is that as parts of the Muslim collective, neither woman would set aside her Muslim beliefs in order to safeguard and protect the full rights of non-Muslims to live as they choose. What’s even more disturbing, is that both women have experienced the gender freedoms afforded them in Canada, yet both have voluntarily resigned themselves to the greater Muslim collective.

Update – Recall the annual French car-roasts … well, it turns out that they may be a symptom of a population far smaller than anyone could’ve guessed:

There are 2.1 million ‘declared Muslims’ aged 18-50 in France, far less than certain estimates advanced in the public debate, according to a new study by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) and the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE). The joint study on the diversity of populations in France, was published in October under the title “Trajectories and Origins”. In France, a country which bans religious or ethnic statistics, it’s usually estimated that there are 5-6 million Muslims.
Patrick Simon, sociologist, researcher at INED, and one of the authors of the study says that even adding those under 18 or over 50, you won’t reach 5 million.

Questions: What percentage of population within a Western country has to be Muslim, before car-roasts, no-go enclaves, and activism for Sharia become common-place? Does the ethnic make-up of the Muslim population make a difference? What’s in store for Canada, given that our Muslim population will be 7% by 2030 … higher than that of France today. And finally, from dmorris … “NOW,what can we do about it,within the realm of reason,and under the current laws and Charter of Canada?”

There’s no crying in Twitter, Chad.

William Tucker explains;

The core of a nuclear reactor operates at about 550 degrees Fahrenheit, well below the temperature of a coal furnace and only slightly hotter than a kitchen oven. If anything unusual occurs, the control rods immediately drop, shutting off the nuclear reaction. You can’t have a “runaway reactor,” nor can a reactor explode like a nuclear bomb. A commercial reactor is to a bomb what Vaseline is to napalm. Although both are made from petroleum jelly, only one of them has potentially explosive material.

The Star’s Susan Delacourt, the writer with “Ottawa insider” at all times written all over her, writes about the “buzzing” in “political circles” over the impending resignations of two Conservative ministers from the west and a western MP. The danger, you see, is that the Conservatives have packed up their belongings and relocated east to The Boogeyman’s Palace:

What may be most interesting about this news is the signal that Harper’s government increasingly is rooted in Ontario, and in particular, Mike Harris’s Ontario…

“Mike Harris’s Ontario” – the perfect pseudo-geographical intended-scare-phrase talking point for any anti-Conservative with Ottawa insider written all over her.
Alberta Aardvark:

If the PM found a cure for cancer, the Toronto Star would write an op-ed on how he is putting doctors out of work…

Pretty much.

Here are a few choice excerpts from a “Tiger Beat” column…whoops, sorry, they’re from an Ottawa Magazine article, titled “Queen of the Hill”, about CBC parliamentary reporter Kady O’Malley:

“The Hill Times, the newspaper of record in the parliamentary precinct, has named her one of the 100 most influential people in government and politics for the past two years running….”

Kady O’Malley is one of the most influential people in Canadian government and politics?

“Put simply, O’Malley is trending…”

A trending reporter? Who knew?
Columnist Rob Thomas love-love-loves her style:

“…she looks like the town gunslinger, wearing heels and low-slung jeans with two Blackberries clipped to her belt. And if it were an Old West scene, her desk would be the requisite tumbleweed, a chest-high jumble of papers with a netbook perched on top…”

Yes, if Kady O’Malley was living in the Old West, her desk would be “the requisite tumbleweed” with a computer perched on top of it – makes perfect sense, really, for someone raised in Ottawa who “was hooked on politics early” and whose father, Peter O’Malley, “was director of communications to NDP leader Ed Broadbent, while her mother worked as a government economist.”
Choice quote from the comments under the article:

“Kady O’Malley isn’t a journalist…she drinks Red Bull and squawks on her blackberry like any 17 year old girl would. Only difference is a 17 year old would hate the cheerleaders, Kady hates Conservatives.”

She’s the perfect CBC employee, in other words.