Who shall not be named;

On Friday, congregations at some of Canada’s mosques made their contribution to remembering Ms. Bhutto. At one Mississauga mosque where supporters of Ms. Bhutto had requested a prayer for their departed leader, the imam refused to utter her name from the pulpit. After the prayer, he was asked why he had not mentioned Ms. Bhutto by name. He responded in a nonchalant manner, “It was not necessary.” When pressed to clarify, he said, “I did not wish to name a specific person.” He was reminded that in his sermon he had mentioned the name of a man, why not Benazir. This time, Imam Mohammed Moutaz Chara, a Syrian-American, touched the questioner’s chin in a condescending manner and gave him a huge smile as he walked away.
A few kilometres away in one of Canada’s largest mosques run by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Skeikh Ala ElSayed refused to utter the words “Benazir Bhutto” from the pulpit, as if it was a profanity.
He talked in convoluted language expressing “condolences to families of beloved brothers and sisters who died in the incident.” When asked by a Toronto Star reporter why he had deliberately avoided mentioning Ms. Bhutto’s name, the imam snapped back: “Why? This is not a political arena. This is about religion. That’s politics.” How convenient.
At other mosques, the story was the same. Not a word about Benazir Bhutto. Reporters at one mosque seemed bewildered and asked why her name was not being mentioned. What no one was willing to tell them is that perhaps the imams consider the words “Benazir Bhutto” unclean and unIslamic. After all, she had vowed to take on the Islamic extremists and hence she was an adversary; the mere mention of her name may pollute the sanctity of the mosque.
And if there was any doubt about the agenda of the Islamist enterprise, it was on full display at the so called “Revival of the Islamic Spirit” conference held in Toronto this weekend. Among the dozens of Islamic speakers, there were only two women and they too were assigned the role of addressing issues such as pornography. There was barely any mention of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, other than the rhetorical praying for victims of violence. While men commanded the podiums, young women manned the clerical work as receptionists. There were no Benazir Bhuttos at the conference; only those who had not noticed her death.
In another twist, the mosque hosting the prayer event to commemorate Benazir Bhutto missed the point altogether. Instead of honouring the women who came to attend the prayer event as a mark of respect for Benazir Bhutto, they were told they would not be permitted to enter the prayer area from the main entrance.

Related: Canadian feminists take up the quarrel with the foe…
h/t Darcey

Another giant step forward for the religion of detonation;

An attack on a political rally killed the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto was fired upon before the blast, and an official from her party said Ms. Bhutto was further injured by the explosion, which was apparently caused by a suicide attacker.
At least a dozen more people were killed. “At 6:16 p.m. she expired,” said Wasif Ali Khan, a member of Ms. Bhutto’s party who was at Rawalpindi General Hospital where she was taken after the attack, according to The Associated Press.
Hundreds of supporters had gathered at the rally, which was being held at Liaqut Bagh, a park that is a common venue for political rallies and speeches, in Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjacent to the capital.
Amid the confusion after the explosion, the site was littered with pools of blood. Shoes and caps of party workers were lying on the asphalt, and shards of glass were strewn about the ground.

Ed Morrissey notes another four were killed at a rally for Nawaz Sharif in Rawalpindi. “It looks as though the radical Islamists made their statement today.”
Related: Radical Believers: Abortion doctors are dropping like fly – In a statistics-free report, National Post writer Adrian Humphreys offers that Muslims are “linked” to the Sept. 11 attacks “and other acts of terrorism”.
More – Her list of enemies has a common pedigree, with the usual suspects now taking credit.
Final word;

Since her last spell in power, Pakistan has changed, profoundly. Its sovereignty is meaningless in increasingly significant chunks of its territory, and, within the portions Musharraf is just about holding together, to an ever more radicalized generation of young Muslim men Miss Bhutto was entirely unacceptable as the leader of their nation. “Everyone’s an expert on Pakistan, a faraway country of which we know everything,” I wrote last month. “It seems to me a certain humility is appropriate.” The State Department geniuses thought they had it all figured out. They’d arranged a shotgun marriage between the Bhutto and Sharif factions as a “united” “democratic” “movement” and were pushing Musharraf to reach a deal with them. That’s what diplomats do: They find guys in suits and get ’em round a table. But none of those representatives represents the rapidly evolving reality of Pakistan. Miss Bhutto could never have been a viable leader of a post-Musharraf settlement, and the delusion that she could have been sent her to her death. Earlier this year, I had an argument with an old (infidel) boyfriend of Benazir’s, who swatted my concerns aside with the sweeping claim that “the whole of the western world” was behind her. On the streets of Islamabad, that and a dime’ll get you a cup of coffee.

Ali Eteraz replies to a party to the CIC complaint against Maclean’s in the comments section of this post;

“Please let us be heard?”
“Provide me a vehicle for debate?”
Is something wrong with you?
1 -Did you call Mark Steyn’s agent and try and set up a public debate? I bet he’d love a go; the right wing pundits do.
2 – Did you contact opposition publications to Macleans and publish stuff there? I bet they’d love a go to make Macleans look bad.
3 – Did you try and raise funds to start a new liberal magazine so you can respond to people like Mark Steyn?
4 – Did you contact the writer of Little Mosque on the Prairie, who is quite sympathetic to the CIC, and ask her to make a snide reference to the demographics issue that Steyn raises?
5 – Did you call Tarek Fateh, who and his associates seemingly have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER getting published works critical of Steyn?
6 – Did you even think about taking me up on my offer to get you guys published in the Guardian?
7 – Did you try and contact Anar Ali, the short story writer, to use her influence to write a rebuttal?
8 – Did you try to contact Irshad Manji — who last year wrote a piece damning all those who seek to stifle immigration — to help use her influence in challenging Steyn?
9 – Did you try to contact an agent for yourself or your other equally inept legal friends so that you might write an anti-Steyn?
I’m sorry if this sounds too much like a generalization, but I’ve dealt with individuals propounding the same kind of rhetoric you are — willful victimization, complete ignorance of how the world works, wallowing in self pity — and they often love to attach themselves to Western Muslim communities after 9/11 and drag them down. I’m sure you’ve got a few Muslim enablers as well. The individuals I am describing often tended to be highly educated, driven by some kind of parochial original sin which motivates them to teach utter and total despair to the community they attach themselves to, so that they may then save said community, and feel good about themselves.
I bet you and the other law students who have done nothing but toe the line the entire life (and have now turned into “humanitarians!” in what I figure is the last year of law school) had grandiose visions of having your name appear in Macleans as “defenders of the weak.” To be followed by a parade led by beautiful Muslim muhajjibas (oh, but how dare I suggest that YOU might be an orientalist).
Again, like I said, the statement of yours that I just quoted, is one of the saddest things I’ve read; quite helpless in fact. I never respond at this length in the comments, and felt compelled to do so, because you are just so far gone its tragic.
Anyhow this has been my last and final response to you.
Best of luck.

h/t

Cruising Facebook with the Jawa Report;

The last group of terror supporters are perhaps the most despicable in my opinion: for example, a group called “Support Our Troops!” No, not American troops, silly, the one who are trying to kill American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Note that the group Administrator is from the University of Arizona and that of the 128 group members some are from from TX, Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Celeveland, New York, LA, DC…

Dr. Elmasry, call your office….

Michelle Malkin;

The person who posted it claims: “I don’t know what happened here. But this happened on my Air Canada plane ride to London, England in December 6th, 2007 from Toronto…My partner and I decided we should videotape this in the interest of sharing the experience we went through on this plane with those interested.”

(Emphasis mine.)

“Here, listen, my dear daughter, do you know that this is the last day. Tonight, you’re going to die?”
Tina responds: “Huh?”
Zein Isa replies: “Do you know that you are going to die tonight?”
The girl’s mother asks her questions about items in her schoolbag. In the midst of her conversation with her mother, Tina begins to shriek in fear.
“Keep still, Tina!” says her father.
“Mother, please help me!”
“Huh? What do you mean?” the mother says.
“Help! Help!”
“What help?” the mother responds.
Tina screams, and Maria says: “Are you going to listen? Are you going to listen?”
Screaming louder, Tina gasps: “Yes! Yes! Yes, I am!” then coughs and adds, “No. Please!”
The mother says, “Shut up!”
Tina continues to cry, but her voice is unintelligible.
“Die! Die quickly! Die quickly!” the father says.
The girl moans, seems to quiet, then screams one last time.
“Quiet, little one! Die my daughter, die!” the father says.
Tina was stabbed six times in the chest with a boning knife, which pierced her heart, one lung, and liver, investigators said.

More pavilions at Folkfest: Kids today, right? It’s like Bye Bye Birdie – The Director’s Cut. But much of the media have rushed to echo him. Canada’s Number One news anchor went to weirdly contorted lengths to avoid the word ‘strangle’: “Her neck was compressed, to the point she couldn’t breathe.”
h/t

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”;

If convicted, Aqsa’s father and brother must be awarded the strictest penalty available under the law. As for the imams and clergy of Canada’s mosques, who constantly berate young women for not wearing the hijab or snub them for “violating Islam,” they need to reflect on the consequences of their sermons.
Consider, as an example, the Montreal mosque that recently posted on its Web site a warning to the effect that if young girls took off their hijab, they could end up getting raped and having “illegitimate children.” Other proferred risks included “Stresses, insecurity and suspicion in the minds of husbands” and “instigating young people to deviate towards the path of lust.”
As if the threat of rape and the fear of illegitimate children were not enough, these pre-teen girls were told that if they took off their hijab, they would cease to be Muslims: “By removing your hijab, you have destroyed your faith. Islam means submission to Allah in all our actions.” Little wonder then, that Canadian girls walk away from sports tournaments rather than remove their hijabs.
Muslims need to stand up to this sort of emotional and religious blackmail by imams who spread the competing agendas of Saudi Arabia and Iran into Canada. Young Aqsa Pervez’s death cannot be reversed. But in her memory, we can at least challenge those whose message leads to rage and madness.

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”;

A 16-year-old girl is in critical condition after being choked by a man believed to be her father, apparently after a dispute with her family over her refusal to wear the hijab, the Islamic headscarf worn by some Muslim women.
Peel Regional Police arrested a 57-year-old man yesterday morning after receiving a 911 call from a suburban home in Mississauga from a man saying he had killed his daughter. When police and paramedics arrived at the house they found a 16-year-old lying on the floor without any vital signs, police said.
[…]
Friends of the teenager, a Grade 11 student at nearby Applewood Heights high school, identified her as Aqsa Parvez and said they were shocked by the attack on the outgoing, likeable girl, but said she had been threatened by her strictly religious family before.
“She got threatened by her father and her brother,” said Dominiquia Holmes-Thompson, who had known Aqsa since they both started high school together. “He said that if she leaves, he would kill her.”
Ebonie Mitchell, 16, another friend of the victim, said the conflict with her father over wearing Islamic dress came to a head at the beginning of this school year. “She just wanted to dress like we do,” she said.
“Last year she wore like the Islamic stuff and everything, the hijab, and this year she’s all Western. She just wanted to look like everyone else. And I guess her dad had a problem with that.”

Aqsa Parvez has now reportedly died. A commentor at the linked site has it right. In addition to murder charges, this case demands to be prosecuted as a hate crime.

For those with the Canadian Islamic Congress on their gift list!

When the concept of “multiculturalism” was introduced to Canadians, most assumed it meant “more pavilions at Folkfest”;

The daughter of a British imam is living under police protection after receiving death threats from her father for converting to Christianity.
The 31-year-old, whose father is the leader of a mosque in Lancashire, has moved house an astonishing 45 times after relatives pledged to hunt her down and kill her.
The British-born university graduate, who uses the pseudonym Hannah for her own safety, said she renounced the Muslim faith to escape being forced into an arranged marriage when she was 16.
She has been in hiding for more than a decade but called in police only a few months ago after receiving a text message from her brother. In it, he said he would not be held responsible for his actions if she failed to return to Islam.
Officers have agreed to offer her protection in case of an attempt on her life.
[…]
A study this year found that 36 per cent of British Muslims between 16 and 24 believe those who convert to another religion should be punished by death.

Related.

Just another proud part of the New Trudeaupia;

While everyone is busy humming “Let’s Not Be Beastly to the Muslims,” it is worth noting the word “Islamophobia” is a misnomer. A phobia describes an irrational fear, and it is axiomatic that fearing the effects of radical Islam is not irrational, but on the contrary very well-founded indeed, so that if you want to speak of a legitimate phobia-it’s a phobia I experience frequently-we should speak instead of Islamophobia-phobia, the fear of and revulsion towards Islamophobia.

More reaction here;

Consider the implications: By the logic of the CIC’s attack on Maclean’s magazine, the owners and operators of Canadian libraries and bookstores could also be charged with violating the human rights of Muslims by making not just Steyn’s article but also his entire book widely available to Canadians throughout the country.
In attacking Maclean’s magazine, the CIC is not acting alone. It has the support of the Ontario Federation of Labour. In a statement backing the CIC, OFL executive vice-president Terry Downey said: “We want to make sure there’s dignity and respect for all individuals in the province.”
[…]
the restrictions on speech in the codes were intended to apply only to communications that fostered discrimination on such bases as employment or housing. Instead, human rights tribunals have adopted such expansive interpretations of these speech restrictions that a newspaper or magazine could get into trouble for publishing even a truthful article about conflict in the Middle East, Bosnia, Rwanda or elsewhere that is likely to expose at least one of the parties to contempt.
Canada’s power-grabbing human rights commissioners evidently have scant regard for the freedoms they suppress or for the original understanding of the codes they are supposed to uphold. Otherwise, the British Columbia tribunal and the Canadian and Ontario human rights commissions would have promptly dismissed the CIC’s complaints against Maclean’s as entirely without merit.

That’s from the London Free Press. Now that Macleans has been targeted, they get interested. Better late than never, I suppose. But here’s the better CHRC story, if only one of those big budget investigative journalists could be bothered;

To date, Richard Warman has filed 26 complaints against named respondents with his former employer – the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

Related – a “racist douchebag” imam gets mistaken for Mark Steyn.

Church and state, together at last;

The Canadian Islamic Congress […] know damn well themselves about the power of demographics as they keep track of Muslim populations in Canada and plan accordingly.
Prior to the 2004 elections the Canadian Islamic Congress issued a report (Elections 2004: Towards Informed and Commited Voting – pdf ) to their members. They had recognized their new found political clout due to changing demographics (example – second largest voting bloc in Ottawa) from compiled census data and noted that Muslims represented a swing vote in 101 electoral districts.
The Canadian Islamic Congress graded each of the 301 elected MP’s according to various domestic and international issues which included closer ties to Muslim countries, review’s of the anti-terrorism legislation and getting rid of security certificates. Members were urged to vote for those with the highest grade.

You aren’t allowed to mention this in polite company because, as every good progressive* will remind you – Islam is a race.
Read the rest at DMB.

Apologist:

Muslim nations have a shameful record on women and minorities. But it is dishonest to conflate that with the Muslim minorities in the West. It is counterproductive to lay collective guilt on them. They don’t live there, they live here, and should be judged as any other fellow-citizens. Anything less is to devalue our democracies.

vs No Apology.

The Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC) announced today that it has launched several human rights complaints against Maclean’s Magazine. Separate complaints have been filed in response to the Maclean’s article The Future Belongs to Islam written by Mark Steyn […] In response to the article, several law students met with editors Kenneth Whyte and Mark Stevenson and proposed that Maclean’s publish a response. In response, Mr. Whyte indicated that Maclean’s would rather go bankrupt than allow a response to the article.

Time to take out a subscription. And contact your MP because the Canadian Thought Control Police could come for you next.
(Which reminds me – I have a Richard Warman poll in the works. Stay tuned.)
More – Further response from Macleans here.
And here – from Ken Whyte;

On Dec. 5, Whyte issued the following statement to clarify what happened at the meeting: “The student lawyers in question came to us five months after the story ran. They asked for an opportunity to respond. We said that we had already run many responses to the article in our letters section, but that we would consider a reasonable request. They wanted a five-page article, written by an author of their choice, to run without any editing by us, except for spelling and grammar. They also wanted to place their response on the cover and to art direct it themselves.
“We told them we didn’t consider that a reasonable request for response. When they insisted, I told them I would rather go bankrupt than let somebody from outside of our operations dictate the content of the magazine. I still feel that way.”

You can read the Steyn piece in question at this link.

h/t

“I realise folks don’t want to know this, but the average IQ in Sudan really is about 72.”
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More: Today’s Featured Ebay Auction: “Burned cheese toast with image of the Virgin Mary.”