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The new start to the school year brings with it yet another fresh round of crypto-environmentalist pushers. This afternoon my daughter brought home a booklet entitled ” Blazing Trails Through the Urban Jungle”. Steps 1 and 2 ask the child to describe their territory and map their route to school. Steps 3 and 4 ask them to identify safe and unsafe traffic areas in their neighborhood, while the final step directs parents to participate in the “greening” process.

It urges we drive our cars less, drive slower and leave our vehicles at home at least two days per week. It suggests that we help start a “walking school bus” and ask Green Communities for a copy of Go for Greens ” Retrofitting Communities for Sustainable and Healthy Active Transportation”. My daughter was swift in her response as she has used the same method and same route to get to school for years: her feet on the sidewalk.

My reaction surely must be typical of any honest parent whose intent is to prioritize on the academic portion of the education system which I pay heavily to subsidize and to retain a healthy dose of skepticism, all things considered. Certainly my questions must run through many minds: Why are children asked to do this? Why should it matter how my daughter gets to school; isn’t the point that she attend and is eager to learn? Why is she being used as a conduit for such one-sided propaganda? Subsequently, why are tax dollars diverted and directed to such radical initiatives?

Climate change, global warming and a push for a greener, friendlier world I would suppose, where the salvation of the planet rests on walking, bicycling, recycling, voting green and the preposterous notion that the welfare of earth rests in the fragile and fickle ego of mankind.

Global warming is the new big business. The federal Liberals are so enamored by the concept that their entire political campaign is centered around it. Tabled as the Green Shift, they are willing to bankrupt the country in it’s favour. Elizabeth May’s Green Party is all about green, green and more green, leaving economics, geo-political concerns, international relations and health care as bothersome afterthoughts. This leaves room for the lesser known but still high profile celebrity anti-carbon enthusiasts such as David Suzuki and Al Gore wannabe’s to peddle their wares to the biggest market available: school children. This latest initiative is sponsored by Health Canada, Environment Canada, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, the City of Toronto, Green Communities and Go for Green. Aside from the obvious departments of Health and Environment Canada and the City of Toronto, who are these people? Reprobates from the by-gone hippie generation seeking a modern cause?

The trouble is, there is no counter argument presented to young minds that is welcome in any public school. There is no booklet published by respected scientists detailing evidence to the contrary brought home in the knapsack available for families to read. Sponsorship through tax payers dollars for the alternative point of view is simply not available. I have yet to see a booklet of this nature. Are schools not obliged to teach our children in an environment of academic fairness without bias and political, state interference? 

My daughter has completed the booklet; I on the other hand, am not so easily chided.

Active and safe routes to school is a national, child-centered program, developed, implemented and managed by Green Communities in Ontario and Go for Green and the rest of it’s partners in Canada. 

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Samira Laouni, a federal candidate for the Canadian New Democratic Party (NDP) is running in the riding of Bourassa in Montreal. Touted as the first hijab wearing politician, she hopes to bring a better understanding of Islam and increased cultural tolerance and ethnic diversity to this troubled area. Working on behalf of the Muslim community in Montreal, she was part of a delegation of women who went to Herouxville, Quebec to participate in an inter-cultural dialogue exhange with local residents during the highly publicized and controversial “reasonable accommodation” debates of 2007.

Working from this theme, she worked closely with the Canadian Islamic Congress under the umbrella of the Canadian Muslim Forum, Both are grassroots organizations focused on Islamic issues promoted within Canadian society. Under the direction of the CIC and by extension the CMF, she presented a brief to the Bouchard-Taylor Consultation Commission detailing concerns and providing recommendations on behalf of the Muslim community to be considered in their final report.

It is not unreasonable for any ethnic community to concentrate on concerns specific to their community. It is even less curious that members of these communities illicit support from political candidates and sitting members of provincial and federal offices to consider and value their unique cultural interests and contributions within the broader, societal context. I’m certain that Ms. Laouni differs little from most in her hard working attempt to secure fair and equal representation in Parliament for Canadian Muslims.

The Montreal Muslim News, on the other hand, is more overt in it’s pressure on behalf of asserting “progressive” cultural relativism and it’s linking to Canadian political/social policy. Much of this is revealed in an article published today on the Election 2008. The author proceeds to rate all federal parties on their ability it would seem, as who is best suited to court and appease Islam.

What sets Samira Laouni apart from most other political candidates representing ridings with high visible minority populations with legitimate and reasonable concerns, is her past and perhaps ongoing affiliation with both the CIC and CMF organizations. Muhammed Elmasry, president of the CIC was quoted to say of Ms. Laouni’s contribution in the reasonable accommodation debate ” She was instrumental in writing Muslim views and her actions were positively achieved. I hope voters will be blind to her hijab and judge her on her qualifications and ability to represent them.”

Although the CMF is more restrained, both groups show an anti-semitic undertone and a toxic mix of distaste and hatred for both Israel and the United States. The CIC in particular, is fixated on perpetuating false information and historical inaccuracies to it’s readership concerning the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and Islamic achievement and has repeatedly called upon both the federal Liberal and Conservative governments respectfully to remove both Hamas and Hezbollah from the list of known terrorist organizations.

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On August 23, 2008, Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, Australian journalist Nigel Brennen and Somali reporter Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi were kidnapped while on assignment near Mogadishu. The kidnappers, calling themselves Mujahideen of Somalia accuse Canada and Australia of “taking part in the destruction of Somalia” and that they “review” their policies. $2.5 million is demanded for the release of the hostages.

Al-Jazeera has aired a video of Amanda Lindhout wearing a long robe along with her colleague surrounded by gunmen and while Ms. Lindhout is speaking to the camera, the audio track is not heard. 

The Islamist insurgents have denied kidnapping the journalists????

Somalia has been wracked by civil war for almost two decades. Thousands of lives have been lost and hundreds of thousands more driven from their homes. Islamist insurgents have been in bloody and bitter conflict with Ethiopian troops and an interim government since last year. Somalia is considered by many, the most dangerous country in the Horn of Africa and civil war has left illness and mass starvation at critical levels.

And what Canadian policies is the Mujahideen of Somalia asking Canada to reverse?  The policy of sending medical aid to yet another Islamic nation incapable of achieving even modest health care for it’s sick? Encouraging education programs so that children can become literate? Promoting agricultural and clean water systems? Or, how about deploying a frigate to escort U.N. World Food Program vessels carrying food aid into designated ports to protect them from increasing piracy? 

Somalia is being destroyed, but not by Canadians or Australians. Warring tribal factions, opposing clans, an incompetent government and Islamists are destroying Somalia.

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The boss of Ottawa’s taxi union has been found guilty of harassment against his twenty three year old daughter for leaving Islam. Yusef Salem Al Mezel pleaded guilty September 15, 2008 of criminal harassment and will appear back in court on November 17, following the completion of a pre-sentence report.

Crown attorney Kevin Phillips argued that twenty three year old Eman Al Mezel’s life was in danger due to what has been described as the “Sharaf of the family”, explained by Ms. Al Mezel as the belief that because she had run away from home, shed her hijab and rejected Islam, she had “shamed and dishonoured” her family. The only way to restore her family’s honour she explained, would have been to kill her, an act usually carried out by a father or uncle(s).

Numerous phone calls and e-mails sent to Ms. Al Mezel from her father in July of 2007, clearly describe the trouble with Islam. “ We (family) can no longer hide the problem from your uncles or cousins and that he could no longer guarantee ‘the safety’ of anyone”. Another e-mail read, “Eman you know when everyone hear about they will react crazy, and no one will care about police or other thing, you know your family.

Defence lawyer Geraldine Castle-Trudel asserts ” Mr. Al Mezel had nothing but the best intentions when he tried to convince his daughter to return home”. She went on to characterize the situation as a dispute between a father and a daughter that escalated and it isn’t appropriate for the Crown to make arguments on religious grounds. Mr. Phillips disagrees and argued that Al Mezel’s use of religion to coerce his daughter to return home should be considered an aggravating factor in the offence. I agree with him.

This was done in the name of Islam, not in spite of it.

Mr. Al-Mezel was originally charged with six offences, including uttering threats. These charges have been dwindled down to one, presumably during the bargaining process. Find the full story here.

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In 2005 the Liberal Provincial Government in Ontario squashed calls by Islamists to implement sharia law in religious arbitration tribunals to settle civil disputes. Public outrage was so profound in response to this request and it’s subsequent consideration, Premier Dalton McGuinty decided to reject all religious tribunals.

Reality however, paints a far different picture. Sharia is practiced in Canadian Muslim communities regularly and has been for some time and will, no doubt, continue. Polygamous marriages are performed openly and without apology accompanied by a certainty that other troublesome traditions and customs are also surely exercised. I predict the only difference of significance will be when it (sharia) binds itself publicly as a legal entity within the existing framework of Parliamentary law. In essence, an eventual, accepted parallel legal system to suit Islam with little accountability and a marked lack of respect for inherited English justice. 

We have not yet realized the full extent of the diligence of those who desire sharia and their tireless efforts to promote it as a counterpart legal system. McGuinty’s public rejection was only a minor setback, not a defeat, as these organizations continue to steadily increase their pressure and public promotions. Syed Mumtaz Ali of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice, the frontman for Islamic law in Canada states ” Every act of your life is to be governed by sharia. If you are not obeying the law, you are not a Muslim. That’s all there is to it”. I suspect he is still fully motivated and continues to lobby on behalf of Islamic directive.

For those who still believe that this implementation will never come to pass, consider the present situation in the United Kingdom. It can no longer be disputed that the U.K., and specifically England, have become Islamasized to the point where reversal from it will be next to impossible.

The Centre for Social Cohesion, a British think tank organization has released a survey polling Muslim students on their beliefs and attitudes relating to sharia in the U.K. It is considered the most comprehensive survey ever taken of Muslim student opinion. Here are some of the findings:

– 40% of British Muslim students want the introduction of sharia law in the U.K.,

– 33% want a world-wide Islamic sharia-based government,

–40% of Muslims think it unacceptable that Muslim men and women mix freely,

–25% of Muslim students polled said they either have little or no respect for homosexuals,

–54% of Muslim students polled are supportive of an Islamic political party in Britain to represent the views of Muslims at Parliament and,

– 59% of students polled feel it important to Islam that Muslim women wear the hijab.

Access to the full survey can be found here.

The following article explains how the British legal system has been manipulated by Islamists to ensure Islamic law finds binding security within a secular system. The exploitation of the Arbitration Act assures that sharia customs, traditions and principles all of which are incompatible with western values and in direct opposition to secular society will be openly followed with little, if any repercussion. “Islamic Sharia Courts”.

For years many had predicted this outcome and it seems it has finally come to pass. Whose next?

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Want to really piss off the Taliban in Afghanistan? Open up a school. Better yet, open up a school for girls and watch the cruelty of the Islamic madmen which surely follows. Korshied Samad, former Kabul bureau chief and correspondent for Fox News and wife of Afghanistan’s ambassador to Canada writes of this moral depravity in a thoughtful article which appears in today’s edition of the Ottawa Citizen.

” Educated minds will rebuild with purpose and dignity. Since the Taliban’s aim is only to destroy, murder and intimidate, rebuilding Afghanistan is far from their agenda. They want to leave it a barren wasteland, a war-torn and opium riddled country, inhabited by impoverished and illiterate men and women. Nothing speaks louder than the torching of more than 110,000 textbooks headed for schools”.

I would like to remind all those who condemn Canada’s presence and efforts in Afghanistan of their irrational arguments and selfish disregard for these Afghani school children as they send their own daughters off to school tomorrow morning.

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The following is an article from today’s Ottawa Citizen regarding the ongoing trial of Canadian terrorist Muhammed Momin Khawaja. It would seem that even his defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon agrees this guy is one sick bin Laden wannabe. As the trial nears completion, details may be found here, along with accompanying articles and comment.

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In June two articles appeared on this blog pertaining to Canadian Muhammed Momin Khawaja’s detainment and trial for his alleged involvement in a foiled terrorist plot in Britian. He has been charged with seven terrorism-related charges under Canada’s anti-terrorism legislation.

Although Mr. Khawaja’s defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon had hoped all charges would be dropped against his client, Judge Douglas Rutherford determined otherwise, asserting the Crown had presented enough evidence for the trial to proceed.

For those interested in following the proceedings, here is a brief but susinct article which appeared in today’s edition of The National Post; ” Judge denies bid to quash Khawaja charges”.

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It seems that Islamist fighters terrorists in Somalia have declared that restaurants be closed during Ramadan so as not to violate the holiest time of the Islamic calendar and to uphold the sanctity of the month. ” We will not forgive anyone who violates our religion and the sanctity of Ramadan” they proclaim.

So, while hundreds of horrific acts of torture and murder are carried out regularly throughout the year, these killers decide to ‘curb’ violence and re-focus themselves on the worship of God. Committed to abstaining from food, sex and drink from dawn to dusk during the month of September, terrorists mingle amongst other believers to watch for the new moon, re-evaluate their lives in the light of Islamic guidance and make peace with those whom they believe have wronged them. 

The annual fast of Ramadan is considered one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims around the world unite in fasting and spiritual reflection. Believers are urged to respect this time as an opportunity to cleanse the body and soul from all impurity; to deny the trappings of indulgence, avoid evil pursuit and reject villainous persuasion. The first full moon in September marks the first day of Ramadan with the 20-29, (Laylat Al-Quadr), generally being the last of the official ten days.  

By the teachings of the Qur’an, Muslims are obliged to fast so they may learn “self restraint” (Qur’an 2:183). While many purge themselves of temptation and extol the piety of Islamic doctrine, I thought I’d see how much peaceful restraint the Muslim world has recently applied across the globe. The following are some examples of Islam’s continuous riddance of impurity and ‘respect for spiritual serenity’. All cases have been documented by various news sources during the first five ‘holy days of Ramadan’.

“No justice for elderly Christian victim of Muslim axe murderer”. Sept. 4/08

“Two girls ‘badly tortured’, beaten to death for honour”. Sept. 4/08

“Somali terrorists rain down Ramadan mortars for Allah”. Sept. 3/08

“Rapist avoids charge by claiming 13 year old Christian kidnap victim ‘accepted’ Islam. Sept.2/08

“Diplomat killers spit at women, shout ‘Allah Akbar” (Sudan). Sept. 

“Christian girl decapitated by militant Muslims”. Sept. 1/08

“Muslims keep Christian converts in fear (Africa)’. Sept. 1/08

“Three of five women buried alive were teen girls”. Sept. 1/08

‘O ye who believe! fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that ye may (learn) self-restraint.” (al-Baqarah, 2:183).

I am certain that a small fraction of Muslims, somewhere, are plugging their noses at the stink of this obvious religious rot and finding the courage to denounce it. It is to those I extend a Happy Holiday. As for the rest who “suspend” the killing and hatred to moon gaze, diet, cleanse and mock civility it is clear what is celebrated.

Thank you to www.thereligionofpeace.com for the above linked articles.

Grace

It appears that changes are proposed for Canada’s well entrenched multiculturalism policy. This past March, Canadian Heritage director general of multiculturalism and human right’s Andrew Griffith, suggested in a presentation to the Federal Security Advisory Board, that Canada’s shifting demographics would mean revisions are in order to a dysfunctional multiculturalism policy to combat religious extremism and advance core Canadian values for immigrants. 

He asked ” Are traditional government objectives (civic participation, anti-racism/cross cultural and inclusive institutions) enough to address radicalization or are radicalization-specific initiatives required?” The power-point presentation also included slides showing that Islam is the fastest growing religion in Canada and that the Middle East and Asia are, by far, the biggest source countries for immigrants.

Is the government of Canada finally recognizing the obvious trouble with Islam? And more importantly, is this a directive to take some concrete action against those Muslims who use Canada as prime real estate for promoting and ensuring sharia?

I fully expect the usual hue and cry from Canada’s jihadi element denouncing these potential revisions as mass islamophobia, marginalization, demonization, insensitivity, victimization and racism; the usual pap.

Find today’s Globe and Mail’s article here.

Grace

Zabiullah Mujahid, Taliban spokesman,

As shocking and repulsive as you may find this letter to be, seeing that it is written by a western woman, I feel it necessary as a Canadian to respond to your group’s desperate attempt by open letter to intimidate Canadian forces, the Canadian public and international aid workers to leave Afghanistan.

Mr. Mujahid, you and yours would do well to be reminded that there is no other group existing today that perpetrates more violence and terror upon women than the Taliban in Afghanistan. Time and again, repeated examples of severe oppression, torture and incarceration and of course murder by stoning and beheading for the slightest of infractions, often for being raped by Afghan men are forced upon thousands of girls and women daily to forward your group’s obsessive Islamic extremist ideology.

I am certain that your group would like nothing better than to have the coalition forces leave Afghanistan. With that in mind, would come the opportunity for you to restore the ill begotten, Muhammed sanctioned, Islamic values to dominate, humiliate, persecute and murder Afghani women. The maintenance of poverty, illiteracy and backwardness are key to your interpretation of Quranic verse and virtue. Without the civilized world’s concerned and watchful eye, your group is free to restore terror and brutality upon the Afghan people.

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