Category Archives: Political Correctness

Ontario HRC reaches predictable heights

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A few years ago, I decided to stop telling jokes of what I have come to call, ‘logical extremes’. What I mean is, someone tells you something absurd or counter intuitive and you answer with, “Wow next thing you know, you will have to hire a dead guy at your gym or be charged with discrimination against the metabolically challenged’. The reason I decided to stop telling them was because I had this awful albeit superstitious feeling that every-time I told one, I was handing some supercilious bureaucrat another data point on how to destroy liberty and control every thought we have.

Then I saw this:

Thanks Blazing, for religiously posting Ezra’s excellent clips. I may have to get cable again soon just for these.

Video of arrest of Vlaams Belang for symbolically changing a street sign

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Here is the classically liberal Belgium separatist party being arrested. Details a few posts down. AFP like all the media, insist on calling Vlaams Belang, “Far Right Wing’. I would love to know what the criteria for that is, or for that matter what it even means beyond an attempt to besmirch them.

On the other hand, I think I can define fascism. That would be when the state crushes any opposing view to the one held by the powerful, by using instruments of the state out of all proportion to the activity which challenges them and the views they enforce. One example might be having people handcuffed and arrested and taken away in full view of mass media who merely did a publicity stunt with a non permanent sign on the side of a building when nothing was damaged and no one was harmed in any way. I think that might qualify as ‘fascist’. Now, how are we defining ‘far right’ again?

 

Watch real racists squirm

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Oh man this is fun. College racists when asked if they support the exact same program that advantages non-whites in every sphere of life, ineffectively weasel their way out of supporting the same policy when merit actually creates a disproportionate number of non-whites as dominant in the field. This is quite satisfying to watch. Actual racists caught in the act and being oh so gentile trying to pretend to be otherwise.

Yes, he was screaming ‘Allahu Ackbar” as he tried to force his way into the cockpit.

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But why does the mass media, the people who have a responsibility to inform us of important facts we need to know to make good decisions and keep ourselves safe, why did they delete that information?

One news report actually did say he was yelling something but clearly deliberately did not say what he was yelling, which was Allah hu Ackbar according to all the actual eye witnesses not told not to report that apparently.

Thanks Infidels United for the tip on this one

Sham Policy To Address Islamism Exposed By The English Defence League

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From The EDL website:

Published on 10-06-2011 08:55  Number of Views: 14

Tommy Robinson, Leader of the English Defence League (EDL), has exposed David Cameron’s apparent ‘get tough’ policy towards Islamism as a complete sham. People can now see the real approach of the Conservative led regime with regard to defending the British people against the Islamist threat.

We have heard much talk recently about how the Conservatives will be getting tough on Islamic extremism in Britain. Many people in Britain were heartened by David Cameron’s recent tough and realistic rhetoric on the subject, but an article recently posted on the Daily Mail website indicates a marked shift in Government and Conservative Party policy on this matter. Far from being serious about dealing with the problem of Islamism in Britain, the Conservative Party seems to be adopting the failed and hugely damaging policy of the previous Labour Government. Can the Conservative Party ever be trusted to deal with Islamism and the serious threat that it poses to our national security and democratic way of life? Perhaps their ‘hard line’ has been vetoed by the Lib Dems?

The political climb-down on dealing with Islamism rigorously and realistically has been exposed as nothing more than sham political window dressing. The policy reversal came shortly after EDL leader, Tommy Robinson, put the Home Secretary Theresa May on the spot and asked her some very direct and pertinent questions on the subject. It seems that Channel 4 television cameras recorded Mr Robinson entering and leaving the meeting which meant that the Home Secretary could not deny the exchange of views with the EDL leader. Fearing a propaganda coup by the EDL the Conservative Party has appeared to have fallen back into its usual ‘tree-hugger’ mode.

At least the initiative of Mr Robinson has exposed David Cameron’s rhetoric for what it is – words and not deeds. It would appear that he has no intention what-so-ever of dealing with the Islamist threat to our democracy. It seems likely, therefore, that the well established and disastrous policy of appeasement will continue into the future. Continue Reading →

Turkey’s Christians under Siege

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by John Eibner
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2011, pp. 41-52 (view PDF)

The brutal murder of the head of Turkey’s Catholic Church, Bishop Luigi Padovese, on June 3, 2010, has rattled the country’s small, diverse, and hard-pressed Christian community.[1] The 62-year-old bishop, who spearheaded the Vatican’s efforts to improve Muslim-Christian relations in Turkey, was stabbed repeatedly at his Iskenderun home by his driver and bodyguard Murat Altun, who concluded the slaughter by decapitating Padovese and shouting, “I killed the Great Satan. Allahu Akhbar!” He then told the police that he had acted in obedience to a “command from God.”[2]

 

The brutal murder on June 3, 2010, of the head of Turkey’s Catholic church, Bishop Luigi Padovese, seen here in 2006 leading the funeral procession of another slain priest, Andrea Santoro, was met by denials and obfuscation—not only by the Turkish authorities but also by Western governments and even the Vatican.

Though bearing all the hallmarks of a jihadist execution, the murder was met by denials and obfuscation—not only by the Turkish authorities but also by Western governments and the Vatican. This is not wholly surprising. In the post-9/11 era, it has become commonplace to deny connections between Islam and acts of violence despite much evidence to the contrary.[3] But while this denial has undoubtedly sought to win the hearts and minds of Muslims, as opposed to Christians, Jews, or any other religious group, it has served to encourage Islamist terrorism and to exacerbate the persecution of non-Muslim minorities even in the most secularized Muslim states. For all President Barack Obama’s high praise for its “strong, vibrant, secular democracy,”[4] and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an’s “Alliance of Civilizations” rhetoric, Turkey is very much entrenched in the clash of civilizations paradigm. Unless Ankara is prepared to combat the widespread “Christophobia” that fuels violence and other forms of repression, the country’s Christians are doomed to remain an oppressed and discriminated against minority, and Turkey’s aspirations of democratic transformation and full integration with Europe will remain stillborn.

The Victim and His Mission

Please click here for the rest of this important yet unsurprising article.

 

 

History Be Damned In Our Schools.

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What if someone held a protest and (almost) nobody came? Would anybody hear it?

Well, yes. I heard.

Press Release – May 19th 2011 at 12:05am
Gunnedah South Public School First Fleet protest on 2 June 2011

A protest action in support of the First Fleet has been called in Gunnedah, NSW for 2 June 2011. The protest is to be outside Gunnedah South Public School at 12 pm where a petition signing will take place.

The demonstration has been called in response to the principal Emma Jeffery refusing to accept a gift from the Morris family of a print of Algernon Talmadge’s “The Founding of Australia” which depicts the raising of the Union Jack at Sydney Cove by Captain Arthur Phillip on 26 January 1788.

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Egypt’s Christians Fear Violence as Changes Embolden Islamists

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The New York Times has noticed. Interesting. The MSM is catching up to the blogosphere it seems. At least in terms of Egypt.Albeit to a limited degree.

Ed Ou for The New York Times
Coptic Christians, many of whom have felt less secure since Egypt’s dictator stepped down, held a sit-in May 19 in Cairo.

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Published: May 30, 2011

CAIRO — The headline screamed from a venerable liberal newspaper: Coptic Christians had abducted a young Muslim and tattooed her with a cross. “Copts kidnap Raghada!”

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Ed Ou for The New York Times

Many Coptic Christians are concerned about persecution or the loss of rights under a predominantly Muslim government.

“They tied me up with ropes, beat me with shoes, shaved my hair,” Raghada Salem Abdel Fattah, 19, declared, “and forced me to read Christian psalms!”

Like many similar stories proliferating here since the revolution, Ms. Abdel Fattah’s kidnapping could not be confirmed. But for members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the sensational headline — from a respected publisher, no less — served to validate their fear that the Egyptian revolution had made their country less tolerant and more dangerous for religious minorities. The Arab Spring initially appeared to open a welcoming door to the dwindling number of Christian Arabs who, after years of feeling marginalized, eagerly joined the call for democracy and rule of law. But now many Christians here say they fear that the fall of the police state has allowed long-simmering tensions to explode, potentially threatening the character of Egypt, and the region.

“Will Christians have equal rights and full citizenship or not?” asked Sarkis Naoum, a Christian commentator in Beirut, Lebanon. A surge of sectarian violence in Cairo — 24 dead, more than 200 wounded and three churches in flames since President Hosni Mubarak’s downfall — has turned Christian-Muslim tensions into one of the gravest threats to the revolution’s stability. But it is also a pivotal test of Egypt’s tolerance, pluralism and the rule of law. The revolution has empowered the majority but also opened new questions about the protection of minority rights like freedom of religion or expression as Islamist groups step forward to lay out their agendas and test their political might.

Around the region, Christians are also closely watching events in Syria, where as in Egypt Christians and other minorities received the protection of a secular dictator, Bashar al-Assad, now facing his own popular uprising.

“The Copts are the crucial test case,” said Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch here, adding that facing off against “societal pressures” may in some ways be ever harder than criticizing a dictator. “It is the next big battle.” Continue Reading →

Geert Wilders closing remarks in his political trial.

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Here are Geert Wilders final statements in his seemingly never ending show trial for hate speech in the Netherlands. There is one small error in the translation near the end. Where the titles read:

“Do not let that source go dry just to cozy up to a totalitarian regime. “Freedom,” said the American President Dwight Eisenhower, “has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed – else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.”

The title should read ideology, not regime.

The transcription is below the fold for those who prefer to read it.

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Racial attack after the Blackpool Demo, victim white, police not bothered.

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After our successful, peaceful demonstration in Blackpool about the police ineptness surrounding the Charlene Downes case and unwillingness to protect our youth, we thought all had gone well. That is until we received a ticket from a Blackpool resident whose family allegedly endured racist abuse and a physical attack… Continue Reading →

Ottawa’s Michael Harris doesn’t miss the point on Israel at all.

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You have to actually aim for the point to stand a chance of missing it.

Here is the link to the broadcast of his show on Israel. Please select May 26th Paul Heinbecker. I am told he says some astonishingly inaccurate things, but I wasn’t able to listen to all of it so I can’t say for sure. What I did hear was interesting, which would be one way of putting it.

The Pat Condell video would be an excellent response to this show, as would the Col. Richard Kemp but as I already posted them, here is something else someone sent me which is quite appropriate.