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‘Whereas Ann Coulter is a hateful woman…’ Kathy Shaidle

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From : Newsreel blog

University of Ottawa Vice Provost Francois Houle (artist’s rendering)

By now, some of you may have heard the latest sorry dispatch from up here in Canuckistan.

Ann Coulter is paying her first visit to my “country” this week, visiting three Canadian campuses. Last night, she was welcomed by this slightly sinister, typically passive aggressive email from University of Ottawa vice-president academic, provost, and known Frenchman Francois Houle (his real name), which read in part:

I would, however, like to inform you, or perhaps remind you, that our domestic laws, both provincial and federal, delineate freedom of expression (or “free speech”) in a manner that is somewhat different than the approach taken in the United States. I therefore encourage you to educate yourself, if need be, as to what is acceptable in Canada and to do so before your planned visit here. You will realize that Canadian law puts reasonable limits on the freedom of expression. For example, promoting hatred against any identifiable group would not only be considered inappropriate, but could in fact lead to criminal charges.

Outside of the criminal realm, Canadian defamation laws also limit freedom of expression and may differ somewhat from those to which you are accustomed. I therefore ask you, while you are a guest on our campus, to weigh your words with respect and civility in mind.

Yes, you read that correctly: a man whose salary I’m obliged to pay via my extorted tax dollars just hinted, in the nicest possible way of course, that he’d try to have Coulter arrested if she said something he didn’t like.

As my husband quipped: “Maybe it sounded better in the original German…”

Alas, many other Canadians somehow failed to get that “respect and civility” memo (I guess Canada Post lost it…) and responded to the provost in their own “inappropriate” way. Take Mark Steyn, who knows all about those “hate speech” laws:

What a sad and embarrassing letter, even by the standards of the Canadian academy. Does M Houle write to all University of Ottawa speakers like this? Or does he reserve his telekinetic powers to detect “pre-crime” only for the ideologically suspect?

I’ve no idea what Ann Coulter’s reaction to this letter is, but I suspect it’s “Go ahead, Princess Fairy Pants, make my day.”

I’ve posted other respectful and civil emails to Mr. Houle at my blog (language warning), along with his complete contact information at U of O. I expect his fax machine ran out of paper around midnight last night. Ooopsie.

(And yes, the dude speaks English. They just pretend not to, believe me…)

Since the story hit the fan, Canadian students have duly roused themselves from their pothead slumber to fight the coming invasion of this dangerous female by doing brave stuff like… passing motions at meetings.

True story: The Ottawa University Federation of Students passed a motion last night which reads (and I am not making this up):

Whereas Ann Coulter is a hateful woman;
Whereas she has made hateful comments against GLBTQ, Islam, Judaism, and women;
Be it resolved that the [Student Federation of the University of Ottawa] express its disapproval of having Ann Coulter speak at the University of Ottawa.

Give then credit, though: unlike their London counterparts, the students above at least managed to spell Ann Coulter’s name right.

Meanwhile, I’ll be at Coulter’s talk in London, Ontario this evening, which has also generated its fair share of faux outrage and travel sized moral posturing.

I have dared the anonymous cowards behind this shabby excuse for a website to come up to me tonight and “express their concerns” to my face. We’re in for a fabulous evening!

German City Ban Israel Flag, could ‘Interfere with Passers-by’

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From Israel National News with a thank you to Gates of Vienna:

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

(IsraelNN.com) Kassel, Germany has banned the Coalition against Anti-Semitism from displaying the blue-and-white Zionist flag because it might upset passers-by and threaten them, the nordhessische.de news service reported. However, city officials previously have approved showing the Iranian flag.

A woman identified by the news service as “Dorothee H.” said that officials told her she could not display the Israeli flag at an information booth she wanted to set up. Pro-Israelis previously have been threatened and attacked by anti-Zionist protestors in Germany.

“I told him that I could not understand this, and that we were not at all dangerous,” Dorothee H. said, but the city official said the booth could be set up only on condition that no Israeli flags were shown. The unnamed official told her that she had to be “considerate” of others.

Dorothee charged that “the employees of the public order told me that all the political information booths will be automatically reported to the national security. This is absurd. You expect the authorities to guarantee freedom of expression, rather than restricting it.”

“A supporter of the group’s claim added, “If somebody attacked the activists, the state must just intervene protectively.”

Watch your mouth, university tells Coulter

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From The National Post

University to Ann Coulter: Please watch your mouth

Ottawa Appearance

Adam McDowell, National Post, With Files From Canwest News Service Published: Monday, March 22, 2010

Before right-wing U.S. pundit Ann Coulter even set a stilettoed foot on this side of the border for a trio of speaking engagements this week, she managed to make a few Canadians nervous.

Ms. Coulter catapulted to international notoriety two days after the 9/11 attacks with a column in the National Review in which she advocated conquering Muslim countries and converting the people to Christianity. But as the columnist prepares to visit Canada this week to speak at three universities, a senior University of Ottawa administrator has warned her to use “restraint, respect and consideration” when speaking at the school.

Francois Houle, vice-president academic and provost, advises Ms. Coulter, who holds a law degree, to review Canada’s hate speech and defamation laws before giving her talk at the university. Continue Reading →

Top terror suspect vanishes from police station

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 DAILYNATION… A high-level terror suspect arrested by police in Kenya has mysteriously disappeared from custody at a border police station.
The man, who was arrested on March 13, was reported missing at 9 pm on Tuesday last week from Busia police station where he was awaiting further profiling by Anti-Terrorism Police Unit officers from Nairobi.
Three police officers, a sergeant and two constables, have been arrested in connection with the suspect’s disappearance. They are suspected to have accepted cash from the suspect to release him.
Anti-terror detectives identified the man as an operative of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab which has links to the al-Qaeda terror network and had been placed on an international watch list.
The suspect had an Australian passport identifying him as Farah Hussein, but Immigration officers arrested him after suspecting that the document was forged.
Two Busia businessmen were also arrested and charged in court for “aiding a prisoner to escape” as they had visited the man at the station.
The man had $3,400 (Sh258,400) on him when he was arrested just after crossing the Uganda border.
Senior officers dispatched from the Western provincial headquarters to investigate the escape found that the suspect was given “special treatment” while in custody.
And in Lamu, 11 suspected Somali pirates were arrested yesterday after they tried to hijack a fishing vessel in what is believed to be the first incident where pirates have been intercepted by local security personnel.
“It is true, we have arrested 11 suspects believed to be pirates in Kiunga area,” Coast Criminal Investigation Officer Nyagah Reche said.
More than 100 suspected pirates have been arrested by foreign navies in the Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden.

Coulter not welcome, student federation at University of Ottawa bars posters of event

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From The Ottawa Citizen

Group attempts to silence U.S. right-winger’s talk

Ann Coulter not welcome at U of O, president of student federation says

By Tony Lofaro, The Ottawa CitizenMarch 20, 2010

The president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa has barred a volunteer organizer from putting up posters advertising the upcoming appearance of American right-wing columnist and political commentator Ann Coulter.

She is to talk about political correctness, media bias and freedom of speech Tuesday night at Marion Hall as part of a Canadian lecture tour. Canadian conservative political activist Ezra Levant will also speak at the event and introduce Coulter.

“The federation does not support Ann Coulter speaking on our campus,” said student president Seamus Wolfe. “We’re trying to work with the administration to see if we can ask her to do her speaking event somewhere else.”

He said the federation controls which posters can be placed inside the University Centre building, while administration officials approve posters at other university buildings. A university spokesperson said the administration did not object to the poster.

Wolfe said the executive of the federation is in agreement that they don’t want to see Coulter speaking on campus.

“There is an interesting line between what is free speech and what is hate speech,” he said. “As difficult as it is to navigate that boundary, Ann Coulter has a history of hate speech and we wouldn’t invite somebody who spreads hate to come to our campus.”

Nicholas Fleet, a U of O economics student, said it’s an “affront” that the student federation has prevented him from putting up posters at the University Centre.

“People like Ann Coulter will come and go, but freedoms such as expression need to be tested and should be respected by student unions,” said Fleet, adding that he’s agreed not to distribute the posters.

But he noted that the posters for Coulter’s appearance were printed by Campus Print, the university printing department that is operated by the student federation.

“They took our money for printing the posters, but in the end they said we couldn’t put up the posters,” said Fleet.

Coulter’s visit is sponsored by the International Free Press Society-Canada and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.

Coulter could not be reached for comment.

Austria continues its tradition of destruction of freedom of speech and bending to tyrants

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Here, we see how words are twisted to make racists the victims, and people’s freedom to speak plain simple facts, facts like “If the prophet of Islam was alive today, he would be in jail as a paedophile” are made the crimes.

Yes pointing out the crimes of Islam is now the crime in Austria while Islam claims victim status. So what else is new?

Erdogan urges German Turks not to integrate

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Photo: DPA

Erdogan urges German Turks not to integrate

Published: 17 Mar 10 14:49 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100317-25933.html

The Turkish government has reportedly angered Turkish-German politicians by inviting them to an Istanbul conference and then urging them to resist political and social integration in their adopted homeland.

At the meeting last month, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Turks living in foreign countries to take out citizenship of the new homelands – not to integrate, but rather to become more politically active, according to the website of news magazine Der Spiegel.

Ali Ertan Toprak, deputy chairman of the Alevi community in Germany, told the magazine government representatives had said: “We have to inject European culture with Turkish.”

Erdogan told the meeting countries that did not allow dual citizenship violated basic rights and also likened Islamophobia to anti-Semitism.

Participants told Spiegel that Erdogan repeated elements of his widely criticised speech in Cologne in 2008 in which he said: “Assimilation is a crime against humanity.” Continue Reading →

Wall Street Journal: Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers

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Legal counsel to some of the detainees went far beyond vigorous representation of their clients. Doesn’t the public have a right to know?

By Debra Burlingame and Thomas Joscelyn

On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in orange jumpsuits—masked, bound and kneeling on the ground at Camp X-Ray—just four months after 9/11. Written entirely in Arabic, it also included pictures of what appeared to be detainee operations in Iraq. Major General Jay W. Hood, then the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, concurred with the guards that this represented a serious breach of security.

Maj. Gen. Hood asked his Islamic cultural adviser to translate. The cover read: “Cruel. Inhuman. Degrades Us All: Stop Torture and Ill-Treatment in the ‘War on Terror.'” It was published by Amnesty International in the United Kingdom and portrayed America and its allies as waging a campaign of torture against Muslims around the globe.

“One thread that runs through many of the testimonies from prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, and from Guantanamo,” the brochure read, “is that of anti-Arab, anti-Islamic, and other racist abuse.”

How did the detainee get it? More importantly, who gave it to him?

David Klein

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Majeed Abdullah Al Joudi, the detainee in whose cell the brochure was first found, told guards he received the brochure from his lawyer. An investigation by JTF-GTMO personnel revealed that Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had sent it to Al Joudi and eight of the firm’s other detainee clients through “legal mail”—a designation for privileged lawyer-client communications that are exempt from screening by security personnel. Worse, the investigation showed that Ms. Mason’s clients passed it to other detainees not represented by Paul, Weiss lawyers. In all, more than a dozen detainees received a copy.

At Guantanamo, “legal mail” is strictly limited to correspondence between counsel and a detainee that is related to representation of the detainee, privileged documents and publicly filed legal documents. But even “legal mail,” according to the rules mandated by Judge Joyce Hens Green in a 2004 protective order, prohibits lawyers from giving detainees information relating to military operations, intelligence, arrests, political news and current events, and the names of U.S. government personnel. Lawyers are forbidden from discussing other detainee cases not directly related to the representation of their own client.

The Amnesty International brochure, handed out at a human rights conference in London, was a political advocacy screed in clear violation of that order, which was formulated to protect force security. Maj. Gen. Hood made a command decision. He banned the Paul, Weiss lawyers from access to Guantanamo. The DOJ notified the firm.

Paul, Weiss immediately went on the offensive, backed by what one former Defense Department official, who requested anonymity, called “an armada of habeas attorneys.” They sued the government, demanding that it defend the decision to eject lawyers from Gitmo, making the straight-faced claim that the Amnesty International brochure was a legitimate “report” that was “directly related” to their clients’ defense. But their bottom line argument amounted to this: A military commander at a secure overseas military facility in a time of war couldn’t remove disruptive lawyers who were inciting captured enemy detainees and endangering the safety and security of military personnel unless he first got permission from a federal judge.

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The E.U. shows it’s true nature

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From Gates of Vienna:

VH has accompanied the video with his abridged translation of an article from Dagelijkse Standaard:

“You want to see the receipts of the President? FASCIST!”

A PVV member of the European Parliament succeeded in being styled a “fascist” by another MP. Did he make an absurd statement on immigration? Did he say something blunt about mosques? Or did he have a special solution to the problem of the Iranian ayatollahs? None of the above: Daniël van der Stoep (PVV) put his finger on the most sensitive spot of the EU. Not on the lack of democracy, but the really sensitive area, but the income of the members of the club, in this case that of Barroso, President of the EC. Because it had become clear Barroso declares over seven hundred thousand euros per year [US $1 million] as “expenses”, which is some €2,000 [U.S. $2,700] a day.

This is to the satisfaction of Martin Schulz, a member of the German SDP and the President of the EP Socialist Group. Schulz apparently believes that transparency at this point is not desirable and made this known by shouting “fascist” towards Van der Stoep (see video). Later he denied this to the Dutch NOS news : he did not shout that at the PVV parliamentarian, but at a member of the British UKIP party. When the NOS news reporter asked Schulz whether this, given recent events with Nigel Farage — the UKIP chairman who [notably on demand of the same Schulz video] received a €3,000 fine for stating that EU president Van Rompuy had “the charisma of a damp rag” — was appropriate, and Farage was fined for much less, Schulz suddenly denied having used the word “fascist” and walked away angrily. Continue Reading →

Infiltration of the EDL, Nazis, and hailing a cab.

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Unsurprisingly, illiberal members of the political left have infiltrated groups like the E.D.L. and acted like Nazis for the purpose of discretization. While its interesting that they would do so in the first place, as it shows that they know the E.D.L. are not Nazis or they wouldn’t need to do this, it also shows that you can’t hail a cab if you are right of Stalin these days, and not be called a Nazi.

London: Islamists mobilize votes for Livingston, IFE helped secure massive swing

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From The Telegraph U.K.

Islamists got voters out for Livingstone

A fundamentalist group which believes in sharia law, jihad and creating an “Islamic social and political order” in Britain arranged an “unprecedented mobilisation” of voters for the former London mayor, Ken Livingstone, at the last mayoral election.

By Andrew Gilligan
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010

In an election lost by Mr Livingstone, the Islamic Forum of Europe helped secure massive and unexpected swings towards him in its east London heartland.

In one ward, Spitalfields, his vote share rose from 29.6 per cent in 2004 – an election he won – to 68.4 per cent in 2008, a rise of nearly 39 percentage points.

In every other ward in Tower Hamlets and Newham with a sizeable Muslim population, his vote rose by between 23 and 36 percentage points. His vote in other Muslim and ethnic minority areas of London also rose, but by far smaller amounts.

Mr Livingstone’s economic development body, the London Development Agency, had agreed to pay more than £1.3 million to the East London Mosque, controlled by the IFE, and described by critics as hardline.

Emails leaked to The Sunday Telegraph show that a senior LDA official furiously protested against at least £500,000 of this grant, saying there were “major concerns” about the mosque project and “no case” for giving it the money.

However, the official was overruled and the grant was paid.

Part of Mr Livingstone’s voting rise will have been due to his opposition to the Iraq war and support for the Palestinian cause, both popular among Muslims. Continue Reading →

UKIP member fined 3000 Euros for calling the EU leader a damp rag

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Check this short video. Remember, Europeans did not get to vote for the European leader. He leads a very mysterious parliament with a process no one really understands and which supersede all national laws, borders and democratic process.

If it costs three large to call him a damp rag, I wonder how much it is to call him colostomy bag. Or a yeast filled doggie minge. Could get expensive to be an MEP for me I guess. Still, well worth the money I figure as I would absolutly never pay it, and I trust that this British UKIP member will have the integrity to never pay a fine for a political opinion when he represents people who believe as he does.
H/T to http://www.hetvrijevolk.com/

Why does European media seem so biased against white people?

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Question from youtuber:

“why are the edl and geert wilders called the far right ? … yet the uaf and radical muslims are called “”protesters “”

You can learn about the Black Members Council here.

And read the full guidelines here.

More Islamic infiltration of UK governments

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From the Telegraph:

Andrew Gilligan

I’m the Telegraph’s London Editor. This is where I write about London politics, London life and many other things I’m interested in, well beyond the capital. I’ll also post source material for many of my newspaper stories here, so you can read the documents I refer to for yourself. Got a tip or a story? Email me at an*************@**********co.uk

Fundamentalist-infiltrated council steps back from the cliff edge – just

At the eleventh hour, Tower Hamlets has drawn back from an act of stupidity stunning even by its own standards. The council’s initial response to our revelations that it has been infiltrated by Islamic fundamentalists – revelations which the council leader refuses to deny – has been not to investigate the matter, but to attack one of the people who helped expose it.

In the ongoing takeover process of the council by the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), one of the key moments was the appointment of Lutfur Ali, a man with close links to the IFE, to the second most important job at the Town Hall – despite his palpable unfitness for the £125,000 post.

Apart from his IFE links, there wasn’t that much else going for Mr Ali. The council-appointed headhunters who considered applicants described him as “rather limited,” “superficial,” and “one-dimensional” and said he might “struggle with the intellectual challenges [of] a highly strategic role.” And the headhunters didn’t even know that Mr Ali had submitted a misleading CV, which gave false dates for a previous employment and omitted the fact that he had been forced to resign from that job for breaching the local authority code of conduct.

Mr Ali is responsible for council grants. Since his appointment, a lot more council money has started going to organisations closely linked to  – you guessed – the IFE. These organisations include a very generously-funded youth training project, Brick Lane Youth Development Association, or Blyda. Part of the purpose of this project, according to critics, is to take vulnerable young people off the streets and imbue them with the values of the IFE. Continue Reading →