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a few Canadians chimed in that letting Muslims pray for the death of Christians and Jews on public property was simply a heartwarming example of the country’s multicultural “tolerance” and “diversity.”

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Below, part of an excellent article by Kathy Shaidle. Click here for the whole thing.

Menstruating at the Mosqueteria

by Kathy Shaidle

July 18, 2011
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Whaddayaknow?

Margaret Atwood warned us that North America would turn into a theocracy—and she was right!

Funny, though: She hasn’t said much about that lately, now that The Handmaid’s Tale is being acted out in a public school, here in her very own city of Toronto.

I don’t mean the kids are staging her anti-theocratic novel as a play. In fact, I’m guessing Valley Park Middle School has quietly removed it from the “required reading” list.

And why not? After all, they’ve already turned the cafeteria into a mosque.

Yep.

Since November 2008—with the, er, blessing of the Toronto District School Board—Muslim prayers have been matter-of-factly conducted within an Ontario public school’s walls every Friday afternoon. Which is against the law.
“Belligerent Muslims come as no surprise. It’s their infidel enablers and defenders that have me confused (again).”

For more than two years, the father of one of the school’s few non-Muslim students complained about this to the newspapers. Naturally, they ignored him. Then two weeks ago, somebody published his story. Now pretty much everyone in Canada is buzzing about that Toronto public-school “mosqueteria.”

The “somebody” who finally listened is a lowly blogger whose nom de Web is “Blazing Cat Fur” and who happens to be my husband.

A ‘few dozen’ war criminals living here: RCMP source

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The Ottawa Sun:

 

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First posted:

An RCMP source says “at least a few dozen” suspected war criminals are living at large in the capital region.

 

“Bosnia, Serbia, Rwanda, Africa … they come from all over, they get in, then they disappear,” said the source.

Despite screening processes by the Canadian Border Services Agency and its partners, including the Mounties, many of those involved in atrocities are beating the system by applying for visas or refugee status claiming they’re from other countries, often with fake ID, the source said.

“And many of them have been there for years,” post-conflict, after leaving their home countries out of fear, the source said, making it hard to trace their histories.

The border agency’s Ottawa-based war crimes section is primarily responsible for intelligence and screening to help visa officers identify suspected war criminals, but the effort to keep these people out of the country also involves the departments of justice and immigration along with the RCMP.

The latest available data, from 2008, shows 326 people were denied entry to the country because of possible involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity. There were 361 the previous year.

The same year, 23 people were turfed from the country after they were found to have beem involved in war crimes abroad and border agency officials intervened at 80 refugee hearings in cases involving war crime allegations. Still, 29 people were granted status despite suspicions. Continue Reading →

More on the mosqueteria- Canadian Islamist groups praise TDSB for taking a ‘principled’, sharia stand.

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It should come as little surprise that Canadian Islamist groups are gushing with glee over the Toronto District School Board’s decision to play host to the illegal cafeteria-cum- mosque, it’s travelling Imam and the gender apartheid, Muslim menses ban set-up at Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. I especially love their references to the importance of human rights.

It appears the legal beagles over at the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association must have opted to appear for Friday prayer instead of attending the classes which directly reference sections 15 and 28 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteeing equality and gender equality respectively. Continue Reading →

Abdurahman Alamoudi Has Been Sprung

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The Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi is being released from prison fourteen years early, because… Well, maybe because he was a good boy. Or because he had a change of heart.


Or maybe because the Muslim Brotherhood has friends in the White House…?

The article below was just published at Big Peace and the Center for Security Policy. and Gates of Vienna:


Freeing Al Qaeda? DOJ Moves to Cut Prison Term for Alamoudi

By Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Just when you thought it was not possible for the Holder Justice Department to become any more hostile to the national and homeland security interests of the American people, along comes yet another travesty. This one threatens both, as it apparently would involve turning loose in America a convicted terrorist known to be a top Muslim Brotherhood (MB or Ikhwan in Arabic) operative and al Qaeda financier: Abdurahman Alamoudi.

According to a short Associated Press report on July 8th:

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to cut the 23-year prison term being served by an American Muslim activist who admitted participation in a Libyan plot to assassinate King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Alamoudi – who famously declared his support for Hamas and Hezbollah at a rally in Lafayette Square in October 2000 and was recognized by the Justice Department as a Muslim Brother – has been incarcerated with other top terrorists in the Supermax facility in Colorado. As an American citizen, he would presumably be allowed to stay in this country upon his release.

Alamoudi at Large

Can it be precluded that, once he is freed, Alamoudi would take up again with those he did so much to help sponsor, foster and run as one of the leading Muslim Brothers in the country? Lest we forget, as a driving force behind many of the myriad MB front organizations in the United States, he previously was deeply involved with the fulfillment of the Ikhwan’s mission here as described in its 1991 strategic plan.

That plan, which was found by the FBI in 2004 when they discovered the secret archives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Annandale, Virginia, is entitled An Explanatory Memorandum On the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America. (It is reprinted in its entirety as Appendix 2 of Shariah: The Threat to America) According to this memorandum, the Brotherhood’s mission in America is “a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within…by their [read, our] hands and the hands of the believers.”

This objective is, of course, identical to that of al Qaeda, the other jihadist enterprise for whom Alamoudi previously worked. Who knows, if freed, could he rejoin its ranks, too? Continue Reading →

Thousands back Tulsa officer ordered to Muslim worship

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I thought it was very clearly stated in US law that the government will have no compulsory religion.

From Creeping Sharia

An update on these previous posts, via Thousands back Tulsa officer ordered to Muslim worship.

Tens of thousands of Americans are lining up in support of a police officer in Tulsa, Okla., who was punished for refusing his department’s order to attend an “Islamic proselytizing event” even as a legal team representing the captain is petitioning the court to add new allegations of misbehavior by his superiors to a lawsuit over the dispute.

WND reported earlier when a legal action was brought by attorneys with the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Paul Fields.

Chief Charles Jordan

Named as defendants are the city, police chief Charles W. Jordan and deputy chief Alvin Daryl Webster.

The lawsuit focuses on the officer’s constitutional and civil rights, and along with a resolution of Fields’ concerns, it seeks an injunction preventing “enforcement of defendants’ unconstitutional acts, policies, practices, procedures and/or customs.”

At issue were orders by the department that Fields participate in an event at a local Islamic center that has been described as a proselytizing campaign. The Tulsa Police Department had told officers to attend a “Law Enforcement Appreciation Day” organized by the Islamic Society of Tulsa. The invitation said the officers would be given tours of the mosque, meet the mosque’s leadership, be given presentations of “beliefs, human rights, women” and “watch the 2-2:45 weekly congregational prayer service.”

Meanwhile, a legal team working on Fields’ behalf, the attorneys of the Thomas More Law Center, told WND they are seeking court permission to amend their original complaint over the city’s actions to include the specific damages that have accumulated.

The damages include two weeks of being suspended from pay for his refusal to attend the Islamic event and the threat that he will not be considered for promotion for a time, according to Law Center president Richard Thompson.

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Mark Steyn: HOW UNCLEAN WAS MY VALLEY

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Here is the first part of Mark Steyn’s article on the Toronto publicly funded, Islamicly correct, Mosqueteria at Valley Park Middle school.. As usual, Mr. Steyn is insightful, witty, and makes important points that deserve to be factored in on any actual policies on these issues.

Steyn on Culture Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Take a look at this photograph. It appeared in The Toronto Star’s education section on Saturday:

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It’s the scene every Friday at the cafeteria of Valley Park Middle School in Toronto. That’s not a private academy, it’s a public school funded by taxpayers. And yet, oddly enough, what’s going on is a prayer service – oh, relax, it’s not Anglican or anything improper like that; it’s Muslim Friday prayers, and the Toronto District School Board says don’t worry, it’s just for convenience: They put the cafeteria at the local imams’ disposal because otherwise the kids would have to troop off to the local mosque and then they’d be late for Lesbian History class or whatever subject is scheduled for Friday afternoon.

The picture is taken from the back of the cafeteria. In the distance are the boys. They’re male, so they get to sit up front at prayers. Behind them are the girls. They’re female, so they have to sit behind the boys because they’re second-class citizens – not in the whole of Canada, not formally, not yet, but in the cafeteria of a middle school run by the Toronto District School Board they most certainly are.

And the third row? The ones with their backs to us in the foreground of the picture? Well, let the Star’s caption writer explain:

At Valley Park Middle School, Muslim students participate in the Friday prayer service. Menstruating girls, at the very back, do not take part.

Oh. As Kathy Shaidle says:

Yep, that’s part of the caption of the Toronto Star photo.

Yes, the country is Canada and the year is 2011.

Just so. Not some exotic photojournalism essay from an upcountry village in Krappistan. But a typical Friday at a middle school in the largest city in Canada. I forget which brand of tampon used to advertise itself with the pitch “Now with new [whatever] you can go horse-riding, water-ski-ing, ballet dancing, whatever you want to do”, but perhaps they can just add the tag: “But not participate in Friday prayers at an Ontario public school.”

Some Canadians will look at this picture and react as Miss Shaidle did, or Tasha Kheiriddin in The National Post:

Is this the Middle Ages? Have I stumbled into a time warp, where “unclean” women must be prevented from “defiling” other persons? It’s bad enough that the girls at Valley Park have to enter the cafeteria from the back, while the boys enter from the front, but does the entire school have the right to know they are menstruating?

But a lot of Canadians will glance at the picture and think, “Aw, diversity, ain’t it a beautiful thing?” – no different from the Sikh Mountie in Prince William’s escort. And even if they read the caption and get to the bit about a Toronto public school separating menstruating girls from the rest of the student body and feel their multiculti pieties wobbling just a bit, they can no longer quite articulate on what basis they’re supposed to object to it. Indeed, thanks to the likes of Ontario “Human Rights” Commission chief commissar Barbara Hall, the very words in which they might object to it have been all but criminalized.

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Lowell Green Show July 12 2011

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This was a really interesting program. Lots of revelations about how various Islamic institutions seem to get a pass from Canadian law, from schools to building mosques.

Get a coffee and settle back. Some of the Muslims who call in are also interesting.

It’s OK to Kill Gays Once Sharia Implemented Says Local Muslim Crazy Person Jawed Anwar

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Once again, from Blazing Cat Fur. The people that broke the story on the Toronto Mosqueteria which has caught fire in the MSM. At last.

Our good friend Jawed Anwar of  “TheMuslim.ca” never fails to surprise. Here’s his latest contribution to our multicultural mosaic of diversity. Once Sharia is implemented offing them Gays will be A OK!

Journey of Faith Conference: Zakir Naik to Bilal Philips

“Here Mr. Bilal Philips is suggesting a law for the future Islamic governments who will decide to implement Islamic law in their countries. Although, there is no clear-cut verse in Qur’an that categorically suggests killing of homosexuals, sayings of Prophet Muhammad suggests three types of sentences, and among that one is death. Bilal Philips is suggesting, based on his opinion on the Qur’anic/Prophetic principles of society. He is not advising the Islamic judiciary to kill any gay person they found, but what he is “suggesting” is judicial punishment of death sentence for those who confess or are seen “performing homosexual acts” by “four reliable witnesses without any doubt.”

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Some public school girls are 3rd class citizens

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The girls sitting at the back during Friday prayers are menstruating and not allowed to sit with everyone else.The girls sitting at the back during Friday prayers are menstruating and not allowed to sit with everyone else.

John Goddard/Toronto Star

Isn’t it odd how stories about Muslim school prayers now being conducted at Valley Park Middle School in Don Mills are all about religion making its way into public schools? I don’t discuss religion, ever. Feminism is my credo, and my eye was instantly drawn to the fact that girls are placed in the back, behind the boys, separated by benches used as shields.

And menstruating girls are segregated, off in their own little group, like this paragraph.

Stigmatized, bleeding mysteriously and bewildered by maternal instructions, these girls are not allowed to pray (I am told other religions require this as well). You can see them in the Star’s photograph, the boys at the front, the girls hidden behind, flattened in prayer, and the girls with periods sitting cross-legged or kneeling. Continue Reading →

Ottawa: The absurd lengths that leftists will go to, in order to allow Muslims preferential treatment, and immunity from their own (leftists) laws

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Here is an edited version of today’s AM radio talk show, the Lowell Green show. Lowell has been discussing the 14 or so area public schools that actually turn part of the public space, usually the cafeterias, into Mosques on fridays complete with an imam and lots of arse-lifting all around. Turns out this is utterly illegal however this isn’t the only revelation. The best one perhaps is near the end of this show, where it is revealed that (Caution plot spoiler. You may wish to hear it for yourself first) in order to get permission to build a church, you have to create X number if parking spots per seat. Well the brand new Mosque being built in Ottawa’s east end is exempt from this bylaw. All the Muslims who go to use this facility will enjoy using the grocery store parking across the road from it. The exact reason that the legislation to ensure sufficient parking at churches was created. Why you ask? Why are mosques exempt from the so-many-spots-per-seat rule that city council is so strict about when it comes to any other faith use building?

Naw. You wouldn’t believe me. You will have to just listen for yourself. Put this in the ‘bad-fiction’ category. Cause if someone made this up, it wouldn’t be believable enough to make for decent writing. The punch line for this is at 41 minutes of this version.

Also you may enjoy the hypocritical leftist near the end that explains why we have to respect Kim Jung Il as a religious leader as that is their culture and we have to accept it. Of course, I’m fairly confident if you were to ask the same fellow if we have to accept current or past American culture as that is who they were, you would get a different answer.

For the whole show, please go to www.cfra.com and select ‘podcasts‘ and then July 11 if anyone wishes to hear discussion on any of the other topics Lowell raised, or check my edit to make sure I did not overly distort the context into a dishonest representation of the show or the callers.

Hezbollah In The Western Hemisphere

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Ilan Berman 

by Ilan Berman
Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence
July 7, 2011

Chairman Meehan, distinguished members of the Subcommittee:

Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the Hezbollah terrorist organization, its capabilities, and its activities in the Western Hemisphere. It is an issue of critical importance to the ongoing struggle against international terrorism, and to the safety and security of the U.S. homeland.

A year after the 9/11 attacks, then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, in contextualizing the terrorist threat facing the country, made a telling assessment. “Hezbollah may be the A-team of terrorists,” Mr. Armitage told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, “and maybe al-Qaida is actually the B-team.”[i] The description was apt, and remains so. With a presence in an estimated forty countries on five different continents, the Lebanese Shi’ite militia represents one of the very few terrorist groups active today that possess a truly global presence and reach.

This footprint extends not only to the greater Middle East and Europe, but to the Western Hemisphere as well.[ii] Over the past quarter-century, Hezbollah has devoted considerable energy and resources to establishing an extensive network of operations throughout the Americas. Today, its web of activity in our hemisphere stretches from Canada to Argentina, and encompasses a wide range of illicit activities and criminal enterprises, from drug trafficking to recruitment to fundraising and training.

A STRONGHOLD SOUTH OF THE BORDER Continue Reading →