“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
TORONTO — A newly released intelligence report warns that teenagers are being exposed to Islamist extremism in Canadian high schools.
In an Intelligence Assessment, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says that in two recent cases, suspects charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act “appear to have been radicalized in part while attending Canadian secondary school institutions.”
Thanks Grace for bringing this to my attention. The Toronto ‘Mosqueteria’ is rapidly becoming the rule rather than the exception. Below, an excerpt from each article with a giant link to the originals. Please click through and read them in totality in case my condensation of them has changed any important context.
Imagine Canada after 5 more years of the kind of immigration policies we have now. There will not be a chance of resurrecting the classically liberal Canada we all take for granted. This is national suicide of European proportions.
By Pam FitzGerald, The Ottawa Citizen February 16, 2012
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As a school board trustee, I have a bird’s-eye view of our schools, or at least I thought I did until this week when a motion requesting a simple report on school religious practices failed. This past year, there has been controversy over a practice in Toronto’s Valley Park Middle School, which allowed religious services led by an imam during the school day. In Ottawa, there has been no such controversy but I know of at least three schools where this is standard practice, Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School, Bell High School and Brookfield High School. I suspect there are more.
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When we allow a minister, rabbi or imam into our schools to conduct religious services during the school day, we bring in the thin edge of a wedge. Other religions rightfully ask to hold religious services in our secular schools and this is precisely what happened at Toronto’s Valley Park Middle School. We may also find it increasingly difficult to say no to future requests for religious-based schools housed under the public board’s umbrella. If and when this comes to pass, say goodbye to the greatness of our secular public schools as parents flock to ensure that their children’s religious training is met during the school day. Continue Reading →
An event, linked below, is certainly of concern. However there are rumors of a much worse event at Ottawa’s Carleton U concerning a police investigation of a mob threat to some students also related to a pro-Israel event. I will post less vague information about it as I get it. If anyone knows anything please detail in comments and if possible provide links.
H/T to gay and right for the story below
TORONTO – All hell will break loose at the University of Western Ontario if the students who disrupted an Israel On Campus (IOC) event don’t face repercussions, warned a frustrated IOC member.
Aubrey Chapnick, a third year student in the Business Management & Organizational Studies program at UWO, told the Jewish Tribune he was enjoying the non-political Israel Day displays last Wednesday when a large group of anti-Israel activists showed up en masse, without permission, and were allowed by campus police to block access to the event for about an hour. Many of the protesters had duct tape over their mouths and carried signs with anti-Israel messages.
If the rules aren’t enforced, Chapnick warned, “the Jewish community at Western will be in an uproar…. If these individuals and groups aren’t being held to the same standards that every other club is subject to, all hell is going to break out.”
It’s too early to say if the protesters will face any sanctions, according to Elgin Austen, director of campus police at UWO.
Campus police arrived on the scene quickly but did not intervene or make the protesters leave because “it’s better to observe what’s happening, see who’s actually there, and then deal with it,” Elgin Austen, director of campus police at UWO, told the Jewish Tribune. Although “it’s not acceptable for picketers to come in and do that,” direct police interference will only inflame the situation and “create a huge scene.”
Austen assured the Tribune that, “We don’t appreciate what happened and we will be dealing with this in a strategic fashion.”
Beginning this week, Austen said, campus police will meet with students on both sides to collect information, and then “discuss what the strategy should be to not let this happen again.” They will need to “assess the best courses of action…because we haven’t had this kind of situation occur before.” Any disciplinary action that might be taken “will be decided at a later point.”
Below is video taken at the event. Some interesting historical perspectives there as well. One was lacking though. The man initially lecturing the camera-holder, the man subsequently ‘Van-Gogh’d’ shortly after the start of the video, was being told how Jews actually lined up for the death camps.
I think someone should have explained to him how slavery never happened in the US and Europe but black people swam to the boats and begged for passage cause they heard of all the great planation and farm jobs once a literate white guy read the posters for them. Alas he was spared that negation of the colored-people’s sacred narative.
Tundra Tabloids has all the facts and details on this event which may now be made public since the stunning acquittal of the attacker. On a related note, did Mike Tyson convert to Islam?
Female students, wearing niqab, walk up stairs at the office of the dean of the Faculty of Arts in Manuba, some 25 kms west of Tunis, on December 8, 2011. (FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)
BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA 01/ 4/12 01:37 PM ET 
TUNIS, Tunisia — Around 200 students and professors demonstrated in Tunisia’s capital on Wednesday calling for an end to the standoff by ultraconservative Muslims at a nearby university.
For more than a month classes and exams at Manouba University’s humanities department have been put on hold by a sit-in demanding students be allowed to attend class in the conservative face veil, known as the niqab.
“Science before the niqab,” and “no to shackles, no to niqab, knowledge is free,” read the signs of the demonstrators, who urged the minister of higher education to resolve the dispute so that classes could resume.
University policy prevents students from covering their faces during class.
The sit-in has been the latest crisis faced by Tunisia since it overthrew its long-serving dictator last year, who had aggressively promoted secular policies.
In his absence there has been a resurgence of ultraconservative Muslims known as Salafists, who are seeking a greater role for Islam in public life.
The department’s dean, Habib Kazdaghli, attended the protest and said that the people blocking classes weren’t even university students.
Back in June of 2010 a leader of a pro-Palestinian student group at University of Berkeley allegedly rammed a Jewish woman with a shopping cart as she staged a counter-protest to an anti-Israel “Apartheid Week” rally conducted by the Muslim Student Association and Students for Justice in Palestine. The counter-protest was dubbed “Israel Wants Peace Week.”
Now, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg has deemed that the Muslim students who harassed Jessica Felber and other Jewish students were simply engaging in protected political speech.
The Greeley Gazette reports:
On Thursday U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said the harassment, even if true, constituted protected political speech and dismissed the case against the university.
Seeborg said the university did not have any obligation to intervene in any dispute where a private individual on campus was allegedly interfering with another’s constitutional rights. He instead appeared to indicate that the incident was an outcome of Felber’s counter protest.
Felber and another Jewish student claimed the University did not do enough to prevent the harassment which included the Muslim group conducting checkpoints around the campus. Students were asked if they were Jewish while passing the checkpoints.
“The incident in which Felber was assaulted with a shopping cart, for example, did not occur in the context of her educational pursuit,” Seeborg stated. “Rather, that event occurred when she, as one person attempting to exercise free speech rights in a public forum, was allegedly attacked by another person who likewise was participating in a public protest in a public forum.”
When NATO planes launched their air campaign over Libya’s skies last spring and Western leaders said that Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi had to go, the first regime to change was at the London School of Economics. Its director, Sir Howard Davies, resigned following embarrassing dis-closures about LSE’s financial links to Libya and sizable donations from Qaddafi’s anointed heir, his son Saif al-Islam, who’d been awarded a doctoral degree from LSE. It seems that British academic institutions have yet to learn the lesson. For now it’s the United Kingdom’s oldest and most distinguished university, Oxford, that has brought scandal upon itself by giving a place to a Middle Eastern despot’s son—a scion of the Islamic Republic of Iran who has already distinguished himself as a human rights abuser and a torturer.
Mehdi Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani
Oxford University’s Wolfson College, which the late Sir Isaiah Berlin helped establish, is now the academic home of 42-year-old Mehdi Hashemi Bahramani Rafsanjani, the fourth child of former Iranian president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. These days, Rafsanjani the elder styles himself a champion of Iran’s reformists. But having tied the family fortune and its connections to the cause of challenging current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does not make Rafsanjani a liberal democrat. In addition to the violence and repression he is responsible for inside Iran, he has also been one of the Islamic Republic’s chief exporters of terrorism. As president, Rafsanjani dispatched Iranian hitmen to kill Iranian exiles across Europe. There is an arrest warrant against him from Argentinian prosecutors for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires that killed 85 people. The son it seems has followed in his father’s path.
Last updated at 2:33 PM on 17th December 2011
Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.
Instead he made her hold out her hand and cut off all five fingers. One of his relatives then threw Ms Akhter’s fingers in the dustbin to ensure doctors could not reattach them.
Hawa Akhter has said she will continue her studies, despite the horrific attack
Mr Islam, who is a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates, had warned his wife there would ‘severe consequences’ if she did not give up her studies.
‘After he came back to Bangladesh, he wanted to have a discussion with me,’ Ms Akhter told The Times.
‘Suddenly, he blindfolded me and tied my hand. He also taped my mouth saying that he would give me some surprise gifts. But, instead he cut off my fingers.’
Mohammed Saluddin, the Bangladesh police chief said that Mr Islam had confessed after he was arrested in the capital, Dhaka, and will face charges of permanent disfiguration.
Human rights groups are demanding life imprisonment.
‘He was enraged. He was jealous because while he only had a grade eight standard education, she was off to college to pursue higher studies,’ said Mr Saluddin.
Ms Akhter says she is learning to write with her left hand and is determined to resume her studies. She is now back at her parent’s house.
The attack is the latest in a series of acts targeting educated women in the Muslim-majority company.
In June, an unemployed man gouged out the eyes of his wife, an assistant professor at Dhaka University, apparently because he could not stand her pursuing higher studies at a Canadian University.
This is part of the article. The rest is here
Published: Friday, December 16, 2011 7:12 AM
Harvard has come to the aid of Islamic fundamentalists in their quest to dominate India and South Central Asia by their dismissal of Indian Prof. S. Swarmy for writing of Muslim persecution in India. For shame!
First they came for the pagans and the Jews. Then they came for the Christians. And then they came for the Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, and Ba’hai.
What am I talking about? I am talking about the Islamic persecution of infidels on every continent—a persecution which is still ongoing; about forced conversions to Islam; and about the genocidal extermination of 80 million Hindus over a period of six centuries (1000-1500 CE).
What I’ve just written is historically true as is Islam’s history of anti-Black racism, slavery, and gender and religious apartheid. Ibn Warraq has a new and very important book just coming out on this very subject. It is titled: Why the West is Best. A Muslim Apostate’s Defense of Liberal Democracy.
But, it is a crime to say any of this. And, it is a crime to suggest that a liberal or constitutional democracy must defend itself against jihadic terrorism.
This is not true only in the Middle East or in Islamic central Asia. It is true in the major and most prestigious universities in the United States.
For example, in the summer of 2011, Yale got rid of the elegant and sophisticated Dr. Charles Small (The Yale Initiative for the Inter-disciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism), because he dared to hold a conference in which Islamic anti-Semitism and Islamic terrorism were discussed. This outraged the “Palestinians”, south-Syrians, Jordanians, and Egyptians on campus. Calls were made, letters were written.
The Ivy League professoriate, including the Jews, were exceedingly nervous about having such a politically incorrect Jew in their midst and on their faculty.
Thus, although Yale did not have to pay a penny for Dr. Small’s endeavor (he came with his own funding), they dismissed him. Dr. Small was able to establish a beachhead for five full years. In these times—not bad but especially in these times, not good enough.
Last updated at 12:38 PM on 14th December 2011
Sensitive issue: Cambridge University bosses fear Muslim women will be offended if academics try to welcome them with a handshake
Academics at Cambridge University have reacted with dismay after being ordered not to shake hands automatically with Muslims or disabled people in case it upsets them.
A directive sent to admissions tutors warns that some applicants are ‘culturally sensitive’ to traditional greetings and suggests that ‘suitable body language’ is just as welcoming.
A spokesman for the university said: ‘Dons should read the situation properly and bear in mind that not all people will want to shake hands.’
He said the warning related in particular to Muslim women and some people with disabilities.
Some tutors say they have been made to feel like ‘social misfits’ as a result.
One, who did not want to be named, said: ‘It seems to be totally bonkers. We know when to shake someone’s hand and when not to.’
‘All this seems to be stupid and pointless and could make interviews even more awkward.’ Continue Reading →
Paul Derengowski had been teaching his world religions class as an adjunct at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas for three years without incident. All that changed in November, when two Muslim students decided to challenge the way he taught the Islam section of the course.
The students disrupted his class and then walked out Nov. 8. Derengowski, an adjunct professor, filed a report with campus police and later met with college administrators to suggest that the college suspend them with a failing grade as punishment for the disruption, which he said involved repeated in-your-face interruptions that scared the other students in the class. When administrators did not act on his recommendation, he resigned.
Derengowski said he was teaching only what had been approved by college administrators, but supporters of the students have suggested that the instructor may not be the most open-minded about Islam. They have noted that he runs a website called the Christian Apologetics Project, where he lists Islam as a cult along with Mormonism and Scientology. The two students are not talking to reporters.
The professor said he resigned, in part, because the college administration failed to follow the rules as described in the student handbook when it comes to those disrupting classes. Continue Reading →
The solution to this, as it is for the burka debate and mosque issues everywhere is the same. Stop giving Muslims special rights and the problem solves itself. We created these problems by allowing the definition of freedom of religion to mean ‘you can do anything you want so long as it is part of the exorcize of your non-Christian religious beliefs.
Frankly, based on this interview I did with Sam Solomon in 2010, the basis exists to not allow mosques to exist at all as they are a physical manifestation of a hate crime and an act of war
This should come as no surprise to anyone. At least until head-banging becomes an olympic sport.
Results of a study of 600 children conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EHT) have shown that religion has an effect on sporting ability, with Muslim girls the least skilled.
For the study, first grade school children in Winterthur in northern Switzerland underwent regular tests to measure their strength, coordination and agility.
After four years of following their development, the ETH’s Institute for Movement Sciences and Sport cross-referenced the data with information about the origin of their parents, their native language and their religion.
Results showed that children with no religious background tend to be the most skilful athletes. These are followed by Protestants and Catholics. At the opposite end of the spectrum are Muslim children, who performed well below the average, especially girls. Continue Reading →
Published: 30 Nov 11 17:18 CET
A German federal court on Wednesday backed banning a Muslim pupil from praying according to Islamic rites at a Berlin public school, ruling it could jeopardise its smooth operation.
However, the Leipzig-based federal administrative court found that the right to pray even at school was guaranteed by religious freedom under the constitution.
In the case of the 18-year-old pupil, who took his school to court, it justified the ban at his Berlin high school because the issue of praying had already sparked conflict among Muslim pupils.
The court said the school, in Berlin’s ethnically diverse Wedding district, was right in stopping him from praying as “sometimes very severe conflicts” had broken out among Muslim pupils over the interpretation of the Koran.
Capping a more than two-year legal battle, it ruled that a pupil “is not entitled to perform prayer during school outside of class when this can disrupt the running of the school.”
The pupil, identified only as Yunus M., is the son of a German Muslim convert. He had insisted on his basic right to religious freedom after the school principal told him praying at school was not permitted.
With an estimated four million Muslims living in Germany, the case sparked interest after two earlier regional court rulings first found in favour of the boy, only then to be overturned.
It began in November 2007 when Yunus M. and several other pupils laid down their jackets in the school corridor to pray during a break from class.
The following day the principal informed the boy and his parents that praying was not permitted on the grounds of the school which has students of about 30 different nationalities and nearly all major religions. She feared for the peaceful running of the school, she said.
Yunus M. had argued that because prayer times depend on the rising and setting of the sun, he had no other choice during the winter but to pray around midday while at school.
News weekly Der Spiegel said that the consequences of Wednesday’s ruling
would be closely watched nationwide.
“Yunus M. kicked off proceedings which could write legal history,” it said in its online edition.
Tilman Nagel, an expert in Islam who appeared as a witness at an earlier court hearing, said that postponing midday prayers was acceptable if there was a good reason.
He also argued that the Islamic ritual of praying undertaken with other people was very different to the Christian private act of praying, and was thus disruptive in a public space.
Germany has grappled with the thorny issue of the integration of its Muslim population since it signed a “guest worker” pact with Turkey 50 years ago.
This has sometimes fuelled tensions, with a former central banker publishing a runaway bestseller last year saying Germany was being made “more stupid” by millions of purportedly undereducated and unproductive Muslim migrants.
AFP/mry
