This really is a rather excellent little video. Rumour has it that it keeps getting taken down by youtube. No idea why.
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Majority of Canadians support niqab ban
From Global News
Majority agree with Quebec’s veil law, poll finds
‘One of few times when Quebec, Alberta are on the same page’
Marian Scott, Canwest News Service: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
One reason support for the niqab ban is higher in Quebec than the rest of Canada is the ongoing debate over reasonable accommodation in that province, according to pollster Angus Reid.
Photo Credit: Philippe Desmazes, AFP, Getty Images, Canwest News Service
Most Canadians agree with a proposed Quebec law that would refuse all government services to women wearing the niqab or burka, an Angus Reid poll has found.
Ninety-five per cent of Quebecers support the proposed law, which would bar the face veil from government offices, schools and other publicly funded institutions, said the poll, conducted for The Gazette and released yesterday.
In the rest of Canada, three out of four people agreed with Bill 94, which was tabled on Wednesday by the government of Jean Charest. The bill would require all public-sector employees to have their faces uncovered, as well as any citizen using government services, such as someone applying for a medicare card.
Mario Canseco, vice-president of public affairs for Angus Reid, said the survey shows an unusually high level of support for a government measure.
“It’s very rare to get 80% of Canadians to agree on something,” he said.
“With numbers like this, there is not going to be much of a controversy over the legislation in Quebec or anywhere else in the country,” he added.
Mr. Canseco said one reason support for the niqab ban is higher in Quebec than the rest of Canada is the ongoing debate over reasonable accommodation in that province. The debate over accommodating minorities has heated up in the wake of the barring of an Egyptian woman from government language classes for wearing the niqab.
Salam Elmenyawi, president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, attributed the poll results to the emotional climate that surrounds the niqab issue.
“They are giving it based on their emotional response to a woman covering her face, which is understandable,” Mr. Elmenyawi said. “It is associated with all the negative stereotypes that have been on the airwaves.”
Mr. Elmenyawi said the survey could have produced different results if the niqab debate had been conducted in a calmer atmosphere and with more empathy.
The poll showed that outside Quebec, Albertans are most likely to support the veil ban, with 82% approving the bill, followed by Ontario with 77% support, the Atlantic provinces (73%) and British Columbia (70%).
Support for withholding government services from those wearing the face veil was lowest in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, at 65%.
“It’s one of the few times when Quebec and Alberta are on the same page,” Mr. Canseco said, noting that Quebecers and Albertans differ sharply on many issues, such as the environment.
Only a handful of Quebec Muslims wear the niqab, an opaque face veil with a slit for the eyes, or the burka, a long gown that also covers the face, with a mesh panel through which the wearer peers.
Eighty-three per cent of Quebecers strongly approve of the niqab law and 12% moderately approve of it. Five per cent of Quebecers oppose it, according to the poll, conducted online among 1,004 adults on Thursday and yesterday.
The respondents were selected randomly from among Angus Reid Forum panellists.
The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5%, 19 times out of 20.
Across Canada, men were slightly more likely to approve the niqab bill than women (83% vs. 77%) and people over 55 were more likely to favour it than those under 35 (86% vs. 69%).
Bloc Quebecois supporters favoured the bill most (95%), along with Conservatives (86%) and Liberals (81%). Three-quarters of NDP supporters agreed with the bill.
A separate poll by Leger Marketing for the Association of Canadian Studies, part of which was also released to The Gazette yesterday, shows that Quebecers are uncomfortable with the Muslim hijab in schools but want to keep the crucifix in the National Assembly and allow the cross in classrooms.
Asked whether Muslim girls should be allowed to wear the hijab (headscarf ) in public schools, 75% of respondents said no, while 20% said yes.
However, 58% of Quebecers want to keep the crucifix above the seat of the president of the National Assembly, whereas 33% say it should be relocated.
As for crucifixes in public-school classrooms, 54% say they should be allowed vs. 41% who say they should not.
“For those who say Quebec wants a societe laique (secular society), this poll shows they do have preferences,” said Jack Jedwab, executive director of the Association for Canadian Studies.
“Crucifixes are fine but the hijab is not,” he added.
Bart Simpson stands by Southpark
From The Telegraph U.K.
Bart Simpson shows support for South Park
The Simpsons support South Park writers in Mohammed censorship row
Creators of US cartoon The Simpsons have given a nod of support to rivals at South Park whose recent episode depicting the prophet Mohammed was censored.
By Alastair Jamieson
Published: 10:21AM BST 28 Apr 2010
Published: 10:21AM BST 28 Apr 2010
The opening titles of The Simpsons were altered to acknowledge the controversial decision by channel Comedy Central to change the 201st episode of South Park after the previous edition depicted the prophet disguised in a bear costume.
South Park’s creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were sent a warning by a New York-based radical Islamic website for the 200th episode. The programme also lampooned Jesus and Buddhism.
“South Park – we’d stand beside you if we weren’t so scared,” Bart Simpson wrote on the blackboard in the opening sequences.
The Mohammed character was introduced as part of a joke about censorship based on the 2006 death threats made against Danish cartoonists by Islamist extremists, who see any depiction of Muhammad as a gross insult to their religion. Continue Reading →
Reminder for Aylesbury EDL demo, show your support for rational law.
Pat Condell for UKIP
“Boobquake”; one woman’s satirical response to Iranian cleric
From The National Post
‘Boobquake’ an answer for Iranian cleric’s earthquake claims
Allison Cross, Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010
An Islamic cleric’s suggestion that immodestly dressed women cause earthquakes has drawn thousands to join an American student’s busty bid to shake up the world — by revealing cleavage.
Jen McCreight is the creator of Boobquake, an event scheduled for Monday, which has already garnered the support of more than 40,000 people on Facebook.
Ms. McCreight, a 22-year-old attending Purdue University in Indiana, is pushing women to bare their breast cleavage for a day to satirize Islamic cleric Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, who recently blamed earthquakes on immodest female clothing. Continue Reading →
Allen West video about to break 500,000 views.
This is a good news, bad news, post. Vimeo, has taken down all my videos, hopefully temporarily which have all the translated and subtitled versions of Allen West’s brilliant and inspired speech at Pam Geller and Robert Spencer’s sponsored event February 19th 2010.
However for one reason or another, the abridged version which I cut down to 10 minutes to stuff on to my youtube channel seems to have gone viral. So I repost it as a kind of celebration, not just because so many are watching it, but if you read the comments, you see a genuine mix of admiration and relief mostly from Americans who know that at last there may be someone they can support who has rational values.
South Park creators truly worthy of respect.
Kurt Westergaard in my view is a hero. Not because he drew the Moetoon, that was his job and he had no clue what was to happen as a result. But because he wears the mantle of free speech martyr with great dignity and courage every day. I have met Kurt Westergaard and my impression of him, is of an unusually decent man who admires the arts and good things civilization offers and would like to live his life in pretty much any way other than he does as a result of the Islamic worlds irrational and dare I say, somewhat arbitrary rage at his drawings.
Mr. Westergaard did not attempt to placate Islam or its adherents. He stoically spoke out in countless interviews and in many countries on the importance of free speech. He continues to live under very difficult conditions when, like Salman Rushdie, perhaps he could have kowtowed to Islam and won a sort of freedom at the expense of his principles.
This makes him a hero in that his actions led to hard choices and he made the best one for all of us, yet the most difficult for himself.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone however knew exactly what they where getting into when they did the 200th episode-anniversary show a chunk of which is below.
As you can see, Matt Stone and Trey Parker ask some perhaps less than obvious but very important questions. If it is forbidden to show an image of Mohamed, then what constitutes an image? Is a line with a circle on top OK? What about if it is a drawing within a drawing like we draw a big bear and say it is a costume within which, is a drawing of Mohamed. In the interview below, both these men quite clearly explain that one must not change principles because one group threatens you. Either it is OK to criticize irrational religious belief, or it is not. And this makes them heroes in my book.
Lastly, here is the all too predictable Muslim Outrage video over even the non-showing of Mohamed in the South Park episode. It is the usual crap but is clearly a threat on the lives of the creators of South park. Skip it if you want.
One last thing that really needs saying, South Park did an episode before the Danish Cartoon where they actually did show Mohamed as the religious leader with the power of flame. There was no reaction to it at all even though that episode probably reached thousands of times more people than the Danish cartoons ever would have, had it not been for the reaction to them.
This shows you that this has nothing to do with religious sensitivities, but to a growing political threat by Islam to the west. That Muslims are to set the agenda for what is OK for us to say, do, eat and think and how we live and not ourselves. Not that this changes anything. If it was about religious sacred imagery I would still say and do still say that the most important right civilization has, is to mock irrational religious authority. However this isn’t the real issue here. It is about control. History from the Super Best Friends episode of South park, to the Danish cartoons episode, to now prove that out.
Eeyore for Vlad Tepes Blog with a huge hat tip and thanks to the stalwart Diana West.
***** Addendum *****
It would appear that youtube removed the video threatening the lives of the men who created South park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. I understand completely why they did it. Youtube AKA Google cannot let itself be seen as the vector for death threats. Even so, while sympathetic, I think its equally important that we, the rest of us, be able to expose the mentality in the interest of eradicating it. So you will have to be satisfied with a description as to what was on the video. basically, some opening graphix to show they do quality video work, then on to the usual jihadi ‘we want to kill you all’ music which is the only allowable kind in Islam save for the piercing shrill nauseating call to prayer from the minarets that Obama likes so much.
Then, it goes on to show stills of the people who have been killed by various Muslims for doing things Muslims don’t like and the faces of people they want to kill, which now contain the faces of the ‘Toon twins’.
It wasn’t great viewing. But it was there.
***** Addendum two *****
Here is a great video about this whole issue. featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali H/T Liberties Alliance
“it is in The West” -Ibn Warraq
KitamanTV finds another diamond. I recommend watching it. I plan to memorize it.
Col. Allen West. A man for our times.
This may be the man we have been waiting for. A true classical liberal. One who genuinely transcends race and identity politics. Col. West speaking at a Tea Party
H/T Gates of Vienna:
Join hands with the EDL May 1st
??Join hands with the EDL in Aylesbury May 1st and help recreate British solidarity for our history, values and legal traditions. We stand as one against tyrany, fascism and Islamic extremism with it’s sharia legal system which oppresses women and undoes a millennium or British human rights gains.
Here is a gutsy side-of-the-bus add campaign.
Thanks to Atlas Shrugs for this one. Here is something I want to see in every city on earth.
Please click over to Pamela to read the whole article.
Quebec says No to Sharia; ‘Aisha’ recent niqabi tossed from class.
From The Globe and Mail
Quebec Muslim woman ordered to unveil or leave French course
A file photo of women wering the niqab in The Hague, Netherlands. Fred Ernst/The Associated Press
Ingrid Peritz
Montreal — From Monday’s Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Apr. 11, 2010 9:19PM EDT Last updated on Monday, Apr. 12, 2010 12:17AM EDT
One morning recently, a young Muslim woman whose face was hidden by a religious covering was pulled out of her government French class near Montreal and told to unveil or leave the course.
“Aisha,” a 25-year-old permanent resident from India, is the second such case to come to light in Quebec. Last month, the same ultimatum was given to Naema Ahmed, an Egyptian-born woman whose case sparked an uproar and led to landmark provincial legislation against religious face veils. Continue Reading →
Anwar al-Awlaki, a direct threat to America, added to hit list.
From The Telegraph U.K.
Barack Obama orders killing of US cleric Anwar al-Awlaki
Barack Obama’s administration has authorised the assassination of the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a rare move against an American citizen.
By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 6:41PM BST 07 Apr 2010
The US administration has ordered Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen to be targeted Photo: AP
The Yemen-based al-Awlaki has been linked to the Fort Hood massacre and the attempt in December to blow up a Detroit-bound jet by a man wearing explosives in his underpants.
The decision to add him to the US hit list required a National Security Council review because of his citizenship.
Officials said US intelligence had argued that the cleric now posed a direct threat to America, an al-Qaeda recruiter who had graduated from encouraging attacks to active involvement in them.
Al-Awlaki, 38, became famous last year after it emerged he had communicated extensively by email with Major Nidal Hasan, the army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. Continue Reading →
Anti-Islam decals improperly banned at Camp Lejeune, judge rules
From NewsOK.com
Jesse Nieto’s stickers included one that said “ISLAM (equals) TERRORISM” and another with a threat to defecate on the Quran. He also had a decal to commemorate the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, in which 17 shipmates died including Nieto’s youngest son.
“His vehicle is a way to express his mourning and anger,” said Nieto’s attorney, Robert Muise. Nieto has been driving a different vehicle to his on-base job since the summer of 2008, but Muise said he plans to return with his decals next week. He has worked at Lejeune since 1994 and previously served 25 years in the Marine Corps, including two combat tours as an infantryman in Vietnam.
U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard said in a ruling posted Wednesday that a Lejeune regulation targeting inflammatory speech on base was improperly applied to Nieto’s decals and not to pro-Islamic messages that may be just as incendiary. Howard concluded that the application of the rule violated Nieto’s free speech.
“While military officials are entitled to great deference in restricting speech to further the military’s needs, they may not do so in a manner that discriminates against a particular point of view,” Howard wrote in his decision. Continue Reading →