Comments on Benjamin Netanyahu speech to Congress

I hope to be back up to full steam later today. But for now, I would like to make this post specifically for comments and links on the Prime Minister of Israel’s speech to the US Congress.

Speech post hoc comments on C Span here

Robert Spencer has a transcript here with bolded important bits marked out.

Montreal Region – Another Event with a Controversial Imam Cancelled

An original translation by CB Sashenka

From This Quebec news site

Feb 18 2015

By Pierre-Olivier Zappa | News Alerts

After the Academy of North American Sharia was forced to change its plans this past weekend, it was the turn of Islamic Relief Canada, a charity, to cancel itsevent with an imam who has a disturbing past.

A decision that comes after J.E. (TVA’s investigative reporting) report on religious radicals invited to preach in the Montreal area.

This time it was a conference that was supposed to be held on Saturday at the mosque in Brossard, to be led by a controversial imam from the United States, Siraj Wahhaj.

The organizers confirmed to TVA News that the event is cancelled, mainly because of J.E.’s findings.

We learned that this imam has a disturbing past: he is deemed by the FBI a co-conspirator of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. However, he was never charged.

Many of his speeches and sermons are about the U.S. government, which he considers to be the real terrorist that must be fought.

He also believes that Muslims should refuse to integrate into the host society, and instead impose their own customs.

The imam was supposed to appear in Brossard by invitation of Islamic Relief Canada, a charity that has received a grant of $1.5 million from the federal government.

Australian Prime Minister brings Oz. to the club of the rational

It would seem that there are just a handful of rational nations left on Earth. Canada, The Czech Republic, possibly Egypt and Australia.

It does sound a bit though like setting up a totalitarian state with Islam as the motivating factor.

H/T James B.

Did the state in Germany pay for counter PEGIDA demonstrations?

These two links were just sent in and while we have not yet received a proper translation, from reading google-translate it looks a lot like the German government at one or more levels paid some or all of the costs for countner-PEGIDA demos.

I sincerely hope the German public reacts appropriately to an affront to democracy of this nature and magnitude.

Link 1: Blu News:

Link 2: MOPO24

 

Mayor of Montreal gives press conference about imam denied a permit for ‘community center’

The bill to which the Mayor refers, is this one, a federal anti-terror bill. 

Sorry guys. I messed up. I still don’t understand LiveLeak well yet.

I uploaded a new video and made a mistake so I had to delete it and then re-upload a corrected version with a subtitle fixed and accidentally deleted this one instead of the new one with the error.

Two items: Live PEGIDA coverage and another stabby-ackbar attack in Ireland

related article at Snaphanen also interesting

The operative, a Syrian in his thirties with a close-cropped black beard, said ISIS is sending covert fighters to Europe — as did two smugglers who said they have helped. He smuggles them from Turkey in small groups, he said, hidden in cargo ships filled with hundreds of refugees. He said the fighters intend to fulfill ISIS’s threat to stage attacks in the West. He views this as retaliation for U.S.-led airstrikes against the group that began in Iraq last summer and Syria last fall. “If someone attacks me,” he said, speaking with BuzzFeed News on condition of anonymity, “then for sure I will attack them back.”

Belfast knife murder: Police probe reports killer was shouting pro-Islamic slogans

On reports of pro-Islamic slogans being shouted by the attacker, Mr Campbell said: “Comments made by the suspect at the scene will form part of the investigation.”

Mr Campbell said a flat in India Street had also been cordoned off.

“It appears there has been some sort of altercation, possibly in that flat, which has then spilled out onto the street and ended up with the murder on Botanic Avenue,” he said.