CASMO Wins--For Now

The CASMO Khomeinists, like Khomeinists back in Iran (same Khomeinists, different venue) long to expunge "Zionism" (that is, Jewish Israel) from the map; that's what their Al-Quds Day is all about. And yet, the City of Toronto is allowing them to go ahead and hold one of their A-Q celebrations on city property, over the mayor and his brother's stong objections. Is this, as Eye on a Crazy Planet writes, a "pyrrhic victory" for the CASMO creeps, or will their utterly risible claim to be anti-anti-Semitism (a clear-cut case of downright, outright taqiyyah) enable them to be seeming to comply with "the City's updated anti-Discrimination Policy, which requires that groups using city property comply with the principle of promoting respect, tolerance and diversity," and will the cunning ones, the Mahdi mavens, the Ayatollah's a-holes, thus get
carte blanche to continuing spewing their Zionhass in city-owned venues? Time alone will tell.

Update: Don't expect CASMO to get the heave-ho--not with Usma Shakir as the city's gatekeeper. (She's "Director of the City's Office of Equity, Diversity and Human Rights"--good grief and heaven help us!)

9/11 Stockholm Syndrome

You would think that the 9/11 terrorist attacks would have the effect of causing Americans to be turned off by Islam. In fact, as onislam reports, for more than a few souls the attacks were a real turn on:

CAIRO – Shaken by the 9/11 attacks and the ensuring hostility against Muslims, the curiosity of many Americans to know more about Islam have led them to embrace the faith.

“It seemed kind of crazy to do,” Johannah Segarich said, the Huffington Post reported on Thursday, August 25.

“I was a middle-aged professional woman, very independent, very contemporary, and here I was turning to this religion, which at that point was so reviled."

Segarich was stunned by news that the 9/11 attacks, which were claimed by Al-Qaeda group, were carried out by some Muslims.

“What kind of religion is this that could inspire people to do this?" Segarich recalled her first reaction to the news.

Seeking answers, the American woman decided to have a deeper look into Islam by studying the Noble Qur’an.

"I came to the realization that I had a decision to make," she recalled.

A few weeks later, the Utah-born music instructor began studying Islam...

Oddly enough, I pretty much asked the same question that Segarich did back then, only my deeper look in to Islam by studying the Noble Qur'an resulted in an entirely different transformation.

Today's Fun Photo Quiz

Is that Gaddafi or a hotel doorman?

Remember When...

...the Saintly Jack of blessed memory got his CASMO clock?

Keeping Your Hard-Earned Shekels In Your Pocket and Not Having It Picked By Sanctimonious 'Social Justice' Types Is Best of All

What CASMO's Al-Qud's Day Is All About

See it in plain English on the Shia TV site:

QUDS IS OURS!!

O' Allah, please cleanse Al-Quds from the Zionists!

A Lesson for A-jad

One day you're a distinguished leader of your nation, invited to address the world from a podium at the UN. The next, your power is gone and you're hunted down like a rabid bat in an attic.

Ah, the fickle finger of fate.

Orange You Glad the Jack Layton Tributes Are So Tasteful and Low-Key?

The latest instance of over-the-top Layton grief kitsch--the mighty Niagara Falls are to be turned into a promo for Jack's political party (h/t BCF).

Why stop there? I say we mix the world's supply of orange Kool Aid into the Great Lakes.

Kooky Truthers Confab Set for T.O. on 9/11/11

You better watch out,
You better all doubt,
Start watchin' the Ceeb
And hearin' 'em spout--
Kooky troofers comin' to town.

They've sussed out the "facts,"
Connected the dots.
They say that that Bush was callin' the shots.
Kooky troofers comin' to town.

They know it wasn't Atta
Though he was jihadi.
They know that it is something else
That people couldn't see, so.

You better look out,
Suspend disbelief,
'Cuz Dubya and Co. created this grief.
Kooky troofers comin' to town.

Sharia in Public Schools a Charter "Right"?

That's Harpoon Siddiqui's story (and he's sticking to it):

There is clear tension between the Charter’s guarantees of freedom of religion and gender equality. This is one of the most difficult balancing acts of a secular democracy. But school boards cannot resolve it for us. As [TDSB director Chris] Spence says: “We do not have the authority to tell faith groups how to pray.” Nor can the board prefer one faith practice over another.

Implementing the law equally for all is a sacred secular democratic principle.

Too bad it isn't a sacred sharia principle (since sharia, the one true law for all, is a political/religious system that enshrines the superiority of Muslims over infidels, and men over chicks--the reason many are alarmed to see it popping up at a Toronto public school).

John Moore Adds to the Kitschy Hysterics

You know the cutesy-poo, teddy bear-filled outpouring of kitschy emotion that now seems to accompany the death of gone-too-soon public figures (Princess Di in the U.K., Jack Layton in Canada)? John Moore wants you to know that, pace Christie Blatchford, when it comes to Jack, the grief isn't kitsch, it's the real McCoy:

I agree entirely with Christie that we now live in a society overflowing with misplaced sentimentality. On a downtown Toronto street I used to live on, residents left teddy bears and heart shaped balloons outside the rooming house of a murdered woman whose name they didn’t care to know in life. When Princess Diana died the U.K. lost its mind and the global lamentations reduced the passing of Mother Teresa five days later to the status of a retired Hollywood B-lister. But Layton’s death has rung a few gongs I don’t think Christie is taking into account.

Even though Layton looked like a dying man on July 25, I don’t think many thought he would be consumed by cancer in a matter of weeks. Unbeatable, terminal cancer is something we live in fear of for ourselves and our loved ones. To watch a man be felled by the disease before our eyes in such a short time is jarring and humbling. Layton’s death is also testimony to the fact that no-one “fights” cancer. If not stopped by medicine, no amount of grit or positive thinking can prevent the disease from hollowing out a person and extinguishing the spirit. Jack Layton was the soul of positivity … and cancer took him, anyway.

Another layer of grief is added when you consider how wrenchingly unfair Layton’s passing is. He grasped but never pulled on the brass ring. Not to put an entire nation on the psychiatrist’s couch, but let’s face it, most of us live under the presumption that when our toiling is done there will be enough remains of the day to enjoy reflection, laurels and the company of those we love. Having just reached a new height in his career, and with exciting times ahead for him and his party, Layton was struck down in a few weeks.

And lastly, there is Jack, and yes, I will call him Jack. He wasn’t the only nice guy in politics, but he was one of the few to ever achieve such heights. He was on a permanent charge fuelled by an eternal optimism. At the core of the public’s reaction to his death is the recognition that he had a vision of Canada and of a society, and he was unwavering in his advocacy for it. Other politicians might pander with foolish and populist policies, or denounce things they actually believe in for political gain. Jack stayed the course. Is principal now so rare that a man who stands firm for those things he believes in is seen as vainglorious, self-serving and stubborn?

I decline to comment on the man, but those like John who have inflated a "working politician" into some sort of puffed up Social Justice Saviour (is it just me, or are these hyperventilations reminiscent of the Obama swooners' hot air?) are certainly vainglorious, self-serving and stubborn.

Also peripatetic, poetic and chic.

What next? Renaming Valley Park Middle School the Jack Layton Memorial Middle School (to go along with the TDSB edifice named for Dr. Norman Bethune, another gone-too-soon Canadian "hero")?

Update: A letter in the Globe and Mail has some other suggestions:

A suitable tribute

Why don’t we build a lasting tribute to Jack Layton’s memory? Flowers fade and kind notes disintegrate. A permanent project close to his heart might be a low rental apartment building in Toronto’s downtown core. Another suggestion might be a home for the homeless complete with a social administrator and a nurse on duty to monitor resident needs, including drug compliance for the mentally ill. A kitchen serving healthy food would be a loving touch.

Pauline Carrick, Port Hope, Ont.

The Jack Layton Memorial Soup Kitchen and Needle Exchange--perfect!