Follwowing a Plethora of Complaints, the New York Times Demands a Change of Wording in IPT's Full-Page Ad

I can't imagine that this is going to be enough to quell the howls of outrage from the likes of CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper:

The Times said it would pull the ad from its website mid Thursday if the IPT refused to alter the text. The change demanded was fairly subtle. Originally, the ad said, "Stop the Islamist groups from undermining America's security, liberty and free speech." Now, it says, "Stop the radical Islamist groups..." 

It's a minor distinction. But it came after Times' officials reviewed the ad in advance and found that it met their standards for publication. It was only after "being inundated with customer complaints" was the change ordered by publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.

Hooper, BTW, claims that Boko Haram's ideology "comes from nowhere," which, when you think about it, is a huge insult to a core sacred text which is alleged to be sheer perfection; it also insults the intelligence of infidels.

Amos Oz, The Wizard of Oblivion

Jeffrey Woolf has "deconstructed" Israeli novelist Amos Oz. Woolf's conclusion:

Oz is the foremost, living representative of an established tradition in modern Hebrew literature that espouses the total elimination of Israel’s Jewish identity, and cultural and religious character. The tradition can be traced back to Yosef Haim Brenner, through the Canaanite movement of the 1950′s and 1960′s, down to Oz and his compatriot A. B. Yehoshua (among others).

I've said it before and I'll say it again: these leftists are not "self-loathing Jews." Indeed, they adore themselves and their own worldview. It's pesky Jewry, who have failed to hew to the left's utopian expectations, they despise.

Map Crap

These maps lie:



This one reveals the truth re the Joooos' purported "land-grab":

Coming in June: "Hacking the Middle East Toronto Hackathon"

They claim to want to "help create positive changes in the Middle East," but something tells me the kind of "positive changes" they're looking for is the end of Israel and its replacement with Palestine.

Just a hunch, mind you.

The Clash of Cultures--in a Nutshell

Diana West nails it:

Same Old Pipes Tripe

Irrational optimism: that's what I can Daniel Pipes's long-standing assertion that "the cure for radical Islam is moderate Islam," and, in a similar vein, "Islamism can evolve into democracy."

Hope Springs Eternal

How did a four-decade-old Bob Hope joke lead to Mark (Steyn's)parting of the ways with National Review? Find out here.

If You Think the 9/11 Museum Flogging Gift Shop Tchotchkes Is Wrong, What About Canada's Shrine to Victimhood (A.K.A. the "Human Rights" Mausoleum) Flogging "Human Rights" Bonbons?

Re the former, read this. Re the latter, read this:

Le bonbon

Box of 4 - $16.75
Constance Popp has created a delightful bonbon in support of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights – a double dose of goodness. 

This Fair Trade chocolate is a layered truffle (just like the building!) whose ingredients draw on cross cultural food symbolism, pertaining to peace and human rights. 

Made from an array of fresh local ingredients: sage, pomegranate, single source Fair Trade chocolate from Peru and Ghana, Himalayan sea salt and local honey – Le bonbon will remind you that each action we take, including the purchase of gifts and the food choices we make - can support the advancement of human rights.

They may be "human rightsy" but they'll still make you fat.



Almost 17 bucks for only four bonbons?
What's in 'em--fair trade gold?

Judy and Shirley and Livy, Oh My

Appearing tonight for one night only--a trifecta of female "progressives":

On May 22, three great Canadian progressives, rabble.ca co-founder Judy Rebick, the actress and activist Shirley Douglas, and mayoral candidate Olivia Chow will be speaking at the Tommy Douglas Institute's conference "Critical Pedagogy and the Citizen-Student" at George Brown College in downtown Toronto. As mentioned in my last column, the Tommy Douglas Institute was launched this past year with the goal of rethinking pedagogy in an era of neoliberalism. The May 22 conference will ask: What is the role of post-secondary education in promoting democracy and citizenship in our era? And how do today's educators take on the challenge of graduating students who are stewards, not just residents, of society? 

Judy Rebick will deliver the keynote speech "Learning from the New Movements" at the conference...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Famous Cyber Bullying Case Turns Out to Be About Something Else

Creepy Dutch-Turkish guy goes online, coaxes young girls to show him their nekkid bits (online), then blackmails them.

He isn't a "bully." He's a cyber-perv.

Dear NatPo Opiner: Please Check Your Hectoring

Quite often the National Post will publish something designed to rile up its core readership. This, a piece about the need to "check our privilege," is the sort of thing I mean. The opiner, a journalist associated with academe, lectures--hectors--those of us who don't slot neatly into one or another "victim" group, and who therefore (according to the "geniuses" of academe) have an innate and unfair advantage over others. What's amusing here is that she's willing to swallow some of academia's mumbo jumbo, like this privilege stuff, but not all of it:

Let’s be clear: To acknowledge the role of privilege does not negate the role of self-determination and personal responsibility. They are understood. Even I cringe at new speech-policing concepts such as trigger warnings, which are used to control speech on university campuses. And those on the losing end of privilege could stand to watch how they couch their argument when calling it out. Often, they, too, possess some form of privilege. I know I do. Sometimes people elevate their victimhood to suggest that’s the extent of their value and comes across as a form of emotional blackmail others cannot access. 

The beautiful thing about being part of a democracy is the notion of perfecting it...

Wrong. The beautiful thing about being part of a democracy is the notion of living your life as you see fit, without busybodies pushing you around and trying to micromanage every aspect of your thought and behavior.

The beautiful thing is the freedom.

The notion of perfecting society is, quite frankly, frightening, as it invariably leads to nutty "trigger warnings" and efforts even far more horribly totalitarian.

Update: Adam Carolla had a great comeback when an NPR dude tried to pin that "white privilege" crap on him:

“By the way, I’m you’re worst nightmare. I’m the guy whose mom was on welfare, I’m the guy who got the free lunch meals over at the school, I’m the guy who got the government cheese, and I’m the guy who picked up garbage on the construction sites, and I’m the guy who was told, ‘you can’t be an L.A. fireman because you’re a white male’ … So don’t try to paint me into this white privilege bulls**t … I’m never going to buy into it, I lived it!”