I'm Sure She Was Selected Strictly On the Basis of Her Ablities and Talents (Cough)

Malia Obama is interning on Lena Dunham's semi-unwholesome HBO show, Girls.

Um, have her parents ever seen the thing?

How Al Quds Day Was Kicked Out Of Queen's Park

Let's just say it wasn't an easy feat to accomplish. (BTW, the hate-fest/seethe-a-thon is going ahead as planned, just not on the grounds of Queen's Park. And the reason given for nixing it had nothing to do with the nature of the rally but because it coincided with the Pan Am games being in town.)

What Al Quds Day Is Really All About

"Death to America"! (H/t: MW)

Ceeb Prediction: Egypt and Israel May Look to Hamas as a Bulwark Against ISIS in Gaza

You heard it here first.

Hamas jihadis as a "bulwark" against ISIS jihadis?

How would that work, exactly, when they're equally awful?

More likely the lefties are floating this idea as a way to try to mainstream their pet jihadis/"rebels"/"freedom fighters," Hamas.

"Controversial" Montreal Cleric Sues Mayor, City, for Calling Him "Agent of Radicalization"

The imam, Hamza Chaoui, is asking for $500,000 in damages, claiming his reputation was damaged by the charge. He's no "extremist," Chaoui insists. He's just someone who "encouraged young people to pursue their academic studies."

Nothing wrong with that, right?

Poke around on the Internet, though, and you'll find that the imam harbours some ideas that are, shall we say, rather outré. Quebec anti-jihad blogger Point de Bascule has this, for example:

On June 10, 2014, the Islamist preacher Hamza Chaoui published a text on his Facebook page condemning the World Soccer Cup. The Journal de Montréal reported that Chaoui described soccer as a “scourge” because of “the display of body parts that should be covered and the presence of almost naked players at the end of the game.” On May 3, 2013, on his own YouTube channel, Chaoui introduced himself as the Imam of the mosque at Laval University in Quebec City. 

Hamza Chaoui also presented the soccer championship as a stratagem conceived to distract non-Jews from a Jewish plan of world domination. He quoted from a French version of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion to justify his position:

[Translation by Point de Bascule] “In order to prevent non-Jewish people from finding out about our new plans and strategies, we will entertain them with many types of games, we will advertise them in newspapers and will invite them to attend the matches. This way, these new pleasures will divert their attention away from the areas of conflicts…”

Crafty Jews employing their wiles in order to conquer the globe: nothing "extreme" about that. Why, in parts of the world--okay, primarily in Muslim parts--such notions are so mainstream that the odious Protocols, that warrant for genocide, is a perennial best-seller.

That said, the suing imam had better pray that opposing counsel don't bring up that tidbit in court.

Critics React to Senate Report Calling for Certification of Muslim Clerics as a Means to Cut Down On Extremism

Not surprisingly, Official Muslims are outraged by the suggestion. The head of the outfit formerly known as CAIR-CAN, for instance, has some choice words--the ones you'd expect--for the report and its certification idea:

"This report, while ostensibly about improving national security, in fact stigmatizes and marginalizes Canadian Muslim communities and portrays them as a threat rather than as a partner in the fight against violent extremism," executive director Ihsaan Gardee said in a statement. 

Gardee said there’s no need to unfairly target imams when the criminal code already has provisions to deal with people suspected of promoting terrorist ideology. 

“This recommendation bears the hallmarks of racial and religious discrimination and is contrary to the Charter and human rights codes. It is not the role of the state in a democracy to regulate religion,” he said. 

Agreed. But what do you do when some key members of a religion are preaching jihad, an ideology designed to topple the very freedoms that enable these clerics to operate with impunity?

Kind of a Catch-22, wouldn't you say?

Meanwhile, one of the jihad's useful idiots asks, a la Dean Swift's hyperbolic A Modest Proposal, " Why stop with just one religion? Shouldn’t Ottawa certify clerics for all religions?"

No worries, pal. The government has no intention of certifying anyone, least of all the jihad-preachers.

Dog-Bites-Man Report Du Jour

Apparently, some Muslim leaders are spreading extremism.

Who knew, eh?

Considering some of the contents of Islam's holy texts, it would be real news if they weren't spreading it.

Just In Time For Al Quds Day, Local Khomeinists Invite All and Sundry to This Saturday's Zionhass-a-palooza--In Song!

It's the showstopper from that Kander & Ebb musical, Toronto:
 
Come on down, we're gonna spew some hate,
And all that crap.
You know it's Israel that we abominate,
And all that crap.
Bring the kids dressed in their jihad best
And tell 'em "peace" and "truth" are what's behind our quest.
Then we'll recite the line 'bout loving Palestine
And all that crap.
 
Tote your signs condemning "apartheid"
And all that crap.
The claim makes lefties stew; the fools are soon allied,
And all that crap.
Hold on, son,
'Cuz I hear Zafar B.
He's in a fit of rage--
His latest calumny.
The cops won't make a fuss,
It's only Zionhass
And all that crap...

Oh, you're gonna see Khomeinists from Iran,
And all that crap.
Gettin' rid of "Zionism" is the plan,
And all that crap.
Back at home they are enrichin'
"Purity" is what they're pitchin'.
It's a wrap and soon they'll wipe the map
And all that crap...


Update: Loony leftie rag NOW magazine (free for the taking--and you couldn't pay me to take it) picks Al Quds Day as one of this weekend's "can't miss events" (h/t: JH):

International Day of Al-Quds, the annual rally to protest Islamophobia - and all forms of oppression - takes place opposite the U.S. Consulate at 360 University on Saturday (July 11) at 3 pm. Buses from across the GTA bring participants, but the usual march from Queen's Park won't be part of the event this year because of traffic considerations related to the Pan Am Games. facebook.com/events/1592122177728246.

To correct the above: it has nada to do with protesting "Islamophobia and all forms of oppression." It's an event created by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini that was designed specifically to cast aspersions on Jewish Israel, that thorn in Islam's side. Also--"traffic considerations" may have been the excuse given, but the Queen's Park locale was taken off the table only after a concerted protest by B'nai Brith Canada.

Update: Toronto’s Jewish community braces for al-Quds day protest

Update: Canada's Official Khomeinists-CASMO--invite you to this eat 'n' seethe event:

Greeks Blame Banks and Yanks When They Discover Their Money Is Gone

(You can read this over at The Megaphone, too.)

Toronto Sun columnist Tarek Fatah stands with the "No" side in Greece, the one that has finally run out of Angela Merkel's money:

Standing against Tsipras on the “Yes” side was an alliance representing the power structure that runs the European Union. It included:  

1. Conservative German Chancellor Angela Merkel
2. Socialist leader in the European Parliament, Martin Shultz
3. The European Commission
4. Other political parties in Greece
5. Private TV networks in Greece.  

Polls suggested the vote would be a narrow victory for the “Yes” side, to accept the bailout package, and that this would soon topple Greece’s rookie, left-wing government.  

But Greeks gave Tsipras a resounding mandate to reject Europe’s humiliating financial terms.  

Reaction in the Greek diaspora was one of pride...

Never has the phase "Pride goeth before a fall" seemed more apropos. As far as Fatah is concerned, however, it's the givers and not the takers who are at fault here. And he finds a local Greek - Andonis Artemakis, president of the Greek Community of Toronto - to back him up. As Artemakis tells Fatah:

“Greece has spoken,” he said. “Its people will not be held hostage by Europe’s banking system.”  

He said the Greeks are not alone in facing this new form of fiscal colonialism, that does not require physical occupation, and that is happening all over the globe.  

“Look what these banks did to Iceland, Ireland, Spain and Argentina,” Artemakis said, referring to the 2008 global economic meltdown, which began with the subprime mortgage derivative crisis on Wall Street.  

“Even the United States government today is subservient to the banking industry. It’s a direct result of the lifting of regulations that governed financial institutions.”

So you mean to say that Greece's plight has nothing to do with the populace's la dolce vita lifestyle of idleness and disinclination to pay taxes and everything to do with the U.S.'s subprime fiasco?

Good to know.

I wish the Greeks lots of luck as they revert to the drachma and try to make a go of things on their own. Maybe it will spur more of them to get off their duffs and actually do some work.

Then again, since their economy is in tatters and their get-up-and-go has long since gone, that seems an unlikely scenario, no matter how "proud" they feel in the short term about giving the EU the boot.

Obama Leans On His J Street Court Jews To Lean on American Jewry to Cheer for Barack Hussein's Odious Nuke Deal

Read all the sickening details here.

Levant Pushes Back Against "Bully" Charge

In a letter to the Toronto Star, the paper that published an article bemoaning the right winger's appearance at a local kvetch-fest, Ezra Levant turns the tables on the aggrieved mom:

...I welcome criticism of my views and my conduct. But Porter’s claim that I was a “bully” or “belittled” anybody just didn’t happen. 

Porter says her child was waiting to speak to me for five minutes behind my back, but it seemed to me that she tried to use her daughter as political cannon fodder. 

Neither I nor her daughter played along, so Porter wrote a dramatized account — perhaps forgetting that the reality was caught on tape. 

I don't know that she "forgot" about being caught on tape. More likely she thought it would show reality as she perceived it--i.e. with her being the virtuous, Earth-loving mom and Ezra being the sinister, conservative, climate change-denying brute.