Hedegaard is being prosecuted in Denmark for violating that democracy's version of our Section 13--and the only people who seem to care about the abomination are "extreme right-wingers" (the convenient catch-all for anyone who opposes the onrush of Islam). Mark Steyn writes:
That is why the Lars Hedegaard trial matters. The zombie husks who lead the western world in twilight pass off their groveling prostration as a defense of “multicultural tolerance”. It's not. It’s the Pansy Left (in Orwell’s phrase) auditioning to be Islam’s lead prison bitch (that’s mine, not Orwell’s). In the same way that the left embarked on its long march through the institutions, so too has Islam. Its Gramscian subversion of transnational bodies, international finance, human rights institutions, the academy and the justice system is well advanced.
Hence starch-for-brains Cpl. William Russett and the RCMP's "interfaith"/"diversity" ethos which prompts it to apologize to Muslims for arresting some of their lads during the holy month of Ramadan. Hence our federal government contemplating whether or not to kowtow to the likes of Cuba, Iran and the UNHRC (instead of telling them all to take a long hike off a short pier). Hence an entire bleeping month of the Canadian calendar earmarked every year for da'wa and historical revisionism. Hence the Canadian publisher of the Danish Motoons being chastized in a court of law for daring to "denormalize" our quasi-totalitarian "human rights" system. Hence an airport security instrument--the "Randomizer"--that, for purposes of political correctness having nothing to do with security, selects people at random so that no one can complain of being "profiled."
I could go on (and on), but I think you catch the drift (or avalanche, more like).
The Telegraph's James Delingpole writes re yet another Beeb doc on man-caused climate change and the scientific "consensus" that supports it :
The “consensus” on ‘Climate Change’, by contrast, is a figment of Al Gore’s – and, I’m sorry to say, Sir Paul Nurse’s – imagination. It exaggerates the number of scientists who believe in Man Made Global Warming and it grotesquely underestimates the number who have many good reasons for suspecting that there is far, far more to “Climate Change” than anthropogenic CO2.
What’s more such “consensus” as there is is an artificial construct. It has not been subjected to the rigour of an open or even semi-open market. It is the creation, almost entirely, of politically-driven funding from US government, from various UN bodies, from the EU, from left-leaning charitable foundations on a scale unprecedented in the history of science. So far, in real terms, no less than five times the amount of the Manhattan Project has been squandered on research into AGW. For that kind of money you can buy an awful lot of scientists prepared to suspend any belief they might have that global warming is anything other than man-made. (I put this point to Nurse but he wasn’t having it. As a scientist he just “knew” that scientists didn’t behave like that.)
The Ceej "tweets" its relief that "our friend & fabricator of St. Louis monument Darius Mosun is back safe from ordeal in #UAE".
And what, pray tell, was the wheely fabricator doing there? The tweeted link to a Toronto Star article reveals all:
Two Canadian businessmen who were caught up in the deepening diplomatic spat between Ottawa and the U.A.E. are back home in Toronto.
Darius Mosun and his business partner were stuck at the Abu Dhabi airport for almost 20 hours after confusion over new visa requirements left them unable to enter the Arab country.
“It feels good to be home, I missed my children and my wife,” an exhausted Mosun told The Canadian Press as he waited for his bags at Toronto’s Pearson Airport Saturday evening.
The U.A.E.’s new visa rules were enforced in January, a few months after Canada denied extended landing rights to the Persian Gulf country’s two major airlines.
The U.A.E also evicted Canada from Camp Mirage, which had been an important staging ground for the military mission in Afghanistan.
Mosun and his colleague were initially able to enter the U.A.E. last week with a visa acquired in Canada, but were stopped when trying to re-enter the country after a side trip to Saudi Arabia.
U.A.E. officials told the pair their visas were only valid for a single entry, even though that rule wasn’t written on the document itself.
Mosun, who lost a meeting with an important client due to the visa mix-up, said he’d like to see Ottawa take steps to protect Canadian businesses caught in the diplomatic fray.
“I hope that our government is doing all it can to rebuild it’s good faith and its relationship with our friends in the U.A.E.”
The 42-year-old, who runs an architectural fabrication and design business, plans to reach out to officials in Ottawa next week to urge politicians to strengthen their relations with the Arab country...
So you mean the guy who fabricated the St. Louis monument commemorating Canada's turning aside European Jews fleeing Hitler's agenda is trying to persuade Canada's current government to go easy on the world's foremost purveyor of the Islamic supremacism that imperils Jewry and all Western civilization?
And the Ceej is proud of the dude?
You'll forgive me if, just this once, I find myself at a loss for words.
Update: From Maclean's, Jan. 12, '98:
This spring, when thousands of Muslim pilgrims visit the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, they will be able to admire the ornamental cast iron fence recently erected around one of Islam's holiest sites. In Toronto, Soheil and Darius Mosun will share vicariously in the pleasure. The father-and-son team runs the custom fabrication business, Soheil Mosun Ltd., that constructed the $14-million fence, consisting of 58 sets of gates and 140 fixed panels that span two kilometres in total.
If Mosun is looking to drum up more biz in the Magic Kingdom (and it appears he is), I'd advise him not to mention his new Jew wheel back in Canada.
A smug lefty gripes about the "unfairness" of the political landscape:
...The political debate began immediately. Loughner was thought to be influenced by the far right. The right attempted to blame the left.
The corporate media and political elites have since circled the wagons, “agreeing” that the assassin was “mentally ill” and acted alone. However, no proof has been provided or a professional psychiatric tests done to reach this conclusion.
This follows a pattern whenever a white person carries out a terrorist or political attack. The attacker is labeled “unhinged” and said to be acting alone.
In contrast, when an Arab- or Hispanic-looking person is involved, there is an assumption of international links. Is he tied to Al Qaeda? Is he tied to the drug cartel or Mexican people smugglers?
The vitriol directed at the Islamic Community centre in New York, where false charges of promoting “holy war” and possible links to terrorism are routinely mentioned by the media, shows the double standard...
Right on, smug lefty! There is indeed a double standard at work here, one which sees no jihad and hears no jihad even when it jumps up and screams "Allahu Akbar!" (at which point the assumption is that the jihadi is not part of a global effort to establish Islam's primacy--because such a thing is a figment of the "Islamophobes'" overheated imagination--but is a one-of, unaffiliated nutter). The flip side of that is that, without any evidence at all, a one-of nutter such as Loughner is said to have become unhinged because of overheated right-wing rhetoric (and will now no doubt be trotted out a la Timothy McVeigh every time a Muslim/Muslim apologist wants to demonstrate that "terrorism" is not solely a Muslim pursuit).
The financial irregularities at ISNA Canada have prompted this smackdown response from ISNA's head office, which appears to be doing its level best to distance itself from the Canadian scandal:
ISNA encourages ISNA Canada Board to Continue Investigation of Alleged Mismanagement
Earlier today, ISNA-Canada, a separate legal and financial entity from ISNA (Continental), contacted our executive council in light of allegations of a serious violation of donor intent that has occurred in their organization, as reported in the Canadian newspaper, The Star, publicly detailing the events at ISNA-Canada.
A recent independent audit, ordered by the new ISNA-Canada board, points to possible mis-management of funds by ISNA-Canada’s Secretary General Mohammad Ashraf. As reported in the Toronto Star, “ISNA-Canada’s board of directors is in the midst of retaining the services of an independent auditor to conduct a more thorough audit.”
ISNA-Canada’s new President, Mohamed Bekkari, ordered the audit soon after his election after identifying unusual management practices undertaken by Ashraf. When the results of the audit uncovered irregularities, ISNA-Canada board removed all financial authority from Ashraf and began a vigorous reformation of financial protocols at the organization.
Trust is of the utmost importance in Islam and to Muslims, especially when it comes to Islamic organizations that must uphold the trust of the community. The Quran states, “And they who are to their trusts and their promises attentive” (23:8), “O you who have believed, fulfill [all] contracts [covenants, or trusts]” (5:1), “[those who] fulfill their promise when they promise (2:177).”
“A violation of the community’s trust is extremely serious and that is why it is extremely important that transparency is observed during the investigation of this apparent breach of trust,” said ISNA (Continental) Secretary General Safaa Zarzour.
We also want to reassure our donors that, as a completely separate legal and financial entity, ISNA (Continental) operates under an entirely separate board of directors and secretary general from ISNA-Canada and we have stringent financial controls in compliance with laws governing nonprofits in the U.S...
Apparently not stringent enough, though, to prevent it from illegally siphoning funds to Hamas via the Holy Land Foundation.
Has the Israeli inquiry which ruled that Israel was within its rights to board that Turkish jihadi-humanitarian Gaza boat deterred future boatcapades? Hell, no. It has just been announced that two more "aid" boats will set sail on a sea of spleen come spring. From Ha'aretz:
..The decision, due to be officially announced later this week, comes as an Israeli committee of inquiry announced its finding that the naval commandos who raided last year's May flotilla acted in self-defense when they killed nine Turkish citizens on board its lead ship, the Mavi Marmara.
The Free Gaza activist who reported the planned flotillas, Kafr Kana resident Lubna Masarwa, who was on board the Mavi Marmara, said this year's convoys would have more ships and more volunteers, including politicians and well-known athletes and artists.
These will not be the first flotillas to set off for Gaza since the naval raid, which was followed last June by the Irish-flagged Rachel Corrie - a ship owned by the Free Gaza movement and named after a pro-Palestinian American activist crushed to death by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer during a protest in Gaza.
Wait...you mean to say the poor girl was purposely flattened by an evil Jewdozer?
Oh, the humanity!
Speaking of which--and in keeping with the Sea Hitler theme--if they're looking for another chick name for one of their tubs, how about "Ilsa, Sea Wolf of the SS"?
Is it "discrimination" for a patient in one province to be shipped to another province for medical care? That's what the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission contended. For unspecified but obvious reasons (because it's a crock; because it has nothing to do with "human rights" but is a function of the built-in deficiencies of a socialized medical system) a regular court did not agree:
Canada's top court won't hear a case on whether the provincial government discriminated against a man with autism by transferring him outside the province for care.
The Supreme Court dismissed the case that the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission brought against the former Department of Family and Community Services, now the Department of Social Development.
The court typically doesn't give reasons in a decision not to hear a case.
The New Brunswick Court of Appeal ruled against the commission last year, upholding a decision out of the Court of Queen's Bench.
The court of appeal found the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission had failed to show the province discriminated by placing the man in institutional care in Saint John and later moving him to Spurwink, a facility in Portland, Me., that provides residential services for adults with autism.
The man's parents said the province's decision to move their son out of Fredericton, place him in institutional care in Saint John and ultimately move him out of New Brunswick amounted to discrimination.
The province's three-member high court said the situation was not a case where New Brunswickers with disabilities were being provided with a service in the province while the man was forced to receive the same service outside the province.
"This is a case where a person with a disability must go outside the province to receive a level of care that is simply unavailable in-province," Justice Joseph Robertson wrote.
Seamus Cox, a lawyer at the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission, said Thursday's decision ends the matter.
"The file will now be closed," he said...
Yes, but there are plenty more where that one came from (i.e. from the "human rights" culture that has perverted the concept of human rights, transforming it into a matter of entitlement).
There's nothing I like better on a frosty winter's day than a roaring wood fire in my living room fireplace. And there's nothing that drives me crazier than holier-than-thou eco-geeks who would deprive themselves of such pleasure because they think self-abnegation is synonymous with virtue. (You can read about such types in this Sunday NYT article.)
As I type these words, my hubby is stacking wood--real wood, not one of those fake wood log thingies that never crackles--in the hearth. As I enjoy the warmth and woodsy aroma, I will think of all those self-sacrificing souls--and pity them.
I'd hold off sending any donations to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria if I were you. The charity much favoured by Bono and other celebrities is currently experiencing a spot of bother due to missing funds, reports AP:
GENEVA — A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations sees as much as two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption, The Associated Press has learned.
Much of the money is accounted for with forged documents or improper bookkeeping, indicating it was pocketed, investigators for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria say. Donated prescription drugs wind up being sold on the black market.
The fund's newly reinforced inspector general's office, which uncovered the corruption, can't give an overall accounting because it has examined only a tiny fraction of the $10 billion that the fund has spent since its creation in 2002. But the levels of corruption in the grants they have audited so far are astonishing...
You know what that means, don't you? Time for another all-star concert to shake down rich, guilt-ridden Westerners.
There once was a Lib'ral named Rae
Whom no one would ever think gae.
Said, "It isn't effeminate
To suck up to an Emirate.
No sir, no how, no wae!"
That's what an Israeli inquiry has concluded re the raid on the Turkish flotilla boat full of jihadis and "humanitarians" (some of whom were both). Hands up anyone who thinks that's going to satisfy the slavering Gaza-avids/Zion-loathers who will settle for nothing less than Israel's disappearance?
