Monday, April 23, 2012

Public Safety Minister Vic Toewes Tells Canadians to Have No Fear Once Khadr's Here

Quoth the minister:
I want to assure Canadians that there are mechanisms in the law today that allow authorities to monitor an individual even though a formal sentence may have expired.
Mechanisms, Vic? Really? What kind of mechanisms can keep a Canadian citizen from logging on to the 'net and plotting jihad? And even if there were such mechanisms, wouldn't they be so intrusive and draconian that they'd impinge on other Canadians' civil liberties?

Sorry, Vic, but I can't say that I'm terribly reassured by your reassurances. (Love the 'stache, though.)


Wherein Mark Steyn, Connoisseur of Musical Theatre, Refuses to Shut His Von Trapp

Steynamite! Steynamite!
See you there on the morrow.
Firmly Right, shines a light.
Our belly laughs are Barb's sorrow.
Dare to speak out and you're dubbed a lout,
Dubbed a lout and a "hater."
Steynamite! Steynamite!
Can't wait to be a spectator.

Qaradawi to Egypt's Mufti: Visiting "Al Quds" While the Jooos Are in Charge Is Verboten

Of course, the word he used is "haram":
DOHA – As fury continued over the visit of Egypt’s Mufti to Al-Quds (occupied Jerusalem), prominent scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi denounced the visit as haram, unlawful, for normalizing ties with Israel and its military occupation of the Muslim holy city.

“I did not expect such an eminent person like Sheikh Gomaa to go against this consensus and visit Jerusalem and offer prayers in the Al-Aqsa mosque,” Qaradawi, president of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), said in a statement published on his website on Friday, April 20.

“There is a mutual agreement among Muslims and Christians that visiting Al-Quds shall remain prohibited as long as Israel continues to occupy it by force.”
Some of the Christians, clearly, never got that memo.

Hamas #2 Believes Protocols of the Elders of Zion is Factual

You could say that Abu Marzouk
Is a horrible, Jew-hating kook.
Without any tact
He claims Protocols is fact.
Such hatefulness, folks, is no fluke.

Looking for a Novel Vacation? How About a "Corrupt Tour" of Prague

Sounds like fun:
The Czech Republic has finished 57th in the 2011 Corruption Perception Index, alongside Namibia and Saudi Arabia, according to Transparency International. This ignoble ranking gave tour-operators a bright idea: for just 20 euros, you can take a “Corrupt Tour” of two to three hours, to ride around the city to see Prague’s corruption hot-spots.
A tour guide points out the locations around the capital associated with illicit dealings. "Enjoy the best of the worst" is the tour operator's motto.
Catchy.

“I think a film like The Law in These Parts will create a lot of conversations,” she added. “It’s about the lawyers who decide the legal system within the Gaza Strip and it’s done with such an intelligent approach”

The programming director of  Hot  Docs gushes over one of the works in her film series.

BTW, you might think that "lawmakers" in Gaza=hip 'n' happening genocidal jihadis Hamas, since they've been in charge of the joint for years now. Not so. It's actually a look at those awful Zionist occupiers--the scoundrels!--who dared to make law for Arabs in the "occupied territories."

National Brotherhood Week, Libyan Version

Everyone sing! Oh, the Berbers hate the Arabs/And the Arabs hate the Berbers/And the Zwai hate the Toubu/And everybody hates the Joooos!...

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Teaching "Tolerance" Via Egregious Displays of Racist Paraphernalia

I've got to admit it: this museum sounds slightly nuttier--albeit not by much--than our "human rights" mausoleum.

Turkish German Lawyer Insists That Islam Has Nothing to Do With Gender Inequality

It's not about Islam. It's about "domestic violence" and "human rights," says he, hoping the kafir will be too blind or too craven to research the matter for himself.

From the "Imitation is the Insincerest Form of Flattery" Department

Iran's military is said to be "copying" the American spy drone that accidentally ended up in its clutches.



"Two Cheers for Danish Justice"

Melanie Phillips withholds a final cheer as the Danes acquit Lars Hedegaard, President of the Danish Free Speech Society, of uttering "hate speech":
So a victory, certainly -- but still only two cheers for Denmark’s legal system. First, as has been the case throughout this saga, the acquittal – like the previous acquittal and conviction – turned merely on the narrow question of whether the remarks by Hedegaard which were in contention had been made in a private forum. The Supreme Court decided that he had had ‘no intention of disseminating his remarks to a wider audience’, and that therefore no offence had been committed.

The crux of the issue, whether someone is entitled to speak in public in Denmark about child abuse and violence towards women in Muslim culture, remains therefore very much an open question.