Pakistan Newspaper Swoons Over "Dreamy" Justin Trudeau In a Really Embarrassing Way

Someone needs a good hosing down/a cold shower, and it isn't Justin, whose "movie star looks have people so flustered," claims the gushing scribbler, that "they don't even know how to process it."

The hyperventilating writer continues in the same vein:

As if donning shalwar kameez and green eyes wasn't enough, the new PM also identifies as a feminist.

There's just something about men in shalwar kameez and Justin Trudeau knows it.

The chiseled charmer, who just became the Prime Minister of Canada, has women all over the globe singing 'Oh Canada'...

Pictures of Trudeau donning a shalwar kameez at a mosque surfaced on the internet yesterday, sending all the desi ladies in a frenzy.

Men, too, it seems:

Photo caption: "The Muslim community in Canada celebrated his victory with him and nothing says victory like biryani - Photo courtesy: Usamaa Babar"

 

But wait--how's this for a coincidence?

The enigmatic liberal even shares a birthday with the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-I-Azam: 25 December!

Go figure, eh? Him and Jesus.

 

To recap Justin's first acts as prime minister-elect:

1. Speak to Barack Obama on the phone.
2. Visit a mosque to celebrate his win with his biryani buddies.

That pretty much says it all, don't you think?

Update: The Pakistani Enemy We Don't Discuss

Hillary Clinton Lied; Chris Stevens Died

Daniel Greenfield distills everything you need to know about Hillary Clinton's role in the Libyan debacle, info gleaned before and during her interminable testimony at yesterday's House Benghazi hearing.

The takeaway: had a Republican messed up as badly as she did, the media would be screaming like banshees and calling for her head on a silver platter. But since she's a Democrat, and a Clinton, her malarkey about how she facilitated a democratic Libyan election (actually, a rigged game designed to put the Muslim Brotherhood in power) as well as the rest of her inept, arrogant dealings with that country while she was Secretary of State is unlikely to derail her presidential bid. (CNN, for example, contends that she emerged from yesterday's cage match largely unscathed.)

Puffing and Bluffing: A Folk Song for the New Trudopia

Puff the marijuana, Justin's the P.M.
And wallow with your slacker friends
As you get stoned with them.
Little rolling papers are all you really need.
So welcome to our Brave New World
Of regulated weed.

Remember Justin's papa, that old roué Pierre?
He sent us to our bedrooms,
Said the state had no place there.
While we were getting busy, like horny bees in hives,
His state was regulating every aspect of our lives.

Oh, puff the marijuana, Justin's the P.M.
And frolic with your slacker friends
As you get stoned again.
Little rolling papers are all you really need.
So welcome to our Brave New World
Of regulated weed.

A campaign lasts forever--at least that's how it seems.
Justin captivated with his pixie dust and dreams.
He promised us "real change" and said that it was gonna fly.
And even if it doesn't, well, who cares?
We'll all be high.

Oh...

Here's One That Only Someone at the "Diversity"-Crazed Toronto Star Could Come Up With: "If Joan of Arc Were Muslim"

Well, were that the case--which, of course, it was not--the obvious corollary would be: "She wouldn't be Catholic--nor would she have acted as she did.
 
This being the Toronto Star, though, what's really crucial is demonstrating that you adore Muslims because they're our friendly helpers (even if a few of them get up to some unpleasant shenanigans), and history be damned. Thus, this review of a supposedly ripped from the headlines opera in which the heroine (the putative Joan of Arc-like character) is a Muslim and Christians are the bad guys:

Marshall Pynkoski could hardly believe the synchronicity between the news of the day and Opera Atelier’s Armide.

“It’s so timely, it couldn’t be better,” said the company’s co-artistic director of the rare opera that deals with a female Muslim protagonist.

With the federal election campaign igniting discussion of Muslim culture, Pynkoski seized the opportunity to reach out to the Muslim community for this story of a Muslim warrior princess who vanquishes a Christian knight in battle then spares his life. She suffers for this decision...

“It was the Christians who were the barbaric invaders (in the opera). Everyone thinks the other is a terrorist. What I find so thrilling is that there is love and hate on both sides.”

Yes, that is thrilling.

Not so accurate in our day, when Muslims are massacring Christians by the score, and smacking more than a little of inappropriate cultural appropriation, but thrilling nonetheless. But do go on, Mr. P. What would you say this imaginary scenario has to tell us?

The opera “says that love is stronger than hate. It is very relevant to a modern audience.”

He compares Armide to Joan of Arc, who armed herself for battle and led Christian armies. Pynkoski wanted Armide to “subliminally represent Joan of Arc, a virgin, unbeatable in battle, who terrifies men, almost emasculates them.”

To that end, he asked returning star soprano Peggy Kriha Dye to cut her hair short, as she did for her previous performance. He also sent her off to the gym where she lost 20 pounds and developed the sculpted arms and torso of an athlete.

“I may wear a ball gown, but I need to look like I can carry a sword,” Kriha Dye said.

So let me get this straight. You play a character who is Muslim, not Catholic, and you wear a ball gown, not a suit of armour, but your director thinks you're a dead ringer for Joan of Arc?

M'kay. Aren't you the least bit confused by any of this?

Asked how she feels about representing one of the few Muslim heroes onstage, Kriha Dye called it “a responsibility and an honour.”

“By the end of the day, this is about two people with the same vulnerabilities. It does speak to current events. We are addressing the issues the audience cares about.” ...

 By the end of the day, you and your opera are full of crapola.



Update: FYI, there already is an opera about Joan of Arc, the non-Muslim one. It's called Maid of Orleans, and it's by Tchaikovsky:

Finally, A Legitimate Use for Michael Mann's Hockey Stick Graph

I had to chuckle when, this morning, a CBC radio pundit observed that newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a bit of "learning curve" ahead of him.

"Eureka!," thought I. "I know exactly what Justin's learning curve would look like."

Which is to say, it would look like this:


Admittedly, it is more stick-like than it is curve-like.

Bernard-Henri Levy's J'Accuse: It's Not Another Intifada. It's Not a "Cycle of Violence." It's Pure, Unadulterated Jew-Hatred. Period.

Re the current Arab savagery in Israel that's been falsely pegged as another intifada, Levy writes:

Intolerable and inapplicable, too, is the cliché of the “cycle” or “spiral” of violence, which, by putting the kamikaze killers and their victims on the same footing, sows confusion and amounts to an incitement to further action.  

Intolerable, for the same reason, are the rhetorical appeals “for restraint” and disingenuous pleas “not to inflame the street,” which, as with the “spiral of violence,” reverse the order of causality by implying that a soldier, police officer or civilian acting in self-defense has committed a wrong equal to that of someone who chooses to die after spreading as much terror as he possibly can.  

Strange indeed, how tepid are the condemnations of the stabbings of innocent passers-by and rammings of bus stops — condemnations that I have to think would be less half-hearted if the acts had occurred on the streets of Washington, Paris or London.  

More than strange — disturbing — is the difference in tone between the equivocal reaction to the recent killings and the unanimous and unambiguous international outpouring of emotion and solidarity elicited by the fatal hatchet attack on a soldier on a London street on May 22, 2013, a scenario that was not very different from those unfolding today in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. 

Intolerable, again, that most of the major media have paid the grieving Israeli families only a fraction of the attention they have paid the families of the perpetrators. 

And, finally, the money paragraph--and it's a killer: 

Intolerable, finally, the minor mythology growing up around this story of daggers: The weapon of the poor? Really? The weapon one uses because it is within reach and one has no other? When I see those blades, I think of the one used to execute Daniel Pearl; I think of the beheadings of Hervé Gourdel, James Foley and David Haines; I think that the Islamic State’s videos have clearly gained a following, and that we stand on the threshold of a form of barbarity that must be unconditionally denounced if we do not want to see its methods exported everywhere. And I mean everywhere.

History repeats.

So much for "Never Again!"

Sweden's "Slaughter the Jews" Rally Slammed--But Only By a Jew

The Swedes, on the whole, don't seem terribly bothered by it (my bolds):

Israel's ambassador to Sweden has strongly criticised videos circulating of a pro-Palestinian rally in Malmö in which protestors appear to praise recent attacks in Israel.

Footage from the demonstration on Sunday, which is circulating on social media in Sweden, includes chants in Arabic which are understood to translate to "slaughter the Jews" and "stab soldiers". 

 

Isaac Bachman, who has been Israel's Ambassador to Sweden since 2012, posted on Facebook on Monday that the messages coming from the southern Swedish city of Malmö were "very disturbing".

 

"These are extremely troubling instances of a grotesque but nevertheless very real – and murderous – incitement which must be dealt with by the full force of the law!" he wrote.

 

Meanwhile others were split on whether or not Swedish politicians Hillevi Larsson (from Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's Social Democrat party) and Daniel Sestrajcic (from the Left Party), should have spoken at the rally. 

One can understand the Swedes' quandary, especially when you take into account how precious, blameless and, above all, "frustrated" the Palestinians are.

Another Satisfied Trudeau Voter

On Monday, election day (which will forever more be known to me as "Black Monday"), I was heading north in a taxi with my mom following her late afternoon check up at a downtown medical building. Our cab driver was a bearded fellow who was wearing a white cap and one of those full length white robes. He looked a lot like this.

Had I seen him strolling on the street, I would have guessed that he was a recent--very recent--arrival, another immigrant/refugee come to avail himself of Canada's socialistic safety net and multiculturalism, our Trudeaupian social doctrine borne largely of white, leftist guilt.

"Where are you from?," asked my mom, who is apt to be ultra-friendly to service providers, and who, being in her eighties, lacks any sort of filter (think Bea Arthur's mother in The Golden Girls).

"I'm from Sri Lanka," he said.

"Sri Lanka," she repeated, "And how long have you been in Canada?

G'head. Guess how long he's been here. Six days? Six months? A year?

Nope.

"I've been here 23 years," he said.

That's right. He's been here for going on a quarter century, and he's dressed exactly like he was the day he arrived from his homeland. 

Back in 1992.

"Who are you voting for?" my mom went on (as I, cringing a little, sunk somewhat lower in my seat).

He was voting for Justin, son of Pierre (maestro of Canada's multicultist symphony), of course.

What--did you think he was going to give that anti-niqab "Islamophobe" Stephen Harper a tumble?

Don't be silly. Harper would have been much too "melting pot" for him. (And even down in the U.S.A., the melting pot doesn't melt all that well any more, as multiculturalism takes hold there, too.)

Angst In Sweden Over 1,000 Missing "Children"

And by "children" they mean, of course, recently arrived "refugees," some of whom are quite young, but many of whom belong in the "young adult" category (emphasis in the original):

UPDATED: Officials in Trelleborg in southern Sweden have told The Local that around 1,000 unaccompanied refugee children and young adults who have arrived in the town over the last month have since gone missing.

The small coastal town is currently experiencing its biggest influx of refugees to date, with several thousand people turning up every week since the start of September, according to authorities. 

 

But out of 1,900 children who have arrived in Trelleborg over the last month without parents or older relatives, at least half are believed to have left the area without alerting officials, despite being given temporary accommodation there.

 

"We don't know where they are (...) We don't have the possibility to stop them leaving. We can't wait by their beds day and night," Agneta Sjölund, Director of Trelleborg Municipality, told The Local.

 

Sjölund said that most of the refugees had arrived in southern Sweden via ferries from Germany and had been registered in the town but not yet had their paperwork processed by Sweden's Migration Agency (Migrationsverket), which made it more difficult to keep track of them.

 

"Trelleborg has become a transit destination in a short space of time," added the director.

 

"With Migrationsverket...it's a slow process," she said. ...

Indeed. The process of fleeing to parts unknown, on the other hand, is incredibly speedy. And therein lies the rub for your Migrationsverket, eh, Agneta? (Does it seem to you, as it does to me, that the Swedes don't exactly have a handle on this "refugee" influx/tsunami? Fortunately, the odds are that only several hundred of the missing are likely to be involved in jihad hanky-panky.)

Commentary Magazine: Canada Loses a Moral Compass

The compass's name: Stephen Harper. We traded him in for a screwy "progressive" whose "morality" is relative (as was the morality of his relatives.)

Geraldo Rivera's Creepy, TMI Tweet to Justin Trudeau

"Congrats--and I slept with your mom."

Like, ew!