Fasten Your Seatbelts...

...it's going to be a binksy ride. I would draw your attention in particular to one most informative link--an examination of Christopher Hitchens's "Jewish" problem. While reading how this son-of-a-Jewish-mum is doing his utmost to revile and trash the contents of the Torah, it was all I could do to stifle the urge to yell, "Paging Dr. Freud."

In the 'Human Rights' Utopia Deadbeat Tenants Have Rights, Landlords Not So Much

Because the new "human rights" ethos privileges the rights of the deadbeat "underdog" over the rights of priviledged property-owners (property rights having been purposely and purposefully omitted from Canada's Trudeaupian "rights" charter), tenants from hell with rights galore and rights-starved Ontario landlords are the new norm. (Thanks, Babsy Hall.) And, oh look, same thing's happening across the pond, too. From the Daily Mail:

Evicting a woman from her council home for failing to pay rent would breach her human rights, judges ruled yesterday.

Town Hall chiefs wanted to evict Rebecca Powell, who receives thousands of pounds in benefits, after she ran up more than £3,500 in arrears on the accommodation she was given because she was homeless.

But the Supreme Court said that – under the controversial European Convention on Human Rights – this would be a breach of the right to ‘respect for a person’s home’.

Council leaders and the Government had fought the case and fear it may now be harder to evict thousands of council tenants who fall into arrears.

Legal experts said there was an increasing ‘trend’ for tenants – including ‘neighbours from hell’ – to use human rights law to thwart eviction...

Can you blame them? Even deadbeats are smart enough to go with what works. The predictable fallout from all this: people will run, not walk, to get out of the landlord game, and the governenment will have to step into the breach and supply more public housing (which, a cynic may say, is the real reason for endowing deadbeats with housing "rights").

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Basically, that's the journalists' M.O. re the sexual groping/assault/rape of kafir chick reporters stationed in the Muslim world. No wonder Lara's Logan's Tahrir Square treatment, when it was finally reported, seemed to come out of nowhere--because the lamestreamers have made a concerted effort to keep mum about such sharia-inspired brutality, and have done so for years if not decades.

Texas Hold 'Em

Saudi university student in Texas, said to be majoring in jihad, apprehended by kafir authorities.

Abbas Shmoozathon On Hold

According to this report in the Jewish Tribune, the Abu Mazen Shmooze With Jews Tour is off--for now. But Liberal MP Irwin Cotler, the driving force behind the initiative, says it could be revived once the volatility in the region dies down. Asked by Trib reporter Atara Beck to account for his bizarre, bonkers faith in Abbas as a "peace partner," Cotler responded:

I did bring up the issue of Hamas. It was Abbas’s view that if he and Netanyahu would come to an agreement, the Palestinian people would support it with a referendum.

If you say so, Mr. C.

Elsewhere in the Trib, Barry Rubin asks a propos Egypt, those who believe true "democracy" is looming, and the reality of incipient Islamism under the auspices of the gawdawful Muslim Brotherhood:

If one side is sophisticated and realistic while the other engages in fantasies, who do you expect to win?

In the Abbas-Cotler pairing, I think we know which one's the fantasist and which the sophisticate.

How Has the Chief Attendant of the Two Holy Mosques Managed to Avoid the Fate of Other Arab Leaders?

In a word, via bribery.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

If you thought Canada's head "human rights" Commissar Jennifer Lynch had a cushy gig, what with her jetting off hither and yon to shmancy conferences on your dime, wait'll you hear about the spending habits of the guy who's in charge of the "human rights" mausoleum, a fellow whose profligacy is on the same epic scale as his edifice. From the Winnipeg Sun (h/t Al the Fish):

It didn’t take Stuart Murray long to learn the lavish spending ways of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.

In his first nine months as the museum’s CEO, the former Manitoba Tory leader racked up $27,034 in travel expenses, including taxpayer-funded trips to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.

He even stuck taxpayers with a bill for $767.79 for airfare, accommodations and meals so he could visit the Guggenheim Museum while he was on a personal vacation in Spain in October 2009.

Apparently it was very important for Murray to be at the Guggenheim to discuss the “economic impact on city and region” that a museum can bring, according to the museum’s travel expense documents.

Murray, who was appointed CEO of the CMHR in September 2009, wasted no time taking advantage of the facility’s frequent flyer benefits.

After his trip to Spain the former roadie for the 1970s band Blood Sweat & Tears flew to L.A. and San Francisco in November of 2009 to attend a symposium on Canada’s role in human rights advancement.

Taxpayers’ bill: $2,429.09. Cha-ching...

After itemizing several more of Murray's expenses, the 'Peg scribbler concludes: 

Great pork-barrel job if you can get it. And that’s on top of a job that pays between $167,300 and $196,900, according to museum officials...

Indeed. Getting tapped for one of these jobs is like winning the lottery. Better, even, because you don't have to go to the trouble of buying tickets.

'Brave' Comedy Central Caved to THIS Pisher? How Pathetic!

A "fearsome" jihadi/prototypical 98-lb. weakling gets his comeuppance. From FOX News:

A college dropout and Muslim convert who threatened the creators of the "South Park" cartoon series and then tried to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia is facing a prison term of up to 30 years.

Zachary A. Chesser of Bristow, Va., pleaded guilty last year to supporting the al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia and posting online threats against the "South Park" creators for an episode he perceived as insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.

Chesser posted a warning on the website RevolutionMuslim.com last April following the 200th episode of "South Park," which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit.

Chesser, who just two years earlier was studying foreign languages at George Mason University, wrote on the site that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the cartoon's creators, "will probably end up" like Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 after making a film critical of Islamic society.

"It's not a threat, but it really is a likely outcome," Chesser told FoxNews.com last April. "They're going to be basically on a list in the back of the minds of a large number of Muslims. It's just the reality."...

And now a lengthy prison term seems the reality for the "revert".

Update: "Jihadi" is only the latest identity of a Virginia lad who, according to his "pen-pal," was on a quest to find himself, and who tried on many costumes before settling on the one that ultimately did him in:

Chesser converted to Islam in the summer of 2008 while playing on a soccer team organized by a member of the Islamic proselytizing group Hizb ut-Tahrir. He had donned other personas growing up, including brief stints with Goth and rapping/break dancing.

Should've stuck with the Goths.

The Last Multiculturalist Standing OR Praise the Lord Trudeau and Pass the Tasty Samosas

Is Bernie Farber the last non-Islamic multicultist in the land (I ask you)? From the CJN:

...A very different perspective was offered by Bernie Farber, chief executive officer of Canadian Jewish Congress. Canada, he said, is a young country that has prospered by welcoming people from around the world. They are encouraged to bring with them their unique cultures that with all the others, have “built a strong and vibrant Canada.”

Prime minister Pierre Trudeau “embraced that as part of the ethos of who we are and gave resources to make it strong and ensure we are not like the United States, where people get muddled into a [melting] pot,” he said.

Congress has long supported the principle of multiculturalism, which recognizes that as a community we are both Canadian and Jewish.

“Multiculturalism does not deny Canadianism. Quite the opposite. It allows us to be strong Canadians while allowing us to take a look at your culture and celebrate that as well,” Farber said.

He said Cameron’s rejection of multiculturalism was not applicable to Canada. Canada does not have the same problem of home-grown terrorism and the one case brought to light – the Toronto 18 – was condemned all-around, by Muslim-Canadians as well.

He worried that “those criticizing multiculturalism explain their concerns for the most part by targeting a small minority of immigrants and refugees with extremist religious views and use them as an example of the policy’s failure. Does anyone really believe that if we were to abandon multiculturalism that these extremists would simply go away? In the United States, where the melting-pot concept is the norm, has this occurred? Generalizing the actions of a small extremist minority within immigrant communities to its entirety is a recipe for stereotyping at best and racism at worst.”

Yeah, things are waaay different here in the Trudeaupia. For one thing, we have those wonderful censorship laws to "protect" us from the slings and arrows of, er, Nazis (but only the German, not the Islamotarian, kind; Muslims being deemed even more a protected victim than are the Jews). For another, we're immune to the malign influence of Saudi money, the Muslim Brotherhood, Anwar al Awlaki, Al Shabbab, etc., etc., etc. And instead of eyeing each other with xenophobic susupicion, we try to "build bridges" and "twin" with mosques and "mentor" Somalis and tuck into homemade repasts of tasty fried triangles with our "interfaith" cousins.

There's no jihad/creeping sharia/spiraling Muslim demographics here, you stereotyping racists! And if you say there is, you'll have to answer to a higher authority. No, not Allah. A "human rights" commissar.

Of course, when defending the now thoroughly discredited social doctrine of multiculturalism, the one responsible for the whirlwind Europe is now reaping (described here by "stereotyping racist" Geert Wilders) and Canada is on the cusp of reaping, it helps if, like Farber, you understand the concept not at all. Multiculti is not, as he would have it, "unique cultures" coming together to build "a strong and vibrant Canada." It is premised on the obvious and dangerous falsehood that every culture is equal to every other culture, and has something of equal value to contribute to the land. But that's only the half of it. The other half posits that there is one culture which doesn't quite rise to the level of the others in terms of "vibrancy" and which is therefore not as equal--the culture of the white hegemon, who unleashed a genocide on North American Native peoples and spread its wicked imperialistic ways around the world. In other words, hang your head in shame, Western civ., because you pale in comparison to others' cultural/civilizational "vibrancy."

And that, my friends, that Marxist malarkey, is how such "vibrancy" as "honour" murder, clitorectomy and Islamotarian Zionhass (by no means limited to an "extremist" fringe) made its way to our land and has set up shop here, probably for good--because well-meaning simpletons rushed in and sentimentalized a concept that has turned out to be the equivalent of societal cyanide.

But, hey, decades after multiculti came into effect, there's lots more ethnic fare in the food court of the local mall, and that's a good thing, right?

Bronfman's Hearts 'n' Flowers 'n' Sunshine 'n' Lollipops 'n' Unicorns 'n' Rainbows

What drugs is Charles Bronfman on? Because anyone who could write this happy-dappy crapola must be on some sort of heavy duty anxiolytic/SSRI/mood booster:

...The idea that Israel and the Palestinians have, at long last, been given an ideal opportunity to come to a peaceful resolution of their long-standing differences might sound outlandish to some and heretical to those who think that Israel should now hunker down and prepare itself for armed conflict, or use the Egyptian crisis to gain more time to do nothing!

Despite the fact that the peaceful revolution has succeeded, Egypt will have many problems on the way to democracy. The first is its economy, which was already struggling before the protests brought it to a temporary halt. The interim government and its freely elected successor will have to provide major incentives to business to invest in equipment and create the job opportunities that the people are demanding. Those who massed in Tahrir Square and elsewhere throughout the country no doubt will lack patience. Those who have graduated from college and have been promised jobs by the former government must have access to them – not menial jobs, but the serious jobs that the educated youth expect in a sophisticated society.

As Egypt’s neighbour, Israel can help. Israel’s technological brilliance, her breakthroughs in so many fields, from irrigation to nanotechnology, can be of huge advantage to a new democratic Egypt that is in search of 21st-century jobs for its young people. The Palestinians are benefitting from an important increase in their standard of living, at least on the West Bank. That could be a helpful signal for both Jordanians and Egyptians that with the proper infrastructure economic advances certainly are possible.

But first, Israelis and Palestinians must end their conflict by establishing clear and recognized borders between two states living in peace. So long as they prey on each other, their ability to relate positively to the events around them will be hampered. In fact, from Israel’s standpoint, the status quo will have a profound negative influence.

Israel is no longer considered the David, surrounded by the Arab Goliath. Nor has it been since 1982. Israel is now viewed in the Arab world and beyond as Goliath, protected by the United States. It is seen as an occupier denying freedom to the Palestinians as surely as Hosni Mubarak denied freedom to the Egyptian people. As long as it fails to end the occupation, Israel will be seen to be on the wrong side of history.

That is a shame, for Israel, as the first democracy in the Middle East could do so much to help Arab democracy emerge from the ice age imposed by its autocratic leaders...

Yes, Israel, you had better get cracking and "help" Arab democracies...not want to heave your Zionist arses into the sea. Chuckles says, "End the occupation and everything'll be okay"--and he must know what he's talking about because he's really smart. Or rich. One of those, anyway.

An Open Letter to 2011 Israeli Apartheid Week Celebrants

Dear Judy, Jenny, et al,

Greetings, Zion-despisers. I read in the news that the streets of Tripoli have piles of bodies, the casualties of crazy Moo Moo Gadaffi who has turned on his own people in what appears to be a martyrdom-or-bust policy. Also au courant (though, given the lamestream media's romantic sensibilities re the Arab thirst for "freedom," not nearly courant enough)--CBS correspondent Lara Logan is said to be "recovering" from her serial rape by savage, misogynistic "freedom-lovers" in Tahrir Square who screeched "Jew! Jew!" as they brutalized her. And let's not overlook supremacist cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi, delighted to be back on home turf after an extended Khomeini-esque exile; welcome back, Q-Man! And that warm glow you may be feeling--that's Jew-love coupled with the glowing embers of Tunisian synagogue, torched by tolerant, loving Arabs.

In view of all that; and in view of the Arabs' ongoing persecution of Christians and chicks; and in view of the reality that the vast majority of the Middle East's map is already--in a word that was a favorite of a German "Yusuf" (Goebbels)--Judenrein; and in view of the fact that Israel remains the one bright spot in an otherwise dark and blighted landscape, you might want to reconsider your Big Lie antics for this year. If you go ahead with them under the aforementioned circumstances, you will succeed only in making yourselves--and not Israel, the object of your pathological derision--appear foolish.

That's it. That's all I have to say.