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Muslims protect a church in Lahore
October 6, 2013 — xanthippaWe so need much more of this!
Among a deluge of news about Islamic extremists burning/demolishing/desecrating Christian churches, Hindu and Buddhist temples and Synagogues all throughout the Muslim world, among the news of religious murders and bombings, it is most excellent to see moderate Muslims standing up for religious tolerance and protecting their Christian neighbours during worship:
‘Hand in hand as many as 200-300 people formed a human chain outside the St Anthony’s Church adjacent to the District Police Lines at the Empress Road, in a show of solidarity with the victims of the Peshawar church attack two weeks back, which resulted in over a 100 deaths. The twin suicide attack on All Saints church occurred after Sunday mass ended and is believed to be the country’s deadliest attack on Christians.
Standing in the small courtyard of St Anthony’s Church, as Mufti Mohammad Farooq delivered a sermon quoting a few verses of the Holy Quran that preached tolerance and respect for other beliefs, Father Nasir Gulfam stepped right next to him after having conducted a two hour long Sunday service inside the church. The two men stood should to shoulder, hand in hand as part of the human chain that was formed outside the church not just as a show of solidarity but also to send out a message, ‘One Nation, One Blood’.
As part of an attempt to sensitize the public at large, the human chain was the second such event after a similar had been organized in Karachi last week outside the St Patrick’s Cathedral by an organization called Pakistan For All – a collective of citizens concerned about the growing attacks on minorities.
“Well the terrorists showed us what they do on Sundays. Here we are showing them what we do on Sundays. We unite,” said Mohammad Jibran Nasir, the organizer who made the calls for the event on social media.’
Go over to Express Tribune to read the full article and to see photos.
It takes a lot of bravery for people to stand up against the fanatics within their own group, whatever that group may be – religious, political or social. But, when they do, we must do all we can to support them and spread the word about their actions!
Tune in for Clare Lopez
October 4, 2013 — xanthippaClare Lopez, a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on Middle East, national defense, WMD, and counterterrorism issues, will be appearing at a call-in radio show on CFRA on Saturday, the 5th of October, 2013, at 8pm East coast time.
If you are not in the Ottawa region, you can listen over the internet.
I hope she can shed some light on what is happening in Syria and Iran and what other regional threats there are. It should be an interesting thing to listen to.
BCF: Muslims Of Calgary Invite Unindicted WTC Bombing Conspirator Who Advises Canadians Are The Enemies Of Islam To Youth Event
October 4, 2013 — xanthippaFrom BCF:
‘Evidently the Protocols of the Elders of Zion isn’t a strong enough message for the faithful of the Muslims of Calgary, nor is provision of publications that declare Jews and Christians to be the enemies of Allah. No, not at all, the MCC has instead decided to go the direct route and invited Imam Siraj Wahaj, an unidicted co-conspirator and ally of the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, convicted in the World Trade Center Bombing. You can read the joyous announcement to their Youth Group of the Imam’s return on the MCC site.’
I’m sorry, but I have no patience for those who promulgate ‘The Protocols’ and make their hateful poison part of their message. We need to bring this kind of bigotry out into the open where we can refute it with facts!
The Day Free Speech Died In Canada – October 2, 2013
October 4, 2013 — xanthippaAn excellent post about this most sad day…
It has quotes, links and goes through the logical steps of where this ruling will lead.
‘The verdict by the jury in the “Warman vs Fournier et al” has effectively killed good, old-fashioned, political discourse and debate in cyberspace, in Canada. Even minor insults and common hyperbole of innocent nature and made-up words not in the dictionary, can now be construed as defamation.
The law lesson learned from the verdict is that defamation court actions are designed to stifle online discourse and healthy political debates that used to commonly take place around kitchen tables and then graduated to cyberspace are now less likely to happen in the blogosphere, since all owners of blogs, forums, chat rooms etc. must now become ruthless, editorial police to avoid the risk of libel suits.The law definition of libel states: “Any communication that is likely to lower that person in the estimation of reasonable people and in particular to cause that person to be regarded with feelings of hatred, contempt, ridicule, fear or dislike.”Each and every Canadian ought to now be motivated to action in a gallant effort to redeem free speech in Canada. Most likely, our elected representatives are not yet aware of the significant impact that the verdict in the Warman vs Fournier et al is having on our fragile and ever diminishing right of free speech in Canada.’
Read the full post here.
UPDATE: Another insightful analysis can be read here.
John Stossel – New Tactics Of The Police State
October 3, 2013 — xanthippaI am a huge fan of Julian Sanchez.
OpenMedia.ca: What are they up to in Bali?
October 3, 2013 — xanthippaThis is from an email from OpenMedia:
In less than a week nearly 100,000 people have signed on to our letter to Stephen Harper and other leaders telling them not to ram through an Internet censorship plan when they meet in Bali.
But now the industry lobbyists behind the Internet censorship plan are ramping up the pressure by publicly urging leaders to not “soften” amidst the public outcry.1
Can you believe that?
Once the public knows about the Internet Censorship in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), it will be almost impossible for political leaders to put this plan in place. We need to make sure Canadians know what’s at stake.
Here’s our plan to amplify your voice:
- Unleash a massive and highly targeted social media campaign to overwhelm political leaders with citizen messages that they cannot ignore. We know the media and politicians pay attention to this.
- Get the word out in communities across Canada with our powerful, easy-to-use “Letter to the Editor” tool, putting citizen voices in local newspapers, significantly amplifying your voices, and ramping up the pressure on decision makers.
With your support, we’ll be able to show Stephen Harper how unpopular this extreme Internet censorship plan is, and prove that there will be a price to pay for it at election time.
We can stop this extreme Internet censorship plan by standing together to send a clear message to our government. Your donations power our efforts to keep fighting against Internet censorship – we can’t move forward without your help now.
Together, we are going to stop the TPP’s Internet censorship from stifling Canada’s future and knocking people off the Internet.
Thank you for being a part of this,
Steve and Jason, on behalf of your OpenMedia.ca team
PS Together, there are hundreds of thousands of us; if each of us gave just $3, we’d be able to send a message that our political leaders can’t ignore.
Footnotes
[1] “US Business groups warn against compromises in Pacific Rim trade talks”. Source: Financial Times (paywall) – “Among his key concerns, Mr Donohue said, were that the US would soften its push for strong intellectual property rules…”
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Warman vs Free Dominion and John Does (the Jury Trial) – the Verdict
October 2, 2013 — xanthippaI’ll be brief.
Today is a sad, sad day for all Canadians – and a tragic one for all freedom loving people.
The jury foreperson giggled as she said: “The answer is 42!”
As in, $42,000 awarded to Mr. Warman in damages…
In addition, Mr. Warman is seeking an injunction against Free Dominion – a gag order – that would see the Fourniers thrown into jail if anyone even mentions his name on FD, no matter how quickly it would be taken down. If that happens, Free Dominion will cease to exist…
I’ll have some details later – am too upset to write more now.
UPDATE:
CodeSlinger has expressed eloquently what I feel – so, I’d like to share his comment here with you:
This is a sad day, but not a surprising one.
Being tried by “a jury of your peers” sounds right, and good and just… until you look closely at who these “peers” really are – by which I mean what values they have absorbed from their schooling and the mass media, both shaped by the cultural Marxist apparatchiks of the corporocratic state.
Especially in Canada.
Canadians, in general, have no concept of rights.
They speak of rights, but they really mean privileges.
Regarding the right to bear arms, they ask “what kind of arms should we be allowed to carry?”
Regarding the right to free speech, they say “what kind of things should we be allowed to say?”
And so on. It’s pathetic.
Canadians, in general, cannot imagine not being ruled.
To paraphrase what I wrote in another comment, cultural Marxists seek to breed independence and self-reliance out of us. They want to make us into Eloi. And their masters, the globalist Morlocks, are very pleased with their progress.
Especially in Canada.
In Canada, people like the Fourniers don’t have the option of being tried by a jury of their peers.
Eloi are not their peers.
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