September 05, 2010
Lawfare in Edmonton
Marc Lebuis and Étienne Harvey reply to Issam Saleh who has threatened to sue the 60% of the Edmonton area residents opposed to the opening of a Muslim Association of Canada Islamic school in Lessard/Gariepy (via Blazing Cat Fur, with more background).
Unable to refute the objections brought up by the residents, Issam Saleh, the MAC leader in Edmonton, tried to silence his critics by threatening to sue them for so-called "Islamophobia" in the Edmonton Sun [August 19, 2010].
Community cohesion
The English Defence League Extra makes some observations about community cohesion.
We have heard such warnings – such threats! – many times before
A list of warnings at the link.
From the same wellspring: Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi describes the Holocaust as a new "superstition" for the West.
'Americans and Westerners are affected by newly appeared superstitions such as the Holocaust.'
These are the business partners of Liberals. If Israel acts in self-defence against Iran, the NDP will take to the streets to defend Iran.
They will call us racists.
Lifted like a rag doll and hurled into cell
"Captured on film, a burly police sergeant flings an innocent 5ft 2in woman on to a concrete floor, knocking her unconscious. By the time the then 57-year-old market researcher Pamela Somerville comes round several minutes later, blood is streaming from a wound above her left eye."
- Bestman, Heston UK, 5/9/2010 0:20
Sadly it reflects the state of Britain which was also once the envy of the world.
- Lynda, Yorkshire girl, 05/9/2010 12:13
Five major North Korean prison camps
Large enough to see from space.
Wojciech Kilar: The Beginning (Bram Stoker's Dracula)
From the film.
September 04, 2010
Zakat for Hamas
Mahdi Bray, Executive Director of the Muslim American Society (MAS, aka the Muslim Brotherhood) Freedom Foundation and British traitor George Galloway and caught on video raising money for Hamas.
Owing more to Methodism than to Marx
Michael Coren offers a eulogy for the nanny state in England (via Five Feet of Fury).
She was correct, of course. The public debt and deficit are now so large that public services are being cut by up to 40% and sales taxes are rising, sometimes to 20%.
Funny how the Left's supposed ideological commitments to "sustainability" never extend to public spending.
Coren sees this as a forecast for Canada. I can't help but note the dhimmis in England, as in Canada, still have money to send to Pakistan. You know, priorities.
In his own words: J.R.R. Tolkien
First broadcast on March 30, 1968, a BBC2 documentary airing the views of the author J.R.R. Tolkien and Oxford's students on Tolkien's Middle-earth epics (via Steynian 421).
Video at the link.
September 03, 2010
Brewer to Obama: Warning Signs Are Not Enough
Hat tip to Jeff.
Governor Brewer remains eager to receive the specific details of President Obama's border security plans. She continues to extend an invitation to the President to visit with families living along the southwestern border and see the situation firsthand.
Britain's Secret Masters
Cambridge University educated Rehana Mohamed, strategic change management consultant at Brent Council in north London, comments on Channel 4 Dispatches programme, Britain's Secret Slaves.
'I'm sorry but being on call 24/7 and not having a day off for months and not being allowed to leave the house DOESN'T make you a slave.'
'Damn right they should get up and make what you want. That's their job.
'We never let out female servants for their own safety.'
Such are the views of the Left, the Umma and a would be resurgent aristrocracy. It is clerical fascism with imams as the new clerisy.
Public relations
Edward Bernays, the American nephew of Sigmund Freud, is said to have invented modern propaganda.
Instead of propaganda, he coined the euphemism... public relations.
Update: From slightly wobbly documentary by Adam Curtis and the BBC, "The Century of the Self".
That Mitchell and Webb Sound: Welcome to Hufflepuff
September 02, 2010
Obama is not a Muslim
Ann Coulter. This is her best in some time; a tour de force (via Five Feet of Fury).
Not being acquainted with any actual Christians, they aren't particularly good bluffers. That's why Democrats babble incoherently whenever the subject of religion comes up. Liberals acting devout always looks like the love scenes between Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis in "Top Gun": awkward and unconvincing.
Related: Their guy... your guy.
Theory and practice
As President Obama was preparing for a Washington summit with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists today carried out a shooting attack, killing two Jewish men and two women, one of whom was pregnant.
JDL Canada Candle Light Vigil
If you cannot be in NYC this September 11, consider joining a candle light vigil with JDL Canada at the American consulate in Toronto.
*JDL* Canada
Candle Light Vigil
Against the Building of the Mosque
Cordoba House at Ground Zero
September 11, 2010
9:30pm – 10:30pm
USA Consulate
360 University Avenue,
Toronto, Canada.
It is important for the Jewish Community to stand up against the spread of Political Islam. The building of a Mosque at Ground Zero is a victory for Political Islam. Now is the time to fight back for justice and truth.
Contact JDL Canada at
416-736-7000 or
www.jdl-canada.com
Candles will be handed out.
Related: The Daily Mail reports the Obama Mosque imam is a tax payer subsidized slumlord and the Obama Mosque developers are tax deadbeats.
Democrats, in other words.
Tomasz Bagiński: The Cathedral
The Cathedral is an animated pastiche of at least two pieces by the late Zdzisław Beksiński. Just gorgeous.
Krótki animowany film autorstwa Tomasza Bagińskiego i muzyką Adama Rosiaka, nominowany do Oscara w roku 2003.
HIs first short, Deszcz (Rain), is a tribute to Blade Runner with a twist. Once you have seen them, the line from this work to The Witcher is apparent. More on Tomasz Bagiński at Wikipedia.
Tina Turner: One of the Living
My vision of the near future looks something like this.
Tina Turner shall stand with us.
September 01, 2010
Brother, will you pray with me
Glenn Beck talks about the Restoring Honor rally, telling a story about Sarah Palin and a story about Alveda King and illustrating both with photos by George Lange (video at the link; link via Five Feet of Fury with an excellent suggestion for the Smithsonian ).
Watch the video and there won't be a dry eye in the house. Share this with everybody.
Related: Another image of Sarah Palin at prayer in the sidebar at Christians for Sarah Palin, this one from before a presidential debate of not so long ago but what was, nonetheless, another era.
Canadian Suspect of Indian Origin
B. Raman of the South Asian Analysis Group writes "Al Qaeda: Canadian Suspect of Indian Origin: International Terrorism Monitor--Paper No. 673".
In what is becoming an increasingly complicated network of friendships, employment and sports club memberships, this is a good introductory summary to some key relationships in the Canadian Al Qaeda terror cell story.
Raman's final summary point will stand out for those belonging to an opposing network.
"Some sources"... who could that be?
Also: The same report is reprinted as an article in the Sri Lanka Guardian. It lists the author's biographical information as follows.
Some heavyweights are paying attention. The only question is are any of them in Canada? And, if so, are they all too scared of being sued to - and I choose my words carefully - stick their necks out?
This is not a game
Another socialist paradise is on its way to becoming judenfrei.
Yet the Left persists in the lie the National Socialists were a right-wing political movement.
“Ten years ago we had about 18,000 members,” said Salomon Cohen. “Now we have about 9,500.”
Chinese Guy WRESTLES WOMAN!
This moment of comic relief includes NSFW language/thought-crime unless you work for the Cananadian Human Rights Commission, in which case your role as Platonic Guardian of virtue is your aegis.
The new outro is classic.
Also classic: Peter Chao explains everything you need to learn about multiculturalism.
NSFW due to language and "human rights" commissions.
Hurts: Wonderful Life
The '80s will live in our hearts so long as we keep the flame of the '80s alive (hat tip to Jeff).
They are Kylie fans!
Update: The original DIY video. Jeff elaborates in the comments.
August 31, 2010
Introducing Omar Kalair and Derek Scheinman
"I'm a firm believer in allowing people to practice their customs, as long as it's not harmful or affecting anybody else's life." - Derek Scheinman
On April 9, 2007, the Toronto Star's Judy Steed introduced us to a new partnership between Omar Kalair (founder of UM Financial) and Derek Scheinman (president of New Horizon Mortgages Investment Corp.). It was a uniquely Canadian feel good story about two men reaching out from across a religious and historical divide, and one of nine chosen examples for the Star's four month Build A Business Challenge.
When [Scheinman's] great-great grandparents came to Canada, "they came for the same reasons people are coming today: for the opportunities. They want to do things differently; they've left the problems behind. They enjoy being free. They want to live in peace and harmony."
Kalair and Scheinman came together after the Star ran a story about UM Financial. Kalair had secured $150 million (the Star's figure at the time of publication, UM Financial cites $120 million) from Credit Union Central of Ontario to back his sharia compliant mortgage business, but had "little luck with the major banks." While Scheinman was born to "non-religious" Jewish parents, he could understand that under Sharia ("way" or "path", the sacred law of Islam) Muslims are not allowed to pay or earn interest.
When the two men met, Scheinman wasn't put off by Kalair's obvious adherence to Muslim traditions. (Kalair has a beard and wears the long tunic and kufi – cap – of traditional Muslim men.)
Kalair and Scheinman worked together to finance the purchase of a larger school building for the "Mur-ul-Huda Academy" (I believe the Star has misspelled Nur-al-Huda Academy, but then I don't enjoy their multiple layers of editing and fact checking so what do I know). The $2 million dollar deal was the largest UM Financial had handled.
Scheinman talked to his shareholders. "We've made the commitment and we're ready to go ahead," he says. "The deal fits our investors' needs and it's structured so that it's `kosher' for Muslims."
Also kosher for Muslims?
Thanks to UM Financial.
Told that he sounds like a natural politician, Scheinman admits he's "thinking about running, eventually, as a Liberal, should my business continue to grow."
Related: The Toronto Star explains how the iFreedom MasterCard works.
Because that's reporting the news.
Also related: A word on Islamic finance from UM Financial. With props to Mufti Taqi Usmani.
A word on Islamic finance from UM Financial
The following excerpt from An Introduction to Islamic Finance by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani is borrowed from Islamic Finance page of UM Financial, thanks to whom Canadians have access to the iFreedom Plus MasterCard.
You may be forgiven for thinking I have excerpted it from a speech by Tommy Douglas, pace a couple changes in terminology here or there.
Islam does not deny the market forces and market economy. Even the profit motive is acceptable to a reasonable extent. Private ownership is not totally negated. Yet, the basic difference between capitalist and Islamic economy is that in secular capitalism, the profit motive or private ownership are given unbridled power to make economic decisions. Their liberty is not controlled by any divine injunctions. If there are some restrictions, they are imposed by human beings and are always subject to change through democratic legislation, which accepts no authority of any super-human power. This attitude has allowed a number of practices which cause imbalances in the society. Interest, gambling, speculative transactions tend to concentrate wealth in the hands of the few. Unhealthy human instincts are exploited to make money through immoral and injurious products. Unbridled profit making creates monopolies which paralyse the market forces or, at least, hinder their natural operation. Thus the capitalist economy which claims to be based on market forces, practically stops the natural process of supply and demand, because these forces can properly work only in an atmosphere of free competition, and not in monopolies. It is sometimes appreciated in a secular capitalist economy that a certain economic activity is not in the interest of the society, yet, it is allowed to be continued because it goes against the interest of some influential circles who dominate the legislature on the strength of their majority. Since every authority beyond the democratic rule is totally denied and 'trust in God' (which is affirmed at the face of every U.S. dollar) has been practically expelled from the socio-economic domain, no divine guidance is recognized to control the economic activities.
The evils emanating from this attitude can never be curbed unless humanity submits to the divine authority and obeys its commands by accepting them as absolute truth and super-human injunctions which should be followed in any case and at any price. This is exactly what Islam does. After recognizing private ownership, profit motive and market forces, Islam has put certain divine restrictions on the economic activities. These restrictions being imposed by Allah Almighty, Whose knowledge has no limits, cannot be removed by any human authority. The prohibition of riba (usury or interest), gambling, hoarding, dealing in unlawful goods or services, short sales and speculative transactions are some examples of these divine restrictions. All these prohibitions combined together have a cumulative effect of maintaining balance, distributive justice and equality of opportunities.
Would you like to learn more? UM Financial links the whole book in pdf form.
UM Realty loves its Mufti Taqi Usmani, they cite him on the meaning of Musharkah ("sharing") and Diminishing Musharkah (another form of Musharkah). In fact, the same page links the following pdf file of The Text of the Historic Judgment on Interest; Given by the Supreme Court of Pakistan including a section written by Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani.
Because this is exactly the guidance you need for securing a mortgage in Canada.
For all your 'ilm needs: In case anyone running things around here should happen to take an interest, Wikipedia lists Muhammad Taqi Usmani as a "key figure" in the Deobandi movement.
The Times piece quotes Taqi Usmani as saying followers "must live in peace until strong enough to wage jihad".
Justice Muhammad Taqi Usmani argues that Muslims should live peacefully in countries such as Britain, where they have the freedom to practise Islam, only until they gain enough power to engage in battle.
His views explode the myth that the creed of offensive, expansionist jihad represents a distortion of traditional Islamic thinking.
He denies the last statement though I can't for the life of me imagine why. If we had some journalists in Canada, they could maybe follow up with him or something. You know, just asking questions. That sort of thing.
Or ask what his Canadian adherents think of Ahmadi Muslims, or the rights of women, or the real meaning of jihad. Or how any of these things influence their notions of fund raising for charitable projects in Pakistan. You know, just off the top of my head here.
Related: In case anyone reading this does business with the Credit Union Central of Ontario and is curious about where their money is going.
A report from CSIS
Another post stolen from Vlad Tepes!
Somebody get Michael Ignatieff on the line; with a brain his big*, perhaps he can make the connections eluding the rest of us.
* That's a perfectly cromulent grammatical construction, thank you.
Sharia delenda est
Tundra Tabloids at Vlad Tepes cites the Koran by way of introducing "the other side of Afghanistan that most in the MSM refuse to address, because it invokes, outrage against and disgust for, the Ideology of Perpetual Outrage (IPO)."
What Christianity considers good, Islam considers evil. What Islam considers good, Christianity considers evil. This isn't a statement of value, it is an observation of fact. Only a degenerate liberal "Christianity" is so blinkered by self-satisfaction it is incapable of recognizing a clearly expressed disagreement.
To a devout Pashtun Muslim, this is Paradise:
Round about them will serve, to them, boys (handsome) as pearls well-guarded.
Koran 56:17
Round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness.
Koran 76:19
And round about them will serve boys of perpetual freshness: if thou seest them, thou wouldst think them scattered pearls.
You cannot defend our civilization by expending blood and treasure in an effort defend an alien barbarism. Either we relearn this lesson to our cost or we are decadent and shall be destroyed.
Same crime, different address: The Italian police are calling it a crime of passion. It is quite obviously a cime of "honour".
We have developed the same disregard for the integrity of our borders and our values as did ancient Rome. That cliff up ahead is called "history" (via Gates of Vienna).
Obama doth protest too much
The Mayor of Mitchieville makes a point so obvious nobody else has made it.
When "President" Obama was asked why so many people were uncertain about his faith*, Obama said:
This is a response but it isn't an answer. As the Mayor put it:
Like Trudeau and Clinton before him, Obama is only a master of prevarication because the press are too lazy, stupid or complicit to press him to a straight answer. And like Trudeau and Clinton before him, Obama seems to make it a point of principle - or of a concern for liability masquerading as principle - to avoid telling flat out lies. It is a narcissist's dodge, part of an ongoing demonstration to himself of his superiority and ability to manipulate.
It is something he learned in childhood; a defense mechanism.
* Whereas there is no doubt in my mind about Obama's faith.
Treason and plot
In a more civilized time, David Cameron would be sent to the Tower.
So much for the Royal Navy. As with Church and Empire, a project of centuries fathered by Henry VIII will be put to sleep under Charles III.
Any such move will be seen as an attempt to cut costs while maintaining military strength.
It would mean British and French ships working together to protect the interests of both countries, allowing Britain to stop work on two replacement carriers, which are already under construction at a cost of £5.2bn.
A break in the clouds
Talks are underway for a quarter of the wings for the F-35 production run, wings for 800 aircraft, to be built in Israel.
I would quote the article but I gather al Reuters has a problem with fair use (if not with Photoshop).
I shall quote Popular Science instead. Am I missing something? A flying Jeep would have tested my suspension of disbelief as a twelve year old.
Regrettably, there is generation of men - about five to fifteen years younger than me - whose brains deactivate when they hear the word "Transformer". As these men are in mid-career roles, it will be interesting to see how far they can push this absurdity along the procurement chain.
