The Canadian government announced last week that it will match, dollar for dollar aid for flood victims in Pakistan.
The Mayor is wondering – is this the same Pakistan where 10 missionaries were murdered a few week’s ago simply because they were Christians?
Just curious.
In an interview with cheerleading pump-monkey Brian William’s of NBC yesterday, Barack Obama attempted to answer the question, “is ya a Moslem, or not?”
Williams, sitting under a tent in a rain-soaked New Orleans, where the First Family commemorated the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, asked Obama why so many people were uncertain about something so fundamental as his faith.
“I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead,” quipped Obama, who took a deep breath to gather his thoughts when asked if the poll reflected his inability to communicate with voters.
I think the key to beating your wife, as explained in the short video, is to not beat them like you would an animal OR a child. Because that would be wrong.
**Peace be to Ol Remus
The Somalis are no longer setting up camp in Canada. One of their humanitarian efforts was silently squished this weekend:
Canada will list al Shabaab — a Somali-based Islamist militant group which recently pledged allegiance to al-Qaida — as a “terrorist group” to prevent it from operating or seeking funds, the Canadian government said Sunday.
This is on the heels of the British government banning the group as well. The group has been disrupting UN aid in Somalia, and is effectively at war with the Somali government, having committed acts of suicide bombings in recent years. This is likely an import of some of their Middle Eastern cohorts, who have been increasing their presence on the continent. There are also indications of North American young men recruited into the fight, with a recruiting ring in Minnesota recently disrupted. (The al Shabaab group is linked in the story.) How shrewd are the al Shabaabs? They declared gold and silver fillings “un-Islamic” last summer in one Somali village and patrolled to grapple them from peoples’ mouths. Anyone glad that their “fundraising” efforts were curbed in Canada now?
Meanwhile, Nigerian politics rears its ugly head once again. An estimated 500 were killed in what is usually called “sectarian” violence, but what they really mean is religious war:
Witnesses said gangs armed with guns and machetes rampaged through three mostly Christian villages, firing shots to draw people from their homes and then running them down and killing them.
Yemi Kosoko, a reporter with the independent Nigerian news network Channels, told The Associated Press most of the bodies appeared to be women and children killed by blows from machetes.
The official count is in the dozens, but then the initial Haiti earthquake death tolls were also incredibly small as well.
The late 1960s sparked a radicalization of Islamism which spread to almost all parts of the world. (Imagine how many young black men see reverent pictures of Malcolm X in America, and which of either “black empowerment” or “Muslim domination” seem more realistic to them.) One of the results of this political and religious Frankenstein was the short-lived creation of the nation of Biafra, a Christian-dominated state that would have insulated from attacks of the Muslim north. After a protracted war over almost three years, Biafra was captured and one million Nigerians were dead.
Africa will eventually Muslim-dominated based on average population growth worldwide, with Muslims outpacing Christian-dominated countries by nearly 50%. They also have the appearance of strength, which causes people to convert at nearly twice the rate as to Christianity. But does the poverty factor into this more than Muslim domination?
Let’s look at the Human Development Index (HDI), the most reliable means we have of determining stability, economic development, and overall well-being of the population. Even the Muslim-dominated countries of the world such as Saudi Arabia and Algeria have high HDIs, but Muslim-dominated Niger has the worst recorded. (Somalia is recorded as “no data” much like everything else in their nation.) Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region in the world where HDI has stagnated since 1975.
This might also exacerbate the problem. The greatest area of conflicts in Africa are not where Muslim majorities exist, but where there is that transitory, near 50/50 mix of the two populations. There have also been extreme cases of HIV/AIDS in the southern Christian nations, where many of those countries did not have such a strong view of sexual matters, and as a result have elevated HIV rates. Botswana has nearly a third of all adults infected, South Africa nearly a quarter, and Zimbabwe nearly 15%. Compare that to Libya at 0.3%, Algeria at 0.1%, and Tunisisa at less than 0.1%. HIV will be a natural decimator of the population of these countries as it is.
Between the lifestyle choices that save lives, the military dominance, and the increased proselytizing, Africa will become almost entirely Muslim-dominated over the next century. If your idea of an Islamic nuisance is the little fundraisers held here now and then, it’s about to affect how Canadians live their lives much more in the distant future.
The prophecies of the Wall Street Journal, January 5th:
So while body scan machines can detect medical devices placed beneath the skin’s surface, the reviewing security agent won’t bat an eyelash given the prevalence of breast implants in Western societies. And unless he has a degree in radiology, he is unlikely to distinguish between saline, silicone or PETN-filled ones.
WorldNetDaily (and several other sources), today:
Women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida are known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up.
This has also been reported in the Daily Mail.Apparently unsatisfied with the concept of exploding underwear, such as the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in December, now these British-trained doctors are going to recruit the less generously proportioned for the purposes of puncturing their breasts to cause a massive explosion. Remember when Richard Reid (or Abdul Raheem or Tariq Raja or whatever he needs to be called lately) tried to blow up his shoe, and now we all have to get our shoes checked? Just what will happen to airline security when the first boobie bomber goes off?
They should be easy to recruit, too. Apparently those women getting breast implants have been found to be suicidal as it is:
In each of the Danish, Swedish, Finnish, American, and Canadian studies, appx. 0.4% of breast implant patients killed themselves, representing a two to threefold higher risk than the general population. In some studies, the risk of suicide was increased to 1.5 times for any type of plastic surgery. Getting implants over 40 may also be a risk for suicide.
It’s a dangerous combination–women who get the implants full of explosives will surely be more likley to commit the act this way.
This also brings up the spectre of the hospitals in certain Western countries used as recruiting and training for terrorist purposes. This was heartily dismissed even after arrests in July of 2003 of several NHS workers who were alleged to be in on the plots to blow up airports in London and Glasgow. There have also been incidents of many doctors doing fundraising for HAMAS and other terror groups. There is also a large contingent of doctors in Great Britain that are looking to boycott the Israel Medical Association.
If you’re wondering how effective it will be searching for breast implants that might explode, just remember that they allowed the Underwear Bomber in as well. The hiding places will just get trickier, until airport security wisens up and starts to look for other factors that might determine who wants to blow up the plane.
Ever since Nidal Hasan went on his shooting spree last week, all of the focus has been on what a rather forgiving chap he was. Just ask ABC News. CBS News refers to government playing the “blame game.”
Little of the focus is being put on his influence for conversion, one Anwar Aulaqi, the imam who has already been linked with two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Hazmi and Khalid Midhar. He acted as a spiritual adviser to Hasan through the Internet, delivering online sermons describing the need for jihad against the West. How bad were they? The Washington Post deigned to call them “controversial“:
On Dec. 23, 2008, days after he said Hasan first e-mailed him, Aulaqi also posted online words encouraging attacks on U.S. soldiers, writing: “The bullets of the fighters of Afghanistan and Iraq are a reflection of the feelings of the Muslims towards America,” according to the NEFA Foundation, a private South Carolina group that monitors extremist Web sites.
I would say that that kind of encouragement was a little more than controversial. I checked out what the NEFA had to report on Aulaqi, and apparently the plan went off without a hitch:
“Nidal opened fire on soldiers who were on their way to be deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. How can there be any dispute about the virtue of what he has done? In fact the only way a Muslim could Islamically justify serving as a soldier in the US army is if his intention is to follow the footsteps of men like Nidal.”
Who knows how many more Muslim soldiers are corresponding with Aulaqi today? This chap has had a pretty illustrious career, rubbing elbows with the upper crust of the Islamic world. This includes:
– an associate of Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, mastermind of the original bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993;
– Ziyad Khaleel, a “procurement agent” for Osama bin Laden;
– Sheikh Abdul Majeed Zindani, a Yemeni imam designated a terrorist in 2004;
– suicide bombers in Yemen in 2006, attempting to blow up oil and gas installations and likely influence Yemeni elections;
– Ali Timimi, charged with recruiting young Muslims to wage war against the United States.
Even though Aulaqi is concluded to be linked to Al Qaeda by the FBI, he still is not being sought for extradition from Yemen and is not on any most wanted list. He is also not simply denouncing US policies as anti-Muslim, as the Associated Press asserts; he actively corresponded with Maj. Nidal Hasan and convinced him to open fire on his fellow US soldiers. He was chauffeured around in a limousine in Washington DC while looking for new terrorism recruits, a true testament to the contemptible ego the limo had to carry.
The path of political surrender falls onto the US Justice Department, who were watching Hasan for over a year before he went on his shooting spree. One of the red flag e-mails was received from imam Aulaqi, which the FBI said was for the purpose of doing research:
Those messages were intercepted by a Joint Terrorism Task Force during an unrelated investigation and later referred to FBI and Army investigators in Washington, officials said.
But no alarm bells went off because the communications were consistent with Hasan’s research into how US combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan affect civilians, officials insisted. The e-mails never made explicit threats or discussed plots, they added.
(my bold)
The contact with a man who was a known terrorist should have been enough for a dismissal. This would not have prevented him access to guns, but it would have at least kept Hasan away from a military post. Aulaqi’s sermons have been banned from Britain. He has also been declared a known terrorist under UN 1267. He was also believed to be a procurement agent for Osama bin Laden himself. Why would this not have alarmed the FBI if they were so intently investigating Hasan?
If Hasan was to have “acted alone” as so many obsequious members of the antique media assume, he would have had to have completely forgotten all about the sermons that Aulaqi delivered to him in Virginia as he prayed alongside some of the 9/11 hijackers. Ignoring the issue of Islam is not just ignoring news but falsifying it to suit your own worldview. Shouts of “allahu akbar” don’t suggest a depression, and correspondence with a known terrorist, one Hasan knew for over eight years, does not suggest research. Aulaqi should be a big a part of this story as Hasan, and the media are being obediently silent on his complicity in the shootings.
Watch the Idiot in Chief here. Who can possibly forget the bombing of Pearl Harbour, where Roosevelt gave a shout out to the caterer before the whole “day in infamy” stuff? You have to be completely awestruck at the absolute classlessness and insensitivity this man exhibits. I’m sure the Department of the Interior throws a lovely party, but you really have a bigger issue at hand.
The issue is as of now eleven dead and 31 injured US people at Fort Hood, a US Army base in Texas between Waco and Austin. The suspected gunman is Major Nadil Malik Hasan, who was shot on the scene but taken into custody in stable condition. Two other men were arrested and held for questioning. It’s not clear at this time whether they were directly involved.
What is starting to become clear is the motive on the part of Hasan. Shepherd Smith interviewed Col. Terry Lee, a gentleman who worked closely with Maj. Hasan and who asserts that the major was “happy” about a previous shooting and that he thought that Muslims should rise up against the aggressors. The incident appears to be the one in June at an army and navy recruiting centre in Little Rock, Arkansas.
What did that incident and the one today have in common? The shooters in each case were Muslim converts.
Maj. Hasan was also a little upset about his upcoming deployment to Iraq. (My guess is seeing the handiwork of his Muslim brethren would have been a little too much shame to bear.) Probably the most telling quote came from Lt. Col. Chris Carver:
[Carver], Army spokesman at the Pentagon, said he didn’t know what the motive was for the shooting.
Apparently the colonel has not been in communique with some of his fellow public servants:
Federal law enforcement officials told the AP that Hasan had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.
The officials say the postings appeared to have been made by Hasan, but are still trying to confirm that he was the author. They say an official investigation was not opened.
So, what did the colonel know and when did he know it? For that matter, why was he not told that one of his own was being investigated by agents as a possible security risk?
Several attempts by Muslims have been perpetrated within the United States against military servicemen and servicewomen. The attempt on the military personnel working at Fort Dix in New Jersey illustrated the Internet used as a recruiting tool. The attempt on a South Carolina base by Ahmed Mohamed and Yousef Megahed, stopped by a South Carolina smokie with a car full of pipe bombs, shows the middle class, university-educated types that wish to quickly shift into militant mode. All that the United States had provided for them with a top-notch education and safe and stable country were of little value to them.
For those who think that this will lead to “McCarthyite” tactics, I say good. It’s becoming apparent that the most radical elements of Islam are infiltrating the military and using it either for a seditious recruiting tool or a training depot. (John Allan Muhammad, the DC/Virginia sniper, was a veteran, too.) It might serve the nation’s interest to do a serious inquiry into the loyalties of some of its soldiers, lest the number of domestic attacks by its own soldiers on its own soldiers increases.
An *ultra-conservative cleric* in Saudi Arabia (as opposed to the slightly less ultra-conservative clerics of Saudi Arabia), has called on all women of the country to wear full veil that reveals only one eye. As you would expect, his reasoning is based on logic, sound judgment, and plain ole common sense:
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
But you know the way these harlots are nowadays, they’ll just end up using double the amount of make-up on one eye.
Sometimes I think having women wear a veil that covers up everything but one eye is a great idea, but I’m on a dart team and I’ll do anything for an unfair advantage.
I suppose some of you might be thinking that the cleric is completely out of line, that this is oppression at its worse. I, on the other hand, think that a proposal like this is a great idea. Especially if you’re trying to save a bundle on eyewear. Let’s face it, the Global Economic Crisis™ is affecting us all – Christian, Moslem, Jew and/or other. If the cleric was truly forward-thinking, he’d figure out a way to bash out the teeth of all his fellow countrywomen. That would save a whack of cash on toothpaste, and would discourage women from ever contemplating smiling behind the niqab. Cuz you know they want to smile, and yet there’s no bloody reason for them to – unless they’re up to something sinister. And I think there’s one thing we can all agree on: A happy woman is a dangerous woman.
Yiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiyiy!
Do you remember a few months ago when the international community came together as one voice to pressure the Afghanistan gov’t to drop new laws that had restrictions on women in Shiite Muslim families? Today is a new day…
Shiite men in Afghanistan now have the legal right to starve their wives if their sexual demands are not met and that Shiite women must obtain permission from their husbands to even leave their houses, “except in extreme circumstances.”
The new law was signed by President Hamid Karzai, who is depending on support from Sheik Muhammad Asif Mohseni, the country’s most powerful Shiite cleric, in this week’s presidential election.
Just so I get this straight: Our soldiers are over in Afghanistan, dying by the droves, to protect Afghans from Al Queda, a radical Islamic group who, if were in power would change the laws to allow women to be starved to death if they didn’t give their husbands sex, and, women wouldn’t be allowed to leave their houses if they didn’t get permission from their husbands first.
Hmmmmm.
And what do our western Women’s Rights groups have to say about this?
Cricket…
A few months ago Obama called the laws that restricted women, “Abhorrent”, surely he’ll have something to say about this:
Cricket…
What about Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Canada has lost 127 soldiers so far, Harper will have something to say about this:
Cricket….
And that, my friends, is the sweet smell of Islamic Democracy. Actually, it’s more of a stink than a smell, isn’t it? Well, at least we’re supporting Karzai, and at least he isn’t a *radical Moslem* hellbent on issuing restrictive, insane, and archaic laws designed to belittle and crush its female inhabitants.
We’re now faced with what has been called another “honour killing” in this country at the hands of the victims’ own parents, and apparently a dissemblance about how many wives the father had.
The deaths of Zainab, Sahab, and Geeti Shafi, and their “aunt” Rona Mohammed, were never treated as an accident by police, but this was the postulated theory by father Mohammed Shafi and mother Tooba Mohammed Yaha. Even an aunt of the family, Zarmina Fazel, was questioning who would go for a drive at midnight and do so around a virtual maze of obstacles to practice her driving.
It should have been a large tip-off that the parents were willing to blame the daughter, Zainab, for the accident. No parent who had lost their daughter would be placing blame with such frivolity as these two were.
Meanwhile, a lot has been revealed about the family since the investigation has gone on, including the nature of the family itself:
Kingston police confirmed on Thursday that Rona Amir Mohammad was Mohammad Shafia’s first wife, and that he was also married to Ms. Yahya. A relative who sent an anonymous e-mail to the Montreal Gazette alleged that Mr. Shafia was “disgraced” by his daughters’ behaviour in Canada, and that he wanted his first wife to return to Canada while hiding the fact they were married. The author of the e-mail said Mr. Shafia married Ms. Yahya as his second wife, because Ms. Mohammad could not have children.
Nothing about the autopsies performed on the victims since the beginning of the month has been released yet. The two parents, and their son Hamed, are all under arrest and charged with murder as well as conspiracy to commit murder. The family that slays together stays together, but as long as there are enough children to go around.
How is it that Shafia was able to sneak in a second wife in the first place? Apparently the act of polygamy was legal in Afghanistan, where they are originally from, but also legal in the United Arab Emirates, where they lived fifteen years prior to moving to Canada. I have a doubt that it was Canada’s decadent lifestyle that had corrupted his children in such a short amount of time, unless maybe they were being forced to read Heather Has Two Mommies in school and it didn’t quite mean what Mr. Shafia had intended.
I’d like to congratulate the Kingston Police for having such a sensitive chief:
“Some of us have different core beliefs, different family values, different sets of rules; certainly these individuals, in particular the three teenagers, were Canadian teenagers who have all the freedom and rights of expression of all Canadians,” Kingston police Chief Stephen Tanner said at a press conference on Thursday. “Whether that was a part of a motive within the family – based on one of the girls’ or more of the girls’ behaviour – is open to a little bit of speculation, but combined with other investigative issues as well.”
Confusing a statement to the press with a chance to make a happy-time speech, the man on the job for eight months has already belittled his own police force. Open to a little bit of speculation? No, it’s your job to figure out what the motive was, or you have no case. The relatives seem pretty sure that it’s an honour killing, as many of them have come forward and stated that the father was threatening the daughter for having a romantic relationship with a boy from Pakistan. The woman, Diba Masoomi, is supposedly the sister of Rona Mohammed and is convinced that this was a multiple honour killing.
Bear in mind, too, that the sons were either conspiring to commit murder against their own sisters, like Hamid, or were willing to lie about his father’s polygamy, like another son Ali, who told the Kingston Whig-Standardthat Rona Mohammed was an “aunt.” I might be willing to entertain that the father was simply lying to the younger children about his relationship to Mohammed, but it’s unlikely that he can keep that up for so many years.
It’s also extremely unlikely that the daughters were enjoying all of the freedoms and rights that Chief Tanner decided he has the power to bestow upon them. Maybe we all have different rules for families and so on, but we all live under one set of laws in this country. Law enforcement in this country failed miserably by sanctioning the import of polygamy, and even ignoring it in Bountiful is just as bad. Ignoring our laws wrapped up in the false guise of religious practice makes for a two-tiered justice system. It’s further letting down these women by flippantly ignoring motives for the crime. Make a serious charge, Chief Tanner, or vacate that seat so a real man can occupy it.
Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, came out against the hijab, though probably in a way I could not have imagined:
The question we Muslims have to ask is this: What do we gain by using our daughters, sisters and wives to carry the false burden of the hijab as if it were the flag of Islam?
This was the thrust of my article written yesterday, where Marwa al-Sherbini was being hailed as a “martyr” for being killed as a result of her court case surrounding her supposed harassment. This court case has been twisted horrendously already for political and religious purposes, but Mr. Fatah makes a rether spurious leap:
Now is the time for these two groups to stand up and be counted. The racists and the Islamists have to be challenged. Otherwise, more Marwa Sherbinis and Neda Agha-Soltans will die.
My guess is the death of Ms. al-Sherbini was due to Germany’s draconian speech laws. Take a look at the speech code for Germany (found at the Wikipedia page):
In Germany Volksverhetzung (“Sedition”) is a punishable offense under Section 130 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Germany’s criminal code) and can lead to up to five years imprisonment. Section 130 makes it a crime to publicly incite hatred against parts of the population or to call for violent or arbitrary measures against them or to insult, maliciously slur or defame them in a manner violating their (constitutionally protected) human dignity. Thus for instance it is illegal to publicly call certain ethnic groups “maggots” or “freeloaders”. Volksverhetzung is punishable in Germany even if committed abroad and even if committed by non-German citizens, if only the incitement of hatred takes effect within German territory, e.g. the seditious sentiment was expressed in German writ or speech and made accessible in Germany (German criminal code’s Principle of Ubiquity, Section 9 §1 Alt. 3 and 4 of the Strafgesetzbuch).
This might also fall under calling someone a “terrorist”, which Alex W., the suspect in the case brought by the state against him, was believed to have done. While taking a headscarf off of someone might call for an assault charge, in either Canada or the US you cannot be charged with anything for calling certain groups “freeloaders.” My guess is that Alex W. was so enraged that Germany had such laws that it drove him to want to kill Ms. al-Sherbini in court.
However, I would not go so far as to suggest that Ms. al-Sherbini was an equal partner in the crime. Mr. Fatah also states:
I have been to Europe six times in the last year and I can see the rise of racism against visible Muslims that parallels a suicidal effort by jihadis to flaunt their contempt for Western civilization and its values. Things are getting worse because two other segments of society that can help cool the situation are either silent or paralyzed by political correctness.
Mr. Fatah insists that most of the secular Muslims in Europe do not support such anti-Western values. However, may polls coming out suggest that the younger components of Muslims living in the United Kingdom might be becoming more radicalized, with the youth appearing more likely to weave together political and religious beliefs. Surely a secularist such as Mr. Fatah recognizes that trend is coming, with the increasing reflection of the same going on in most of the Middle East.
The National Post has decided to make Fatah a cause celebre and profile him (in the good way):
We disagree with Mr. Fatah about many things — his socialist politics, for instance, and his strenuous criticism of Israeli policies. But he is doing a fine job holding radical Islamists and terror-apologists accountable for their unCanadian views. And for this, Canadians owe him their thanks.
I think what Fatah might be inadvertently doing is what he accuses many on the left in Candad of doing–dismissing those more prone to “activism” as coachable. Here he points out how many of the atheist left might be being used as puppets by a more jihadi-minded Islamist agenda:
In so doing, he says the left may be falling into the same trap that the right once did – allying with Muslim fundamentalists to satisfy short-term goals, without enough attention paid to what those people believe.
“Toronto’s downtown war-withdrawers, Trotskyites march with the very people who would hang them,” he says, pointing out that many on the left are atheists.
Right, but your condemnation of Ms. al-Sherbini was the opposite side of this coin–instead of the immigrant Alex W. coming out and exposing the encroaching loss of freedom manifested for her, she instead had to be a victim of it when Alex figured he would make an example of her. It’s wrong to make her a “martyr of the headscarf”, but she can’t also be used as a martyr of the speech code, either. Our Western values cannot be galvanized in that manner, nor should they be.
It’s not that I am critical of Mr. Fatah, as I think he could be a great role player in maintaining a secularized West. He’s been instrumental in pointing out the radical statements of one of the Canadian Arab Federation’s former members. (A side note: Omar Shaban, poster of the accusation that Canada was a “genocidal state”, was educated in Lebanon and the University of British Columbia. It’s debatable which place made him more radicalized.) That’s not what the CAF understands–the younger factions are much more likely to be radicalized. It’s a worldwide phenomenon, and simply stating “that’s not what we think” will be irrelevant as more young Muslims grow up with the political and religious entwining as their mindset. Mr. Mohamed Boudjenane, the member of the CAF who calls it a “stupid faux pas”, belongs to an organization that supports Hezbollah, HAMAS, accused the Israelis of practicing “apartheid”,
So at least Mr. Fatah gets it, and he’s far more eager to defend Canada than many of his fellow Muslims living here and earning a living off of the backs of the genocidal maniac Canadians living here. (Except for the CAF, who lost their funding recently. Guess you should watch who you call a “professional whore.”)
A lot of Marwa al-Sherbinis and Neda Agha-Soltans have had to die already, and not just in Germany. It is people like Omar Shaban that have to go back to centuries ago to find fault with Canada when his real outrage should be spared for what is happening in places like Lebanon today. He’s also perfectly welcome to stay in a country he decided to summarily dismiss as “genocidal” even though we have laws against genocide. We need people like Fatah to expose these lurkers wherever they are.
Mr. Fatah did a disservice to Ms. al-Sherbini by obfuscating why she died. A fundamentalist religious doctrine has to be exposed, but it will not face the serious criticism it deserves if a statist mentality of censorship and fear is allowed to subvert of that same right to criticize.
What’s the fastest way to get your name splashed across the Canwest News Service? Accuse Canada of being a racist hole, naturally!
Splashed across the papers today is this scathing indictment of hiring practices in Toronto. Apparently the employers of Toronto are showing a bias based on names:
University of B.C. Associate Prof. Philip Oreopoulos said yesterday his study shows that employers are “discriminating” against people with non-English names.
“The findings suggest that a distinct foreign-sounding name may be a significant disadvantage in the job market,” he said. “I did not expect to see this kind of discrimination. It’s against the law.”
