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Editard Joe

~ OVER AT The London Free Press (a misnomer if there ever was one), the Editard Joe Ruscitti refused to print a recent article by Rory Leishman on everybody’s favourite religion of tantrums, and the homegrown terror-threat to Canada. Rory’s unprintable crime? Naming Islamist names.

I’m reprinting it below.

When Riscitti’s readership (including some moderate Muslims) took said Editard to task, his response was essentially “YOU’RE not the boss of ME!”  when it came to relenting. Another proud moment in Canucki journalistic integrity. Kathy Shaidle has the deets here and here.

Clearly in some circles, the lesson of Ezra & the MoToons has been mislearned– let the self-editing and liberal jitters ensue! These, of course, are the same sorts who will boldly bash conservatives, bloggers, faithful Christians and Jews– anybody who won’t cry lawsuit & fatwa  & “Islamophobia!” at the drop of a hat.

I say fire the current London Free Press hack, and take on a real journalist as Editor..someone  like Rory Leishman. ~

Binks

Rory Leishman

http://roryleishman.blogspot.com/2010/09/media-ignores-islamist-extremism.html

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Media ignores Islamist extremism

By Rory Leishman

[Note: The following column was scheduled to appear in The London Free Press on September 11, but was rejected for publication by the newspaper's Managing Editor Joe Ruscitti.]

Following the arrest of three more Canadian citizens on terrorism charges last month, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews warned: “We are not immune from international or home-grown radicalization. I have said this before: The threat is real and we cannot be complacent.”

Consider the evidence: The great majority of suspected terrorists arrested in Canada in recent years were either born and raised in Canada, or had spent most of their formative years in this country. And the same is true of all 11 of the Toronto 18 suspects who were convicted of conspiring to storm Parliament Hill and set off a series of devastating truck bombs in downtown Toronto.

That’s not all. An Environics poll conducted three years ago found that 10 per cent of a representative national sample of Canadian Muslims admitted to feeling that members of the Toronto 18 were completely or somewhat justified to plan their attacks. How can that be? How could tens of thousands of Muslims living in Canada sympathize with Islamist terrorists who were plotting the greatest mass slaughter of civilians in Canadian history?

Part of the answer can be found in some mainstream Muslim publications in Canada. For example, in July, Al Bilad, a monthly newspaper published in Arabic and English in London, Ontario, featured a poem that glorifies an Islamist homicide bomber who pleads to her mother:

“Yumma, tell my son that I did not abandon him, never!
I did it for his freedom and our peoples (sic) right to be able to live free, forever!
Yumma, tell my husband that he will always be my all,
I know he understands and he knows why I took that call.”

Following the publication of this ode to terrorism in Al Bilad, all Canadians alert to the peril of home-grown radicalization should surely boycott the newspaper. Yet the current issue includes advertisements for Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party; Irene Mathyssen, NDP MP for London–Fanshawe; Khalil Ramal, Liberal MPP for London-Fanshawe; Jim Chahbar, Conservative candidate for London–Fanshawe; and Ed Holder, Conservative MP for London-West.

Home-grown Islamist extremists are also liable to draw inspiration from groups like the Muslim Association of Canada, a fundamentalist organization with chapters in 11 Canadian cities. MAC leaders state on their national website: “MAC adopts and strives to implement Islam … as understood in its contemporary context by the late Imam, Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Banna was one of the prime advocates of violent jihad in the 20th century. In Islam`s Predicament: Perspectives of a Muslim Dissident, Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario, notes: “Banna preached a dangerous mix of religion and violence…. He is not just the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, but he is also the source of modern fundamentalist politics in the Arab-Muslim world. His teachings evolved and mutated into the politics and terrorism of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda.”

Banna has also helped to inspire the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), a terrorist organization banned in Canada. The Hamas Charter lauds Banna as “The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory” and commends his incendiary declamation: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

One might suppose that moderate and peaceful Muslim leaders would repudiate the Muslim Association of Canada as well as all other organizations inspired by Banna. Yet among the speakers in a recent series of lectures presented by the London chapter of MAC were Sheikh Jamal Taleb, Imam of the London Muslim Mosque, and Dr. Munir El-Kassem, Muslim chaplain at the University of Western Ontario and Imam for the Islamic Centre of Southwestern Ontario.

Toews is right: Home-grown radicalization is a real threat. It is confined mainly, but not entirely, within the Muslim community. Surely, Parliament should shake off its complacency and conduct urgent national hearings into how all loyal and law-abiding Canadians can best combat this serious and growing menace to our national security.

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.. Steynian 211rd, but the WordPress HTML code thingy has gone fritzy. I’ll try again later this evening.

Grr, wah, poor me,

Binks

P.S. Add to the fritz the WordPress Dashboard system plus graphics uploader in general. It’s super-slow, and not acting like normal (buttons aren’t working, or the sub-program works improperly).

Usually there’s no problem with these guys, so I trust it will be fix’t sooner than later. Just in case, I updated both Flash & Java, in case they’d kept ahead of the curve or summat. No joy. ~

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.. something should appear in the next 24-48 hours, and it will be a honkin’ big posting.

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– UPDATE –

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Brenda J. Elliott and Pundita discuss ‘The Manchurian President’

GraniteGrok: The Manchurian President – thoughts on Chapter 1

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Media Matters smears “Manchurian President.”

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