I can't believe how pathetic the MSM in Canada is...just ridiculous. The time is coming, and is already here, when people will turn away from such nonsense--thank God for the blogs...and for Damian Penny :)
Posted at 2006-05-22 08:39:35 [PermaLink]Here we go again: "Stephen Harper has a dog. You know who else had a dog? Hitler, that's who..."
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The blog Regime Change Iran is following this.
The point eveyone misses is that clothing has been talked about.
The special-clothing story has been going back and forth between "true--not true--well maybe it is true" for the past couple of days.
I guess we'll just have to wait and see whether Iran really does impose this rule on its citizens.
In which case I assume we'll have official permission to be outraged.
"And if he uses Aunt Jemima syrup (instead of the maple sort) he will be accused, not only of 'American-style sweetening', but also of racism."
Not to mention incredibly bad taste. That stuff is awful.
"Here we go again: 'Stephen Harper has a dog. You know who else had a dog? Hitler, that's who...'"
Even worse, so does Chimphitler McHalliburton!
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Better still, if he uses Aunt Jemima we can accuse him of racism. I'll bet he eats Cream of Wheat and Uncle Ben's, too.
Posted at 2006-05-22 11:02:07 [PermaLink]Dang, did you put that racism thing in the original post? Because I completely missed it. Thought I was making a new joke. Oh, well.
Posted at 2006-05-22 11:08:29 [PermaLink]The real question is, what the hell kind of a word is "remindful"?
I believe the word he was looking for was "reminiscent".
While I normally approve of Orwellian language choices (using words with English/Germanic roots rather than Latinate ones, where a choice is possible), "reminiscent" is long-established, and "remindful", while a valid constuction, is never actually used.
How odd you mention Aunt Jemima syrup, the person used on their products was a actual
female named Ethel Harper .
But i doubt our PM Harper is related to Ethel harper.
The liberal press in Canada clearly has an obsession over the evil Yanks and the even more evil Bush. Enough already - the only issue that matters is what is in Canada's interest and they only use this tactic to obscure and distort the real debate by playing on base prejudice. Thus, the real issue of the Prime Minister's security at a time of global terrorism (and Canada no doubt pissing off Islamists by being in Afghanistan) is kicked off into the long grass in favour of a smear piece on "American-style" security for the PM. Disgraceful. Maybe its not "American-style" security but rather "high-security".
Posted at 2006-05-22 14:57:56 [PermaLink]The CIC and Elmasry opined on the Iran issue, but Elmasry's rant is really another attack on Canada and Jews in canada.
The subtle Post link to the lies fits right in with the CIC's "Islamophobe" of the year award.
Note how this Egyptian Muslim focuses on the Canadian media and not the fact that Iran has already declared it wants Nuclear bombs and will wipe Israel of the face of the Earth.
* The Canadian Islamic Congress has denounced as "blatantly false and incompetent" a National Post column by London-based commentator and Iranian exile Amir Taheri that ran on Friday (May 19). In it, Taheri claimed Iran had passed laws that would soon require non-Muslims -- especially Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians -- to wear identifying colours or badges.
Based on Taheri fabrication the National Post front page story on May 19, 2006 was "IRAN EYES BADGES FOR JEWS" with a front page photo of "A Jewish couple wear yellow stars in the Budapest ghetto in 1944."
"To print this alarmist drivel by a proven dubious source represents the worst of unprofessional journalism," today's CIC statement said. "It was unprofessional, and dangerous for the National Post to lead a frenzied pack of major Western newspapers in giving space to this so-called news story, without checking any of its 'facts' at the source."
And it is even more shameful for Canada, the CIC continued, that "Prime Minister Stephen Harper would rush in to affirm that Iran is capable of enacting the ridiculous extremes that Taheri's column suggests. Harper is just as guilty as the National Post for not doing his homework."
Iranian government legislators -- including the country's only Jewish MP -- were also quick to condemn the numerous falsehoods and inaccuracies in Friday's Post article.
The Toronto Star reported on May 20 that "Repeated calls to Post editor-in- chief Doug Kelly went unreturned. The paper's website ran a story headlined "Experts say report of badges ... is untrue."
While authorities have confirmed that regulations regarding clothing styles have been approved in principle -- mainly as a deterrent to expensive and provocative Western designer apparel, as well as advertising logo wear -- many of the specifics have yet to be worked out.
The proposed new laws make no mention of religious minorities, much less of identifying them, as Hitler did in 1930s Germany. "But that didn't deter the National Post from running Taheri's column with photos of the yellow stars that the Nazis made all Jews wear," the CIC noted. In its annual reports from an ongoing monitoring project called Anti-Islam in the Media, the CIC has repeatedly found the National Post to be the worst offender in Canada for its repeated, unmitigated use of discriminatory, divisive, and stereotypical terms or epithets referring to Muslims and Islam.
"Based on its track record, we are unfortunately not surprised to see that the Post accepted this sensationalist and dangerously twisted article," the statement continued. "Regardless of subsequent stories that now show the Taheri column to be full of falsehoods, a great deal of preventable damage has been done. This is a new low for the National Post."
The CIC is demanding the Post make an official admission of factual error and apologize, particularly to Canadian Muslims, for knowingly conveying a false impression of Islamic morality and principles.
CONTACTS:
Dr. Mohamed Elmasry
(519) 746-4107 (O)
(519) 498-1350 (Cell)
E-mail: np@canadianislamiccongress.com
Mrs. Wahida Valiante
(905) 771-1023
E-mail: nvp@canadianislamiccongress.com
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Elmasry has a heluva nerve since he claimed Palestinians in Canada told him that all Israelis over 18 are valid targets for murder by suicide bombers.
Elmasry only admitted that his words were taken out of context , and the CIC kept him on as president while the UofW overlooked his incitement to murder Israelis.
I wonder when the CIC is going to charge Liberal MPs
Redman and Martin with not doing their homework? Please let us know if this done.
But when your bread is buttered...
Mark
Ottawa
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