Letter to the Star - August 31st

The conclusion of York University's Panel on Racism is that the students need more social space. It is good that the problem will so quickly be solved as it is expected that some hundreds or perhaps thousands of Jewish students will no longer attend that university.

Ignatieff's great grandfather's solution to the pogroms against Jews in Russia was that the Jews should leave Russia. They did, and it helped the Jews, including my grandfather, but not the Russians. I expect that the result for York and its students will be similar - a good education for Jewish students at other universities and a morally and financially impoverished York University.

Letter to the Globe and Mail - Aug 31st

As Canada is now "Hotel Canada" and as it seems that many of those that ask Canada for help have terrorist connections, it is too easy to say that Canada should protect all Canadians living or travelling abroad. Yes, Suuag Mohammud should have been helped. However if so many of her former countrymen hadn't illegally tried to enter Canada, the reactions of our consulate would undoubtedly have been different. Should we have helped the ungrateful Lebanese Canadians who have since returned to their true homes in Lebanon? Should we help Khadr who will likely end up being a terrorist? Should we help anyone who has terrorist connections? Our first obligation is to ourselves, not to Canadians who are likely only Canadians of convenience or whose object is to one way or the other bring conflict to Canada.

There is a new situation in Canada calling for a new policy on immigration and defending our citizens who travel abroad.

Letter sent to the Toronto Star - Monday Aug 31st

Obama's Middle East Policy

Since Obama has suggested that Israel take down its flag over its most holy site, the Western Wall, and since he has suggested that Eastern Jerusalem should be Jew-free, and since he has said he will do nothing to stop Iran fron getting nuclear weapons that can destroy Israel, it is not surprising that Israelis no longer trust him. Obama's plan to solve the Palestinian/Israeli situation is irrational as it is based on three false presumptions - 1. That the conflict is over land. It isn't, it is over the desire of the Palestinians to destroy Israel. 2. That Gaza and the West Bank can form a vialble country. They can't as they themselves are in conflict and neither is self sufficient. 3. That a new Palestinian country would not become an Islamic terrorist state. This is most likely what it would become.

Obama is basing his plans on false Palestinian propaganda, not on the real situation on the ground. It is therefore bound to fail, with the big losers being Israel and the West

Letter to the National Post Aug 27th

Re: Father Ramond J. De Souza

Raymond De Souza’s arguments on why priests don’t marry, simply makes me sad for the Catholic priesthood. He assumes that because Jesus didn’t marry, priests shouldn’t either because they represent Christ. But surely whether Jesus married or not, which is now questionable, married priests could still properly represent Him. What a shame if for 2000 years priests didn’t marry on a false assumption that Jesus didn’t marry. De Souza then says that priests are following the apostles who either were single or left their wives to spread the word. Nowadays however it is not necessary to leave your wife or remain single to dedicate your life to Jesus or God. Leaders of all other religions marry and still perform their religious and spiritual functions as well as Catholics priests do. De Souza then refers to the fact that in early Jewish tradition, the priests did not have sex before performing their ritual functions. Although this is true, they did marry and have normal sexual lives at all other times. It is very strange to think that one of the reasons that Catholic priests now don’t marry is because Jews 2000 years ago thought that the expulsion of male and female body fluids somehow made one impure. Lastly, and most importantly De Souza says that there is no marriage in heaven. Does he really know what goes on in heaven and whether having been married on earth is relevant there? The truth is that we know nothing of what really goes on in heaven and assuming that we do is highly presumptuous. In summary, De Souza is single based on false or questionable assumptions about Jesus’ life, about the need to be single to do priestly work, and about what is desirable in heaven. How sad.

letter to the National Post - Aug 26th

Congratulations to Barbara Kay for not only calling attention to the stupidities of Maier's book, but to other moral factors. Canadians have a moral standard that includes family, love, dignity, self-worth, self-reliance and respect. By a false sense of equivalency and by not ostracizing those who have done wrong, we will lose our values. Barbara Kay has been in the forefront of reminding us of the best in our culture and values.

Letter to Globe - Aug 26th

Contrary to the Globe's politically correct support of both Khadr and the Supreme Court, the route to justice is not always in caving in to criminals and supporting a "nice" socialist stand. The recent case of the release of the Lockerbie monster on compassion stands is proof that Western courts have gone much too far in their support for evil people. Mr. Khadr, even though a teenager, chose to fight with terrorists against a democratic ally of Canada, and in so doing participated either directly or indirectly in the killing of at least one American soldier. Justice and Canadian security should keep him out of Canada, and not allow him to return to help undermine our country. In this case the need for public security supersedes the right of an individual to receive a grossly excessive benefit of the doubt.

Letter to the Globe - Aug 24th re Khan

Sheema Khan says that "Many Western Muslims won't put their faith in a Wazir of Oz", but how are we ignorant infidels to know whether this is the truth or whether it is simply taqiyya, (a lie for the purpose of promoting or protecting Islam) or kitman (telling a half truth for the sake of Islam)? On the surface her article appears to be kitman so that Canadians will not worry about Islamism coming to Canada. As I have read many letters to the editor from people who appear to be Muslim, that are either incorrect or half truths, I would like to ask Sheema Khan and the Globe how I can tell if her columns are the truth , kitman or taqiyya.

Israel barring Canadian-Palestinians

Israel has the right to bar anyone they like, as does Canada. Members of Al-Queda are not welcomed to Canada. In fact, hopefully, anyone who might harm our society is not welcomed here. Why should not the same reasoning be applied to Israel?

Furthermore, Canada's multicultural policies and immigration laws allow people to become Canadian citizens while maintaining their original citizenships, not living in Canada, and keeping their old customs and prejudices. These policies almost guarantee that Canadian-Palestinians might be a threat to Israel.

Re: letter to the National Post of Aug 19th

I was glad to see that my letter to the National Post of Aug 19th was referred to in Saturday's This Week in Letters section of the National Post.

Letters to the editor of the Globe and Mail Aug 12th

1. Re: Editorial

I will feel more sympathetic to Canadians' support of Palestinian Canadians visiting Israel when they are also
concerned about the rights of Canadian Jews visiting Gaza and many of the Arab states.

2. Re: Multiculturalism

The interesting article by Daniel Stoffman fails to distinguish between Canadian values and customs. Canada should view and absorb a variety of foreign customs with immigration, but our values and laws should be adopted by new immigrants. Unlike most dress codes and eating habits, cockfighting, polygamy, and female circumcision are all contrary to important Canadian laws and values. They are customs that we neither want nor admire.

National Post

There is a good op-ed on books by Tarek Fatah in this morning's National Post. His quotes from the Koran are terrific. Unfortunately for every good quote, elsewhere I have read another bad quote. If the Koran is a list of good and bad statements and it is up to the reader to choose which path he wants to follow, while still being a good Muslim, it is not very useful.

I was wrong about Al-Megrahi who received a hero's welcome in Libya. Too bad. Libyans have a long way to go before they reach our standards of morality.

Additional comment on my letter to the CJN

Perhaps I should write a letter to the leftist Toronto Star suggesting that they give one pro-Israel and one anti-Palestinian op-ed per day, and have Feiglin write a column every time that Saddiqui does. In addition, we should suggest that they not use meaningless or false words such as Palestinian, Palestine, occupied territory, apartheid, equivalency, militant and moderate. At the same time we should ban all articles that are false, give only part of the facts, or are slanted. On another topic they should have one op-ed a day praising Harper. I think that would be "fair" and in accordance with the Left wing's standards of decency.

letter to the Canadian Jewish News - re Aug 20th

In his letter to the editor Eric Mendelsohn wants each edition of the CJN to have an an op-ed column from the left and to ban the words "self-hating Jew", "naive" and "deluded". He wants one leftist op-ed in the CJN that is politically correct and has the correct sensibilities according to his eminently correct left wing standards. He phrases the request as a suggestion, but it is still a request to stifle freedom of the press. In effect, he is proposing that he, as head of the Jewish thought police, be the arbitrator of op-eds and wording in the CJN. This is fascism, not equivalency or balanced commentary. He has no right to dictate which words or op-eds the CJN should use. Islamists tried the same tactic, with the help of various human rights commissions, against Macleans but were unsuccessful. I hope the CJN stands up against Jewish left wing fascists as well as Macleans stood up against right wing Islamic fascists. Unfortunately for the Jewish community, there seems to be little substantial difference between these two groups. They both want to impose their wrong-headed ideological views on society.

National Post letters - Aug 19th

False Letters

The approved Islamic concepts of Taqqiya (lying for Islam) and Kitamn (telling only part of the truth with the intention to mislead) are shown in three letters in today's National Post.

The first is a letter from Blankier refuting the Kitman of Khaled Mouammar who said that the number of Christians had decreased in the "holy land". In fact the number of Christians has decreased but had decreased in the Muslim run territories due to Islamic violence and prejudice, but the number of Christians in Israel has increased. Muammar's attempt to villainize Israel has thus been negated.

The next letter by Syed Rahman supports the ban on pictures of Mohammed by saying that it is meaningless slander. He omits the fact that it was a cartoon and that banning it is a restriction on free speech and the curage of the National Post for printing it when it could make them subject to meaningless Muslim violence and jihad.
In this case Rahman has tried to restrict Canadian freedoms.

The last letter is by Rizwan Jabbar, comparing the actions of Canada in defending terrorists like Khadar, to defending a Christian woman who was wrongfully jailed in mexico for theft. He then pleads for undeserved sympathy for Mulsims. All this shows is Islamic paranoia and some of their actual or potential involvement in violence or subversion outside the country.

It is not a pretty picture. If, as these letters show, Islam is a culure of paranoia and deceit then surely it is not something that should be promoted in Canada.

I do not understand why the National Post would publish letters that mislead its readership and rely on its letter writers to correct the false impression left by these Muslim writers of Taqqiya and Kitman.

National Post of Aug 18th

The National Post this morning has a good article by Hitchens about Yale's cowardice in not printing the Mohamad cartoons, fighting this kind of Muslim extremism, and not feeling guilty about "collateral damage" if someone gets hurt because Muslims have attacked non-Muslims because of it. Congratulations to the Natioanl Post for printing one of the cartoons in the article

Letter to eh Globe - ASug 18th

There are two published letters on Suaad Hagi Mohamud. In the first one, Kenney says that the U.S.does more than Canada to help their citizens that run into trouble abroad. He omits the fact that the U.S., as a very rich and warlike nation, has clout, whereas Canada, who people like Kenney like to think of as a small nation of peacekeepers, not warriors, has none.

In the second letter, Mendelsohn wholly supports Khadr and chastises Canadians for being smug and having a "deep and serious" moral deficiency. Khadr, if given the opportunity that Mendelsohn wants for him, would immediately take away all of Mendelsohn's rights and privileges of being a Canadian citizen. Perhaps it is Mendelsohn who has a deficiency in both a sense of self protection and common sense.

Letter sent to National Post re Mohamud Aug 17th

Mohamud was at fault

It isn't fun for a Canadian to be refused permission to return to Canada for 2 1/2 months, but it isn't that bad either. Mohamud was held in jail for a week in Kenya and then released on bail to continue her visit with her family. She is a very foolish woman. If she had any common sense she would have realized that the picture didn't look like her and changed it. She also would have considered that she was travelling to an unstable country. Taking no responsibility for her foolishness, she now wants to blame the whole sorry episode on Canada, including the respiratory disease that she picked up a somewhere along the way.

This isn't the first time a home-bound (the home not being Canada) Canadian has been caught outside the country, pleaded for Canada's help, and then sued Canada for its efforts. Canada is certainly responsible for its citizens when they are inside Canada, but is it responsible for new Canadians who are travelling recklessly to unstable countries? Is it then responsible for damages because it didn't act to the satisfaction of the traveller?

Canadian citizens who have terrorist contacts and/or who are travelling to unstable regions should be forewarned that they do so at their own risk. Neither I nor any other Canadian wants to pay indemnity for their lack of foresight and care. It is not Canada's responsibility to "save" or "reimburse" every Canadian who endangers themselves abroad.

Letter sent to the Globe Aug 17th re Page B1

African Aid

Reguly's article could have been good. It could have emphasized that the Harper government is taking some positive steps towards its donations of aid, as recommended by Moyo's book. Instead, Reguly let his prejudice against Harper colour his article. He says nothing positive about Harper's position and ruins the article in his first line by calling our Conservative cabinet members "flunkies". What could have been a good information article was turned into a slanted "opinion piece". I used to expect better from the Globe. I don't anymore.

National Post etc

The United Church has failed to set any standards. It is just going along with the latest liberal fads. It supports nothingness, modern immaterial social, religious and political trends, and in the case of Israel, the latest hate fad. No wonder it is becoming irrelevant.


Because of the violence of physical jihad, I noticed that Islam can be easily separated into I slam. I wonder if Allah intended it that way. Perhaps it is a hidden warning from God. Joking aside, it is something that we should carefully note.

Robert Fulford's Column in the National Post

Robert Fulford has an excellent article with the headline and content about "when criticizing Israel becomes ritual". He is correct. But isn't it time for us to stop just noticing Islamic Jihad and Muslim silence and start attacking Islam for its immoral behavior in Islamic countries and in its attempts to seduce the west into its thinking or non-thing processes?Read More

The Globe's headline - "Neither practicing nor believing, but Catholic even so" applies to Quebec Catholics. However with a change in the religion it could apply to the United Church and much of the Jewish community just as well. It is no wonder that Canadians are switching from a universal moral base to a comparative standard if we don't know enough to understand the moral concepts of our religions.

National Post Friday the 14th - comments

I noticed on page A9 that a U.S. commission has accussed India of failing to protect Christian and Muslim minorities. That is hard to understand. India like Israel is a democratic country, which like Israel mostly acts to protect itself against Islamists. It is not the democratic countries, but the Kingships like Saudi Arabia and other totalitarian regimes that oppress Christians most. Why pick on the relatively free democracies to criticize when there are many countries that harshly oppress religious minorities.

Glad to see that the United Church didn't pass the anti-Israel resolutions. Now is the time to discuss the facts with them and suggest that if they want to be do-gooders, they should pass resolutions condemning the fact that selling land to Jews in Palestinian controlled areas and Jordan results in the death penalty for the vendor. It would also be nice to see resolutions protesting anti-Christian laws in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic states.

Lastly we have our little dynamo, Karen Stintz honestly telling us that Toronto missed out on much of the Federal stimulus package because of the mayor's hubris. Mayor Crombie was a terrific mayor. Perhaps physical size is inversely related to the quality of Toronto mayors and we should encourage Karen to be our next mayor.

Letter to Maclean's

Of course the Somalians would resent us if we sent our forces in. However they would not resent us for our forces, but for lying to them. It is time that we told them the truth. We don't sent troops to fight in foreign countries for their sake, but for our sake. We fight in foreign countries so we don't have to fight in our own country. If there is collateral damage, it is better for us if it is there rather than here. That is the price they will pay when their disarray causes us to defend ourselves.

As the West has done in the early political stages of the internal wars in Somalia, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, we are now supporting a proposed terrorist Islamist government in "Palestine". "When will we ever learn."

National Post Tues Aug A11

Scott Brison on page A12 criticizes Harper for not having a better relationship with China. My response on the internet National Post, follows .

International trade matters, but so do moral values. Brison suggests that Canada becomes China's clean energy and green technologies partner. However China is not interested in clean air and green technologies as their expansion of coal mines and other policies clearly shows. Brison also refers negatively to the Consevative government's concern with morals as an ideological approach. It is, and thank goodness that at least the Conservative party, if no other, has some concerns for moral values. China has oppressed the Tibetans, the Falun Gong, the Uigors, and many others. We must trade with China but at the same time stand up for human rights and against Chinese oppression. Harper is trying to do this. It is a narrow tightrope to walk and too easy for the likes of Brison to to criticize by just throwing away all our Canadian values and concentrating on trade.

National Post - Monday Aug 10th

Letter on internet edition. The broad suggestion of the editorial writers that Israelis don't care for 'settlements' is false. They certainly care about the settlements around Jerusalem and elsewhere where they are as big as small cities. What they don't care about is illegal 3 man settlements on top of a deserted hill. Furthermore by the San Remo agreement as adopted by the UN, the land belongs to Israel, not the Palestinians, so that the Jewish towns and villages are not "settlements" but Jewish towns and villages that have every right to be there under international law

The Globe -Monday Aug 10th

Letter sent to the Globe

Mr. Daniel's letter to the editor about Israel and the United Church is full of errors and prejudices. First, the Church's stand is not anti-semitic because it criticizes Israel, but because it only criticizes Israel. It refers to sanctions only until Israel recognizes that the Palestinian people have the right to self-determination. This Israel has already done. What Israel hasn't done is rccognize the Palestinians' right to destroy Israel. He says Israel is violating international law. This is at best questionable as there is a good argument that the West Bank belongs to Israel under the terms of the British Mandate as adopted by the U.N. He refers to collective punishment against the Palestinians. This is nonsense. Defending oneself against suicide and missile attacks must of necessity involve some sort of collective or at least collateral punishment. Lastly the idea that Israel wants to or denies the self-ruling Gazans adequate food and medicine is just not true. It is true that they deny them some building supplies but when these supplies are used for military purposes, it is not surprising.

Comment on the Globe - Monday - Aug 10th

What a headline. Perhaps Instead of "Harper blames Canada for visa furor' they could have put, "Harper unable to amend Immigration Act with a minority government" or at least something which doesn't lead to incitement against Harper. I don't remember the NY Times haven't headlines like "Obama blames the U.S. for everything" at the Cairo conference - although that certainly was a possibility. Clearly the Globe is a "Liberal" paper and its editorial policy is anti-Conservative.
There are 4 letters to the editor supporting the United Church's position and saying that the church is not anti-semitic because it criticizes Israel. There is also one neutral letter. Contrary to what those letters say, it is not the criticism of Israel that is anti-semitic, it is the choosing of only Israel to criticize that leads one to think that anti-semitism has crept into the church. Similarly it is the Globe's publishing of 5 letters against Israel's position, and none that supports it, that leads me to think that the Globe's position is anti-Israel.

Another comment on Saturday's National Post

The letter in the National Post re Two-Way missionizing refers to the Jewish belief that God is the chosen people and therefore Judaism is an exclusive religion. On the contrary, it is not. Most Jews believe that Jews are chosen to spread the word of God, not to be special, and as the joke goes, most of the time they wish He would have chose another group. Jews don't missionize, they welcome people of all races. There are Black and Chinese Jews as well as White Jews. T.R. Simon, the writer of the letter to the editor, is relying on prejudices for his information. He should look up the facts or at least speak to Jews, other than the ultra-orthodox, about what it usually means to be "chosen".
In another comment on the letters to the editor it is suggested that we look at the facts of today's world to see if Islam is a peaceful religion. Using that test, it obviously is not. In the same way we can look at Judaism to see if it was "chosen", in which case you must ask for what, or whether it was chosen to spread the word of God, which, looking at Christianity and Islam, it obviously has done.

National Post Article

The National Post has a front page articles on a study, which took place in a religious setting, on gays changing to be heterosexual. It would be interesting to factor in the possibe effects of spontaneous remissions and the placebo effect. After all, these studies were done on people who wanted very badly to be heterosexual, and the mind can do wonderous or horribly bad things with the body.

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The Stoning of Soroya M

I just came back from watching the movie - "The Stoning of Soroya M" which is playing at the Carleton. Everyone should see it. It shows how brutal parts of Islamic society can be and why we don't want it here. It also should show our multicultural nation that not all cultures are cute and interesting. Some are terrible and should be avoided at all costs.

The United Church doesn't ahve its facts straight

Guiliano is ignorant of the facts

You can't suck and blow at the same time and you can't stand up for the Israelis and the Palestinians at the same time, if you know the facts. First, the West Bank is not Palestinian, but disputed territory pursuant to the UN Mandate. In fact, Israel has a better claim to it then the local Arabs. Secondly, Palestinians as a group didn't exist until the 1960's when the West Bank was illegally held by Jordan and the object of the Palestinians undr Arafat was not to become an independent nation, but to destroy Israel. This attitude remains, as is clearly shown by Gaza, that became independent in 2005, forced the eviction of all Jews, but still refuses to declare itself independent and try to develop an infrastructure or a peaceful society. Instead Hamas, a terrorist organization that was democratically elected as their preferred government by the Palestinians, concentrates on vilifying and shooting rockets at Israel. Their brothers in the West Bank have declared that their main objective is also to destroy Israel, but by attrition, not by direct war. Thirdly, the actual land of the West Bank has no port and few resources so that it cannot naturally become a viable nation. Therefore if the United Church really wants to help both Israel and the Arabs living in the West Bank, they will suggest splitting the West Bank between Israel and Jordan, helping Arab refugees to move to other Middle Eastern countries or to settle in Jordan, and they will support Israel's right to existence in a territory that can be properly defended and which encompasses most of the land to which it has a historic connection.

I just finished reading "The evolution of God" by Robert Wright. It is currently on the best-seller list. The parts on Judaism and Christianity and the Appendix are excellent. The part on Islam is a whitewash. HIs conclusions are not substantiated. In reading the book, his dull writing style must be overcome, but the effort needed to absorb the information on the three good parts is well worthwhile.

The Tamils are claiming that part of Sri Lanka is theirs because many live there although they have never had their own country there. A similar claim was made in Yugoslavia. The Kurds may also be claiming that certain territories are their state. In the case of Israel, the situation is different. Israel was governed by Turkey, before the first world war and was then conquered by England and it was agreed that England would govern it on a temporary basis, but it was no longer to belong to Turkey. The land was owned by landowners in Syria and Turkey and farmed by Arab tenants. The land was mostly purchased from the owners by Jews and more won in a defensive war. As in the countries mentioned above, the Jews came in as residents, not as colonizers. Do residents have a right to split the country into two sections? If there was no "country" there in the first place, how does that effect things? Is it the Jews or the Arabs that are trying to split the country in two? This is a historical fact depending on the legalities of the ownership of the land according to U.N. resolutions. These I believe, (Except for the last question which is peculiar to Israel) are important universal questions and could be a subject for a lecture or series of lectures etc etc. The questions would be of interest to many people and should of course deal with the Israel question as well as others.

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