Letter to NP re De Souza - March 15th

De Souza is right. The police need watching. After many incidents of abuse and

lack of enforcement by the police, we, the people of Ontario in particular, have lost faith in police use

of common sense in who they arrest and whom they carefully watch to ensure there

is no violent conflict that would reflect badly on them. At the same time the courts have shown

a leniency to wrong-doers that is simply beyond imagination. Harper's anti-crime bill is designed

to solve the latter problem. Hopefully his next task will be to solve the administration of the police

problem.

National Post, Dec 20th A17

Good old Father De Souza is expressing his hatred for Hitchens after he has died - ie doing exactly what he is accusing Hitchens of having done. Having read many of De Souza's columns I suspect that De Souza's real reason for the outburst of hatred is Hitchens criticism of Mother Teresa, the absolutely perfect Catholic and future saint. For De Souza, criticizing Catholicism is the ultimate sin. He ends his column with the hope that Hitchens now knows God's mercy. I hope so too as there is obviously no mercy, forgiveness, compassion or understanding in De Souza's cold, rigid heart.

Office if Religion - De Souza, National Post - Apr 28th

Setting up an office about religion at Foreign Affairs is the best idea I've seen in years. In all but the West, politics is driven not by what is best for the people or the country but by religious dogma. The best example of this is Islamism, a combination of politics and religion where the religion drives the politics. If we don't understand the religious drives of our friends and enemies, then we don't understand their politics, and the reasons for their economic and political decisions. Setting up a group to understand religious idiologies of foreign lands and of internal groups is an excellent idea. Freedom of religion is the right to practice your religion in the privacy of your home as long as it is in accord with Canadian law. It is not a right to have everyone respect your religion or its practices or to have others accede to those practices.

Re: National Post - Nov 19th

Funny I thought that people went to university to learn for their future life. Apparently Father de Souza would be disappointed if, after graduation, one of his football players ended up as a professional doctor, lawyer or priest, instead of a football player.

Welcome back Mark Steyn to the National Post. It is another reason to keep reading Canada's best paper.

Harper's "nobnobing" with Chabad in India is indicative of his fight against terrorism whether the terrorism is against the strong or the weak, and wherever it occurs. It is wholly admirable.

The assumption that East Jerusalem is Arab lands because more Arabs than Jews live there has no more validity than saying that Bramalea and Detroit are Arab lands because more Arabs than others live in those two places.