Perhaps Gerald Latulippe has a right to worry about Muslim or at least Arab immigration. It is well known that our immigration department has been dysfunctional and that we have accepted many immigrants who should not have been admitted to Canada. It is also well known that Muslim immigration to many of the European countries are causing great concerns and disruptions, including violence, unemployment, and non-assimilation by the Muslims communities. I want a leader who is willing to recognize the threat by radical Islam to Canada and to all western nations. Gerald Latulippe, with his excellent record of achievements, fills the bill.

Provocations that are accurate

In response to the letter by Philip Conklin, the words Israel apartheid week are provocative but anyone who has lived in South Africa during Apartheid knows that apartheid is not an accurate way to describe what is happening in Israel or the West Bank. The separation wall is of course provocative, but the 8000 kassam rockets fired against Israeli civilians is provocative, the current contining firing of those rockets is provocative, suicide bombers killing Israeli citizens is provocative, Palestinians kidnapping Israeli soldiers is provocative, inflated numbers and false pictures of the numbers of Palestinians killed is provocative, the exclusion of any Jews from Gaza is provocative, the Palestinian law making it illegally to sell land to Jews is provocative, the teaching of Palestinian children to hate Israel and Jews is provocative, and the claiming that the West bank is Palestinian territory when it was designated for Israel under the San Remo conference of 1921, illegally annexed by Jordan and then won back in the defensive war of 1967 is provocative. Lastly the statements in the Charters of both Fatah and Hamas that Israel should be destroyed are provocative.

My letter published in National Post - Jan 15th

Hitchen's article is a valid comment that the world is very arbitrary in its treatment of us human beings. He correctly points out that disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis are indiscriminate in their application to those in their way. Unfortunately he always writes with the implied subtext that because bad things happen to good people, and prayers seldom result in a receipt of a shiny new red wagon, there is no God and that religion is a fraud. No so. Religion is the study and work of how to deal with that arbitrary world. It is there to help us deal with the vicissitudes of life, to make our pitiful lives better, to help us ameliorate the disasters of nature, and to help us help others deal those disasters. It gives us an opportunity to distinguish ourselves from animals, to consider or experience the unity of man and our spiritual relationship with God or universal intelligence and with our fellow man. The world's arbitrariness proves that the world is arbitrary, nothing more.

Letters to the Globe and Mail

1. As we have finished with the h1n1 scare, I guess (ho hum) we are on to the dementia scare. As I see it, by 2038, ie in another 28 years, the cost of caring for dementia will be zero, not $153 billion, as medical science will have solved the problem by that time.

2. It is good to see that the Muslim world has exceeded the American world in moral depravity and financial excesses
by building the Burj Dubai. Hurray for the new Islamism. Dubai now even exceeds Los Vegas.

Letters to teh Globe Jan 1, 2010

1. Canadian soldiers.

We have come to the point of honouring our soldiers that are doing such a good job in a very difficult Afghanistan. We must however take one more step in the recognition process. We must recognize the training and experience of these soldiers. We must welcome them back into mainstream Canadian society, not only as heroes, but as men who have been well trained in leadership and who deserve and can handle important positions in our economy and government.

2. Dead Sea Scrolls

Jordan claimed rights over the Dead Sea are very strange. The West Bank and Jerusalem were disputed territories, legally assigned to the Jewish people, not Jordanian territories, when the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. The West Bank was then illegally annexed by Jordan. Then the West Bank was won in a defensive war by Israel. Jordan then refused to take it back in exchange for a peace treaty with Israel. Surely that is a very weak claim. In addition the claim seems to be just part of a harrassment plan by Abbas and his anti-Israel Palestinian authority. They have tried to boycott Israeli products, Universities and professors. They have tried to jail visiting Israeli diplomats for war crimes. And of course Hamas, the other partner to Fatah, has tried to weaken Israel by illegal targetting it with suicide bombers and ineffective but harmful missiles. The suggstion that the Dead Sea Scrolls belongs to Jordan is just one more illegitimate attempt to embarrass Israel

Letter to NP re Church fires 12/30/2009

Church Fires Can't be Ignored

Imagine, two church fires, one in Oshawa and one in Durham region and the police have no idea who did it except to say that the latter was done by copycats. Who in Canada would want to destroy a Catholic church? There are only two probabilites. Either the fires were set by ignorant destructive young men or it was set by Islamists. Am I being Islamophobic? No. Christianity is now being attacked in Nigeria, Egypt, the West Bank, Gaza, and Darfur. In addition it is being denigrated in many of the Islamic countries. Among Islamists, Christians are negatively referred to as infidels. So let's not waste the police's time. Have them investigate local gangs and local radical Islamists. The odds are strongly suggestive that it is the latter group that is responsible. Let's forget political correctness and investigate this is as a hate crime and let's concentrate on those Islamists most likely to have had something to do with it.

letter to National Post re Christian Horizons Dec 21

Re: Christian Horizons

We all agree that the Christian Horizons are doing a great job in caring for the sick and disabled. We also agree that they are inspired by their religious beliefs and use that as a basis of their altruism. Does that however give them the right to break Canadian law or act in such a way that would be considered to be unjust by our laws and by most of our society? Do good deeds exonerate you from bad deeds? Does a religious tradition, based on the writings in a holy book justify actions that Canadian society and laws consider to be wrong or even evil? A judgement in favour of Christian Horizons would place gays in the position of being unable to obtain jobs in any religious charitable or educational organization. Is this what Canadians really want? In law, as a function of sentencing we consider the reputation of the person being sentences but we don't exempt them from their illegal actions. Should Conrad Black be acquitted of his actions because the majority of his financial transactions were within the law? Should a man who kills his wife (perhaps in a mercy killing) after 30 years of a good marriage not be charged with murder? Similarly, the Koran permits a husband to beat his wife under certain circumstances. Should we look the other way because the action is permitted in many Muslim countries and is recommended by a holy book? Isn't it time that Canadian laws and justice take precedence over religious prejudices and actions that are written in holy books and believed by some of the religion's followers?