Canada has walked away from one of the most farcical UN conferences, calling it a "gong show".

Canada has withdrawn its support for a UN anti-racism conference slated to take place in South Africa next year, the federal government announced Wednesday.

The so-called Durban II conference "has gone completely off the rails" and Canada wants no part of it, said Jason Kenney, secretary of state for multiculturalism and Canadian identity.

"Canada is interested in combatting racism, not promoting it," Mr. Kenney told The Canadian Press. "We'll attend any conference that is opposed to racism and intolerance, not those that actually promote racism and intolerance.

"Our considered judgment, having participated in the preparatory meetings, was that we were set for a replay of Durban I. And Canada has no intention of lending its good name and resources to such a systematic promotion of hatred and bigotry."

The 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban turned into "a circus of intolerance," Mr. Kenney said.

One government official on Wednesday called the conference "a gong show."

I'm proud of Canada. Durban I in 2001 was a Cinco de Mayo with Israel as the pinata. All the Muslim countries got together to blame the Jooooos for all the world's ills. To have our current Conservative government stand up and tell the UN to shove their conference is something that I applaud.

Now if they would just turn their attention to the Human Rights Commissions...

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Canadiana, Israel, Race, UN

A PRO-TERROR hate film that urges children to martyr themselves in Islam's war on the West and calls Jews "pigs" has been rated PG by Australia's censors.

Sheik Feiz Mohammed's DVD box set, which also calls for the murder of non-believers, was initially seized by Federal anti-terror police.

But the Office of Film and Literature Classification has ruled that The Death Series is suitable to be bought and watched by children.

Remember kiddies, Muslims are just like us, and we have nothing to fear from them. They are a Religion of Peace.....

The films urge parents to make their children holy warriors and martyrs, and praises jihad as the pinnacle of Islam.

The radical sheik makes snorting noises on the films as he vilifies Jews as the "army of pigs".

He blames a lack of courage for martyrdom on the battlefield for the "humiliation" of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and Guantanamo.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Australia, Islam, Islamic Terror

I have been trying to come to terms with a few things over the past few days. Ann Coulter's "faggot" remark at CPAC is one of them. I was there last year when she made the "raghead" comment, and I remember the outrage of everyone in the room, myself included. But how can I revile her for her cheap shots when I take so many of my own?

Yesterday, the arch-fiend Robert McClelland made a hard-core anti-semetic remark in the comments section of his Blahg:

When the State starts rounding up my Jewish neighbours, I’ll speak up.

Not me. People like Klownsella, Chernyuk and Smeagol the Jew have taught me it's not worth getting involved. When next they come for the Jews I doubt I'll even be able to muster up a "what a shame".

This caused both the left and right of the blogosphere to gasp in collective horror. Cherniak called for McClelland's head on a pike, and it was handed to him by the NDP. As disgusted as I was with Robert, I couldn't help but think of how last summer the Blogging Tories and the Conservative Party could have done the same to me. They didn't, but they could have. My views of Islam may be similar to what others are thinking, but most of them will never say it.

Just the other day I was defending people's rights to say whatever they please in the blogosphere. How could I condemn him? Yet, how could I not? So I emailed Kathy, who would prefer to give McCelland a soapbox to stand on while he proves what a filthy Jew-hater he is. Anti-semitism is rife on the left, and it needs to be exposed - so let Bobby Boy expose himself all over the place. Kathy was finally able to help me put into words the confusion I had been feeling over Coulter and McClelland:

They have a right to say anything they want and so do we. I wish she hadn't
said it at CPAC, but I also think that being sent to rehab for saying
faggot is worse than saying faggot -- and a leftist would think the
opposite of course.

My concern is that Jason the Hall Monitor and Co. on both sides are trying
to clean up the blogosphere and make it into something it isn't. It isn't a
newspaper or tv show. Swearing and nudity or whatever have their place (a
submarine, the walls of an art gallery) but aren't appropriate everywhere
(church, the super bowl half time show). Blogging is its own space where
certain rules don't apply. In my opinion as one of the pioneers who doesn't
like to see blogging being professionalized and sanitized.

So Robert can say what he wants on his blog, but Coulter should have been
more circumspect at CPAC. Then we say so. What I sense is something far
more insidious that anything Robert or Coulter can say and that is the
stuck up little twerps like Jason and Kinsella and their faux outrage over
other people's opinions and the not-far-off call for censorship.

A place for everything and everything in its place. I said something similar last year about Coulter. I thought that what people say in the privacy of their own homes with friends (or on their blogs) is one thing, but what they say to a room full of impressionable university students who will be leading us tomorrow (CPAC) is quite another.

So let McClelland spew his vitriol against the world's most persecuted religion, and let me attack their attackers. In the meantime, let's send Annie to finishing school.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Blogging

But they don't call themselves anti-Semetic. Oh no - they know there's too much negative press attached to that. Instead they are "anti-Zionist", and "against Israeli Apartheid". These groups include Jews, much the way there were Jews in Nazi Germany willing to sell out their friends and family members, thinking they would be saved. In the end, everyone died.

This past Saturday there was a Kill the Jews March (oh wait, I'm told it was an End Apartheid March - tomayto, tomahto...) in front of Indigo at the corner of Bay and Bloor. Heather Reisman is a Jew, and her business was being targeted because she supports Israel. And so Arab-Canadian students and suicidal Jews picketed in front of her store, waving Palestinian flags.



I wasn't there (aparently no one was - I guess the memo wasn't in NOW or EYE Weekly, but there were only about 100 people), but thanks to Casey we have pictures.

I think on Friday I will loiter around that very Indigo and spend my paycheck on Heather's books. Anyone care to join me for a coffee?

My only concern is that Heather has been known to bend with the prevailing breeze before - I hope she doesn't become one of those Jews holding the flag of their own destruction.

Labels: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews, Palestinians, Toronto