Muslim Canadian Congress Gets Real

June 19, 2006
Muslim Canadian Congress condemns Islamic extremism
Demands an end to foreign funding of religious institutions

TORONTO - The Muslim Canadian Congress has condemned the rise of Islamic extremism among a small group of youth in Canada and has urged Muslim Canadians to root out religion-inspired political activity.

In a statement released in Toronto today, in wake of the recent arrests of 17 Muslim men who are alleged to have planned terrorist acts, the MCC urged Canadian Muslims that they need to be vigilant against the spread of extremist interpretations of Islam in mosques, schools and universities by a section of misguided fanatic youth and their mentors.
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This sounds pretty good, but what do they mean by "vigilant"? Where do Muslims go to report extremism? And how will it be handled?

With respect to the charges against the accused, the MCC urges the Crown and the law enforcement agencies to ensure that not only are the accused afforded due process, but that due process is seen to be followed and the constitutional rights of the accused are protected.

While the MCC is confident that Canada's judicial system will determine the guilt or innocence of the accused, the issue of the rise of Islamic extremism among a minority of our community is a reality, and must be addressed by both the Muslim communities as well as the various levels of government.

The MCC urged the Canadian government to take confidence-building measures to ensure the safety and well being of Muslim Canadians from both Islamophobes as well as Islamic extremists.
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Acknowledging the problem is a great first step. It is pretty apparent that the MCC knows that the Toronto arrests were warranted.


Palestine

The MCC said, one of the primary issues raised by extremists to stoke anger among Muslim youth against Canada and the western world, is the on-going suffering of the Palestinian people. The statement urged Prime Minister Stephen Harper to get involved in the Middle East peace process by playing the role of an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinian Authority towards:

* Ending the occupation of Palestinian lands by Israel;
* Creating an independent and sovereign Palestine based on the Roadmap to Peace; and
* Urging the Prime Minister of Israel to meet with President Abbas and take the steps necessary to resolve this unending dispute based on UN Resolutions 242 and 343

The statement urged Prime Minister Harper to lift the economic strangulation of the PA economy hat is causing deep suffering among the Palestinians. A resolution of the Palestinian dispute will be the single largest blow to the recruitment and propaganda drive by Islamic extremists. The creation of a viable, sovereign Palestinian state, living in security and dignity alongside Israel will deprive the Islamists of the primary argument they use in inculcating a sense of victimhood among young Canadian Muslim men.

The resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict may not necessarily eliminate Islamic extremism, but it will help stop the extremists from using the plight of the Palestinians to recruit new converts.
Afghanistan

The MCC statement also called on the end of the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The statement said that five years after the so called War on Terrorism was launched, it has failed in achieving any of its primary objectives. What was once restricted to the foothills of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, has now come to the doorsteps of Toronto. The Canadian government needs to realise that the recipe offered by George Bush and Tony Blair has led to an increase of terrorism. The Taliban, who were supposed to have died and gone, have resurfaced again and are alive and well.

The MCC recognizes that international conflicts alone are not the sole cause for the rise of Islamic extremism, but they are being used to stoke anger, isolationism and suspicion of Canada among its Muslim youth. We recognize that this is a multi-faceted problem that requires a multi-dimensional solution. Therefore, as an immediate step to confront the rise of extremism among Muslim youth, the Muslim Canadian Congress presented a multi-point plan that it will send to the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and the leaders of the NDP and Bloc Quebecois.

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Blah blah blah blah. I hate it when Muslims try to even attempt to give a reason for terrorist activity. Eliminate the extremists, and then we don't have to worry about whether they use Israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, cartoons, or Sharia law restrictions to recruit new imbeciles. And get real MCC, you know and I know that the Palestinians have not shown one bit of interest in realistically getting a state.


Ban Foreign Donations

The MCC proposal demands amendments to Canada's laws and regulations:

* Ban all foreign funding of Canadian religious institutions and places of worship by governments or offshore charities. MCC feels that such a ban will not only cut off the oxygen that sustains extremist groups, but will place the mosques back in the hands of community groups that founded the institutions in the first place. The MCC also considers it unethical and immoral for Canada to be accepting money from the developing world; money that would serve a much better purpose in alleviating poverty in Africa and Asia.

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OK, now for the good stuff. They are admitting that Mosques in Canada are being bought by "suspected" terrorists. The system sounds extremely corruptive, and it sounds widespread. Why hasn't any Muslims spoke out of this before? Don't they know when hate is being preached in Mosques? How can we trust them to come clean in the future?

Mosques and other places of worship are not the places for politics; they are primarily places for worship. Imams and other clerics who peddle politics need to be told to take their politics to the electorate and not to the pulpit. Religion and politics are an incendiary mixture and invoking God on one's side in a political dispute is dishonest, callous and dangerous. The MCC asks politicised imams to keep their politics to themselves and not to stain our religion by using the divine texts to score political points and promote extremism. The MCC demands strict enforcement of current laws governing charities that do not permit charitable institutions to participate in politics. Any registered charity that spreads hate and extremism, should have its charitable status revoked.
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How about any Imam who spreads hate gets deported or sent to jail?

All donations to religious institutions of over the amount of $10.00, be made by cheque, debit or credit card. Donations shall not be made through a third party who received the money specifically for the purpose of donating it.
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.....and the donation lists should automatically go to CSIS.


Accusations of blasphemy and apostasy against Muslims by Muslims, be considered a death threat under the criminal code and be treated as a hate crime. Such a change in law will ensure that radical elements within the Muslim community do not silence moderate Muslims by invoking fear and promoting harassment.

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Are they saying that Canadian Muslims are scared of getting killed if they speak up?
Too bad this theory hasn't been tested because Canadian Muslims haven't started speaking up about specific hate that is obviously rampantly being spoken in Mosques across Canada.

Muslims in Canada, it is time to shit or get off the pot. Start talking.

Atheism For Children

The author of the book Did You Know That All The Gods Came From the Same Place, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, was the founder of American Atheists.

Her Fate(Some Atheist Trivia):
Disappearance and death

On August 27, 1995, Madalyn, Jon Garth, and Robin Murray O'Hair (William's daughter, whom she had adopted) disappeared from the headquarters of American Atheists, leaving a note implying an absence for some time and a visit to San Antonio, Texas. In September, Jon ordered $600,000 (USD) worth of gold coins from a San Antonio jeweler but took delivery of only $500,000 (USD). No further communication came from any of the O'Hairs, and one year later, William Murray filed a missing persons report.

There was speculation that the O'Hairs had abandoned American Atheists and fled with the money. One investigator concluded they had gone to New Zealand. Other theories suggested fundamentalist Christians had kidnapped the trio. Another rumor was that O'Hair had died of natural causes, and that her remains had been secretly disposed of to prevent the possibility of a "Christian burial" by her son. The O'Hairs were declared legally dead, and many of their assets were sold to clear up their debts.

Ultimately, a murder investigation focused on David Roland Waters, who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheists and who had previous convictions for violent crimes and also one for stealing $50,000 from the organization. Police concluded that he and his accomplices had kidnapped the O'Hairs, forced them to withdraw the missing funds, and then murdered them. Waters eventually pled guilty to reduced charges. Subsequently, in January 2001, Waters informed the police that the O'Hairs were buried on a ranch in Texas, and gave them the exact location of the ranch and the bodies. When the police excavated there, they discovered that the O'Hairs' bodies had been cut into dozens of pieces with a saw. The remains exhibited such extensive mutilation and successive decomposition that identification had to be made through dental records, by DNA testing, and in Madalyn O'Hair's case, by her prosthetic hip.
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Now for something that will make you smile at a minimum, watch this video.

WHEN I'M 64

Paul McCartney's 64th birthday is Sunday. Happy Birthday Paul.


Paul was brought up Roman Catholic, but now seems to be a Secular Humanist which is a code word for Agnostic.

"I believe in the spirit of goodness, so I can sympathize with Christians, Jewish people, Buddhists, Muslims. I think essentially they're all trying to say the same thing: You ought to choose between good and bad...

I don't subscribe to any one religion, but I do feel a oneness with a spirit of goodness. But I don't know if there's an old man with a beard in the sky."

I wonder if he tried to pray to God for a new limb for his soon to be ex-wife Heather. Maybe he is an Atheist now, after realizing that God has never performed the miracle of growing back someones lost limb.

I wonder if Heather is still going to have her head cryongenically frozen like George and Linda did. Well at least I think they did. Both went to the USA to die, something which I find very weird..........see, I like some conspiracy theories Atheologist.

My Wife Says I Don't Take Her Anywhere

This stuff counts even though it was just before we got married. We saw Fiddler On The Roof just a week before the fateful day of August 26th, 1990.
And I think I took her to a couple of places since. I can't find the stubs though:)

Here is something very funny and nostalgic. Sam Kinison's first performance on David Letterman: November 14, 1985. I did amateur stand up at Yuk Yuk's in Toronto back in 1984. I'm sure I could have been a contender if I persevered. At least it got rid of my shyness.

APPARENTLY AL ZARQAWI HATED MY BLOG

He was obviously obsessed with it. He didn't like my stance against terrorism. This was his final thought before he mind turned off for good:



Thanks to Yahoo message board poster, and evolution denier Barrl0 for the picture.