United church minister battles sign maker over PC messages

It's a sad day when a signmaker knows more about Christian doctrine than a 'minister' at a major church. According to the Toronto Star,  Rev. Alexa Gilmour, minister of Windermere United Church, went crying to the Ontario Human Rights Commission over Archer Mobile Signs' refusal to post messages.

According to the complaint, the sign company refused to post:

1. a message encouraging people to “wish your Muslim neighbours a Ramadan Mubarak (Happy Ramadan)” 
2. a message promoting the celebration of diversity during Pride Week.

There are plenty of cases in which gay people have taken Christian bakeries to court over a refusal to put messages on cakes. (Oddly enough, gay activists don't try this sort of thing very often at Muslim  bakeries).

At least in those cases there is a prima facie claim that the customer whose order was refused suffered some sort of humiliation or distress. This is one of the first cases I have seen where someone who does not identify as gay is claiming some sort of discrimination.

“Interfaith dialogue and action is a central part of my faith and ministry,” Gilmour told the Star. “If Windermere United cannot post the messages we choose, then we cannot do the ministry we feel called by God to do.”

Apparently the idea of finding a new sign company never occurred to the good Reverend. Again, this is not a case where she suffered some form of harm as a result of identifying as a member of a given group. The mature and financially responsible option (for taxpayers) would be to simply find a new signmaker. Any contract between the two could be abrogated by mutual agreement.

“It’s not acceptable for a service provider to limit the way I express my Christian ministry,” she said. “I’m taking this step only because many attempts to resolve this issue through dialogue or mediation have failed.”

I rather doubt that. Running to a Human Rights Commission is a form of virtue signalling to various communities.

The really embarrassing part is that the Reverend was schooled on Christian doctrine. According to the sign-maker:

“...I do not see any support in the scriptures to encourage anyone in a false ideology, Islam or otherwise, I must refrain from posting your spiritual exercise. For me, this would be a sin.”

In fact, the Reverend could use a bit more time in Bible study and a little bit less time urging Christians to respect a competing religion:

Umm, Reverend. Jesus (assuming for the sake of the argument that he existed) was not a refugee. His parents were traveling to register themselves for tax purposes.

With leaders like these, it is no wonder that Christianity is drifting into irrelevance. The United Church of Canada is dying out, like many other liberal churches. Here's an example of some of the lugubrious soul-searching taking place at that church. Meanwhile, conservative churches in Canada are growing.

This is an interesting one, also from the Toronto Star. Two Jewish ladies (supporters of the ethnic lobby group B'Nai Brith) were caught on video saying some rather non-PC things:

“We’re traumatized by the kind of sewage, garbage, whatever, coming into our country,” say the women, who seem middle-class, and declare themselves supporters of Doug Ford.

“I just think we should bring in the death penalty … start with some of our politicians … Justin Trudeau, he’d be the first one to go. And [Maryam] Monsef. And Iqra Khalid. And Ahmed Hussen. And Omar Alghabra … And Singh, Singh, let’s make him sing, you know, as he walks toward the guillotine!”

The video was brought to public attention by a pro-Palestinian activist. After contacting Members of Parliament and urging them to condemn the video, he stated that the MPs seem “more devoted to apartheid Israel than to their own prime minister and colleagues in the Liberal caucus.”

Canada's cowardly prime minister then smacked down the Palestinian activist for an 'anti-Semitic' tweet. 

Not that I disagree with the two ladies about the kind of people being let into a formerly quiet and peaceful country, but their statements about executing public figures based on their political beliefs are a little unusual in the context of normal Canadian political discourse. 

I don't expect that  we will see good old Bernie Farber, former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress and head of the "Canadian Anti-Hate Network", denounce his co-ethnics/co-religionists.

One might wonder if the whole 'hate speech' business is just a means of punishing members of selected groups, rather than trying to clamp down on certain forms of speech acts in general.

Ontario Premier forced to grovel and issue apology for appearing in a photo with the wrong person

Our favorite left wing rag the Toronto Star gleefully covers Premier Ford's statement disavowing white supremacy, anti-semitism and hate.

“I have been clear. I condemn hate speech, anti-Semitism and racism in all forms — be it from Faith Goldy or anyone else,” the premier tweeted at midday regarding the controversial Toronto mayoral candidate, who had posted the picture taken at the Ford Fest barbecue on the weekend."

How odd. Ford's statements seem to imply that Faith Goldy, proud Christian-Zionist, is anti-semitic.

No proof is given, of course, because there is none. One might excuse Ford for ignoring evidence, but the Toronto Star trots out a local nitwit who runs something called the "Canadian Anti-Hate Network", which sounds like a cheap version of the disastrous and corrupt Southern Poverty Law Center.

Bernie Farber, a former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, states:

“Much of my professional life has been dedicated to exposing and battling white supremacy and neo-Nazism”

Sure, Bernie. Although I rather suspect that you aren't too hard on Jewish racial/religious supremacists in Israel and other countries (e.g., Ovadia Yosef, Chabad Lubavitch, or the followers of Baruch Goldstein). That's because those people aren't 'white', according to your definition.

Even worse, this supposed expert in hate is fond of making up his own facts:

"Never in Canada has any mainstream politician given credence to those who associate with or enable white supremacy until today."

Really, Bernie? 

A quick search on Google reveals this quick example:

"...the Aryan races will not wholesomely amalgamate with the Africans or the Asiatics .. the cross of those races, like the cross of the dog and the fox, is not successful; it cannot be, and never will be." - John A MacDonald, 1885.

Are we to believe that a prime minister of Canada is not 'mainstream'?

You'd think that someone who spent their 'professional life' chasing down racists might be able to spend 2 minutes on Google before spouting off to the press. Bernie, of course, is on the side of 'good', which entails that he is not required to provide evidence or arguments.

“Ford can still make this right, but not until he fully dissociates himself from those like Faith Goldy and their vile ideas.”

Note that we don't have any examples of 'vile ideas' presented to us in the article. That's in stark contrast to the Toronto Imam who was preaching outright Jew-hatred in his mosque.

Again, I'm not a fan of Faith Goldy, nor do I have any interest in any form of racial supremacy. The point is that Faith Goldy's long-establish Christian Zionism has not saved her from scurrilous and unsubstantiated charges of anti-Semitism, while Imams giving hateful sermons are treated with kid gloves.

Arab Clan attacks German nightclub

How long before there are no more nightclubs in Germany that are safe to visit? A quick scan of the news media reveals many cases where Arabs or other migrants have attacked women in restaurants or bars:

• August 8, 2018, Geneva: a group of Arab men attacked a woman at a night spot. Four other women who tried to help the victim were also brutally attacked. All five were taken to hospital, two with serious injuries. 
• August 12, 2018, Zurich: three Tamils attack a woman and leave her with severe head trauma and other injuries. 
• Sept 7, 2018, Frankfurt: Arabs target Jew for violence in nightclub.
• Nov 15, 2014, Berlin: 23 year old woman killed by man after she stood up for women that he was harassing.
• Danish nightclubs attempt to ban Muslim customers because of attacks on women.

The latest one is even more worrying, since it appears that the Arab clans that run the organized crime scene in German cities are now openly carrying weaponry.

According to Die Welt, a group of Arabs who had been ejected from a nightclub for aggressive behavior returned with weaponry, including handguns. (Odd, I thought those were banned in Germany).

They proceeded to attack the bouncers and fire their handguns at patrons through the front door. Two bouncers were injured, one severely.

Video of the attacks is available. It's a pathetic display of cowardice, where the attackers outnumber their targets severely, but that seems par for the course for Arabs.

German intelligence services are well aware of the danger posed by Arab clans/mafias, but the average German is completely clueless.

How long will it be until women start to avoid going out after dark, as they have done in France? After all, this latest attack did not take place in a large city. Just imagine how much fun it will be to hang out after dark in Berlin or Frankfurt in 20 years time.

Ontario freaks out over 'far right' candidate in Toronto mayoral race

The flabby, left-wing Toronto Star recently published a histrionic-laden piece concerning the mayoral bid of Faith Goldy, an alleged 'far right' activist. Putting aside the claims about Goldy, what is particularly interesting about this piece is the contrast between the language used to describe right-wing activists, and the language used to describe radical Islamic activists.

Let's look at some quotes from the article:

• Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (and 'Progressive Conservative') Steve Clark told reporters, “I think we need to denounce things like that just across the board.”

• “She is a very, very dangerous person in our society,” said former Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne. “Her ideas, her actions are dangerous..."

Really? Dangerous? How many people has Faith Goldy killed, exactly? How many people has she threatened?  Is she dangerous in comparison to Faisal Hussein, who shot up a cafe in the Danforth, targeting white women while sparing the life of a brown man deliberately?

Ironically, the Star quotes a Muslim leader:

• Ihsaan Gardee, executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims said “if Premier Ford truly wishes to create a ‘government for the people,’ then he must categorically reject the hateful and divisive ideas of those, like Ms. Goldy.”

Nothing says 'inclusive' like some of the distinctions in Islam or Judaism:

• the 'territory of war' (dar al-harb) and the 'territory of submission' (dar al-islam). 
• believer (mumin) and unbeliever (kafir)
• jew and non-jew (goy, gentile)

Odd how none of the left wing virtue signallers ever bother to point out these rather obviously divisive notions.

In fact, Toronto imams have been caught preaching hatred towards Jews in mosques. The reaction of the left-wing Toronto Star? Excoriation? Strong language? 

No, the Toronto Star rushed to an Imam's defence. Imam Ayman Elkasrawy was invited to learn about Jewish culture, to adopt more 'Canadian' values. The article went to great lengths to find excuses for his language, and even managed to slur the Jewish activist who leaked the info on the sermons. The groveling and appeasement was so obvious that the Jerusalem Post wrote a scathing article.

At no point did the Premier of Ontario come out and claim that Elkasrawy was a 'very very dangerous person' with 'dangerous ideas'. How odd, given that Goldy has not said anything comparable to what was contained in the videos of the Sermons.

There is a clear double standard here. When a Christian or European nationalist makes the most meek claims about maintaining Christianity as the dominant culture, or European people as the dominant ethnic group, they are excoriated at every opportunity. When an Islamic preacher makes divisive, hateful and inflammatory statements, his actions are either ignored or explained away quickly.

I'm not a fan of Goldy, as she appears to be one of those many Christians who puts Jewish culture and Jewish interests on a pedestal. (She also refuses to discuss the rather obvious Jewish role in promoting mass immigration into Western countries). She is, however, the only media figure in Canada willing to stand up and condemn the manner in which Canada's founding cultures have been swamped by third world immigration.

Thilo Sarrazin's book is a best-seller

Despite the best efforts of the German left, Thilo Sarrazin's new book on Islam is number one in non-fiction, according to Der Spiegel.

Random House decided to cancel their original contract with Sarrazin, preferring to miss out on a best seller and lose significant revenue.

Not to be outdone, the CBC gets into the act...

Canada's billion+ dollar public broadcaster goes into full spin mode to make sure Canadians aren't stigmatizing Syrians over the (probable rape) and murder of 13 year old Marrisa Chen.

Who do they trot out to represent the Syrian community?

Danny Ramadan, who came to Vancouver from Syria four years ago, himself a refugee. The acclaimed novelist and LGBTQ activist...

That's right, one of those numerous LGBTQ activists who make up the bulk of the citizenry in Arab countries.

Danny Ramadan

Danny Ramadan would be hurled off a rooftop in Syria, which might be why he came as a refugee. Nevertheless, he is hardly representative of the bulk of Syrians brought into Canada.

"[I've] heard from other Syrians who are extremely shocked by what happened"

So basically hearsay. Not a single shred of hard evidence.

Given that Syria is overwhelmingly homophobic, I wonder how many average Syrians would really be pouring their hearts out to a homosexual.

"Rahim Othman with the Syrian-Canadian Council of B.C. said there have already been negative comments surfacing on social media."

Rahim Ottman

Oh that's just horrible. Negative comments. (Apparently negative comments are a lot worse than being torn apart by shrapnel, which is what Rahim wishes on his countrymen).

I'm sure that Marrisa Shen's last few moments on earth were a LOT more horrible than anything exposure to a few negative comments could summon up. Perhaps the CBC should be focusing on the real victim.

Media grieves for Muslims after 13yo Chinese-Canadian girl is killed by Syrian refugee

Same old story from the western press. A Syrian refugee murdered (and one would suspect, given the stories from Europe, sexually assaulted) Marrisa Shen, a 13 year old child residing in Burnaby Canada.

After a long search, the police finally nabbed their suspect and it was quickly up to the media to comfort the people who need it most: the Syrian community.

This excerpt is from the opening part of the original story on Burnaby Now, the title of which was changed to remove the word 'refugee':

Richardson said Ali was a Burnaby resident who came to Canada as a refugee 17 months ago, meaning he would allegedly have killed Shen approximately three months after arriving in the country. But Richardson said she hoped the incident wouldn't result in a backlash against refugees. “Historically, we have seen that happen," she said. "I’m hoping that in this case we do not see that happen. I think, by and large, our refugees that come to the country are hard-working citizens that are happy to be in Canada, and I would just hope that we look at this incident for what it is: It’s a one-off situation.”

Not one word of condolence or sympathy for the poor family. Instead, the Police talking head spends her time trying to convince us that this was like a lightning strike out of blue sky.

Immigrant Services was quick to get in on the act:

"... we wish to caution the public against stigmatizing an entire ethnic community for the alleged criminal act of one individual from that community."

Not content to spend a third of their article on coddling Syrian refugees, Burnaby Now decided to follow this up with an opinion piece hammering home the same message:

"some people will use this fact to make racist generalizations against refugees as part of a political agenda."

Political agenda? You mean,  wanting to keep their country relatively safe for 13 year old children like Marrisa Shen? 

The fact is that Syrian males are dramatically over-represented in sexual assaults in Europe. You can find plenty of instances by typing 'syrian gang rape' into Google. Even better, some countries (e.g., Norway) keep statistics by national origin. 

If you import males with a high propensity to commit sexual abuse (e.g., the Pakistanis in the U.K.), you are going to have increases in sexual abuse. It's as simple as that.

What people are too politically correct to understand is that in the context of immigration, population statistics are what matters. An individual Syrian or Somali might be an absolute paragon of virtue, but when you import thousands you are no longer dealing with isolated cases. 

A cursory glance at the Large of Law Numbers tells you that as soon as you start sampling a population, you have to consider the characteristics of the population itself. Pew Research has survey data on attitudes towards homosexuality, feminism (etc) in Muslim societies. Expecting that your group of 55,000 refugees will differ much in values from their former compatriots is naive at best.

There is already some evidence that Canada is covering up the activities of U.K. style Muslim rape gangs composed of Pakistanis and Somalis. Now we can add rapacious Syrians to the list of threats.

A German 'expert' takes on Thilo Sarrazin

DW trotted out Ulrich von Schwerin, an 'expert' on Islam, to take on Thilo Sarrazin over his new book, Feindliche Übernahme. Sarrazin is a former Bundesbank board member (read: apparatchik) who has fallen out of favor with the German left due to his criticism of mass immigration from Islamic countries.

Let's look at the work of this Islam expert:

In [his previous] book, the former Berlin senator of finance and former member of the executive board of the Bundesbank claimed that Muslim immigrants had educational deficits and refused to integrate...

Note the word 'claimed'. There is ample evidence from the German government itself that Muslim immigrants have major problems with both integration and education:

• Munich University professor Ludger Wößmann: 2/3rds of Syrian migrants are illiterate in their own language.
• Chamber of Commerce of Munich and Upper Bavaria: 70 per cent of trainees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq who started full time training courses have dropped out.
• Herbert Bruecker of the IAB Institute for Employment Research: recent newcomers [Merkel's migrants] had not arrived primarily to work. As of 2016, only 13% have found work.
• Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA):  eight percent have an academic education. Eleven percent have vocational training. 81 percent lack a formal qualification.
• Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA): 74 per cent of the migrants have no job qualifications or professional training at all

his claim to be able to determine the core statements of Islam by reading the Quran without any knowledge of Arabic or theological background is an absurd presumption.

Most Muslims (e.g., in Indonesia) do not read the Quran in Arabic. So what?

He does not discuss the ambiguity of the text nor its poetic dimension. Instead of looking at the Quran as a whole, he takes individual excerpts out of context and reorganizes them under selected themes.

Indeed, someone who hasn't studied Islam might take quotes out of context. However, we can just look at what actual Islamic scholars utter. Imams have been caught in Toronto, Stockholm, London, Orlando and other cities preaching rather violent passages from the Quran.

Sarrazin also ignores the fact that the political ideology of Islamism is a product of modernity and that its interpretation is rejected by a great majority of Muslims

Unfortunately the author does not define 'Islamism', but he apparently intends for it to be a pejorative denoting radical Islam.

He does not say a word about the moderate versions of mystical Islam prevailing in most Muslim countries.

Note that the author doesn't name a single such country. There's plenty of evidence to call this claim into question. First, surveys do not show that Muslims in Islamic countries are 'moderate' in the sense of accepting western-style norms of respect for women, tolerance of homosexuality, free speech, etc.

• Arab Observatory of Religions and Freedoms (OARL) and the German Konrad Adenauer Foundation: a telephone survey of North Africans found that they identify as Muslim first, citizens second. Furthermore, a mere 39% of Egyptians condemned religious extremism.
• Pew Research Center: surveys on Muslims and their attitude to divorce, homosexuality, abortion, alcohol (etc).

Second, the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights is clearly at odds with western notion of human rights. Merely look at the content pertaining to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. This would not be considered 'moderate' in either east Asia or western Europe.

he tries to provide an appearance of objectivity though quotes, numbers and statistics, but the book's goal remains clear: to confirm his preconceived ideas.

This is just pure desperation, trying to ignore evidence instead of grappling with it. The author clearly doesn't have a cogent argument about any of those elements, so he is flapping his hands angrily.

His description of the history of Islamic culture as an 800-year-long decline reveals his downright malicious urge to deny Muslims anything positive.

A decline does not entail that there was nothing positive about a civilization. The author might be surprised to discover that there is a book called "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". The civilization of the Ionians, Athenians, and Persians all declined, but they left lasting legacies.

Anyone who has ever been to Istanbul, Granada or Cairo can only be astonished to read Sarrazin's declaration that "an independent Islamic building culture never developed."

Two staggeringly inept examples. Granada and Istanbul being formerly European regions subject to Islamic invasion and colonization. The author's larger omission is not recognizing that Europeans were hired to teach the Ottomans about building construction and architecture.

You can almost feel pity for Sarrazin for such narrow-mindedness.

This is the sort of gamma-male sneer that is all too common among left-wing male academics. 

He avoids mentioning that the credibility of the statistics he uses has been questioned — that would ruin his narrative.

How many official reports on climate change mention that some people question their data? We all know that statistics can be questioned, so there is no need to state it explicitly. 

Hardly a Muslim bases his actions primarily or even exclusively on Islam.

I'm not sure what this vague claim means (e.g., which actions?), but it sure doesn't look like the author is giving Muslims a lot of credit for adhering to the basics of their faith.

But even if Islam were the cause of all problems, what would be the solution?

No one argues Islam is the cause of all problems, so that's a straw man. 

We can certainly lay the blame for Europe's new violent gang rape problem on Muslims, however. Very few Amish or Koreans are gang raping 13 year olds or running over people with trucks in Europe these days.

I'm not sure what Sarrazin would offer for solutions, but I can name some options: repatriation, forced population transfer, or brutal civil war. Civil strife and ethnic warfare is inevitable in Europe, given past history. (The author should probably read up on the conflict in Spain).

Lebanon during its Civil War

His whole book shows that he is not concerned with helping shape peaceful coexistence, but rather with the strict separation of peoples and stopping the immigration of Muslims.

Note that the author does not give us an example of 'peaceful co-existence' between Muslims and other groups. Burma? Thailand? Philippines? Egypt? India?

On the whole, the DW piece is full of the sort of snide insults, fallacies, and flabby hand waving that characterizes so much of the work of the internationalist left these days.