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"Your so called fundamentalist Islamic enemy doesn't exist."
So said a commenter on one of my recent articles. I just have to laugh at his denial of the real world. I suppose that if you hide in a cubicle all day trying to get kiddies to play games with you, you don't really get a chance to visit reality all that often, but like they say, different strokes for different folks.
Just to keep the rest of the world up to date, consider that a Muslim journalist was beaten with a cricket bat outside a Toronto-area home and now fears for his life after facing repeated death threats apparently because someone has deemed his writing to be anti-Islam. I know, I know, there is no fundamentalist Islamic enemy at work here.
Jawaad Faizi, a columnist for the weekly Urdu-language Pakistan Post based in New York, suffered cuts and bruises in the attack, which has alarmed his wife and three children and drew the condemnation Thursday of free-press advocates. What a concept, a free press. I wonder if after all the kidnappings, tortures and beheadings that we carry out here in North America, if we could have a free press?
Faizi, 35, said he began to receive threats after he wrote about a lecture at a Toronto-area mosque given by a Pakistani cleric, Muhammad Tahir Ul Qadri, leader of the international Islamic-based organization, Minhaj ul Quran. Faizi wrote a critical column based on news reports from Pakistan about charismatic claims made by Ul Qadri, that he had inscribed the name of the prophet on the moon. I was under the assumption that the Americans had done that. Oops, sorry. That whole landing on the moon thing was staged in Hollywood, right next to the set that showed us the Americans staged 9/11.
That column sparked further telephone threats accusing him of apostasy, prompting Faizi and Post editor Amir Arain to complain on Monday to police, who advised them to be careful. On Tuesday, just as he arrived at Arain's, home, Faizi said two men attacked the vehicle. I have yet to see any evidence of fundamental Islamic enemies.
Last month, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney said he was deeply disturbed by a threat to "slaughter" two members of the moderate Muslim Canadian Congress for "smearing Islam." Congress founder Tarek Fatah, a target of the death threats, said Thursday that such intimidation is common in places like Pakistan or Egypt. Thank God it could never spread to this part of the world. "For it to be rearing its head in Canada is very, very scary," Fatah said. Obviously he is making a bigger deal of this than need be. There are no such things as sleeper cells and we all know terrorists stay within their own borders.
Faizi works part-time at a dry-cleaning plant. He said he's afraid to go to work. Also, the family's two boys, aged 10 and five, and four-year-old daughter are staying home from school at the urging of the vice-principal. "We thought that we were safe now, but I don't think that any more," said Jawaad, Faizi's wife, adding her writer father was murdered in Pakistan by extremist Muslims five years ago. "I'm really scared. I'm feeling lost. I don't know what I'm going to do and what's going to happen in the coming days. She (the school's principal) advised me it would be safer for them to keep them (her children) at home."
Nope. No evidence at all of fundamentalist Islamic enemies. Sorry folks, false alarm. As you were.
Sources: Colin Perkel Journalist, Family Live In Terror Canadian Press
So said a commenter on one of my recent articles. I just have to laugh at his denial of the real world. I suppose that if you hide in a cubicle all day trying to get kiddies to play games with you, you don't really get a chance to visit reality all that often, but like they say, different strokes for different folks.
Just to keep the rest of the world up to date, consider that a Muslim journalist was beaten with a cricket bat outside a Toronto-area home and now fears for his life after facing repeated death threats apparently because someone has deemed his writing to be anti-Islam. I know, I know, there is no fundamentalist Islamic enemy at work here.
Jawaad Faizi, a columnist for the weekly Urdu-language Pakistan Post based in New York, suffered cuts and bruises in the attack, which has alarmed his wife and three children and drew the condemnation Thursday of free-press advocates. What a concept, a free press. I wonder if after all the kidnappings, tortures and beheadings that we carry out here in North America, if we could have a free press?
Faizi, 35, said he began to receive threats after he wrote about a lecture at a Toronto-area mosque given by a Pakistani cleric, Muhammad Tahir Ul Qadri, leader of the international Islamic-based organization, Minhaj ul Quran. Faizi wrote a critical column based on news reports from Pakistan about charismatic claims made by Ul Qadri, that he had inscribed the name of the prophet on the moon. I was under the assumption that the Americans had done that. Oops, sorry. That whole landing on the moon thing was staged in Hollywood, right next to the set that showed us the Americans staged 9/11.
That column sparked further telephone threats accusing him of apostasy, prompting Faizi and Post editor Amir Arain to complain on Monday to police, who advised them to be careful. On Tuesday, just as he arrived at Arain's, home, Faizi said two men attacked the vehicle. I have yet to see any evidence of fundamental Islamic enemies.
Last month, Secretary of State for Multiculturalism Jason Kenney said he was deeply disturbed by a threat to "slaughter" two members of the moderate Muslim Canadian Congress for "smearing Islam." Congress founder Tarek Fatah, a target of the death threats, said Thursday that such intimidation is common in places like Pakistan or Egypt. Thank God it could never spread to this part of the world. "For it to be rearing its head in Canada is very, very scary," Fatah said. Obviously he is making a bigger deal of this than need be. There are no such things as sleeper cells and we all know terrorists stay within their own borders.
Faizi works part-time at a dry-cleaning plant. He said he's afraid to go to work. Also, the family's two boys, aged 10 and five, and four-year-old daughter are staying home from school at the urging of the vice-principal. "We thought that we were safe now, but I don't think that any more," said Jawaad, Faizi's wife, adding her writer father was murdered in Pakistan by extremist Muslims five years ago. "I'm really scared. I'm feeling lost. I don't know what I'm going to do and what's going to happen in the coming days. She (the school's principal) advised me it would be safer for them to keep them (her children) at home."
Nope. No evidence at all of fundamentalist Islamic enemies. Sorry folks, false alarm. As you were.
Sources: Colin Perkel Journalist, Family Live In Terror Canadian Press
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so long as we bury our heads in the proverbial sand, thsi planet is going to keep turning a blind eye to terrorism...Great blog..
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Nick
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