Thought-provoking editorial in today’s National Post (The Liberals’ Rural Problem) and it comes hot on the heels of a tangentially-related column by L. Ian MacDonald detailing the health care problems unique to Canada due to the way powers are divided up between Ottawa and the provinces.
By way of background, MacDonald explains how health care is handled in this country (Your Constitution and the flu):
...This means that Ottawa is ultimately responsible for the safety and well-being of Canadian citizens, including those standing in line waiting for flu shots. Except that the lines are run by the provinces.
Ottawa is also responsible for national health and safety standards, approvals for experimental drugs, and the purchase of drugs such as the H1N1 vaccine.
But the provinces, under Section 92 of the Constitution, are responsible for running the health-care systems across the country, including the distribution of vaccine and the determination of priorities.
In other words, Ottawa is responsible for assuring the supply, while the provinces are responsible for meeting the demand…
In the Post editorial, the issue is the two solitudes of rural and urban regarding attitudes towards the gun registry but the underlying problem is similar:
.…The fathers of Confederation chose to make criminal law uniform across Canada, and we are stuck with that decision, but the history of the gun registry, perhaps now nearing completion, shows that even the most unthinkingly accepted centralizing feature of a federal state can have adverse effects. (If we could go back and redo the Constitution from scratch this week, we might be sorely tempted to make criminal law a provincial power and public health a purely federal one.)
So again we see this recurring theme regarding the division of power in this country.
I suppose we have to live within the narrow confines of our forefathers’ decision, but it does not excuse the intellectual dishonesty of those who try to pin blame on the feds for failure to micromanage every aspect of the H1N1 vaccination delivery.
And I suspect Quebec would be screaming the loudest if Ottawa even attempted to butt in.
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Saturday Update:
Crisis? What crisis? Flu-shot experience was efficient, polite – L. Ian Macdonald (H/T Bec and Frmgrl)
“And I suspect Quebec would be screaming the loudest if Ottawa even attempted to butt in.”
And yet Quebec and her politicians have basically run this country for so long….something is wrong with this picture.
“And I suspect Quebec would be screaming the loudest if Ottawa even attempted to butt in.”
Anyone who doubts the provinces’ reaction to federal interevention (and not just in the case of Quebec) should listen to Carole Taylor on the subject in yesterday’s “Power Play”.
A letter to Graham Richardson
Graham
When you say that it was encouraging, to see Bob Rae, adopt a more moderate stance ( some would say come to his senses) on H1N1 injections, and that he now looks forward to getting things done by Xmas, comes a little too late, after his comments about death and imminent death of Canadians, who don’t get the vaccine, caused apprehensive people to stampede to injection sites, first thing in the morning. What Canadians, Bob Rae did not whip into a frenzy, Carolyn Bennet hysterical theatrics in the House of Commons, and Hedy Fry’s ballistic performance at a press conference, demanding immediate vaccinations for herself and colleagues on the hill, stampeded the remainder.
Once this monster and avalanche was created, there was little public health officials could do to storm the tide, considering millions of anxious and frightened people were involved. In their agitated state, if an attempt was made, to assign dates and times for the vaccination of these distressed people, do you think they would be happy or calmed, if they were told to wait till Friday instead of Monday or to come on November 14 rather than the 3rd .
Your comment that you just “report what was happening on the ground” – it might have been helpful if you did give the whole picture, and the Canadian public would not have been led to believe, that our provincial public health system, was in compete turmoil, and workers were incompetent. Outside of metro areas, there were hundreds of sites across Canada, where the wait was less than an hour, and hundreds of sites which once the early morning rush was done, the afternoon wait was less than an hour. Believe it or not there were some sites in metro areas where afternoon waits were 90 minutes and less this week.
I do commend CTV for having several public health officers on your news program, who were a voice of truth, reason, and sanity, and tried to reassure and calm Canadians that unless, you were part of the vulnerable group, don’t clog up the lines and let these vaccinations occur in an orderly fashion. They reassured Canadians that there will be vaccine for everyone who wants it, and in a timely manner, but because of the millions of people involved, this will not be done in few days, or a few weeks. In retrospect, do Canadians now see how difficult the task was made for these public health officials, by this politically induced crisis. Canadians deserved better from their politicians and did not need to be overwhelmed with this fearmongering.
Public Health run by the federal government would be a disaster – think asymmetrical federalism, equalization, Adscam and the federal gun registry all wrapped together and administered by Ottawa. Regional unfairness, corruption and waste on a massive scale. I would not want hospital closures and funding levels based on the election needs of politicians a thousand kms away. Health dollars and day-to-day decisions should stay as close to the people as possible. In fact the health care system could use with more individual decisions and rights, not less. In Canada, pets do not have long waiting lists for diagnostics when compared to humans, turning the saying “gone to the dogs” on its head.
Exceptional situations may call for extraordinary SOPs but this tendency to call for more central control at every bump in the road is overkill. I am taking a pass on the vaccination but it certainly is available and well organized for those in my area who want it. The very sick and under fives were at the clinic early this week, the school age children can get shots at school today and the healthy adults can get theirs next week. Maybe those areas with problems should take a hard look at their local administrators and procedures.
I would have to disagree with the thought of making criminal law a provincial jursidiction, laws should be the same across the country. Having said that, there is no reason why a gun registry should be part of criminal law, or why any federal government should feel the need to enact one. That could and should have been left to provinces, or even munnicipalities.
Common sense prevails in Ottawa
National Post
Published: Friday, November 06, 2009
Re: Gun Registry Takes A Hit, Nov. 5.
Finally, the gun registry has been shot down (no pun intended). I am a recently retired police officer of 35 years and can assure readers that I speak for a lot of street cops who know that this legislation was utterly useless, a tremendous burden on taxpayers and in no way an enhancement to the safety of the police officer.
Liberal justice critic Dominic Le-Blanc stated that the police use the registry 9,000 times a day. This is a complete misconception — police are checking out names and residences 9,000 times a day, not the gun registry. Three cheers for Conservative MP Candice Hoeppner for the private member’s bill and hats off to opposition MPs who supported it. Common sense has prevailed.
Steve Flanagan, Ottawa.
More than a few Liberal politicians left little doubt their only concern is to GET something on the Conservative government in hopes of political gain. No moral, responsible people of any stripe would have worked so hard to create a crisis and mass fear among the people as those silly beggars called Liberals. We all know who the “stars” of their pathetic display are, not need to mention them, they are a disgrace to public office. The media are no better, working as an arm of the LPC and joining in the agenda to create mass hysteria over swine flu, undermining the Health authorities who have been doing a good job in the circumstances.
No noise from the national media; yet, not surprising, the MAPLE LEAF HOCKEY TEAM got vaccinated;
they did not stand in line yet the noise of the FLAMES HOCKEY TEAM getting theirs was spilled and infuriated many canadians. What do you say this one GRAHAM and CLARK
Hey Jen..on a lighter note (and long-suffering Leafs fan) they do need all the help they can get!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please no attacks..it was a joke!And I don’t agree with this policy.
Jen, I have a good friend who is a member of the Vancouver P.D. She told me a few years back that the gun registry is completely useless for them.
Soccermom,I too have a very close family member that is in RCMP,and this person totally concurs with your above post.If they are called to any type of incident..they don’t stop to check the registry,they just go,and prepare for ANY and ALL scenarios..as you know,all the ‘biker busts’ the RCMP make,have been so much safer,cuz all their guns were registered,so the cops knew ahead of time to take extra care!!! Yeah…right.
What an opportunity missed by the doctor caucus of the loser party. Setting up a clinic and vaccinating all the street people. Think of the media coverage and the PR that would have gained them. Oh, Bennets practice is not participating in giving shots.
OT. Just downloaded a draft copy of the 2009 tax form. Will post any major changes, but did notice that the rate for 15% has been raised so that is a tax deduction for many people on a couple of thousand dollars of 7%.
Jen I know what you mean. It`s the Toronto centric media after all and the Flames from big bad conservative Alberta. Gota take advantage every time they can to bash Alberta once again.
Graham used to report for CTV in Alberta here. He should know better. He used to fair in his reporting when reported on the Legislature here. He`s changed since he`s left and joined the National PP Gallery just like Don Martin. He is different now too. Must be something in the water down there.
o/t but I can’t restrain myself. Navdeep Bains who purports to have an MBA has jut asked in QP for an explanation why the City of Mississauga is forced to spend more on signage or infrastructure projects than it receives from the Federal Government for signs. This man must have gotten his education by mail order If the Feds pay 1/3 of the costs of course someone else pays more. With an intllect like that Iffy will be watching his back.
Sports teams should get the shot. How many on a team, better they get it separate than have hundreds of people wait in line behind them. If teams stood in line, listen to the media outrage of them taking up space, especially if they went as a group.
I will be glad to see an end to the gun registry. Remember, the gun registry was a reaction to the Montreal Massacre. This shows why emotion pleas by activists during tragedies should be politely ignored. I particularly like the common argument for keeping the registry “Sure it’s ridiculously expensive and ineffective, but we should continue to fund it so that the money was not wasted in vain.”. Once a program is implemented by government, its beneficiaries will go to ridiculous lengths to preserve it. It is never a good plan to panic and take poorly thought out corrective action.
The H1N1 and climate change hysteria should also not be used as an excuse to justify dumb decisions. (I am please to read Prentice’s tougher more realistic stance in the NP today)
The Leafs should have been given an ultimatum. No one gets their vaccinations until they win the Stanley Cup. Oh yeah that´s not fair because there will likely be a completely different flu strain by 2067.
I just got this press release from the Wildrose Alliance in my email, which points out something I didn’t know:
“Under the Canadian Pandemic Influenza Plan [in place since January 2008], that was developed by medical experts and professionals, the [Alberta] government would have distributed vaccines to high risk groups in a timely, understood and well-managed rollout. …”
It’s worth listening to Carole Taylor, who pointed out yesterday on Power Play that the B.C. Minister of Health called the way the other provinces were doing it a “fiasco”.
This H1N1 is just the latest example of the pattern the Liberals keep following: Their rhetoric is too far removed from reality. When all the facts come out, and the dust has settled, they are forced to backtrack. They had better hope there isn’t a big backlash from voters over their self-interested fear-mongering of this issue.
The Liberals accuse the Conservatives of fomenting divisiveness among rural and urban Canada, yet the former are the ones who have sown panic among the population by doubting the validity of the decisions taken by Health Canada, and by misleading Canadians into thinking other countries have already managed to complete their vaccination campaigns.
In a lengthy post at David Akin’s I provided information on 11 countries and their vaccination campaigns, showing that those campaigns have barely gotten underway or have yet to get started. I provided similar information here in a previous thread.
Yet the Liberals continue to mislead Canadians. During today’s QP, David McGuinty again made inaccurate statements regarding other countries’ vaccination campaigns.
Furthermore, in accusing Conservatives of manoeuvering the Olympic torch relay through Conservative ridings, opposition members are in effect saying that only Conservatives live in those ridings, which is of course not the case. Are the Liberals and the NDP saying their supporters who live in those Conservative ridings will not get out to cheer the torch bearers? So who is showing partisanship to the extreme?
Edmonton Sun|Web|Canoe|Canoe411
From the Edmonton Sun:
http://www.edmontonsun.com/news/canada/2009/11/06/11655111-sun.html
MPs’ travel costs sky high
Regular trips to northern territories biggest expense
By ELIZABETH THOMPSON, NATIONAL BUREAU
Last Updated: 6th November 2009, 3:35am
New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen spent more on travel than any other MP this year, spending $228,603 to fly across Canada and trek around his sprawling British Columbia riding.
At the other extreme was Conservative MP Gordon O’Connor of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, who spent a mere $6,600 in travel — the least among sitting MPs. While O’Connor’s riding lies just west of Ottawa, his costs pale compared to the $28,553 chocked up by fellow Conservative MP Royal Galipeau, whose Orleans riding lies in the east-end of the city.
RELATED TO JOB
An analysis by Sun Media of documents tabled in the House of Commons shows a wide discrepancy in the travel costs MPs charged to taxpayers during the past year. And while the figures don’t include many categories of travel, such as travel by cabinet ministers related to their jobs, travel by parliamentary committees and international conferences, it does give a glimpse of who is racking up the frequent flyer miles at taxpayers expense.
For example, NDP Leader Jack Layton, whose riding lies in downtown Toronto, was the third largest spending MP with $219,667 in travel costs — only $14,737 of it came out of the members office budget for travel around the riding.
His wife, NDP MP Olivia Chow, who also represents an urban Toronto riding, spent $76,458.
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, who represents a suburban Toronto riding, charged for $150,174 in travel while Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, whose riding lies in downtown Montreal, spent $90,626.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper charged only $27,492 worth of travel to the House of Commons, but much of his travel is tied to his position as prime minister and comes out of other budgets.
Overall, Conservatives dominated the top 20 list, occupying 11 of the top 20 positions. Most of the Liberals on the list, such as fourth place spender Todd Russell and sixth place Dominic LeBlanc, represent ridings in Atlantic Canada.
Only one Bloc Quebecois MP made it to the top 20 list. Raynald Blais, whose riding sprawls across the eastern Quebec region of the Gaspe and the Iles de la Madeleine, chalked up $184,070.
COST DIFFERENCES
While many of those who spent the most represent remote and isolated ridings, there were significant cost differences between MPs in farflung ridings. NDP MP Dennis Bevington, who represents the Northwest Territories, spent $213,682 while Liberal Larry Bagnell, MP for the Yukon, charged $115,468.
Cullen, who spends 20 hours a week in the air, says he travels for business, not pleasure.
“When I have time off, the last thing I want to do is get on a plane.”
ELIZABETH.THOMPSON@SUNMEDIA.CA
”there is no reason why a gun registry should be part of criminal law, or why any federal government should feel the need to enact one. That could and should have been left to provinces, or even munnicipalities.”
Totally agree with Greg here.
And that is why Iffy’s ‘decriminalization of the registry’ in committee, won’t work.
Iffy (still just visiting) needs to talk to Rock, because this conversation went around the horn at the genesis of the GR.
Criminal consequences were essential to the gun registry, or it was just another ‘ticketing money maker’.
If there are no criminal consequences,
then the provinces should pick up on the ‘fines’….or NOT.
from article, Libs rural problem:
”…It is satisfying to note that no fewer than eight Liberals crossed the floor (in addition to 12 members of the NDP caucus, and one Independent) to vote for this week’s private member’s bill.
This fact stands as a rebuke to the many Liberals who have long smugly claimed that the gun registry was a sacred cow, and that anyone who challenged it could only be motivated by insensitivity to the victims of gun crime…”
This is the Chretien Legacy vs. the Harper Holy Grail….
to Libloggers and those LibLuvin journalists,
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/appalling+betrayal/2190449/story.html
and why Chretien led the Coalition of Losers.
Gabby it’s par for the course for David McGuinty to make inaccurate statements, it’s the Liberal modus operandi to skew and muddle the facts. We can add Marlene Jennings as another standout in that regard. Others like Dr Bennett and Dr Fry are simply pathetic examples of incompetence, they’re not acting, they’re naturals.
Talked to my daughter who is nurse in Calgary. She said that the media has put most of the panic into the public and it`s been really hard on medical staff that have to deal with the confusion and anger. They are working on the front lines and have to put up with the brunt of this. Medical staff have try and calm people at the same being realistic. She is really ticked at the media and the opposition both federally and provincially for creating most of the hysteria.
After telling me this I am even more upset with Dr.Carolyn Bennett and Dr. Hedy Fry. They should know better.
Re: the gun registry. I don’t know all the details about what’s in the Hoeppner private member’s bill, nor how the actual registry as it now stands works.
However, in reading Susan Riley’s op-ed referenced by Wilson, I checked the background of the mother Riley highlights in support of the gun registry.
Riley writes:
“Dismissed, also, are the victims — relatives of the women killed at the École Polytechnique, modern-day parents like Elaine Lumley, whose son was shot dead crossing a street in Montreal in 2007. Lumley was on the Hill this week, shocked and stricken by the vote — but she couldn’t get a hearing, perhaps because she doesn’t fall into the Tories’ approved victim category.”
I checked Lumley’s unfortunate murder. The young man was killed by a handgun. [More info. here° http://www.northernlife.ca/news/lifestyle/2006/05-14-06-lumleyTOP.aspx It is my understanding the Hoeppner bill does not change the status of handguns, although I could be wrong. I believe the licensing of long guns or hunting rifles would no longer be required if the bill becomes law, but the handgun controls would remain in place.
Susan Riley’s op-ed IMO was remiss in
1. not specifying what was used to murder Aidan Lumley
2. not specifying what changes are proposed in the Hoeppner bill
3. crassly appealing to emotionalism by using the Montreal massacre as an argument.
From Wiki: “In August 1989, Lépine picked up an application for a firearms-acquisition certificate and received his permit in mid-October.”
And the recent murder spree at Fort Hood + the one now developing in Orlando should tell us that no matter what registration or licensing measures are in place, killers will unleash their murderous anger whether their weapons are licensed, registered, or not.
Web blog award nominations are open-SDA.
Come on team, let’s do our best for you know who.
frmgrl 1:51pm, when the public find out what the liberals and the national media did ‘panicing the public’ they will be furious. Playing the ‘SCARE’ CARD is a very dangerous way of getting votes.
Liz J at 1:31 pm: “they’re not acting, they’re naturals”
Sad, but true … and funny too!
It is my understanding that handguns and other restricted weapons will still be registered (they have been since the 1930′s). Individuals who want to purchase and use rifles will still be required to go through the safety courses, background checks and registration process. Just the registering and tracking each and every rifle will be eliminated.
If those 150 Flames and family had stood in line, who would have been denied a shot that day.
Story at NNW that the reason for supporting the govt has left the bldg since EI has passed. Well, we still have the reno tax to get thru. So far I can’t find anything re the rebate on the 2009 return, but many schedules have warnings, under revision.
So, NDP will you vote for it when it comes to the floor. There are 3 more opposition days pre Christmas and the author of article suggests the govt could fall in Dec.
An election during the Olympics, get real.
Also nice to know the libs and media have blown away all lib/ndp voters re the Torch. I checked the votes, and they did get votes in those ridings. Hopefully, a lot fewer next time.
St. Goreacle says, Cold kills swine flu dead, stupid.
Better than Shop-Till-You-Drop.
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“UAH Global Temperature for October, down significantly’
“The global-average lower tropospheric temperature anomaly in October 2009 fell from +0.42 deg. C in September to +0.28 deg. C in October. The tropical and Northern Hemisphere were responsible for this cooling.”
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/06/uah-global-temperature-for-october-down-significantly/#comments
From comments:
” Alan Haile (10:28:48) :
I am sure that you will enjoy this article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1225577/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-When-twin-religions-global-warming-shopping-collide-.html
I particularly like his description of the woman who doesn’t want anyone to have a security light on at night because then we will all drown from AGW as being from the ‘Monster Raving Green Party’.
Richard Littlejohn is a right wing popular commentator who especially targets political stupidity.”
Hey BLY team,,,get over to the Blog awards and nominate our girl Joanne for Best Blog!!
http://2009.weblogawards.org/nominations/
You then need to identify her with her site
http://www.bluelikeyou.com
Thats true, LC Bennett.
This in no way changes the pre-screening for ownership of a firearm.
You still need to take all the courses, background checks etc. you indicated.
Basically the long-gun registry puts a piece of paper beside every duck gun. if you get the paperwork on time, if there are no computer mistakes, if someone in the firearms center doesn’t decide that they need more info, etc.
And if you want to own a handgun, it becomes even more difficult.
For example, your sex life is an open subject, all of your family members, co-workers etc are given a telephone number to call, if you act strange, or they are worried, or if they are mad at you, etc.
Of course, you have to be able to demonstrate you are an upstanding, law abiding citizen to get the handgun permit.
However, if you are a criminal, just walk down to Jane & Finch, bring about $1000. and shazzam, its that easy, none of that tiresome paperwork for those guys.
Iffy’s left-liberal Liberal jacobins at work.
“Follow the leader? Not these Liberals
Taber: Michael Ignatieff needs to get a grip –on his caucus, on his party and on his staff. Too many of his Liberals are going rogue.”
Commenter said:
“You know, Jane, you’re beginning to sound like a rebuffed lover. Did you make a pass at Mr. Ignatieff – and he turned you down, gentleman that he is?”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/follow-the-leader-not-these-liberals/article1354792/
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Liberal Iffy’s commissars chopchop the cabbages: “rogue” cole slaw for the masses.
“Liberal axes
Delacourt: The shakeup has started in the Liberal backrooms. Speculation tonight that firings are under way in the Liberal leader’s office… MORE”
(nnw)
Hey Bec @ 5:42. That’s very kind of you. A bit out of my league though. It’s more for the SDA’s of the world.
Confusing, I thought the LPC new leader…er Chief of Staff was supposed to have started his new job on Thursday, now I’m reading Nov 17.
Bets Donolo instructed the firing of Rossi and ‘the man in the street’ !
Who’s next Donolo?
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/more-blood-on-the-olo-floor/article1354947/
http://twitter.com/liberalrocco/status/5494756597
understatement…
H1N1 overplayed by media, public health: MDs
…A healthy child in Canada is about 20 times more likely to be killed by a car than by the H1N1 virus, Schabas said, but that isn’t going to make the national news…
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/11/06/h1n1-media.html
Maz2@ 9:00pm…just more rats fleeing the badly listing ship! I think they are finally beginning to see what a really bad idea it was to use this flu outbreak for cheap political reasons,and people are sick and tired of the ‘mean-spirited’ nasty Libs.
“Well, now it’s official.
Global warmingism has court-warranted standing as a religion. And a 2,000-year-old religion is banned from manifesting its most precious symbol in front of the eyes of trauma-prone atheists. Lord, have mercy on us. Please.”
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“Rex Murphy
Crucifix out, warming in
What was once venerated is now, in many ways, dismissed and even despised.
Matthew Arnold, the great Victorian poet, marked the turning moment. He had early intimations of “the way we live now,” a way largely evacuated of its Christian allegiances, certainly – in the public sphere – evacuated of the regard and respect that the profession of Christianity once automatically evoked.
“The Sea of Faith/ Was once, too, at the full,” he wrote, before going on in lines of immense power to record:
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Arnold was more than a bit of a prophet. Blasted by the great cold winds of secularism and scientism, faith in the old sense, faith in Christianity in once or so-called Christian countries, is not only in decline and defensive. Faith is, at the public level, being actively pushed away, visited with dismissive scorn. At the same time, ideas, attitudes and “positions” that have never been seen under the rubric of faith increasingly seek the protections of “sanctified” belief.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/crucifix-out-warming-in/article1354734/
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“*The Earth is warming,”.
AGW is the Religion of the State proclaimed by the National Post/MSM.
Give us the “Proof”, National Post.
“The Earth (notice the capital “E” on earth) is warming”.
Where is the proof, National Post? If God is dead, prove to us that “The Earth is warming”.
Is Gaia a jealous goddess? Are you, National Post, Gaia’s Evangelist?
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“Jim Prentice gets it right
“Canada is calling the bluff of Big Green and its army of unquestioning acolytes
National Post
The Earth is warming, and human activity is likely to blame.”
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/story.html?id=2197134
Islam’s dogma of ‘Two-Faced’ Muslims is : takkiya*.
The serpent has a forked tongue.
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“Islamic Scholar Warns U.S. of ‘Two-Faced’ Muslims
WASHINGTON – A leader of the small worldwide Muslim reform movement is warning the West against wishful thinking as the U.S. government promotes an intensive dialogue with Islam.
“The dialogue is not proceeding well because of the two-facedness of most Muslim interlocutors on the one hand and the gullibility of well-meaning Western idealists on the other,” Bassam Tibi said Tuesday in an interview with United Press International.
Syrian-born Tibi, who claims to be a direct descendant of the prophet Mohammed and teaches political science at Goettingen University in Germany, appealed for intellectual honesty in these exchanges.
This Is ‘Peace’?
“First, both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms these mean different things to each of them. The word ‘peace,’ for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam – or ‘House of Islam’ – to the entire world,” explained Tibi, who is also a research scholar at Harvard University.
“This is completely different from the Enlightenment concept of eternal peace that dominates Western thought, a concept developed by Immanuel Kant,” an 18th-century philosopher.
This Is ‘Tolerance’?
“Similarly, when Muslims and the Western heirs of the Enlightenment speak of tolerance they have different things in mind. In Islamic terminology, this term implies abiding non-Islamic monotheists, such as Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, as second-class believers. They are ‘dhimmi,’ a protected but politically immature minority.”
According to Tibi, the quest of converting the entire world to Islam is an immutable fixture of the Muslim worldview. Only if this task is accomplished, if the world has become a “Dar al-Islam,” will it also be a “Dar a-Salam,” or a house of peace.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380754/posts
*THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CULT OF ISLAM – Home
This Takkiya is a deception that muslims use constantly in the west to achieve their real aims of Islamic power. Another reason is that far from being a …
http://www.finalcrusade.com/
Joanne @ 9:24 pm
There is room for all sorts of ‘Best Blogs’ and you absolutely deserve to be there.
Get on it, Team BLY!!
Janice says:
November 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm
The Leafs should have been given an ultimatum. No one gets their vaccinations until they win the Stanley Cup. Oh yeah that´s not fair because there will likely be a completely different flu strain by 2067.
You’re being wildly optimistic.
[...] Environment Minister Jim Prentice’s promise not to put our country’s economy at risk,) Maz2 catches the subtle wording of the introduction implies tacit acceptance of the notion of AGW: The Earth is [...]
BTW, did anyone catch Tom Clark on Power Play on Thursday when he introduced Graham Richardson as the former host of that program? He didn’t say ‘former co-host’ or even, more accurately, ‘former fill-in host’. He said ‘former host’.
Joanne, here`s another thoughtful piece about this flu issue
By L. Ian MacDonald.
Crisis? What crisis?
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Crisis+What+crisis+shot+experience+efficient+polite/2195446/story.html
Neil D,I don’t think that Richardson was ever more than a ‘substitute/fill-in/guest host’(pick your poison) and a horrible one at that,imo! He is just so grumpy!
Nothing shocked me more than him breaking the ‘vaccine contract’ story. I have never seen him do a pro-Conservative story. That doesn’t mean it didn’t happen but I have never seen it.
Thx Frmgrl. I’ll check it out.
Just maybe Richardson/Clark are very jealous that they can’t get the ratings and viewers that Duffy got doing the same program. And also, perhaps Richardson broke the contract story because he thought it was the conservatives who gave it out.
He is not known for checking the facts.
Wonder what they will find with the relocation contract, any large donations.
And why did Stoffer have the figures for cost of Senators appointed by the PM for many more than the 8 yrs they are appointed for. Did he include the liberal senators that have years to go before retiring in that cheque.
And wouldn’t that figure be for any senators serving for that many years.
Lots of positive reports coming from those getting their shot in the last few days.
If Donalo doesn’t take over till Nov 17, and Davey and friend are on vacation, who is running the show.
However, Peter is getting the blame for all the goofs of the last few days. Is that why Nov 17 has been mentioned, to deflect the goofs away from him.
Great rant from Michael Campbell this morning about the hype and hysteria that comes from the media on the H1N1 and other issues. Great comments from callers too.
Audio will be up later. Go to the 9:00 am segment after the 9:30 news.
http://www.am770chqr.com/Station/AudioVault.aspx
A sure cure for the moving of the hysteria of the media re: H1N1 is to continue to read it.
Take a coffee outside and call me in the morning.
You’ll feel much better.
Go ahead Gabby – let me have it.
Let’s all just drop it, be a team and support ‘THE BEST BLOG’, shall we?
http://2009.weblogawards.org/nominations/
and enter your ‘handle’ and then,
http://www.bluelikeyou.com
GO GRAMA JOANNE, GO!
GO GRAMA JOANNE, GO!
Ha! Thanks Bec.
Grama Jo already got the best award possible with that sweet little Grandson.
Gotcha, ditto!
Yeah, Bec. it’s the best thing in the world right?
There is NOTHING like it, Joanne…..and it will cost you a kazillion dollars….haha!
Anyone watching Fox this am. Numerous stories on the shortage of the vaccine in that country and no plan to how to distribute it. Very long lines waiting for said shot.
Good think I never believed all the lib/media BS that only Canada has a problem. O is afraid this fiasco will get set in the american mind as to why the govt should not be in charge of health care.