~ REMEMBER your actionables: write, call, speak out, letters to the editor (and remember to mention the url FreeMarkSteyn.com in all of them). The ‘Echo-Chamber’ effect of the blogosphere is not enough to bring about real-world change. It’s our country, and our freedom to lose. Get to work. And remember MP Keith Martin, too. Harper & Co. be darned: make yourself heard! … (FreeMarkSteyn.com)
~ STEYN: FREE SPEECH IN AN AGE OF JIHAD: Steyn, Levant, Rachel Ehrenfeld, Ibn Warraq and more in New York on April 10th – and don’t forget Mark at Middlebury College on April 2nd …. (steynonline, steynonline)
~ DEBORAH GYAPONG— Ezra Levant’s summary was well worth waiting for …. (deborahgyapong.blog)
~ CANADIAN JIHAD: Fun With Fuel-Air Bomb-Making– “Canada’s alleged homegrown terror cell the Toronto 18 have recently been described as wanna be Jihadists and maybe that is so but in a newly released videotape transcript it sure sounds like they at least meant it“; and in other news, “In an effort to provide them a fair trial, the Canadian government is seeking a limited publication ban on the identities of the adults charged with belonging to the so-called “Toronto 18” group” …. (DMB, 5fof, Cfp)
~ IT’S A FREEBIE! “Fitna”, the anti-Islam movie, is on the web (but for how long?)– WARNING: extremely graphic and disturbing …. (5fof)
~ THE APOSTATE Magdi Allam – from Mohammed to Christ. Easter’s Child: “Cristiano”. Colby Cosh writes about a prominent Italian Muslim’s apostasy. First Things: “The question is whether the Holy Father intentionally flipped anyone the bird at the Easter Vigil. I think not”; Muslim baptized by pope says he wanted to show others not to fear …. (Various)
~ THE POPE is standing tall in the face of jihadism & criticism: “Pope Benedict XVI puts his life on the line”; Pope Baptizes famous Muslim convert at Easter Vigil. The nitwits at the Catholic Muslim Forum object to public baptism of Muslims, too. Chuck Colson: “They Want Jesus instead” …. (Varous)
~ SHAIDLE: “What the hell ever happened to “W-A-T-E-R”?; and “Misunderstanders of Islam: a handy partial list” …. (5fof)
~ SDA: JADEWARR, son of Encryption!; Rights panel sleuth used fake e-mail addresses to uncover web hatred; Canada article sparks free speech row …. (Various)
~ NAUGHTINESS ENSUED— Canadian Human Rights Commission Employees Admit to Misconduct by John Jalsevac …. (catholicexchange, blazingcatfur.blog)
~ JIHAD, Jew-Hatred, and Evangelicals and Jews Together, By Keith Pavlischek …. (firstthings.com)
~ CELESTIAL JUNK: “Christian Fanatics Rampage”; Has the Cold War Returned? …. (cjunk.blog)
~ JUST FYI, “Saudi Shoura Council votes down law promoting respect for other religions”; elsewhere, “Saudi king says he’ll convene interfaith conference with Jews” …. (JiWa, Felix Hominum)
~ EDIFICE COMPLEX— “If Gail Asper manages to flush a total of $105 million from the pockets of private donors before her April deadline, Winnipeg’s state of the art tribute to human rights will be almost close enough to touch” …. (cw)
~ ISLAM’S PUBLIC ENEMY #1— Meanwhile, Father Zakaria Botros, a Coptic priest, is saving the souls by the boatload, by challenging Muslim authorities on al-Hayat TV to defend their faith …. (Mark Shea, FreeRep)
~ DANIEL PIPES: “Destroying Sculptures of Muhammad” …. (catholicexchange)
~ PAGING MOHAMED ELMASRY: Egypt – Ex-Muslims Blocked from Declaring Conversion …. (compassdirect.org)
~ ROGER SCRUTON— The glory of the West is that life is an open book – “One of the strangest of recent movements in the world of education has been that promoting “multiculturalism” and attacking the traditional humanities for their “ethnocentricity” …. (catholiceducation)
~ JAY CURRIE— But Seriously; just Perfect; and “Moving to a Real Court” …. (jc)
~ FOLLOW THE MONEY-TRAIL: JERUSALEM – Just days after it was announced the U.S. would transfer $150 million directly to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ government, members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group, the declared military wing of Abbas’ Fatah party, were told they would receive cash grants, WND has learned.” In other news, Dennis Prager wonders, “Why Do Palestinians Get Much More Attention than Tibetans?” …. (jihadwatch, drsanity.blog)
~ MIKE BROCK: “AMS with Ezra Levant Reminder”; Filtered Comments …. (mikebrockonline)
~ TRAVESTY-WATCH: UN Human Rights Council Blasted for ‘Bias and Hypocrisy’ …. (cns)
~ ACTON BLOG— Hoekstra: ‘Islam and Free Speech’ …. (acton.org)
~ FIGHTING BACK AGAINST SHARI’A in Turkey– “The state prosecutor has applied to the Constitutional Court to ban the ruling party as a religious party intent on introducing Islamic customs and law, contrary to the nation’s secularist foundation. The ban would include the party leader and democratically elected prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan” …. (magicstatistics)
~ AMERICA THE FREE: “A Delaware state human relations commission is investigating a fifth-grade teacher who reportedly told her students she wouldn’t vote for Sen. Barack Obama because he is “scary” and a Muslim, the Associated Press reported”; in other news, “Obama’s Pastor Slurs Italians in Latest Magazine” …. (ap, cns)
~ NO BABIES? NO PROBLEM! More immigrants!.. oops: “Canada’s Health Care System Cannot Survive Mass Immigration”.. all those aging people …. (cfp)
~ THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC of the UK– Muslims ‘to outnumber traditional churchgoers’; UK: Two jihad terrorists moved to new prison after complaining fellow inmates were “too white” …. (anglican-mainstream, JiWa)
~ VOX POPULI: Censoring Movie Critical of Islam …. (cnsnews)
~ ACTON BLOG: “Democracy as a means to (hopefully) godly ends” …. (acton.org)
~ AMERICAN THINKER— “A fervent Christian critic of Islam points out the folly of the dead legalism of portions of sharia and then contrasts it with the spiritual appeal of Christianity on satellite TV. He is having an effect” …. (americanthinker.com)
~ IN OTHER NEWS: “Family of terrorist feels hurt” …. (dustmybroom)
~ HILARIOUS HRC HI-JINKS: The spy who shagged my wireless internet connection; CHRC’s onion begins to unravel…. (socon.ca)
~ EURABIA-WATCH: “Bin Laden’s Threat and the New Jihadist Message for Europe – Walid Phares” …. (americanthinker)
~ WORD FROM THE FRONT: “First Anbar tribal councils turned on al Qaeda in Iraq. And now at least one gay porn mogul has joined the fight against jihadists. How much longer can the radical Islamists withstand the pressure!?” …. (spectator.org)
~ DEFENDING HUMAN FREEDOM— Why should you boycott the 2008 Olympics? Forget Sudan, Zimbabwe, and Tibet. Do it for Mrs Wang. and “A Hu howdunit. But is Ruan Ming talking through his hat? A second look at the riots in Lhasa, Tibet” …. (pundita.blog)
~ READER OF THE DAY— “Mark Steyn should be sued… The sheer retardness of his comments show a below-than-average intelligence.” …. (shoutwire)
~ A WARM WELCOME to all of our international readers– if you have any comments or suggestions, please let us know! …. (clustrmaps)
~ A GIANT MUST-READ— “A day in the life of Canada’s kangaroo court”; and CNN’s Glenn Beck …. (ezralevant.com)
~ WHACK-A-JEW! “The cancerous growth Israel will soon disappear.” And the Jihadi scumbags are here, too.. what IS it with Calgary? …. (sda, dustmybroom)
~ WONDERING WHAT ever happened to the brave Jihadi-turned-cockroach Abdullah Robert DeLancey? As soon as people noticed his crapulent nonsense, he started hiding, deleting, whitewashing, and generally scuttling for cover in all his online locales. It seems switchblades can’t help you when an online party of irritated bloggers start Googling your infomation, and outing your illegal and other interests and activities– read the updates, and all the comments. Scuttle, scuttle, scuttle …. (Ezra)
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