Mid-Week Post

Today is Coptic Solidarity Day. The Muslim Brotherhood, of which Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was a member, is persecuting Coptic Christians with the Americans still offering financial assistance. Demonstrate against Morsi and the MB’s designs to turn not just Egypt but the whole of the Middle East into a large series of failed Islamic states where religious minorities are persecuted.

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A surprise in every post.

Except here:

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be "eliminated," ignoring a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric ahead of the annual General Assembly session.

Ahmadinejad also said he did not take seriously the threat that Israel could launch a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, denied sending arms to Syria, and alluded to Iran's threats to the life of British author Salman Rushdie.

The United States quickly dismissed the Iranian president's comments as "disgusting, offensive and outrageous."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted Israel could strike Iran's nuclear sites and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's position that sanctions and diplomacy should be given more time to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Iran denies it is seeking nuclear arms and says its atomic work is peaceful and aimed at generating electricity.

"Fundamentally we do not take seriously the threats of the Zionists," Ahmadinejad, in New York for this week's U.N. General Assembly, told reporters. "We have all the defensive means at our disposal and we are ready to defend ourselves."

There would be no need to “eliminate” Israel if its “Zionist” threats are not worth taking seriously. Even the Coward-in-Chief’s sanctions could work if given time. Why, Iran has even stopped building its nuclear arsenal. Something must be ready to give.

Why are we still a part of the UN? What purpose could our continued involvement possibly serve other than giving Iran an platform on which to speak, even considering letting a country like Sudan sit on the human rights council and keeping China and Russia in seats of great power and influence?

Withdraw today, Canada.

Related: the Coward-in-Chief, who promised to meet Iran without pre-conditions, warns Iran. WARNS. Speaking as a man who loathes intolerance (he’s grovelled enough to know), maybe Iran will listen to him. Maybe:

President Barack Obama urged world leaders on Tuesday to put an end to the intolerance and violence that led to the recent killing of the U.S. ambassador in Libya and warned Iran he would do what it takes to prevent Tehran from getting nuclear arms.

In a 30-minute address to the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly, Obama called anew for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following an 18-month civil war without saying how to make it happen. He also offered no fresh ideas on solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Beginning and ending his remarks by evoking Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who died with three other Americans in a September 11 assault on the American Consulate in Benghazi, Obama called on nations to fight such violence.

"Today, we must affirm that our future will be determined by people like Chris Stevens, and not by his killers," said Obama, who seeks re-election on November 6. "Today, we must declare that this violence and intolerance has no place among our United Nations."

While condemning the violence sparked by a video made in California that depicts the Prophet Mohammad as a womanizer, fool and child abuser, several Muslim leaders called for international action to outlaw acts of blasphemy.

U.S. missions also came under attack in Egypt, Tunisia, Indonesia and other Muslim nations.

Obama - while repeating his condemnations of the video as "crude and disgusting" and stressing that the U.S. government had nothing to do with its production - staunchly defended free speech.

(Sidebar: the video is a red herring. The plan to kill the poorly defended ambassador was already devised. And, really, if you’re that emotionally retarded that you would riot over a video no one has seen, you deserve to live in a hellhole run into the ground by equally emotionally retarded crooks and liars who drum up “Zionist” boogey-men distractions whenever they cannot feed their own population or just deal with the fact that women are capable of going shopping without male owners watching their every step.)

Strong words from a man who is used to apologising. If Obama defended free speech the way he defended the embassy in Benghazi, why is Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens dead and why is he letting countries like Pakistan boss him around? No live ammo for embassies? No vigorous defense of the Constitution of the United States?

Further evidence that this man is not fit to water a fern let alone lead the United States for any period of time, let alone another four years. Americans, do yourselves- and the world- a favour and really, really consider what the past four years were like and what things will be like if this jack@$$ gets re-elected. You owe it to yourselves to be able to put food in your stomachs, gas in your car and to hold your heads high.

(full video here)

It’s possible to include Islam in a Catholic school’s curriculum:

The demand to include Islamic teaching in Catholic schools is proving controversial again. A few months ago, the Education Department in Tegal District (Central Java) warned St Pius Catholic Schools to include Islamic courses for Muslim students. …

The situation is critical because the sisters of the St Pius Catholic Schools have received threats and warnings, including the threat of having their schools shut down if they do not comply with the requests.

First of all, start with the definition of some basic terms. A heresy is a lie against the Revealed Truth (or the denial of what is held true in the Catholic faith). Jesus is the Son of God is an example of the Revealed Truth. 

But according to the Koran, sura 5:75:

The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers before him…

But that inaccurate description would just be plain nutty, not to mention heretical, if not apostate.

See- you CAN include Islam in Catholic religion classes.

The trip that Malia Obama did not go on is now the subject of a lawsuit:

A watchdog group with a history of exposing the taxpayer costs of President Obama’s vacations is now suing the Secret Service for records detailing how much it cost the agency to protect first daughter Malia Obama when she traveled to Mexico for spring break earlier this year.

It’s a trip that the White House has famously tried to keep out of the news.

The group Judicial Watch announced on Tuesday that it has filed the lawsuit, known as Judicial Watch v. U.S. Secret Service, for the records. The agency has so far, according to the group, not responded to a Freedom of Information Act request made on March 29.

The White House has gone out of its way to stop news outlets from reporting on the trip. When Malia Obama went on the Mexico vacation in March, the White House reportedly forced a number of news organizations to remove their stories online reporting on the trip.

China asks Canada to be fair as it has been fair.

The TDSB has found a new way to molest the kids.

Who says? Um, this guy. And this guy.

Since when were the Conservatives (in name only) never “gay-friendly”? When they didn’t fight gay “marriage”? One would think an activist liar would try harder to smear an opponent.

Why the NDP isn’t a party but a laughing stock:

Kenney is one of the government's most prominent cabinet ministers and the only one to say publicly that he is in favour of studying the Criminal Code's definition of when life begins. He said Monday that he would vote in favour of Motion 312, put forward by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth, to create a parliamentary committee to study the definition.

The vote is scheduled for tomorrow night.

NDP MP Niki Ashton, the party's critic on status of women, says she's concerned a cabinet minister has said he supports the motion, calling that support "in clear opposition" to Prime Minister Stephen Harper's longstanding position that no one wants to see the debate re-opened.

"Not only has the debate been opened through this private members motion coming forward, but ... a senior member of this government has clearly stated his support," Ashton said. …

Clearly people DO want to talk about this so they might as well dispense with their usual avoidance and rhetorical crap and catch up to the twenty-first century. That now the NDP critic would support Stephen Harper shows the mettle of her and her party’s convictions.

(With gratitude for all)