PTBC banner       ProudToBeCanadian

It's a question.

The latest from our COLUMNIST SECTION:

Click here to see more of our columns or use the drop-down menu atop this stack)



PTBC PUSH-BACK

Free-Market Capitalist Consumer Information:
These companies choose to advertise on the
socialism-reliant CBC:
(Links lead to mailing addresses)
• AIG (insur)
• Air Canada
• AOL Travel
• Bank of Montreal ("BMO")
• Best Western
• Canada Protection Plan
• Canada Revenue Agency (!)
• Canadian Tire Fin Serv
• Chip Home Income Plan
• CIBC
• Cold FX
• Desjardins (insurance)
• Directbuy, Inc
• Edward Jones
• General Motors
• Grand and Toy
• Grey Power (insurance)
• H&R Block
• Hilton Hotels
• iContact email marketing
• Infinity (cars)
• Koodoo mobile
• Lens Crafters
• Monster.ca
• National Post
• Neutrogena
• Nutrisystem
• Quicktax
• RBC (Royal bank)
• Rogers Cable
• ScotiaBank
• Shaw Cable
• Texas Travel
• The Co-operators (ins)
• Tim Hortons
• Travelodge
• Vonage
• WeightWatchers
• Westjet
• Working.com
• Zip.ca

Please read more here.


PTBC J-Log

A conservative OPINION blog --with bite. OPINION by Joel Johannesen.

Friday, July 03, 2009

National Post makes sense on Tarek Fatah, the Canadian Arab Federation, and nutter Omar Shaban

Written by Joel Johannesen on Friday July 03 2009 at 07:16 AM

The National Post has several articles on the raging blogger topic du jour (which I therefore usually try to avoid).  Barbara Kay wrote about it (see it as posted here at PTBC yesterday), but also see the NatPo’s news article today,  and their editorial appearing today, below. 

For most, the big lesson here is what a nutbar anti-Canadian loon the Islamist Omar Shaban is.  For me, it’s not.  Omar Shaban is a 23-year-old anti-Canadian Islamist extremist and an idiot. 

For me it’s just the sweet justification of the Conservative government’s belated but obviously right decision (bashed at the time by some Liberal and NDP supporters and their media) to quit funding the group that this young nutter helped lead —the detestable Canadian Arab Federation (the CAF); and it provides more proof that our government was, and still is, involved in funding all sorts of things it has absolutely no business funding with our tax dollars, or enabling in any other way (like through the CBC branch of the government, which I see as simply a favorite avenue for propaganda dissemination, not unlike al-Jazeera is).  Until just three months ago, we all directly funded and supported Shaban’s despicable terrorist-supporting CAF to the tune of a MILLION dollars per year.  And liberals and the left supported that.

National Post editorial board: Tarek Fatah’s gift to Canada

July 03, 2009

The ongoing battle between activist Tarek Fatah and the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) is a microcosm of the larger struggle for the soul of Canada’s Muslim and Arab communities.

Mr. Fatah — a socialist who lived in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before coming to Canada — champions a separation between mosque and state, respect for liberal social values and a rejection of terrorism. The leaders of CAF, on the other hand, support terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, run programs designed to indoctrinate young Canadian children with Israel-hatred and rant about alleged Zionist conspiracies on Parliament Hill and in Canadian newsrooms. While Mr. Fatah and the CAF once shared common ground — the CAF even gave the man an award in 2001 — they have since launched into a war of words that reflect their mutually irreconcilable view of Muslims’ and Arabs’ role in Canadian society.

This week, Mr. Fatah used his social-networking savvy to score a major blow in this battle: He alerted his contacts, many of whom are members of the national media, that CAF vice-president Omar Shaban had celebrated Canada Day by posting “F—k Canada” on his Facebook page, called Canada a “genocidal state” and declared that he “couldn’t be more ashamed to be Canadian.”

Even for the CAF, this was too much (which is really saying something). The next day, Mr. Shaban resigned.

We disagree with Mr. Fatah about many things — his socialist politics, for instance, and his strenuous criticism of Israeli policies. But he is doing a fine job holding radical Islamists and terror-apologists accountable for their unCanadian views. And for this, Canadians owe him their thanks.

•  The liberals’ Toronto Star division is also on it. 
•  Joe Warmington at the Toronto Sun is also on it


Posted by Joel Johannesen on Friday, July 03, 2009 at 07:16 AM
• If you think this site is of no value, then don't pay anything for it, and it will fade into the sunset. That's capitalism at work.
• Email this article to a Friend Spread the word! Email this to a friend | • Printer-Friendly | • Permalink
• Category: Unsorted +
ASK Favicon Blogosphere News Favicon del.icio.us Favicon Digg Favicon Facebook Favicon Fark Favicon Google Favicon LinkedIn Favicon Live Favicon Netscape Favicon NewsVine Favicon Reddit Favicon Slashdot Favicon StumbleUpon Favicon Technorati Favicon TwitThis Favicon Upnews Favicon Wikio Favicon YahooMyWeb Favicon

Page 1 of 1 pages