This time, those voters will be stoned and may get distracted on the way to the polling station by a box of cookies.
I might be laughing more at that stoner stuff........................
if firstly - it was not so TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And secondly it might be funnier if the fate of the country..........................
for generations to come did not hang in the balance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is an older article detailing the continuing debate over a Cdn teacher's comments - which some people consider racist!! With some comments of my own in brackets):
First posted: Sunday, September 25, 2016 08:00 PM EDT | Updated: Sunday, September 25, 2016 08:14 PM EDT
By Nadia Shoufani
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(Our idiot Boy Justin has made it CLEAR which side he stands on since immediately after being eledcted - he started shipping Cdn AID to terror group HAMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Earlier this month, the Toronto Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy wrote a column questioning whether anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian statements by Mississauga school teacher Nadia Shoufani, and by supporters defending her freedom of speech, amounted to espousing hate.
Shoufani was suspended following a recent Al-Quds Day rally where she urged attendees to “resist the occupation” of Palestine, to “support the resistance in any form imaginable” and praised the “martyrs” resisting Israel, presumably including the Palestine Liberation Front (a known terrorist group).
(The OBVIOUS PROBLEM with the Muslim position is they WANT TOTAL CONTROL!! And once they have that total control then MAYBE they will let A FEW Jewish people remain in “Palestine” AS SECOND CLASS CITIZENS!! Muslims have made it abundantly CLEAR there will be NO PEACE until Israel is destroyed completely!! Naturally Israel CANNOT NEGOTIATE with such people who are offering only two choices- surrender or DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Few conflicts around the world are as divisive or emotionally charged as ongoing troubles between Israel and Palestine. During a Queen’s Park press conference in support of Shoufani, her supporters lashed out at Levy, suggesting her characterizations were “disgraceful,” “insulting” and “grotesquely false.” Following publication of her column, both her supporters and B’Nai Brith requested space in the paper to address the matter.
Here are both sides:
MICHAEL MOSTYN
CEO, B’nai Brith Canada
As reported by the Toronto Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy, the Queen’s Park Media Studio recently played host to an odd spectacle.
Four self-proclaimed “defenders of free speech” held a quixotic press conference in defence of Nadia Shoufani, a Mississauga school teacher under investigation by Toronto Police and suspended with pay by her own school board for comments that can be interpreted as praising terrorists and inciting violence against Israelis at a rally held at Queen’s Park in July.
At that rally, attendees carried placards with the Jewish star crossed out, or called for a boycott against Israel.
(Muslims are doubly outraged - first that Israel should exist at all and second- that Jews FIGHT BACK and how dare they succeed against “The Faithful”??????????)
Shoufani urged attendees to “fight back” and “resist the occupation” of Palestine. She called on the crowd to “support the resistance in any form imaginable” and her statement “Glory to the martyrs” doubtlessly referenced the Palestine Liberation Front, a terrorist group bent on the destruction of Israel and the creation of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
(LIE-berals routinely IGNORE wild Muslim statements that would be AUTOMATICALLY LABELED HATE CRIME if spoken by a JEW or Consevative!! WE have only to look at the outrage Trump generated when he suggested moving the U.S. embassy to the ancient capitol of the Jewish Kingdom - Jerusalem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And does anybody care to guess how LOUD the screams of Muslim outrage would be if a JEW called for “resistance to Hezzbollah and Hamas and the PLO by ANY MEANS”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
While casting themselves as respected academics and social justice activists, many of the panelists have somewhat shady histories themselves. Michael Keefer and Graeme MacQueen, retired professors from Guelph and McMaster, both are listed as members of “Scholars for 9/11 Trust and Justice,” a 9/11 conspiracy website.
(Oh yes- just another white HATER who cannot coherently explain WHY George W. Bush would want to kill his own TAX PAYERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Keefer, who is not himself Jewish, has taken it upon himself to repeatedly cast doubt on B’nai Brith Canada’s Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents and suggest hatred toward Jews is not a serious problem in Canada. Meanwhile, Toronto Police statistics confirm that Jews, who constitute a tiny fraction of the city’s population, suffered the most hate crimes in 2015.
Karin Brothers, another participant in the free speech panel, also addressed the 2015 iteration of the al-Quds Day rally which landed Shoufani in hot water. Birds of a feather tend to flock together.
(Yes and the HOGS of Toronto Silly Hall are twisting their logic into pretzels as they struggle to come up with some way to BAN Al Quds Day - WITHOUT Losing Muslim votes!! Al Quds Day has encouraged such anti Jew bigotry that it has BEEN BANNED from Queens Park - so it has been moved to city land!!!!!!)
Nevertheless, the real issue here is not the panellists’ odd views, but rather their blatant hypocrisy.
When Ms. Levy asked the panellists whether free speech should also protect someone who shouts that “all Muslims are terrorists” at a public rally, she was shouted down and condemned rather than being given a meaningful answer. This hypocrisy and lack of respect for her free speech did not seem to bother Shoufani’s supporters.
(Yeah the same people who smear all white people as systemic racists do NOT want to discuss their deliberate smears of Jews!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Freedom of expression is indeed written into our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but like all rights, it has its limits. As a famous American jurist once wrote, one cannot shout “Fire!” in a crowded theatre where there’s no problem.
(The DEVIL is in the details - the VILE Pierre Trudope left some DANDY loopholes in his “constitution” that ALLOW LEGAL SUPPRESSION of free speech by UNELECTED LIE-beral dominated Human Rights Kangaroo Courts!!)
(LIE-beral bias is so strong that they are even willing to defend Muslims making highly inflammatory statements - such as the Calgary Imam who explained to a cheering crowd that IT IS LEGAL IN GODS EYES - to kill gays so they will not “SIN” AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And yet a person publicly announcing that the majority of Muslims support TERRORISTS is considered a hate monger and arrested!! This in spite of various polls - mainly in Britain - that indicate that many Muslims WOULD NOT TELL THE COPS - if they got wind of a planned terror attack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
By telling a large crowd of angry and primed Israel-haters that resistance “by any means necessary” is a virtue, and that Ghassan Kanafani, a terrorist who planned the murder of 26 innocent civilians, was a “martyr,” Shoufani poured gasoline on an already volatile situation.
The crowd which Shoufani addressed at Queen’s Park on July 2 was filled with young, impressionable children, dragged to the event by their enthusiastic parents. What can we expect them to think about Jews, about Israel and about terrorism after hearing such a speech?
Shoufani’s employer, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, owes it to its bosses, the Ontario taxpayers, to ensure that their children do not unwittingly fall victim to the same hateful and inciting bile in the classroom.
The school board made the right decision to suspend Shoufani, although why she continues to be paid is a mystery. Let’s all hope the board does the right thing and sides with tolerance in the classroom over apologists for hatred and terrorism.
— Mostyn is chief executive officer of B’nai Brith Canada
THE VIEW FROM THE PANEL:
On Aug. 17, I chaired a Queen’s Park press conference defending the free speech rights of Nadia Shoufani, a teacher and Palestinian activist. According to Sue-Ann Levy, at that event her own right to free speech “was attacked, jeered [at] and treated with insults.”
(Being shouted down and drowned out so your words cannot be heard is usually considered a restriction on free speech!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
During the press conference, Professor Graeme MacQueen, founding director of McMaster’s Institute of Peace Studies; Professor Atif Kubursi, author of a UN study of the economic costs of the Israeli occupation; and Karin Brothers, a long-time human rights activist, made evidence-based presentations on the McCarthyist persecution of Ms. Shoufani, and on related issues of international law, free speech rights, and media bias.
I underlined the urgency of Shoufani’s free speech, providing information from Israeli and international experts about a catastrophic public health crisis in the West Bank and Gaza — for which international law makes Israel, the occupying power, responsible.
(There is a Muslim mayor elected in Jerusalem; there are Muslims sitting in the Israeli Knesset; Israeli tourists routinely fly off to Egyptian resorts on the Red Sea!! IT IS CLEAR that Israel will make peace and cooperate FULLY with those who honestly WANT PEACE!! To bad Palestinians spit on honest peace!!!!!!!!!!)
Ms. Levy introduced her questions like a bully, insultingly implying that the four panelists were hatemongers.
(A lone middle aged woman reporter can bully a mob of Muslim supporting MEN?? No wonder Muslims pray to God for HIM to destroy Israel -since Muslims are too chicken to do the job themselves!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Despite this unprofessional behaviour, I gave her ample opportunity to exercise free speech: her questions took up a large part of the Q and A session. I told her that groundless and hence defamatory accusations of hatemongering are disgraceful, yet in her article she repeats that we strove “to enable” hatred.
What kind of journalist could be both resolutely ignorant of, and also passionately (even hatefully?) opposed to the information our panel presented? Or is Levy smearing us in order to deflect attention from issues she prefers her readers not to understand?
(Levy is the kind of “journalist” who believes- along with a LOT OF CDNS - that Israel HAS THE RIGHT TO EXIST - and thus also has the right to defend itself from those who have “Sworn to drive the Jews into the sea”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Michael Keefer, Professor Emeritus, English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
Co-signatories:
Karin Brothers, founding member, the United Network for Just Peace in Palestine/Israel
Atif Kubursi, Professor Emeritus of Economics, McMaster University
Graeme MacQueen, Associate Professor (ret.) of Religious Studies, McMaster University
(What a DISGRACE!! Such a one sided and poisoned discussion!! And we now have THREE MORE NAMES of so called teachers who OUGHT TO BE FIRED because of their BIGOTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
