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One legacy of the decade since 9/11 has been the growing fear of Muslims and Islam.
The weekly Muslim prayer at a Toronto public school thats said to constitute an imminent threat to Canadian secularism has been going on for 11 years, with nary a complaint.
Before we get on with this column, here is its context: We are familiar with the Stephen Harper government's penchant for blackballing its critics - for example, calling Jack Layton "Taliban Jack" for suggesting talks with the Taliban, precisely what NATO is doing.
Why is it that it is only now, after 11 months of civilian carnage, that Bashar Assad's victims are beginning to call for foreign military intervention - reluctantly and obliquely at that, out of sheer desperation?
Prior to the 2011 election, the Conservatives pretty much owned the media. What criticism there was, was lukewarm and included some outrageous statements such as "Once Harper gets a majority, he will be able to ease up, be kinder, less controlling". And of course, the media repeated the Harper propaganda that "The Conservatives have done well on the economy" throughout the election campaign giving the Harper gang millions in free advertising. There was also the oft repeated "They run from the right but govern from the centre."
If I were to tell you that the movie Machete had a lot of extreme violence in it, you would probably be justified in calling me "Captain Obvious". If I were to tell you that it had a lot of swearing and nudity in it, you might be less sarcastic, but you probably wouldn’t be shocked. Now, if I were to tell you that Machete had an underlying socio-political message, you would probably call me a liar, but you would be wrong.
John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad, Kogan Page Ltd, 2010, Hardcover.
How do you deal with an ignorant bully? Well, when we were young and on the schoolyard we were told to ignore the bully and walk away.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
Muhammad Asad dedicates his book Islam at the Crossroads to "the Muslim youth of today in hopes that it may be of benefit." He did this in not only the first edition, which was published in 1934, but also in the author's note to the revised edition, which was published in 1982.
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