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We used to believe it is a crime to organize, support and give political cover to terrorist organizations. Things have changed.
The miracles of the Qur'an fall into two categories - those related to content and those related to the text itself.
"I am not a man of hope today." That is how Gideon Levy began his talk at Ottawa’s First Baptist Church about the situation in Israel/Palestine. The talk was jointly sponsored by Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East and Independent Jewish Voices.
While cancer has overtaken heart disease as the number one killer of Canadians - as many as two in five Canadians are expected to by diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives - over-diagnosis and treatment of this disease is becoming an increasing part of the problem.
Islam is a religion of moderation. That was the point made by Ismail Albatnuni, imam of Ottawa's Assunnah Muslim Association Mosque. He and Sikander Hashmi, imam of the Kanata Association of Muslims, spoke at a public education session held in conjunction with Friday prayer at the Assunnah Mosque on February 6.
The important issues are ignored and tensions needlessly aroused.
Thank goodness we don't have to hear Newt Gingrich for a while. His statement that the Palestinians were an "invented people" marked about the lowest point in the Republican-Christian Right-Likudist/Israel relationship.
On February 3, Carleton University held a public forum on the issue of affordable housing, featuring Carleton University professors Ian Lee and Benjamin Gianni, as well as Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto's Chief Planner, and Brock Carlton, CEO of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Pondering Whither America, I reflected on a story, probably apocryphal but which I am going to believe because I like it, about catching monkeys. Tribesmen somewhere craft a heavy pot with a hole in it large enough that a monkey could insert an open hand, but not withdraw a closed fist. They then put monkey food in the pot. The monkey reaches in, grabs the food and, refusing to let go when the hunters approach, is caught and eaten.
After 60 years of military/autocratic rule, Egypt descended into a lamentable state of existence.
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