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JUDGMENT WATCH
Further to this week’s Bulletin column on terrorist-dodging public broadcasters, note this CBC headline:
Canadian Muslim leaders denounce violence
Hockey violence, maybe? No; what the Muslim leaders actually denounced was terrorism:
“Terrorism has been increasing and it is our religious duty to confront this evil,” Ahmad Kutty, a Toronto imam, told reporters.
“We must do so unitedly – as imams and religious leaders,” he said.
CBC obviously thought it insensitive even to quote an imam opposing terrorism. But over at Australia’s ABC, Lateline reporter Narda Gilmore is bravely defying official directives:
John Howard left London this morning bound for Iraq. The details of his visit were kept quiet for security reasons. As he visits the front line in the war against terror, the Prime Minister’s also embroiled in a war of words with Melbourne-based Muslim cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran.
No “so-called” war against terror for Narda, despite ABC policy. Re-education camp awaits.
Talking of Canada, from the BBC announcement regarding Hassam, who was arrested after crossing the border into the U.S from Canada, and planned to do some damage to L.A airport.
“Ressam had been denied asylum by Canada, but had nevertheless managed to continue to live in Montreal for seven years. “
How many more are there?
Posted by Torontosteve on 2005 07 27 at 01:51 PM • permalinkWell you’re too late.
The “War on Terror” was always a braindead uncomfortable misnomer for what is really a War on Islam. Just ask the people we’re fighting, they’ll tell you. And they’re the ones who should know.
And now thankfully, the Whitehouse has finally dropped it:“The Bush administration is retooling its slogan for the fight against Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups, pushing the idea that the long-term struggle is as much an ideological battle as a military mission, according to senior administration and military officials.”
well the heavily lobotomised George Negus was desperately last night trying to get the King of jordan to say that Iraq was the “frontline’ and cause of western terror.
T the King to my surprise told Negus to get stuffed in a milder version of the eloquent manner that Howard used with Domani or is it Buongiorno the Australian moonbat journo.
Before that, lateline treated us to an abbyssimal piece of leftist journalism from a “Junior reporter” in Leeds.
She managed to find a drunken redneck in a Pub who told us how he hated the ragheads and had always done so.
This of course set the scane for defining the attitudes of the rest of the “white’ population of that town.
then came the “puzzled housewife interview. ” i can’t believe he was such a nice bloke -loved cricket and fish and chips and all”
By this time the whole of the SBS viewers were being lulled into the they probably did not do it theory or if they did its because of the redneck in the Pub.
Not one word of sympathy in the whole piece for those murdered on the tube.
If George Negus is producing crap like this then he is indeed worse thatn Andrew Jaspan, Tim!Junior just decided to up and go to England,never been there before and straight to Leeds.(She was interviewed on unsympatico territory by a non public radio station about it.)
She said she went to a soccer oval and hung out with the young blokes for a few hours until they “trusted her” enough to be recorded.Naively, she was surprised at how politically well educated they appeared to be,-talking about the Palestinian situation and Iraq and Afghanistan.How mothers about to give birth were stopped at Israeli checkpoints etc…
I think she trusted them more than they trusted her.She was extremely sympathetic to the subjects and their views.The SBS program was DATELINE not Lateline.
Sorry. so easy to confuse the two!
now at http://news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=archive&daysum=2005-07-27The Beeston boys - an intimate meeting with the neighbourhood friends of the young British Muslims named as suicide bombers. After those horrible attacks that left 57 dead
NOTE THE INSERTION OF THE WORD NAMED and the exclusion of ‘THE’.
SBS is learning from its peers at the BBC.Poor old George Negus, the epitome of the baby boomers, still plugging away his ‘70s views (while hobnobbing with kings), his raffish ‘70s moustache and sideburns flecked with age, the mouth more drawn, the eyes so baggy. The old duffer, shuttled from one obscure, low-rating program (ABC 6.30pm show last time) to another, until the final indignity of the sunshine home for terminally unemployable TV “journalists”, alongside Richard Carleton and his walking frame. It’s a dog’s life, George.
Personally, I gave up on the Sally Junior interview with the Leeds lads, when it didn’t come with subtitles. Everything else on SBS does and that should have.
Canadians ... where to begin?
Ironical isn’t it that far-flung Australia and the UK are allies in Iraq, but the cross-border Canucks are not. It took Chretien an ice age to work up the enthusiasm to even visit ground zero. The CBC and Toronto Star agonized over the rights and wrongs of calling the terrorists who attacked the USA ... “terrorists”.
Canadians have many, many pretensions. The cosmetic, window dressing of a happy multicultural nation masks deep divisions and tensions. But Canadians have developed sophisticated denial mechanisms and the machinery for manufacturing ongoing spin to perpetuate their cherished myth ... as a result, everyone and his/her dog plays the national game.
Occasionally chinks (no slur intended) in the armor occur. Recently a General Hillier made a shockingly un-Canadian pronouncement, to the effect that Al Qaeda and associates are “scumbags”. That’s the kind of language that makes the posers at the Toronto Star (such as Haroon “Jihad” Siddiqui) cringe. Amazingly though, Hillier’s no-holds-barred characterization of Islamo fascists, met with warm applause across the Canadian political spectrum - even the NDP and other quasi-commie factions nodded with mute compliance. This bizarre departure from the “Canadian pose” has to do with three factors 1. The London attack 2. The deployment of Canadian forces to Taliban infested Kandahar province in Afghanistan where lives will be on the line 3. The respect and stature of Hillier himself.
Canada is a strange nation. Strangely unreal. Sheltered from revolution and war - propped up on a neo-cold war “internationalist” platform that sees the likes of Chretien more comfortable in the embrace of Castro than Bush - smitten with some weird righteousness that has them posing as the “world’s peace makers” ... Canada is an artificial fabrication. No zeitgeist for Canadians, just the social engineering of policy wonks. No wonder all their best talent moves to the USA in search of a pulse.
All of which makes Hillier’s “scumbag” remark seem outrageously politically incorrect..
#14 Canada is a strange nation. Strangely unreal. Sheltered from revolution and war - propped up on a neo-cold war “internationalist” platform that sees the likes of Chretien more comfortable in the embrace of Castro than Bush - smitten with some weird righteousness that has them posing as the “world’s peace makers”
Although Canada and Denmark are posturing over a tiny island.
Danes call Graham’s visit to Hans Island ‘occupation’
Copenhagen likely to send navy ship to inspect tiny Arctic knoll, reports sayNow a war between these two would be something. My money’s on the Danes: surely 50 years of socialism haven’t completely bred out the Viking genes?
(btw, note all the bizarre references to global warming in the article)
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2005 07 28 at 03:29 AM • permalinkThe greatest shock was seeing Kris Kristofferson on ABC TV (and performing on 702 Sydney radio). The poor old thing is 70, clapped out, hoarse, his brain half eaten away by decades of drugs, but still bumming his way round the world, hustling for a few coins, still looking for someone to help him make it through the night. Isn’t he eligible for the pension? Very sad to see.
Re-education camp awaits.
I hope Narda gets sent to one of the gulags in North America. Bush and Howard must have some sort of super-secret reciprocal agreement about swapping dissidents in a sort of token diversity program. I hear the food is better there than the concentration camps in Fortress Australia.
/moonbattery
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 07 28 at 08:51 AM • permalinkThe Left’s opposition to even the concept of the War on Terror is highly instructive I think. They have wished away every conflict with tyranny and have done so so enthusiastically they end up apologising for even the worst excesses of Saddam, Mugabe, the PRC etc. Quite sad really.
Posted by Andrew Landeryou on 2005 07 28 at 09:00 AM • permalinkInteresting bits from Media lift out in Oz.
Mark Day -“Stoic resilience as freedom topples to fight terror.”
“Walking down the Edgeware Rd,we are staggered to find ourselves in the middle of little Baghdad….“etc.
“You wonder why people come to a new land in the hope of a better life,then insist on living as before.In such an environment it is easy to feel uneasy and you have to reassure yourself that 99% of people following the Islamic faith reject the actions of the fundamentalist extremists who are succeeding in what they set out to do,create fear.
We drive past the U.S.Embassy in Grosvenor Sq.There are riot cops outside,menacing in black,carrying submachine guns.Water filled plastic barriers surround the building and behind them an obstacle course of steel barriers.
It turns the embassy for the Home of the Free into a fortress.THE FORTRESS OF FREEDOM.AND OUR GOVERNMENT IS PLANNING MORE NEW LAWS THAT IS SAYS WILL HELP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERROR.
Our freedoms are being DENIED in the name of preserving our freedoms.
That’s one equation I haven’t yet heard the media explain.”
and that’s not all——-re MEDIAWATCH.
Which called Seven’s reporter GRUBBY and UNDERHANDED.(London Bombings).
Frustrated by the failure of the program to apologise after he explained they were wrong,Chris Reason has sent DIARY a letter of support from the man he is supposed to have duped,John Tulloch.His letter is certainly supportive of Reason’s argument.(details it).
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Sadly, it’s going to take an atrocity in Ottawa or Rome for them to wake up all the way.