Questionable media narrative in the Quebec mosque killings

Faith Goldy: 

"... the mainstream media ...  obsessed with a new narrative based on a few 'likes' on [the alleged killer] Bissonnette’s Facebook page.

The discovery that Bissonnette liked two of the most popular politicians on earth (US President Donald Trump and France’s Marine Le Pen) quickly transformed the narrative into a story about a young right-wing extremist committing a terrorist act, even if no terror charges have been laid.

Bissonnette's Facebook "likes': on Canada’s leftist NDP Party page, as well as that of their former leader Jack Layton, have attracted far less media attention. ... "

Obama's "moderate Muslim" of the week

Roger Kimball:

Just yesterday, the president of the United States — that would be Barack Hussein Obama — stood before the United Nations and heaped praise on Sheikh Abdallah Bin Bayyah, a Muslim cleric who has endorsed a fatwa calling for the murder of U.S. soldiers. Yep, Bin Bayyah is Obama’s candidate of the week for the prize of being a “moderate Muslim.”

  [Via David Thompson referring to "that pernicious little tool in the White House" ]

Sponsor of Islamic conference addressed by Justin Trudeau raided and listed as terrorist entity

IRFAN-Canada, a Muslim "relief" group was raided by the RCMP and listed as a terrorist entity by the feds.

 IRFAN had it's charitable status revoked in 2011.In 2012 it sponsored the Reviving Islam Conference which featured Justin Trudeau as a speaker.

See also stories by The Toronto Star, the CBC, the Globe and Mail and Maclean's.  Note that, unlike Sun News and the National Post, none of these bothered to mention Trudeau's controversial link to this story. 

Here's Michael Coren:

NP's Jonathan Kay attacks Ezra Levant (and his new book about Omar Khadr)

The ever smug, snotty left-lib Jonathan Kay, having eavesdropped on Ezra Levant in the next cubicle (and apparently took notes), has decided that Ezra Levant lacks sufficient "intellectual sophistication and nuance" to process a case as "complex" as Omar Khadr's:

... the two of us were side-by-side cubicle neighbours. He did every telephone call in a booming Rush Limbaugh voice ...

...his style of attack is so obsessional that it sometimes seems like a manifestation of clinical mental illness...

...when it comes to an intellectual endeavor that actually requires intellectual sophistication and nuance — say, a full-length book about the legal treatment of a captured Canadian child-soldier ...

... most reasonable observers would agree that the case is complex.

This commenter captures the essence of Kay's attitude towards Ezra:

Well I don't know, Jonathan. I'd say it sounds a little more like you sat in your cubicle at the Post, and you watched Ezra come, and then you watched him go, and then you saw him put book after book on the bestseller list while you sat in your cubicle and wrote wimpy articles that no one reads. What makes this even more sad is that the only reason anyone read this particular article is because it happened to be about Ezra Levant.

I guess we can look forward to Kay's many "Welcome back Khadr!!" columns.  We can also look forward to Ezra's response.  Kay has handed him a couple of weeks worth of material.

Suing the useful idiots behind the Canadian Boat to Gaza

Eye On A Crazy Planet:

Canada has designated Hamas, the "Islamic Resistance Movement" in Gaza, as a terrorist organization and it is a criminal offense in Canada to provide aid to terrorists.

Why then are Canadians allowed to launch an effort to provide Hamas terrorists with material aid without facing prosecution in the Canadian courts?

This is a question effectively being asked by a law suit just launched against "Turtle Island Humanitarian Aid" and the Montreal-based activist organization Alternatives International which has become notorious as a recipient of taxpayer money while working for an agenda that conflicts with Canada's foreign policy goals.

Cherna Rosenberg is a Canadian citizen who divides her time between Israel and Canada. She is the plaintiff in a million dollar law suit against the Canadian organizers of a boat meant to challenge Israel's arms embargo of Hamas-ruled Gaza.

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[Via]

Khadr fingers Arar

This should be interesting.

Further: Ezra Levant, Charles Adler.

CNN poll - Ché as 'freedom' fighter?

Ché’s main legacy is his contribution to establishing the Cuban prison state.

Oddly, but not surprisingly, 42% of CNN respondents interpret this as fighting for "freedom".
On second thought, given it was a CNN poll, perhaps we should be surprised it wasn’t 90% .

See also, ‘The real Cuba’.