UPDATED to point you to Ann Coulter’s latest column.
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Today in our PTBC Columnist section, we have Charles Adler and Barbara Kay.
… and Ann Coulter!
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Today, Ann Coulter is as meek as ever. Here’s snippet:
[…] Four major world leaders who sent troops to Iraq have faced elections since the war’s inception—Jose Maria Aznar in Spain, John Howard in Australia, Tony Blair in Britain and Junichiro Koizumi in Japan. Three of them won re-elections in campaigns that centered on their support for the Iraq war.
Only in Spain did voters capitulate to savagery and vote in an al Qaeda-friendly government in response to their trains being bombed the week before the election. Unaware that there is NO CONNECTION between al-Qaida and Iraq, al Qaeda’s European spokesman explained that the terrorist attack was intended to punish Spain for supporting the Iraq war. Spanish voters duly complied, making terrorist attacks in the rest of the world more likely. Muchas gracias, Spano-weenies. […]
That’s funny—when I did a spell-check, “Spano-weenies” didn’t come up. But you gotta know I’m going to start using “Cana-weenies”. That’s a given.
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Charles Adler says the “Christian Peacemakers” call us the enemy. You and me.
That would make them my enemy.
Mr. Adler then jots down a note to one of those “Christian Peacemaker” former hostages (butt having now been saved by American, British, and Canadian freedom-makers):
Dear Mr. Loney,
I hope you and your partner live a happy and prosperous life. But I hope you understand that many of us on the “enemies list” will never see you as a partner of freedom or peace or Christ.
Barbara Kay, one of my favorite
Canadian
writers, warns of another slippery slope in the culture war:
In her March 18 column, The Globe and Mail’s Margaret Wente confessed that “my open-minded tolerance deserts me when I see women completely covered up. In every culture where this is the norm, women are oppressed.” I feel the same. But Wente goes on to distinguish between full coverage and the hijab: “Head scarves … don’t bother me at all.”
Here we disagree. The hijab lies at one end of a cultural spectrum with full-cover tent-like burkas at the other, and is subject to arbitrary “cover creep” at the discretion of a woman’s male family members. Indeed, buoyed by the kirpan ruling, Quebec Muslims immediately announced their intent to press for admission of the hijab in schools. For if the kirpan, why not the hijab? And if the hijab, why not someday for some girls the jilbab and the burka—not to mention mandatory prayer rooms?
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