The National Post has several articles on the raging blogger topic du jour (which I therefore usually try to avoid). Barbara Kay wrote about it (see it as posted here at PTBC yesterday), but also see the NatPo’s news article today, and their editorial appearing today, below.
For most, the big lesson here is what a nutbar anti-Canadian loon the Islamist Omar Shaban is. For me, it’s not. Omar Shaban is a 23-year-old anti-Canadian Islamist extremist and an idiot.
For me it’s just the sweet justification of the Conservative government’s belated but obviously right decision (bashed at the time by some Liberal and NDP supporters and their media) to quit funding the group that this young nutter helped lead —the detestable Canadian Arab Federation (the CAF); and it provides more proof that our government was, and still is, involved in funding all sorts of things it has absolutely no business funding with our tax dollars, or enabling in any other way (like through the CBC branch of the government, which I see as simply a favorite avenue for propaganda dissemination, not unlike al-Jazeera is). Until just three months ago, we all directly funded and supported Shaban’s despicable terrorist-supporting CAF to the tune of a MILLION dollars per year. And liberals and the left supported that.
National Post editorial board: Tarek Fatah’s gift to Canada
July 03, 2009
The ongoing battle between activist Tarek Fatah and the Canadian Arab Federation (CAF) is a microcosm of the larger struggle for the soul of Canada’s Muslim and Arab communities.
Mr. Fatah — a socialist who lived in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia before coming to Canada — champions a separation between mosque and state, respect for liberal social values and a rejection of terrorism. The leaders of CAF, on the other hand, support terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah, run programs designed to indoctrinate young Canadian children with Israel-hatred and rant about alleged Zionist conspiracies on Parliament Hill and in Canadian newsrooms. While Mr. Fatah and the CAF once shared common ground — the CAF even gave the man an award in 2001 — they have since launched into a war of words that reflect their mutually irreconcilable view of Muslims’ and Arabs’ role in Canadian society.
This week, Mr. Fatah used his social-networking savvy to score a major blow in this battle: He alerted his contacts, many of whom are members of the national media, that CAF vice-president Omar Shaban had celebrated Canada Day by posting “F—k Canada” on his Facebook page, called Canada a “genocidal state” and declared that he “couldn’t be more ashamed to be Canadian.”
Even for the CAF, this was too much (which is really saying something). The next day, Mr. Shaban resigned.
We disagree with Mr. Fatah about many things — his socialist politics, for instance, and his strenuous criticism of Israeli policies. But he is doing a fine job holding radical Islamists and terror-apologists accountable for their unCanadian views. And for this, Canadians owe him their thanks.
• The liberals’ Toronto Star division is also on it.
• Joe Warmington at the Toronto Sun is also on it
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