Ignoring The Biggest Elephant in The Room

Globeandmail.com ^ | June 5, 2006 | Christie Blatchford

[khnyny]

I drove back from yesterday's news conference at the Islamic Foundation of Toronto in the northeastern part of the city, but honestly, I could have just as easily floated home in the sea of horse manure emanating from the building.

So frequent were the bald reassurances that faith and religion had nothing -- nothing, you understand -- to do with the alleged homegrown terrorist plot recently busted open by Canadian police and security forces, that for a few minutes afterward, I wondered if perhaps it was a vile lie of the mainstream press or a fiction of my own demented brain that the 17 accused young men are all, well, Muslims.

[khnyny]

This story also appears on Google News and Little Green Footballs.

[DCPatriot]

So then why didn't you provide the links to those sites so that we could READ IT WITHOUT REGISTERING?????

[khnyny]

Okaaaaay! (In my best Alvin voice)

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22ignoring+the+biggest+elephant+in+the+room%22&btnG=Search+News


Btw, I (and others) especially liked this part:

"Such is the state of ignoring the biggest, fattest elephant in the room in this country that at one point Chief Blair actually bragged -- this in answer to a question from the floor -- "I would remind you that there was not one single reference made by law enforcement to Muslim or Muslim community" at the big post-arrest news conference on Saturday."

[sourcery]

"I would remind you that there was not one single reference made by law enforcement to Muslim or Muslim community" at the big post-arrest news conference on Saturday."

"As I was going up the stair, I met a little man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he would go away."

[chadwimc]

Well...It looks as though the Canadians don't have the parts required to tell the people "We need another crusade"... Eh?

[DCPatriot]

In fairness...our country fed us the same crap on September 12th, 2001.

Religion of peace my A$$.

[Uncle Vlad]

The world would be a better place today if Mohammad had just stayed in his cave.

[khnyny]

Someone posted this on LGF:

"Rocco Galati, lawyer for two suspects from Mississauga, said his client Ahmad Ghany, 21, is a health sciences graduate from McMaster University in Hamilton. He was born in Canada, the son of a medical doctor who emigrated from Trinidad and Tobago.
Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, is a computer programmer who emigrated from Egypt 20 years ago with his father, now an engineer with a nuclear utilities services company, the lawyer said."

One of the suspects fathers is an engineer WITH A NUCLEAR UTILITIES SERVICES COMPANY. That's just great./sarc(just to be clear)

[Jackknife]

"Windows everywhere in Canada’s largest city are safe, especially windows in mosques. The war on windows will be won, whatever the cost."

That about sums it up.......

[White Bear]

When is the West going to wake up to the fact that most of those who embrace Islam, if not actively espousing the destruction of the west, are at least tacitly supporting that objective by making excuses for those who do and failing to report the terrorists in their midst.

[sourcery]

There are no rules in a knife fight!

There are no rules in a real fight. Only games have rules.

[khnyny]

[When is the West going to wake up to the fact that most of those who embrace Islam, if not actively espousing the destruction of the west, are at least tacitly supporting that objective by making excuses for those who do and failing to report the terrorists in their midst.]

Two of the suspects are from Atlanta. I believe one of them attends Georgia Tech. That fits the profile, as Georgia Tech is a big engineering school. The 911 perps were engineering majors, at least Atta, I think.

[Kozak]

And the NY Sliems are right there toeing the line....

" readers of the New York Times were told that the 17 men arrested “represent the broad strata of our society … Some are students, some are employed, some are unemployed.”

yeah the "broad spectrum" from Wahabi to Shiite no doubt.

[khnyny]

Here are the Toronto perps names (does not include names of the two Americans):

The adult suspects from Toronto are Chand, alias Abdul Shakur, 25; Fahim Ahmad, 21; Jahmaal James, 23; and Asin Mohamed Durrani, 19. Those from Mississauga are Ghany; Abdelhaleen; Zakaria Amara, 20; Asad Ansari, 21; Saad Khalid, 19; and Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43. Mohammed Dirie, 22, and Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, are from Kingston.

[Robwin]

"I wondered if perhaps it was a vile lie of the mainstream press or a fiction of my own demented brain that the 17 accused young men are all, well, Muslims."
Darn it people, dontcha know the fact they are all Muslims is merely a coincidence? No, really.

[Palladin]

Just as I suspected! Amish illegal aliens who crossed the northern border in search of fertilizer!!

[DCPatriot]

It's like something out of a Hollywood horror movie script.

Islam is a religion that needs to be wiped out....if the Western civilization expects to survive and prosper.

[hardworking]

Just as I suspected! Amish illegal aliens who crossed the northern border in search of fertilizer!!

Damn! Good work Dr. Watson! Let's just round up all those buggies with the dayglo triangle on the back and we will have solved the world's problems!

[Deo volente]

One of the nice young Amish men mistakenly thought to be terrorists.