SNIP:Fully 12% of Muslim Canadians polled by Environics said the alleged terrorist plot -- that included kidnapping and beheading the prime minister and blowing up Parliament and the CBC -- was justified.
Predictably, the CBC managed to find a talking head -- in this case York University sociology professor Haideh Moghissi -- who dismissed this disturbing revelation.
"It's really negligible that 12 percent feel that the attacks would be justified," said Moghissi. "I don't think it even warrants attention." Clearly, other news agencies and those who put the poll results on the CBC website agree with Moghissi. But just how "negligible" is 12% of 700,000 people.
Well, if Moghissi knew arithmetic like she knows denial, she'd know if this poll is accurate, 84,000 Canadian Muslims think it's justifiable to behead our democratically elected prime minister and blow up the very symbol and centre of our democracy!
Excerpted
http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Corbella_Licia/2007/02/18/3642930-sun.html
Speaking Arabic, other Eastern languages, is high on FBI's wish list (Pennsylvania)
Monday, February 19, 2007
Standing in the main prayer room of the ornate Pittsburgh Sikh Gurdwara in Monroeville, the FBI's special agent looked out at a sea of turban-wearing worshippers with dark beards. The clean-cut agent, armed with brochures and a short video extolling the virtues of Sikhs to the worshippers gathered for prayer services, was playing an increasingly important post-Sept. 11, 2001, role -- that of recruiter.
The FBI is mounting such recruiting efforts at a time when the need among its ranks for speakers of languages such as Punjabi, spoken by Sikhs, as well as Arabic, Urdu and Farsi, is high and the supply is low. Just a fraction of 1 percent of the 12,000 FBI field agents have limited working proficiency in Arabic, for example -- a total of 40, up from 33 in October.
Turning places of worship into the front lines of recruitment in the global War on Terror means the FBI and other government agencies in charge of protecting U.S. citizens are now venturing into mosques, temples and community meetings in search of the next expert linguist, analyst or field agent.
Excerpted
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/07050/763270-85.stm
Portland adds container security system (Oregon)
Feb. 19, 2007
GE Security has installed a new system in Portland, Ore., that protects against tampering with cargo containers. The company said the CommerceGaurd System alerts officials whenever a container is opened without authorization, helping protect against theft or attempts to plant terrorist bombs inside.
Excerpted
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20070219-010953-4961r
Thanks for posting the Canada snippet and link. That is horribly disturbing.
Fanfan;GMMAC...See post no. 1008.
Thanks fanfan for the ping to the following post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787548/posts
"Dion's politics shift with wind (9/10 Liberal leader pandering to Muslims)"
Calgary Sun - Canada ^ | Monday, February 19, 2007 | Ezra Levant
Posted on 02/19/2007 2:49:46 PM PST by GMMAC
"Dion's politics shift with wind"
By EZRA LEVANT Calgary Sun
Monday, February 19, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Stephane Dion, the new Liberal leader, says he's against renewing the provisions of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act. Because the Conservatives don't have a majority, and the Bloc and NDP are notoriously soft on the war on terror, Dion holds the balance.
And he's voting not to renew our security laws.
He's pretending it's still Sept. 10.
This is the same Stephane Dion, of course, who was part of the Liberal cabinet that brought in the Anti-Terrorism Act, in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
There has been no legitimate criticism of the law -- it has not abridged anyone's civil liberties.
In fact, it really hasn't even been used in Canada, including in the arrest and charges against 18 Muslim radicals in Toronto last spring who were allegedly plotting to blow up the CN Tower and the CBC, and behead the prime minister.
There is only one reason why Dion wants to scrap this law: Because the increasingly powerful Muslim wing of his party demands it. "