'Non' to French in the Post, 'No' to Israeli Apartheid Week!

by Barry Artiste | March 14, 2009 at 03:34 pm

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Barry Artiste Op/Ed

This story is so wrong on many issues, first of all the French language is part of Canadian Culture, to bar it from having a French Section in the National Post, smacks of anti Canadian Culture and more importantly alienating a market of Canadians who speak French who would buy the National Post.

Being from Quebec, I too would be a tad pissed.

In these dire economic times, to cut off your nose despite your financial face doesn't make sense to a very few who may cancel their subscription because a small section of the paper has a French Language Section.

Secondly, banning Muslims from Immigration to Canada in one breath and as you continue to read the story, it indicates actually banning Islamic immigration.

It has been said that not all Islamic are Muslim, but all Muslims are Islamic. So this doesn't wash with me. You don’t ban the whole friggin culture on the few who spoil it for the rest of them.

There are varying degrees of Muslims who do not subscribe to a lunacy of those who preach death and destruction, just because they do not happen to share the same religion.

I as a catholic and many others do not believe in lunatic verses of the holy bible that espouse killing non believers. I have family members who are of the Jewish faith as well, do they really believe all that is written about slaughtering people who are not of the Jewish faith in the Torah. Of course not! You have to take it all with a grain of salt.

You have to remember these holy books were never written by the men they talk about, they were written and interpreted and modified by followers centuries after Allah, Moses and Christ’s death. So much of what can be said of the good of Islam, Judaism and Christian ideology we take, the Fancy Silly crazy stuff we can attribute to the ancient scribe and his order as having a different agenda, sort of an artistic license, most likely mandated by the Ruler of that period.

What we do know is all three of these religious men did good, followed peace and fellowship, healing and feeding their fellow man, to think they all of a sudden one day as an afterthought said to their followers “Oh and by the Way, Kill all non believers of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity.” Do you really, really think they all said that?

For instance Mohamed, do you really think he uttered the words, kill a whole bunch of people , including yourself on behalf of Allah and you get to gangbang 70 virgins in paradise. If Mohamed were alive today and listening to this from some Whackjob Imam, I am sure his response would be WTF???

As for Moses, do you really think he was that “Directionally Challenged” and lead thousand of Israelites out of Egypt and take 40 years wandering through the desert to find Israel which was only a few hundred miles away? Can you imagine thousands of Israelites asking all in unison every friggin hour along the way “Are We There Yet?” ,” Moses, Are We There Yet?” Moses…………….. Moses, most likely took the ten commandment tablets, and upsided some whiny ass Israelite over the goddamn head!

Jesus for instance, splitting a couple of loaves of bread and a few fish to feed a hundred people to fullness, you really, really think so? Not to mention walking on water.

So if you truly believe the above mention actions which had occurred 2 millennia ago, and professed to have happened by ancient scholars centuries long after these three prophets have died, then you need to give your head a BIG SHAKE!

I am sure enough of you have seen magicians on TV do even more stupendous feats, imagine if these TV magicians lived in ancient times and did these feats of magic in front of a group of people a thousand years ago? Hell if they even did this a century ago! Holy Tap Dancin Christ, they would be proclaimed as our new Gods!! Faith Healing Tele Evangelists are proof of that today!

Now before you wrap your ankles around your ears in protest, I am in no way saying Mohamed, Moses, or Christ were magicians, they existed, and were good men, performing charitable deeds to the masses.

All I am saying is people believe what they want to believe, hence seeing a magician perform a magic act to the uninitiated seems miraculous when is not a miracle, it is only magic.

Watch Monty Python’s Life of Brian, they pretty much hit the nail on the head!

All in all these three wise religious men preached Faith! Well, Faith also includes Faith in yourself and to do good and not follow false prophets!

As for the Holocaust, people still refuse to believe it happened, it was that horrific, but then for some reason people still think Elvis is alive and well and living in the South. Certainly a Historic hypocrisy.

As I have always said before time and time again, keep your religion and culture, just do not try and impose it in your new country as law.

Live a life as the Romans once stated, when in Rome, you are Roman, no ifs, ands, or buts! Otherwise leave the West and take your cultural protests and religious battles to the land where they began!

PLO Chairman Yassar Arafat, said it best , decades ago when he was talking to the Israeli Prime Minister, and Jimmy Carter. Arafat stated seriously and matter of factly, “The war in the middle east is to prove who has the most powerful imaginary friend!

Paul Russell: 'Non' to French in the Post, 'No' to Israeli Apartheid Week,'Yes' to selective immigration

Posted: March 14, 2009, 12:05 PM

by Paul Russell Paul Russell

Should the Post publish some articles en francais? Last week in this column a reader made that suggestion. As he noted, “This isn’t 1975 anymore, and many of us have some French ability.” Almost a dozen readers responded to his suggestion; only one agreed.

The others not only gave the thumbs down, but a few promised drastic action, should this French language page come to pass.

“If the National Post were to pander to les Québécois and publish a French page, I would not only cancel my subscription, I would campaign strenuously to have others cancel as well,” wrote Gerry Porter. “I love my Post, but I do have my principles.”

“If the day ever comes that you choose to succumb to the wishes of a few French whiners and actually include a French section of your fine national paper, you can expect to get my letter cancelling my subscription,” added Dale Chilton. “Sorry, but I do not have the time to express my disgust with the part of Canada that has fractured us with their pseudo-complaints about the way TROC (The Rest of Canada) has treated them.

” Another reader suggested the original letter writer should be the one making the changes. “The first thing he should do is to turn on the TV and be assailed by the publicly funded French channels,” wrote Peter Morgan. “The second [step], and the one I hope he takes, is to go to Quebec and stay there where he can practise whenever he wants.”

-- Last week I explained why the Post would not publish letters that recommend that members of a certain religion be barred from immigrating to Canada.

My reasoning failed to win over some readers.

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Amy Judd

at 15:58 on March 14th, 2009

What is people's problem with French? I think that's a great idea!

Barry Artiste

at 16:04 on March 14th, 2009

Thanks Amy, guess the Springer Maury Crowd feel it infringes on their state of Ignorance is Bliss philosophy

eastvanray

at 16:08 on March 14th, 2009

I don't get it. If you don't like French then can't you just not read that page. There are lots of pages in my local newspapers that I do not read because I have no interest in the particular topics. What am I going to do refuse to buy the Vancouver Sun until they refuse to publish reviews of country music or women's fashions....duh. Just turn the page. I think obituaries are creepy and I never read them (unless I have had the unfortunate task of writing them) but I still buy the paper. These people are idiots!

Barry Artiste

at 16:18 on March 14th, 2009

You are preaching to the choir my friend and a big choir at that!

Roy C

at 16:24 on March 14th, 2009

When you allow immigration of a people who have not yet undergone the transformation institutionally that the West has undergone since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, all of which has enhanced democratic values, you do have to weed out the bad apples who will not accept the separation of church and state the way we do.

There doesn't seem to be the kind of effort that needs to be done to make sure that imams who show up to preach violence are stopped at the border, as if to admit that there was an issue here was to be prejudiced.

In WWII, not just the Japanese were rounded up. We put Italians and Italian-Americans and Germans and German-Americans in camps.I don't defend the actions, but Mussolini was quite popular in South Philadelphia. I know of several Italian-Americans who have told me that their grandfathers sent Mussolini their gold watches to help Mussolini.

Ships were regularly sabotaged by Italians working in the ports until we let Lucky Luciano out of jail and got him to get the longshoremen to, in effect, switch sides and stop supporting Mussolini.

So, differences are not just something to paper over as our politically correct friends seem to think.

This is a different issue that whether your paper should have a French section or not. The reaction of wanting to cancel the paper does seem extreme.

My grandparents, three of them, and my mother had to learn English. Some here, particularly in LA, for example, don't seem to feel that way.

Barry Artiste

at 16:23 on March 14th, 2009

All in all the so called Ejaculators of Religious Wisdom always seem to interpret their flaccid versions of the bible as a quick Viagra of Interpretation to get their premature version to the stained masses.

Roy C

at 16:27 on March 14th, 2009

Ships were regularly sabotaged by Italians working in the ports until we let Lucky Luciano out of jail and got him to get the longshoremen to, in effect, switch sides and stop supporting Mussolini.

So, differences are not just something to paper over as our politically correct friends seem to think.

I reposted this because I had added it after you had already posted.

Barry Artiste

at 16:36 on March 14th, 2009

Thanks Roy for adding to this post, which I too overlooked, Canada sent Asians to internment camps during the war as well as Germans, we had Russians ostracised in the States during the 50s, not to mention Jews, who were turned away from Britian and Canada and the US during the war, something to remember to never forget and to do it to Muslims who just want a better life in Canada for their children to assimilate into our culture and Country certainly shows society paints on race with the same brush. Islamic Imams who preach death and destruction to the Western way of life and any Muslims who follow their terrorist doctrine should be deported immediately. The rest can live as Romans if they wish to assimilate.

Roy C

at 16:39 on March 14th, 2009

Yes, there is good and bad and the need to recognize it so that we don't end up running around looking at all the newcomers in suspicion after the bad apples do something atrocious.

We protect the innocents by getting the guilty out of here and deporting them.

jazzyzazzy

at 16:23 on March 14th, 2009

Now,t funnier than folk eh Barry. Why are we here? where will we go ? does anyone anywhere, really know.Is there a heaven above us ? a hell bellow? ,just some answers to my questions I would like to know.Is there one god one devil many a few of .the Bhudist China men Arabs and Jews. so ia ask once again ! why are we here where will we go does anyone anywhere really know ?

Barry Artiste

at 16:29 on March 14th, 2009

Thanks Jazzyazzy for the questions, of course we do not have all the answers, but then many Poo Poo Evolutionary theory to this day. Many believe we are currently living in hell, with Heaven only a belt of explosives away to paradise. As for why we are here. Boy that is a poser, as for where are we going? Well I know where I am going... to get my pizza out of the oven, and put on a cultural movie which features Apache's in Battle, Apache Helicopters that is. It is action night, and I gotta get my fix. Back later y'all/

djsblack

at 16:40 on March 14th, 2009

A good read. I think a huge part of the problem is not what people want or wish to believe, but many--a small percentage--want others to believe what they wish us to believe; and this will be the great downfall of everyone who is rational and reasonable.

Because this small but vocal minority is quite vociferous and will do anything to force us to accept their points of view if we let them.

Barry Artiste

at 16:42 on March 14th, 2009

Damn fine Point djsblack, thanks for visiting and your comments.

harringtola

at 21:28 on March 14th, 2009

As a person of "French" Canadian decent I say, huh? Need I say more?

Babel-Fish

at 21:56 on March 14th, 2009

I have supported moderate Muslims to the fact they are the majority and do not support terrorism and just want to live good peaceful lives.

However I discovered a big problem of why its a problem to host Islamic immigration in a sense most Muslims are very indoctrinated to the Islamic faith. They tend to group in western society build mosques and it becomes like a nest or enclave.

Unlike mainstream Judaism or Christianity. The world to a Muslim is a temple thus the pray mats. This causes a problem when they settle in an enclave they see the non believers and there laws as being decremental to their faith. Things like equality of sexes and western women walking about in sexy clothes. After years have past by and some Muslim's enter their new adopted countries political system.

More pressure is placed on the native society to change laws to meet with the holy laws and cultural laws of the Muslim society.

Its the fact that the world is viewed as their temple and that they do not integrate into western society and do not really want to as their strict Islam religion forbids it.

Its becoming a big problem in Europe, Australia, Canada and in the USA and will get worse as more immigrant into a non Muslim society.

The next and main problem is due to their love of god and way they look at Muslim's being a race of servants of God. Its easy to introduce hatred for non believers into the Islamic indoctrination. Second and third generation Muslims in Europe have been targeted for such indoctrination.

Religion is like a virus and the virus pattern is easily changed within a heavily indoctrinated form of religion.

The only step to take is allow the cultures laws only within their enclaves and of course in modern day democratic western society its un- acceptable. We are not going to change the minds of the Islamic followers its like trying to move a mountain.

So we are stuck with a problem of which could lead to the unpleasantness of nationalism rearing its head and rivers of blood on our streets.

I can only show the problem and I really do not see any other solution other than the Muslims need to change and up date their religion to fit within their new western societies.

We must remember the many of the Jew's found a need to modernize slightly to fit into new societies.