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Archive for January 12th, 2009

South African hypocrisy over Gaza

Monday, January 12th, 2009

South African blogger Justin Hartman looks at his country’s leaders condemning Israel for attacking Gaza and sees hypocrisy.
I am extremely upset with the ANC and SACP who have outright condemned the attacks by Israel. They’ve setup meetings with Israeli ministers to try and get them to stop and just yesterday former Congress of South African [...]

Canada votes against anti-Israel resolution at UN

Monday, January 12th, 2009

It’s a good day to be Canadian.
Canada was the sole member of the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against a resolution condemning Israel. Strangely, the council’s own press release does not name the no-voter.
The Human Rights Council concluded its ninth Special Session today by adopting a resolution on the grave violations of [...]

Fight against human trafficking: “New face” of pro-life?

Monday, January 12th, 2009

A columnist at USA Today notices that Christians are fighting human trafficking and spins it as “a new face of the ‘pro-life’ movement”. It’s really an old face, of course, but publicity for the cause is always welcome.
Now that he knows the name of a young enslaved prostitute in Indonesia — it’s Eka, pronounced [...]

Was money the motive for killing Amandeep Kaur Dhillon?

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Relatives of homicide victim Amandeep Kaur Dhillon believe she was killed for financial reasons. She was stabbed to death in the family-run grocery store near Mississauga on New Years’ Day. Her father-in-law Kamikar Singh Dhillon has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
In Punjab, relatives of Amandeep, who hailed from Isru village in [...]

Radio host sacked after religion debate with Muslim

Monday, January 12th, 2009

A Pakistani-born Christian minister hosted a radio show in Glasgow for six years, but was fired after an on-air religion discussion between a Muslim and a Christian.  The director of Awaz FM stated that Rev Mahboob Masih allowed the Christian speaker to make offensive remarks but failed to specify any allegedly offensive content.
Rev Masih maintains [...]

Peace and love in Toronto

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Our human rights commissions have obviously done a smashing job of leading Canada down to the road to utopia.  Here’s a video taken at a peace rally in Toronto last Saturday.
Kathy Shaidle was there.
I guess Bernie Farber of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and his best friend the Lying Jackal, and The Guy Who Is Suing [...]

John Horden, Missionary, Bishop

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The collect for today, the commemoration of the Right Rev John Horden (1828-1893), first Bishop of Moosonee, Missionary to the First Nations of Canada:
O God,
the Desire of all the nations,
you chose your servant John Horden
to open the treasury of your Word
among the native peoples of Canada.
Grant us, after his example,
to be constant in our purpose [...]