Speaking in Israel last Sunday, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney (at right) condemned the new anti-Semitism arising from an alliance between Western leftists and Islamic extremists, calling it even worse than the “old European” anti-Semitism.
“The existential threat faced by Israel on a daily basis is ultimately a threat to the broader Western civilization,” said [...]

Children with dual Egyptian-Israeli citizenship threaten national security, don’t cha know.

As widely expected when Newfoundland and Labrador suddenly stole expropriated almost all of AbitibiBowater’s assets in the province, the natural resource multinational has launched a challenge under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Premier Danny Williams expropriated AbitibiBowater’s (TSX:ABH) resource rights and assets in central Newfoundland as a punitive measure for the company’s decision to close [...]

Human Rights Watch accuses Hamas of maiming and murdering political adversaries in Gaza.
Hamas directed gunmen to eliminate political opponents and suspected collaborators under the cover of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, killing 32 people and wounding dozens in such attacks since December, an international human rights group said Monday.
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Human Rights Watch portrayed the attacks as [...]

Human Rights Watch has issued a scathing report on the tiny African nation of Eritrea. Under the autocratic rule of President Isayas Afewerki, Eritreans are subjected to “arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, forced labor, and inhuman conditions in detention; rigid restrictions on freedom of movement and expression; and religious persecution”, causing a humanitarian crisis.
“Eritrea’s [...]

Turkey’s ambassador has officially complained to the Australian government over a speech a state cabinet minister made to 40 people at a Greek community function. What did South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson say that prompted Turkey to go ballistic?
He recalled the bloody past of Turkey’s national hero.
The Turks are seething over remarks Mr Atkinson [...]

A new study by the Immigrant Council of Ireland finds that hundreds of girls and young women have been trafficked into Ireland and forced to work as prostitutes.
In a report out today, the council says hundreds of women are working in prostitution in Ireland and the industry is worth at least €180m every year.
It says [...]

At the G-20 summit, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was miffed that US President Barack Obama appeared to ignore him. Now it’s payback time.
The American President’s call “to free the world of the menace of a nuclear nightmare” was hot air, said a report to Sarkozy by his staff. “It was rhetoric, not a speech [...]

A woman in Mississauga is due to be deported to Pakistan on 28 April even though she claims her estranged husband will kill her when she arrives because, in his view, she has offended his honour. Her appeal is now being heard.
[Roohi] Tabassum, 44, says her ex, Faisal Javed, a businessman and Sunni community [...]

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world.
Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]

Just the place to take the family for a Sunday afternoon picnic.
Canada should push for the creation of an international park that would protect the area around the North Pole, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Monday.
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“One of the proposals I’ve read about recently which I strongly support is that I think Canada could be part [...]

Barack Obama and the rest of the G20 leaders got the money to do the job.
Barack Hussein Obama has now unveiled a plan to save the world.
Yes, the entire planet earth.
How?
By buying up to one trillion of toxic bank loans.
Well, maybe not a full trillion—more like one-tenth that amount.
When all the sums are added together, [...]

A wrong-headed column in The Times of London contends that the G20 nations need to get beyond the “false dichotomy” of “free trade versus protectionism”.  Noreena Hertz of Judge Business School, Cambridge, notes rightly that Western leaders are hypocritically extolling free trade while implementing protectionist measures on the sly.  Then, however, she insists that protectionism [...]

French-language news site les quotidiennes reports on a UN-sponsored symposium on honour crime to be held in Geneva on Saturday, 4 April.  The translation posted below comes from Google, with some editing for intelligibility by this blogger.
According to the United Nations, more than 5,000 women and girls each year are victims of “honor crimes”. [...]

“Forced To Marry” will be shown this evening on CBC Newsworld’s The Passionate Eye at 10 pm ET/PT.  (11 pm Atlantic Time.)
Presenter Saira Khan journeys to Pakistan and reports the stories of two British women of Pakistani descent who were coerced into marrying men they hardly knew.
Entrepreneur and TV presenter Saira Khan travels to her [...]