The Islamist Trojan horse

About two weeks ago I received an e-mail from a friend. This e-mail puzzled me because my friend is a Muslim, and the article that he sent me is very anti-Muslim.
This article is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York. Its title is America as the last man stnding, and underlines the imminent threat of radical Islamism to our society. He
states that Islam is not a religion but a political ideology comparable to communism or national socialism.
After reading this e-mail, I decided to read The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality by John L. Esposito, reviewed by Daniel Pipes in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Pipes ends his review by blasting Esposito for his failure to "recognize the hostility and ambition of radical fundamentalists and to consider the implications of growing Muslim populations in the West".
I have called my blog the Islamist Trojan horse, because like the people of ancient Troy we have opened the gates of Western civilization to masses of immigrants from Muslim countries, with fundamental Islamism hidden in their midst. In Europe, Muslim neighbourhoods are to be seen around Paris, Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In these quarters very few indigenous residents are to be seen, and Islamic laws rule. A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe, and considering the birthrate among the Muslim population, 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim in th next 12 years.
The majority of the Muslim population are law-abiding, but the economic recesion has given birth to young discontents ready to listen to the preaching of fundamentalist Imans. We have the recent cases of Shahazad, the failed Pakistani born Time Square bomber, a USA citizen, and Nidal Malik Hasan, a Major and psychiatrist in the American army, who went on a shooting rampage.
Wilders's final words are: "WE have to take the necessary action now to stop this Islamic stupidity from destroying the free world that we know".

Thoughts born from The Bishop's Man

This is not a review of Linden MacIntyre's book, The Bishop's Man. I read this book recently, and what he relates about the priest, who is the Bishop's agent to get rid of priests who go astray, and get them out of the public's view brought me to think about some of my expeiences with the Catholic clergy.
I went to Catholic schools, and the majority of the priests that I have met were good people. There are, however,some who do not match up to the picture that has been painted of what Christ's chosen should be. Unfortunately, these are people who occupy positions of authority in the Catholic church. As a result of my bad experience with these upper echelon of the clergy, I would say that they are the last persons to whom you should go if you are in need. They are examples of those who are always willing to receive, but never to give.
The priest in the Bishop's Man asks himself why he chose to become a priest. He does not know the answer to this question, but he does know that he suffers from great loneliness. From my own school days, I know how young men are made to believe that they are being called by Christ to follow him, and that resisting this call endangers their immortal soul. If you are a good student and seem to be religious in tendency, you become the target of recruitment to the priesthood.
These are some of the thoughts that came to me on reading this book. On the whole I think that the author struck the nail depicting the priest and the bishop.

The Hated HST SEQUEL

Today, Saturday 1st May the hated HST became law in BC. On Thursday, Gordon Campbell and his Liberal caucus cut short the debate on the HST bill, and passed the legislation into law. There was no regard for democratic freedom of speech or the opposition of 85 percent of the BC population to the HST. It is now obvious, something that the Liberals have been hiding from us, that we are boxed in for five years by the agreement that the Liberals signed with th Federal government. Even if the petition we are signing is succesful, we have to grin and bear it for the next five years. Even if the NDP win the next election this Liberal yoke on our necks will continue for this period of time.
During this time the food banks will flourish even more, because the poor will get poorer, and will have to get help for their daily meals. The buying power of our incomes will become smaller, and it is possible that inflation will climb. Economists have told us what the effects of high taxes on the economy are. The underground economy will increase in size, because people will try to avoid paying the HST using cash and making deals to obtain services. This is what happened after Mulroney and his Conservative government introduced the GST.
At the next Provincial elections, will British Columbians forget and forgive the Liberals, just as Canadians hve done for the GST? That is what the Provincial Liberals are hoping for.Will you remember the HST, and still vote Liberal?