1. Christopher Hitchens on The Hour

Comment #49408 by dmcr35 on June 11, 2007 at 8:44 pm

For non-Canadians, the CBC podcasts both audio and video programs including The Hour as well as a number of other excellent shows. You can subscribe to them via iTunes.

Dave

2. Richard Dawkins on Canada AM

Comment #38325 by dmcr35 on May 7, 2007 at 3:55 pm

Dawkins appears on the CBC's "The Hour" at 11 PM easterm time tonight May 7th. Should be a much longer and more interesting interview than the rather insipid and unimaginative CTV effort.

Dave

3. How multiculturalism is betraying women

Comment #37165 by dmcr35 on May 3, 2007 at 2:26 pm

"In Germany today, Muslim women have been reduced to third-class citizens stripped of core legal protections - because of the doctrine of multiculturalism, which says a society should be divided into separate cultures with different norms according to ethnic origin."

Multiculturism does not necessarily mean that the courts of the land must recognize "cultural" differences of ethnic groups.

Canada, officially a multicultural society, does not recognize these differences in a court of law, particularly regarding violent actions such as the one described aboove.

The province of Ontario, after considerable lobbying from muslim groups, recently considered allowing the use of sharia law in domestic cases and firmly rejected the possibility. In announcing the decision, the Premier confirmed the application of the same rule of law for all citizens.

Dave

4. U.N. Panel OKs Measure on Islam

Comment #28920 by dmcr35 on March 31, 2007 at 3:41 pm

"The council, which last year replaced the discredited U.N. Human Rights Commission, has no power beyond drawing international attention to rights issues and scrutiny of abuses in certain countries."

No need to panic just yet. The resolution is meaningless for all intents and purposes. None-the-less, non-Islamic countries, especially in the EU and North America need to wake up to the dangers imposed by Muslims attempting to change the character of the country from democracy to theocracy. They have no qualms about using the democratic process for their own ends while at the same time denouncing Western values.

Dave

5. We all fund this torrent of Saudi bigotry

Comment #21230 by dmcr35 on February 8, 2007 at 5:58 am

Here's rundown on the Wahhabi outlook on life from Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahhabism

Michael Moore connected the dots when he questioned why no investigation of Saudi involvement was made considering that 17 of the 19 (I believe) perpetrators of 9/11 were Saudis.

Dave

6. Benny Hinn Faith Healing Scam - Burton and Tinkler

Comment #20675 by dmcr35 on February 5, 2007 at 4:38 pm

It doesn't make me very proud to know this creep grew up in my hometown of Toronto.

Check the archive for "Benny Hinn" to view a great documentary by the CBC on this charlatan.

I'm really not sure that I have much simpathy for the believers in this episode.

Dave

7. Dispatches: Undercover Mosque

Comment #18287 by dmcr35 on January 19, 2007 at 11:04 am

Here's a link to the CBC/Frontline collaboration on the terror plot in Toronto of last year. There's also a link on the right hand side of the page to view the program on line.
Interestingly, the plot was foiled largely by the efforts of a Muslim who became an undercover police informant. Maybe there's hope yet.

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/torontoterror/

Dave

8. 'God Is Not a Moderate'

Comment #18114 by dmcr35 on January 18, 2007 at 11:46 am

"As the Pope said last year, I believe that God is truth and truth is, by definition, reasonable. Science cannot disprove true faith; because true faith rests on the truth; and science cannot be in ultimate conflict with the truth. So I am perfectly happy to believe in evolution, for example, as the most powerful theory yet devised explaining human history and pre-history. I have no fear of what science will tell us about the universe — since God is definitionally the Creator of such a universe; and the meaning of the universe cannot be in conflict with its Creator. I do not, in other words, see reason as somehow in conflict with faith — since both are reconciled by a Truth that may yet be beyond our understanding."

Will someone please explain to me the meaning of the phrase "God is Truth" which Sullivan uses so nonchalantly. I hope he isn't trying to equivalate scientific truth in some way to the "truth" as presented by religion, somewhat like the missing middle argument wherein if A=B and B=C, therefore A=C. Science requires empirical evidence unlike religious belief which requires a vivid imagination only.

Dave