Sleepy Old Bear Diaries

It makes me sick when I hear you people justifying terrorism by saying that you are oppressed. Look at South Americans, Look at Africans look at East Europeans. These people have faced much more hardship than you people have yet I do not see them producing terrorist organisations. And anyway, for the all the “Muslim [...]

If you go out in the woods today
You’d better not go alone …

 
Mr Lee Enfield in the foreground.

Indian commandos criticized for Islamophobia. They will be put on trial at the World Court alongside Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.

Whereas our societies hold Israel and the United States of America to a wonderfully high moral standard; and
Whereas Islam is allegedly the one true teaching about the one true God;
Be it resolved that Islam in all its constituent parts be held to the same high standard.
When it attains that standard of behaviour, we will revise [...]

They murdered the Jews for being Jews. Period. It is not complicated. It’s war. It’s not “terrorism” or “extremism”, it is Islam. How many tens of thousands have to be senselessly murdered before we fight back? 
Muslims are allowed to murder Jews in cold blood because we are Jews, but it is a crime to insult Islam.
“Ethos” of [...]

… I used to teach a course on the history of ideas about religious intolerance – toleration – liberty. Even published a book of sources about the theme (Blackwell, 1998). You can get it dirt cheap from ABEbooks.com
No. I don’t get any royalties for sales there.
Religious liberty is one of the West’s hard-won victories and [...]

 
  
As reported in the New York Daily News, an entrepreneur in Hawaii created and is successfully selling bobblehead Mohammeds on his site called Dashboard Mohammed. The product, which costs $14.99, is shown on the left, and was based on the rendering of Mohammed shown on the right, which was itself based on the famous Danish “bomb-in-the-turban” cartoon. More bobblehead [...]

… I have some more (scary) thoughts.
I have just been reading about the Muslim community in India. It represents very roughly 10% of the population.
Apparently extremism is inflitrating that community, and over the past 5 years there have been a number of attacks, and this is not the first in Mumbai.
Now … stay with me. [...]

Universities serve many purposes and different communities but, first and foremost, a university should always be a bastion of free speech. How sad then, how in a macabre sort of way funny, that they have become instead (in William Bennett’s elegant phrase) “islands of repression in a sea of freedom.”   
At Canadian universities, political correctness [...]

Pro-Lifers threatened arrest for exercising free speech
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I am very happy to report that a major news outlet would cover the ongoing efforts of U of Calgary Pro-Life.
However, I am very saddened that yours and my liberty is made less by the actions of University of Calgary administration, who have decided that Campus Pro-Life [...]