Diane Weber Bederman

Is the media guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity?

--Times of Israel Retain the power of speech no matter what other power you may lose … Do what you will, but speak out always. Be shunned, be hated, be ridiculed, be scared, be in doubt, but don’t be gagged. The time of trial is always. Now is the appointed time.” John Jay Chapman, 1900

Do we really want a parallel Sharia Compliant Economic System in the West?

I discovered, quite by accident, that there is a Muslim based economy developing in Canada: Halal and Sharia Compliant Investments, with their own laws specific to Sharia law. It has been developing rather quietly for several years. I found a reference to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and Sharia compliant laws from 2011 on Blogwrath after I had already lodged my own complaint with CIBC regarding these investments. I never heard back from CIBC but I did get a notification from Twitter that I was now being followed by the investment broker whom I had reported.

There is a sickness festering in Calgary, Alberta

On Friday July 18, a Pro-Palestinian demonstration took place in Calgary. The organizer of this event was the University of Calgary student club "Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights" whose current president Ala'a Hamdan recently said "My body and soul are ready to fight and die," and "This land will be proud that Palestinian babies are born men and women ready to spill their blood." In a fictional battle hymn written to a son, Ms. Hamdan also wrote: "I will soak a koffiah with your blood and save it to show to your siblings ... I will be named the mother of the martyr." Featured speaker at the anti-Israel rally was Alberta Liberal MLA Darshan Kang who will be running for the federal Liberal Party.