Diane Weber Bederman

Time to put fear-mongering away

I remember when Jonathan Kay wrote a piece in the National Post calling those of us against the niqab racists, xenophobes, fear-mongers and Islamophobes. It seems those of us against the niqab are beyond the pale and we must stop this fearmongering.

Nostalgia for the Native Way of Life

David Brooks recently wrote in the New York Times about how the millennials turn to community and away from autonomy. There is a possibility, he wrote, that “our culture is built on some fundamental error about what makes people happy.”

If Black Lives Really Mattered

Black American lives are more important than anyone else’s. And the worst thing that ever happened to America was the arrival of white people. So goes the new refrain.

The audacity to question

I remember many years ago watching Oprah Winfrey when she interviewed a man who specialized in teaching parents how to protect children from abuse. He said when your child comes to you and says “Mommy I don’t like Uncle Johnny,” too often Mommy will say, “Don’t be silly. Uncle Johnny is a lovely man. He loves you.

Notice:There's a separation between Mosque and State

For those who many not be aware, there is in Canada a separation between mosque and state. Our public school system is secular. As in non-religious affiliated. Except on Ontario where we have a Catholic system that dates back to the BNA Act of 1867. The beauty of Canada is that all religions are treated equally. No one religious group getting better treated than another.

What is the difference between child suicide and assisted suicide?

Think about this. In June we heard that there was a rash of suicides by school age children in Woodstock, Ontario, following on the footsteps of horror stories about First Nations children taking their own lives. Statistics Canada figures show that suicide is the second-leading cause of death among young people aged 15 to 34 and rates among youth are unchanged, despite efforts by clinicians to provide more targeted support.

Terror in Nice-Wake Up Canada-Time for a Revolution

John Lennon wrote in 1968 in response to the riots in Paris "You say you want a revolution..." My answer, today, is "Yes." I want a revolution. A peaceful revolution. From the right. From sea to sea to sea. From those of us who cherish our freedoms, our values and morals.

Diversity is Destroying our Social Contract

We are up against a new idol to worship-diversity. It is the latest in the tropes from the arrogant idealists who are really the 2.0 version of Cultural Marxists. Their policies are leading to suicide by democracy.

Obama Brainwashes America-Trump Leads Revolt

Many say that Trump is like Hitler, and if not like Hitler, he is speaking to people similar to the Nazis. There is a big difference between pre-Nazi Germany and the atmosphere in America prior to the arrival of Trump.

Fascism: Nazism and Islamism: Never Again?

"We will rule the nations, by Allah’s will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered…' We say Never Again and Never Forget; but it's happening again because we have forgotten.

Massacre in Orlando-Who is to blame?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Cultural Relativism and Obama

Obama has been busy implementing a world-view which resonates with a variety of Marxist philosophy called Cultural Marxism. “Critics have seen Cultural Marxism and its influence as an important cause of political correctness and as an important cause of a perceived decline of humanities, social sciences, culture, and civilization in the Western world. Cultural Marxists often try to remove these inequalities by more or less subtle manipulation and censorship of culture.”

Racing to enforce Bill C-14-murder by the state

Joseph Fletcher quoted in The Ethics of Genetic Control 1988, “The world no longer needs all the individuals we are capable of bringing into it—especially those who are unable to compete and are an unhappy burden to others. If the size of our families must be limited, surely we are entitled to children who are healthy rather than defective”(emphasis mine).

What does it mean to be Canadian?

What does it mean to be a Canadian? What are the values that we collectively share that hold us together as a community of Canadians? I ask these questions because we seem to have drifted away from common goals to demands for prioritizing respect for extreme individual rights.

Will that be facts or feelings?

According to Jonathan Kay, I am a fearmongering, xenophobic Islamophobe because I am against the wearing of the niqab in my country. He is just one of far too many “journalists” pushing an ideology that has no basis in reality.

It is the ethic that promotes intolerance

The Middle East is on fire: Muslims killing Muslims and killing Yazidis and Christians, destroying holy sites and trying ever so diligently to destroy Israel-the land of the Jewish people

The Valkyries around Ghomeshi need a life

I want to tell you about a beautiful little boy named Martin. He was the apple of his parent’s eyes. He was their first born. And he was beautiful. With a smile that went from ear to ear. Then one day without warning Martin died. At home; surrounded by his mother, his grandmother, the family doctor, the fire department, the police and the ambulance crew. His father had tried, vainly, to get home. Martin was two and a half.

Hold the presses. It isn’t mental illness-it is arrogant liberalism

Once again Canada’s self-appointed media elites are justifying actions of terrorists. This latest attack in Canada-insignificant compared to the recent bombings in Brussels-was downplayed. It wasn’t terrorism-it was mental illness. Of course it was.

Anti-semitism on campus-in OSHAWA!

The recently released "Report on Antisemitic Activity in 2015 at US Colleges and Universities With the Largest Jewish Undergraduate Populations" is the "first empirical study of its kind," showing that "the primary agents of anti-Semitic activity are anti-Zionist students and faculty boycotters." And "The strongest predictor of anti-Jewish hostility on campus" is the local presence of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Algemeiner, March 14, 2016

Salomon Benzimra: A terrible loss for the Jewish people

I had the honor of joining Salomon Benzimra and Goldi Steiner, co-founders of Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights, to speak to members of Knesset and ask them to proudly proclaim Israel’s legal rights under international law – rights that clearly state Israel’s borders run from the river to the sea.