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This is a picture of Grace I shot at The Saskatoon Farm, near Calgary, Alberta. Gotta love that smile.

There’s a neat little place called The Saskatoon Farm near Calgary, Alberta, where we stopped for a couple of hours while on a trip through the area. For whatever reason, they had roosters and chickens running around loose…in the greenhouse.

I’ll take “You’re a sick, sick man who should be locked up indefinitely” for $400, please, Bob.

Raping a young boy who disclosed the abuse while reading the Biblical tale of Sodom and Gomorra with his father has landed a Calgary man a seven-year prison sentence.

Provincial court Judge Sandy Hamilton yesterday said the repeat assaults inflicted on the boy by Khatab Ismail has left the victim permanently psychologically scarred.

“The victim presented as a very troubled young boy,” Hamilton said, noting he now lives in a group home and has twice attempted suicide.

There’s no way to adequately communicate how damaging — physically and psychologically — this sort of crime is. I know nothing of Mr. Ismail, not even where he is from in the world. Perhaps he’s from one of those cultures where bacha-bazi is commonplace and the norm. Even if so, over here, child molestation and rape is just plain wrong.

And we don’t punish it severely enough in Canada.

Of course, we don’t really punish much of anything severely enough. But really…seven years for multiple acts of rape? That’s it? This man will live to see the light of day again, without bars as an impediment to the view? And he still has his penis attached to his body?

Update: Welcome, WebElf readers!

Well, it turns out that in Calgary, at least, white supremacist groups are so strapped for membership that they are trying to entice new members to move to the city by offering to cover their rent payments.

In other words, they have sunk to the point where they have to pay people to join them. This will doubtless be followed by reaching the yet-lower point where they couldn’t pay people to join them if they wanted to.

The last white pride rally in Calgary drew out 25 people; this is not a movement which is any kind of threat. And yet some people insist on using them as justification for the persecutorial operations of the various HRCs in Canada.

Hidden agenda, much?

Don’t get me wrong — I’m glad that the Calgary imam who filed a human rights complaint against Ezra Levant has swung his opinion ’round and set it against the HRCs, more or less.

But he still doesn’t get it entirely.

“Is it safe to say you miscalculated the public response?”

Syed:

It was not a miscalculation. I honestly believed at the time that, in Canada, if you felt offended by something that had been said about your religion or identity, this was the way you resolved the issue.

Incredible. 99% of Canadians had never even heard of the HRCs before he brought his complaint against Levant, and most still don’t know what they are. But Syed knew all about them. So where did he get this wacky idea?

Based on what I’d seen in the media and read on the internet, I thought this was a process that brought the parties together to set things right. I had seen, for example, that other groups, including members of the homosexual community, had done it.

Well, thanks again, gay activists, for your absolutely fabulous contributions to Canadian life! This is right up there with amyl nitrate and French bulldogs.

Yeah, gay activists‘ complaints against Christians who dare to publically express their Christian beliefs has brought people together all right — now more straight people hate gays than they did before! Brilliant…

And congratulations to an orthodox Muslim imam for taking a page from the gay agenda manual. I’m sure your co-religionists will be thrilled to learn who inspired you. Will Syed be the token “righteous straight dude” grand marshall at the next Pride Parade?

What a country. Syed, your Order of Canada is on its way.

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Anyway, Syed’s newfound objections to the HRCs has more to do with this kind of elitist snobbery than with Enlightenment principles. He tells Maclean’s:

Basically, it’s a bunch of bureaucrats: some of them are lawyers, but for the most part these are people without a great deal of legal training. They have neither the ability or [sic] the means to deal with these sorts of issues.

And make no mistake — Syed wants “these issues” “dealt with”. Hooooo yeah.

I’ve never been a fan of the old saying “enemy of my enemy is my friend” — I’ve always preferred http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030929.html”>”enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy” myself — and I’m willing to grant that imam Soharwardy is a fair-weather ally at best. It’s good that he’s swung around to set his opinion against the human rights commissions, but it would seem that his transformation is only one of self-interest.

And self-interest is a fickle sail indeed with which to run any ship.

Three guesses as to which religious prophet he is, in part, named after.

And the first two don’t count.

Apparently, the Alberta Human Rights Commission has no less than fifteen people working on Ezra Levant’s case.

And yet, surprisingly, not one of them realized that Shirlene McGovern — in her questions for Syed Soharwardy (the Calgary imam who filed the human rights complaint against Levant for the latter’s publication of the Muhammed cartoons) — doesn’t even know which cartoons Levant’s magazine, the Western Standard, re-printed, nor does she apparently know what the twelve original cartoons of Muhammad actually are.

No, really.

Here are McGovern’s questions for Soharwardy. There’s a lot of crap in there, and I’ll try to comment on it all later. But focus on question 10:

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She talks about the “most offensive” Danish cartoon — the one with “mohammed as animal/pig; sex with animal”.

But no such cartoons were ever published by a Danish newspaper, nor by our magazine. Here are the original 12 cartoons exactly as published in Denmark: we chose eight of those.

What McGovern is referring to are three cartoons fabricated by Danish imams, designed to be as offensive as possible, in order to whip up ignorant Muslim mobs that might not get sufficiently excited about the actual Danish cartoons.

In other words, McGovern was duped by jihadist propaganda. Soharwardy must have smiled like a cat when he heard her regurgitate those lies as if they were truths.

Does anyone else find it alarming that one of the people charged with deciding what is perhaps the most important case of the right to freedom of expression that has ever come up in Alberta is so terrifyingly unfamiliar with even the most basic facts of the case itself?