"These are the times that try men's soul," Thomas Paine. For producers looking to make a difference! 3) Alice Visits a Mosque to Learn About Judgement Day COMMENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS Islam | Israel-Hamas War | Canada Latest and Last now available on Amazon Fade to Black - Triumph of the Irrational "All religions are stupid, but Islam is the stupidest of all." Michel Houellebecq Houellebecq is wrong! Islam is not the stupidest, but the smartest as evident by its success at recruiting that leaves other religions in the dust and democracies gasping despite being the most irrational faith. Archie: [throwing his hands up] You just can't win! Western civilization is about to be defeated by an army of morons. Uzza: You underestimated the forces aligned against you. Your defeat was engineered by the greatest strategist and military mind of all times. He even left a blueprint that, in your arrogance, you could not be bothered to read. From Remembering Uzza - If Islam Was Explained to Me in a Pub. If you can’t be bothered to read the Koran, read Fade to Black. It’s not that much longer than Allah’s book, and you won’t have to read it more than once to understand what it’s all about. AMAZON: USA UK Canada ... Free PDF Eight on trial in France over murder of teacher who showed Prophet caricature... Samuel Paty, 47, was stabbed repeatedly in 2020 outside his school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris by an 18-year-old assailant of Chechen origin, then decapitated, days after showing his pupils the caricatures. CNN Nov. 4, 2024 The less deserving a religious icon's reputation for compassion and decency, the louder will be the call to permanently silence his critics, as was Muhammad's way. Compassionless: Satanic Verses (demanded the killing of girls and poets) Indecency: Jasmine (coitus with the child Aisha, an established obscenity) Muhammad's way today: Charlie Hebdo and Mila They Want to Ensure That, This Time, White Women Vote for a Woman Donald Trump has won white women, the country’s largest voting bloc, for two elections running. White female Democrats are trying to stop that from happening again, but it may be an uphill fight. NY Times Oct. 31, 2024 There are the women who embrace a religion that hates them, and then there are those who are attracted to Donald Trump who may make a second Trump presidency inevitable. The Wudu That You Do and When to Beat the Kids October 26, 2024 The Bedford affair is now a national debate on welcoming immigrants to Quebec and the place of religion in schools... Some teachers prayed mainly during their free time in classrooms or performed their ablutions in communal toilets, according to the ministry’s report. In rare cases, the report states, these practices were carried out in front of students. The Ottawa Citizen, October 26, 2024 In 2006, a human rights complaint was filed with the Québec Human Rights Commission (Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse) asking the Commission to find fault with the School of Engineering of the University of Quebec (l'École de technologie supérieure) for denying Muslims the right to wash their feet in the school's washroom sinks, and that signs prohibiting such activities were a slight against Muslims. [The Report] found a group of teachers at Bedford school, many of North African descent, subjected children to physical and psychological violence... and that [they] were influenced by the local mosque." Globe and Mail, Oct. 24, 2024 The Prophet said nothing about psychological violence when disciplining children for not doing what they are told, such as not saying their prayers. Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As: The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) said: Command your children to pray when they become seven years old, and beat them for it (prayer) when they become ten years old. Abu Dawud 2.0495 Mother that Canada refused to repatriate has died in Turkey CBC, October 25, 2024. Spy for Canada smuggled schoolgirl to Syria BBC August 30, 2022 Ms. Begum was 15 when she and two other east London schoolgirls - Kadiza Sultana, 16, and 15-year-old Amira Abase - travelled to Syria to join the IS group in 2015. At the main Istanbul bus station, the girls met Mohammed Al Rasheed, who would facilitate their journey to IS-controlled Syria... Mr. Akunjee said it was "shocking" that a Canadian intelligence asset was a key part of the smuggling operation - "someone who is supposed to be an ally, protecting our people, rather than trafficking British children into a war zone". "Intelligence-gathering looks to have been prioritised over the lives of children," he said... The Canadian government is not only responsible for the death of the woman known only as F. G., because her transit to Syria, as a young woman, was probably facilitated by the people smuggler in its employ, but also for failing to warn her, and others like her, about what to expect. The CBC as Purveyor of Misinformation About Halal October 18, 2024 In a posting Fast-food chains serving up halal food with a side of misinformation, expired certificates, October 18, 2024, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation wrote: In order for food to be considered halal, it must be prepared according to Islamic guidelines. For meat like chicken, beef or lamb, that means the animal must first be in good health and treated humanely. Halal is the opposite of treating an animal ‘humanely’: The agony of halal | The anthropological impact of killing animals the halal way. Three Failures October 16, 2024 Lately I have been sharing too much with people I barely know, including snippets of my favourite video, that of my late wife’s fiftieth birthday. While pointing her out to my friendly waitress, I mentioned that one of the last things she said to me was that I was the smartest man she had ever met. What a pretentious jerk I imagined her thinking as I left Abby’s Wine Bar. There was no time to provide context, so I will try to do so here. Three failed career choices is not a sign of a smart person, but a delusional one. The reason I survived my failures was that they did not stop her from believing in me. She knew that after she was gone, there would be no one to encourage me to persevere, and she wanted me to persevere. My first failure was the result of ignoring the advice of Sophocles who, in Antigone, warned us: “None love the messenger who brings bad news” and informed my superiors, at the then of Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs (Global Affairs), about my discovery of a multi-million dollar fraud on the Canadian taxpayers and being put in an impossible situation. After my firing, I built a computer application using leading edge Canadian software that I used as my calling card to get customers. My last client was Bell Canada Enterprises for whom, with the help of the smartest manager I have ever met, beat Google to Google, only to have new management abandon the project, and the Canadian government declaring the software that allowed us to do the impossible, to be non-compliant with archaic American standards that it had adopted—a death knell for my for application and my business. It was after 9/11 when I picked up a copy of the Koran in the hope of understanding what happened that fateful day and deciding to write about it. It is a failure in progress. Lucette would understand. POST-MORTEM Updated Nov. 6, 2024 My everyman's writings on the Koran, Muhammad and Islam are part of what, with Lucette's passing, became a solitary campaign against the willful ignorance that will be our undoing. In 2017, I was diagnosed with a rising aortic aneurism. Every eight months or so I went in for an echocardiogram to check if it had expanded to a size where surgery to cut off the damaged portion to be replaced by some type of polyethylene tubing was called for, in an estimated three years I was told. After Lucette passed away on July 5, 2019 I cancelled any further measurements and decided to let nature take its course. Nature is taking its bloody sweet time. Whether it’s my heart or some angry believer upset about something I wrote who sends me to meet our alleged fickle friend in the sky, or that other place, it will put an end to a life that has grown tiresome without her and erstwhile friends and acquaintance who no longer care for my company with only me and my obsession. It's been almost six years since the last measurement. To better understand why I am still here and to get a current estimate as to when I can expect the balloon to blow I will be getting a measurement on November 16. Will let you know the result so that those interested in selling my books, which will become public domain upon my passing, can get ready, assuming my time is short. What happens to boreal.ca after I am gone is one thing, my books quite another. In Remembering Uzza, a character is prosecuted under a law that makes it a criminal offence to cause anyone “dogmatic distress” because of something they said or wrote. Under legislation making its way through Parliament that type of offence will likely become reality. While Bill C-63 is ostensibly aimed at what is posted online, under new powers granted the Canadian Human Rights Commissioner by the legislation, they will be allowed to entertain and rule on any complaints filed by anyone alleging to have suffered the equivalent of dogmatic distress, including from what has yet to be said or published. My books will definitely cause some readers to experience “dogmatic distress”, especially my latest and last: Fade to Black. In my last will and testament I have instructed my executor to transfer all my published and unpublished material, including cover art, into the public domain. You will be free to publish any or all of my books under your own label, just give credit where credit is due. To make it easy, contents of all my books is available as web pages and as free downloadable PDFs. Cheers! Bernard Payeur email
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