Médico abortista canadiense recibirá Medalla de la Orden de Canadá

Así lo señala LifeSitenews.com, via SoCon.

La ha recibido el viernes pasado en la ciudad de Quebec a las 10 de la mañana. La prensa especializada lo ve como un profeta, sin mencionar por supuesto, que Morgentaler chantajeó al Primer Ministro canadiense Trudeau para que se aprobase el aborto en Canadá. En la carta, publicada por el semanario canadiense MacLean, se lee:

"¿De verdad tengo que convencerle de la hipocresía de las leyes actuales? ¿Sabe que en mi clínica, he ayudado a mujeres, hijas, queridas y familiares de miembros del Gabinete Federal o Provincial, incluyendo algunas que son familiares suyas?
"¿Sabes que Dr. Leon Trudeau, un sobrino tuyo, ha estado mandándome casos? ¿Sabes que algunos ministros de Quebec que habían hablado oficialmente contra el aborto, tienen parientes a los que he tratado en su clínica y les he ayudado? ¿Sabes que un pariente del (ministro de salud de Quebec) Claude Castonguay (que rechazó reconocer mi clínica como yo le había pedido) abortó en mi clínica justo el día antes de que fuera intervenida por la policía?".
Morgentaler continuó con un examen poco simpático de la situación política tan difícil en que se encuentra Trudeau sobre la cuestión del aborto. "¿Estaría mal concluir que los derechos de las mujeres han estado sacrificadas en el altar de la conveniencia política? ¿y no tendrá usted responsabilidad moral por el sufrimiento de las mujeres que resulta de la carencia de acceso a abortos seguros por su decisión de no corregir la ley?".

Es curioso que cuando se menciona el tema del aborto (casi) nunca se hace referencia a la carencia de información sobre otras posibilidades de ayuda real a la mujer que por la causa que sea queda embarazada sin desearlo. La primera la adopción, pero también las posibilidades de ayudar a esa mujer en concreto. Pero claro, estas posibilidades gastan dinero en lugar de producir dinero, que es lo que hace el aborto, y en cantidades industriales.

Las protestas contra la concesión de la Orden de Canadá a Morgentaler han sido variadas. Pero no la han  impedido.

Los once mandamientos de la Comisión Canadiense de los Derechos Humanos

Los enumera Free Dominion, de acuerdo con la resolución del propio CHRC (International readers: read the link, it's mandatory...):

1. el sello de la amenaza poderosa: el grupo objetivo es presentado como una amenaza poderosa que va tomando control de las mayores instituciones de la sociedad y disminuyendo a otros de sus vidas, seguridad, libertad de expresión y bienestar en general;
   
2. el sello de la Historia Verdadera: los mensajes usan historias verdaderas, reportajes de noticias y referencia de fuentes discutibles para hacer generalizaciones negativas de un grupo objetivo.  
3. El sello del Predador: el grupo objetivo es retratado como el que hace víctimas de los niños, los ancianos, los vulnerables, etc; 
4. El sello de la Causa de los Problemas Sociales: el grupo objetivo es culpable de los problemas actuales en la sociedad y en el mundo;
5. El sello de ser Peligroso o Violento por Naturaleza: el grupo objetivo es presentado como peligroso o violento por naturaleza;
6. El sello de las Cualidades redemptoras: los miembros de un grupo determinado carecen de cualquier cualidad que les redima y son el demonio de forma innata;
7. El sello del Destierro: los mensajes comunican la idea de que nada, salvo el destierro, la segregación o la erradicación de este grupo de personas salvarán a otros del daño que puede infligir este grupo.
8. El sello del Sub-Humano: el grupo objetivo es des-humanizado a través de comparaciones y asociaciones con animales, alimañas, excrementos y otras substancias perversas;
9. El sello del Lenguaje Incendiario: lenguaje incendiario se usa en los mensajes para crear un tono de extremo odio y desprecio;
10. El sello de Trivializar o Celebrar una Tragedia Pasada: si hace referencia a los miembros del grupo en concreto;
11. El sello de la Llamada a la Acción Violenta: contra el grupo objetivo.

Bien, ahora sólo hace falta que tomen la literatura musulmana de "vamos a matar a los infieles" o "los infieles son monos y cerdos" y vayan acusando a alguno de ellos... ¿A que no hay pelotas? Porque a Mark Steyn o Ezra Levant y otros bloggers críticos con el Islam los han tenido en proceso durante meses.

Enlaces de interés:

1. Urgente: bienvenidos a 1984, por Harto .También lo posteó Aguador . El potencial de erosionar el derecho al anonimato para los usuarios de Internet, que está protegido por ley en Estados Unidos y reconocidointernacionalmente por grupos como el Consejo de Europa, ha alarmado a algunos expertos en tecnología y partidarios de la privacidad. También podría afectar a servicios como la red Tor que permite el anonimato. Gracias a Crispal  por traducirlo.
2. Hirsi Ali: la liberación de la mente . Un post magnífico de Samuel. Vale la pena leerlo y ver todos los enlaces.

Mark Steyn: a hilarious process... if it was not so important for free speech

GAGGED IN CANADA - New York Post

(Canada)The country is dotted with human-rights commissions. At first, they typically heard discrimination suits against businesses. But since that didn't create much work, the commissions branched out into policing "hate" speech. Initially, they targeted neo-Nazis; then religious figures who'd condemned homosexuality; and now Maclean's and Steyn.

The new rallying cry is, "If I hate what you say, I'll accuse you of hate." The Canadian Islamic Council got the Human Rights Tribunal in British Columbia and the national Canadian Human Rights Commission (where proceedings are still pending) to agree to hear its complaint. It had to like its odds.

The national commission has never found anyone innocent in 31 years. It is set up for classic Alice-in-Wonderland "verdict first, trial later" justice: Canada's Human Rights Act defines hate speech as speech "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt." That language is so capacious and vague that to be accused is tantamount to being found guilty.

Unlike in defamation law, truth is no defense, and there's no obligation to prove harm. One of the principal investigators of the Canadian Human Rights Commission was asked in a hearing what value he puts on freedom of speech in his work, and replied, "Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value." Clearly.

In British Columbia, the Steyn hearing proceeded with all the marsupial ungainliness of a kangaroo court. No one knew what the rules of evidence were. Hilariously, one of the chief complaints against Steyn was that he quoted a Muslim imam in Norway bragging that in Europe "the number of Muslims is expanding like mosquitoes." If that insect simile is out-of-bounds, the commission should swoop down on Norway and execute an extraordinary rendition of the imam.

The hearing has appropriately exposed the commissions to ridicule - and maybe some hatred and contempt (if that's allowed). There are calls to strip them of their power to regulate the media. This would limit the damage, even as free speech is endangered elsewhere.

Some time ago he wrote:

Look, the defenders of the present "human rights" regime started this whole free-speech-leads-to-the-Holocaust line. I'm not saying that Canada's thought-crime enforcers are planning to murder millions of people, only that (as Jennifer Lynch might put it) history has shown us that extraordinary government powers in the name of "reasonable limits" often lead to hurtful actions that undermine freedom and have led to unspeakable crimes. Whether or not I'm the new Führer and Maclean's is Mein Kampf, Commissars Lynch and Hall are either intentionally inverting the historical record or, to be charitable, simply ignorant.

But, if it's the latter, why should they have extraordinary powers to regulate public discourse?

(...) It's not a left/right thing. It's not a gay/straight thing. It's not a Jew/Muslim thing. It's not a hateful Steyn/nice fluffy caring compassionate Canadian thing.

It's a free/unfree thing. And the commissars are on the wrong side.

I agree.

Another highly interesting fact is that Elmasry, the anti-Jewish Muslim who sued Steyn, did not attend any of the sessions before the commission. And now has been ranting about the latest anti-discrimination report in Canada: he has said that 80% of Canadians "had the impression" that Muslims were discriminated in Canada. As Scaramouche says, "having the impression" is not a fact and that does not make it a reality. But Elmasry continues:

In principle, we could encourage more and better speech to counter the effects of prejudicial and hateful speech. In practice, a review of major Canadian publications indicates that the "more and better speech" is disturbingly scarce. When it comes to Muslims, right-wing journalists across the country have plenty to say. But who is providing the "more and better speech" to mitigate their toxic effects? The "more and better speech" formula fails marginalized minorities - a lesson that Canadian Muslims have painfully learned. In my clients' case, Maclean's preferred bankruptcy to publishing a mutually acceptable response to one of over twenty Islamophobic articles published in two-and-a-half years.

Maclean is a PRIVATE newspaper which can reject to publish anything. You can critisize it for that, but it is not OBLIGED to publish anything, till a court says so. It is not there to publish what you want. Do you want to publish an article which would be "acceptable" from your standards? Buy or create a new newspaper.

The interesting thing is that it says that "more and better speech" (that is, the one that lauds Muslims, telling them what they like to hear, not what they OUGHT to) "fails marginalized minorities". But of course, Muslims do not have any responsibility in that. No, of course not.

Marginalised Action Dinosaur:

Steyn hopes and thinks they will.

Ezra thinks maybe.

Blazing Cat Fur says “no”.

Somebody ought to be taking bets. My own bet would be “no”, and for reasons similar to BCF’s.

Even though the Tribunal panel of tyrants likely believes Maclean’s is guilty and should be fined and censored, they’ll not want to risk jeopardizing their little “human rights” scam when Maclean’s appeals its conviction to the Supreme Court of Canada or when parliament finally starts hacking away at the HRCs’ ‘mandate’.

Read also "The Post editorial board: The Mark Steyn complainants don't understand freedom of speech" @ Blazing Cat Fur. The bad thing is that the commisionners don't either.

So, is saying the truth really no defense in Canada? Maybe saying the truth is so hurtful, is better not to say it. Maybe what you must do to defend yourself is just lie or, at least, decorate reality as others tell you it is, not as you see it. Maybe it's better not to speak against others, just because you can "offend" others, even if you're always telling the truth. If that is the "socially" acceptable thing to do, then the freedom of speech is already dead.

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Pensaba escribir un resumen de las sesiones del juicio, pero este artículo del New York Post, me exime de hacerlo.

Importantes para mí, son dos cuestiones: la primera que nadie en 31 años ha sido encontrado inocente por la Comisión Canadiense de Derechos Humanos y la segunda, que la moda hoy es decir "si odio lo que me dices, te demando porque me odias". Las locas gays, los musulmanes "supuestamente moderados", feministas trasnochadas y machistas idos de la azotea, entre otras, todos usan las mismas armas.

Las hilarantes sesiones del juicio, más propias de una película de mis admirados hermanos Mar (especialmente con Groucho haciendo de juez y Harpo -el mudo- de fiscal) que de un juicio serio, han incluido la afirmación de que "Mark Steyn estaba insultando a los musulmanes", al citar a un imán noruego que afirmó que "en Europa, el número de los musulmanes está creciendo como mosquitos".

Hace poco él mismo escribía que esto no era una cuestión de derechas o de izquierdas, de homosexuales o de heterosexuales, de judíos o de musulmanes, de odiar a Steyn o de quererle. Es una cuestión de libertad o de no libertad. Y los comisarios están en el lado equivocado.

Ahora bien, si hay alguien que se ha lucido ha sido Elmasry, el antijudío musulmán que ha demandado a Mark Steyn por "islamofobia". Primero, no ha aparecido por las sesiones del juicio, como si le importara un bledo lo que allí está ocurriendo. Y segundo, ha publicado su reacción al informe sobre la Discriminación en Canadá. En el comentario, da una nueva prueba de que la azotea no la tiene muy bien, porque considera que existe discriminación, porque "el 80% de los canadienses tienen la sensación de que dicha discriminación existe". De modo que, a partir de ahora, si cada uno tenemos la sensación de que nadie nos supera y de que somos divinos de la muerte, es que esa es la realidad.

Pero sin duda, lo mejor es que se queja de que nadie contrarresta "los negativos efectos de los islamofóbicos" y de que "la expresión mejor" (la que alaba y hace la pelota a los islámicos) queda totalmente reducida a minorías marginalizadas. Y de que Maclean (el periódico en el que escribe Steyn) se negó a publicar al menos uno de los artículos que contrarrestaban la "propaganda islamofóbica" que se había hecho en más de veinte en dos años y medio (apabullante estadística...).

En cuanto a lo que pasará, no se sabe realmente, por lo absolutamente hilarante que ha sido el proceso. Steyn piensa que serán condenados. Ezra Levant considera que es posible. Blazing Cat Fur considera probable que los absuelvan precisamente por lo absolutamente surrealista que ha sido el juicio. Marginalized Action Dinosaur considera que los van a condenar para hacer ver que (los comisarios) son "como Dios".

Blazing Cat Fur enlaza un artículo titulado "por qué los demandantes no entienden el concepto de libertad de expresión". Lo terrible es que parece que los que tampoco lo entienden son los comisarios que están "juzgando" el caso.

Pero lo más preocupante es algo que señala Hodja del artículo que enlazo en primer lugar: "decir la verdad no es la mejor forma de defensa en Canadá". Parece que no: parece que lo "socialmente aceptable/políticamente correcto" es plegarse y aceptar la realidad tal y como otros la cuentan, sin fiarse cada uno de su buen sentido, no vaya a ser que... Parece que la mejor defensa es no criticar nunca, es siempre alabar a los demás, aunque no estemos de acuerdo e, incluso, aunque los hechos nos den la razón, como es el caso de Steyn. Si lo "socialmente aceptable/políticamente correcto" es esto, si no se admite el pensamiento discrepante o crítico, entonces la libertad de expresión está ya muerta.

Veremos qué ocurre.

Related posts:
Mark Steyn on Trial, Accused of Islamophobia.

Being Christian is now a "hate crime"?

I wrote here some days ago about what I think and believe is the correct difference between secularization and "laicism". Well, looks like there are some people that do not make that difference and consider that it's OK to impose their morals on the citizens. 
five feet of fury. (performing fallaci-o.): 

"Additionally, a message posted to a popular Catholic internet forum has reportedly made its way before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal. The alleged poster, who is an American writing from America, was commenting on an article written by Mark Steyn -- a Canadian author who now lives in New Hampshire. The tribunal accepted this posting as evidence that Steyn promoted “hatred”. While the website is never mentioned by name in news reports -- referred to only as “a Catholic website” — a source at the tribunal told me, off-the-record, that the website was Catholic Answers.

While the claim is unconfirmed as of this writing, the controversial Mark Steyn article, over which the British Columbia hearing is being held, was posted to the Catholic Answers message forum. Moreoever, popular Jewish-Canadian blogger Ezra Levant, who is blogging live from the hearing, and who is the subject of his own human rights commission complaint, published a description of the unnamed Catholic forum. Several details match, including the screen names of two participants to the Catholic Answers forum discussion of Steyn’s article."

The message in particular was this:

Father defended the Church’s teaching on marriage during Canada’s same-sex ‘marriage’ debate, quoting extensively from the Bible, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Pope John Paul II’s encyclicals. Each of these documents contains official Catholic teaching. And like millions of other people throughout the world and the ages - many of who are non-Catholics and non-Christians — Father believes that marriage is an exclusive union between a man and a woman.

(...) Father de Valk publishes Catholic Insight, a Canadian magazine that “bases itself on the Church’s teaching and applies it to various circumstances in our time.” He is being accused by a homosexual activist of promoting “extreme hatred and contempt” against homosexuals.

Yet following the example of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XV, Father has stated on several occasions that we must love homosexuals and treat them with the dignity due every human person. “The basic view of the Church is that homosexual acts are a sin, but we love the sinner,” Father told me during an interview. “Opposing same-sex marriage is not the same as rejecting homosexuals as persons.” This is the deeply-held belief of orthodox Christians that is now considered a possible hate act warranting state intervention. This is what happens when government agencies broadly define homophobia as opposition to any homosexual act.

Father De Valk, the author of the post, did not make any remark asking homosexuals to be punished, yet the mere different thought/belief from the rest of the people, can constitute in itself a "hate crime". Is this respect for other people's beliefs? Is this freedom to belief? Looks like that not, but this is the ultimate goal of Canadian "anti-hate" legislation, according to this book.

But then someone who is continously telling slurs about Jews or declares publicly that "all Jews after they are 18, are legitimate targets because they are not innocent", don't receive but some words like "don't be so brute", while people denouncing that are prosecuted for "Islamophobia". Of course, those first ones are Muslims, not Christians.

Thanks to Blazing Cat Fur for the tip.

Meanwhile in Britain, two Christian evangelists were threatened with a arrest for a hate crime offense for distributing Christian leaflets and Bibles in a Muslim zone. It happened in Birmingham.

The evangelists say they were threatened with arrest for committing a "hate crime" and were told they risked being beaten up if they returned. The incident will fuel fears that "no-go areas" for Christians are emerging in British towns and cities, as the Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed in The Sunday Telegraph this year.

So now there are voices claiming that perhaps they were threatened with arrest because they could possibly being telling Muslims "convert to Christianity or you would die in Hell". Hey, is that a "hate crime"? Don't make me laugh!!! But the best is the title: "Where they Christian soldiers?" No, they were Christian jihadis, who were threatening Muslims with "Convert or we will kill you by committing suicide". These journalists.... what do they take before writing this kind of articles?

This is not Algeria or Saudi Arabia. This is the West. Or not?

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Exactamente igual que el juicio a Mark Steyn no tendrá mucha cobertura aquí, lo que le ha pasado con un foro católico en Canadá tampoco. La Comisión de Derechos Humanos canadiense no ha dicho qué foro es, simplemente que se trata de "un foro católico". Pero todos los indicios apuntan a un post que dejó el Padre de Valk y que tampoco tendrá ninguna repercusión. A pesar de que no se tiene confirmación oficial, parece ser -y ha sido confirmado a algunos no oficialmente- que se refiere al foro "Catholic Answers" y en concreto al post del Padre de Valk. Este padre bávaro residente en Canadá, escribió en ese foro de internet "el matrimonio entre homosexuales, para mí, no es matrimonio, que defino sólo como el que tiene lugar entre hombre y mujer", citando a Juan Pablo II y a Benedicto XVI. Ese comentario se refería a su vez a un artículo de Mark Steyn y los responsable de la Comisión quieren probar que de esa forma Steyn está promoviendo el odio, ahora hacia los homosexuales.

El Padre Valk publica "Catholic Insight", una revista católica con comentarios sobre la actualidad. En una entrevista declaró, basándose en varias Encíclicas, que "la idea básica sobre la homosexualidad que tiene la Iglesia Católica es que "odiamos el pecado pero queremos al pecador", de modo que rechazar el matrimonio homosexual no significa rechazar a los homosexuales como personas".

Pues bien, un activista homosexual le ha acusado de promover "odio extremo y desprecio" por los homosexuales.

De modo que ser católico es un crimen de odio según esta interpretación.

Pero no sólo en Canadá. En Inglaterra, un par de predicadores evangélicos han denunciado a la Policía de las West Midlands, por amenazarles con arrestarles por un delito de odio por distribuir Biblias y propaganda cristiana en una zona musulmana. Ha ocurrido en Birmingham y algún que otro periodista ha dicho que si sólo estaban anunciando el Evangelio, vale, pero que si lo estaban anunciando "amenazando con que si no se convertían, iban a ir al Infierno", entonces posiblemente sí hizo bien la policía, por portarse como "soldados cristianos".

Esto no es Argelia ni Arabia Saudí. Esto es Occidente. ¿O no?

Polygamy in Toronto

Daimnation!: Polygamy in Toronto:

"Polygamy is happening in Toronto; it's not common, but it's happening,' said Hindy, imam at Salahuddin Islamic Centre.

Hindy, hardly a stranger to controversy, is well known for his friendship with the family of Omar Khadr, the young Canadian detainee at Guantanamo Bay, and his outspoken views on the implementation of Islamic law. In the past five years, Hindy said he has officiated or 'blessed' more than 30 polygamous marriages; the most recent was two months ago. Even some imams in the GTA have second wives, he added.

'This is in our religion and nobody can force us to do anything against our religion,' he said. 'If the laws of the country conflict with Islamic law, if one goes against the other, then I am going to follow Islamic law, simple as that.'"

Oh, OK, so he is defending the fulfillment of the religious laws instead of the civil ones, which are universally applied in any modern system. Because they are the ones who sustain the equality of all citizens living under the State, regardless of sex, date of birth, place of birth, religion... I would like to know the opinion some people would have had if this statement was made by a Christian (regardless of his/her denomination) religious man or woman. I bet it would have been in the first page of ALL the newspapers...

H/T Free Mark Steyn.

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Interesante reflexión sobre la poligamia y las leyes que hace este imán extremista canadiense: "Si las leyes del país entran en conflicto con la ley islámica, si una está contra la otra, entonces voy a seguir la ley islámica, es tan sencillo como eso". Y, por tanto, voy a casar a la gente poligámicamente... Muy bien, abanderando el incumplimiento de la ley civil (que se caracteriza por su universalidad) y el cumplimiento de la ley religiosa... Me gustaría oír lo mismo que se hubiera dicho si esto hubiera sido dicho por un cura o religioso de cualquier denominación cristiana...

Lo sé, soy una ilusa.

La amenaza islamista a la libertad de expresión en Europa y Canadá crece - The Islamist menace against Free Speech in Europe and Canada grows

Caza de brujas en Europa: Fiscales y policías recrudecen la persecución contra periodistas y dibujantes de prensa críticos con el islam.

Leedlo entero. Os dejo lo que me ha parecido más importante:

En el Reino Unido, la policía de la región inglesa de las West Midlands dio el año pasado un extremadamente inquietante paso: denunció a Channel 4, no por un presunto delito concreto, sino por lo que consideraba como una mala práctica periodística en uno de sus reportajes, "Undercover Mosque", en el que la cadena de televisión mostraba las imágenes conseguidas tras grabar con cámara oculta las brutales descargas de odio de los imanes a puerta cerrada en las mezquitas. Metidos a reguladores de la ética y la deontología periodística, los policías han tenido que envainarse ahora sus acusaciones, convertidos ya en poco más que en las tristes marionetas de los grupos musulmanes, cómodos mientras los agentes les hacen el trabajo sucio de 'cazaperiodistas". 

[Mientras en Holanda...] Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven es un holandés converso al islam que en 2005 denunció ante la policía al viñetista satírico, Gregorius Nekschot, por “islamofobia” e incitación al “odio racial”. El jueves pasado, un despliegue policial digno de operación antiterrorista de desarticulación de atentado inminente entró a saco en el domicilio de Nekschot en plena noche, con el dibujante durmiendo en su cama, y se le llevó a prisión junto con todo el material informático con el que pudo arramplar. Finalmente, tras la denuncia del converso, la fiscalía general del país había terminando sucumbiendo a la presión de un denominado Centro de Denuncias por Discriminación que, desde Internet y con financiación en parte pública, aseguraba haber recibido más de un centenar de quejas de grupos de musulmanes por la labor del viñetista. De forma que las autoridades ejecutaron la denuncia del converso, amparando las constantes protestas y acusaciones de las organizaciones islámicas y de cuanto individuo quiso apuntar con el dedo al dibujante desde la comodidad de su domicilio.

Ahora bien, no es el único caricaturista bajo amenaza. En Canadá, el caricaturista Bruce MacKinnon está en proceso como consecuencia de esta caricatura:

Traduzco del post de Dust My Broom, referenciado más arriba: 

Esta viñeta del periódico Chronicle Herald es obra de Bruce MacKinnon y se supone que se refiere a la mujer de uno de los 18 de Toronto - Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal. Si recordais, fue mencionada en el Globe and Mail en un artículo en 2006 titulado "Ruido de Odio bajo el Velo". Acostumbra a alabar a "la familia Khadr" (la organización terrorista Al-Qaeda en Canadá) e incluso ha pedido fondos financieros para ayudar a la viuda de Ahmed Said Khadr, Maha. Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal y sus amigos odian a Canadá, odian a los judíos, odian a otros musulmanes y en general nos odian a todos los demás - pero aparentemente esta viñeta constituye un posible crimen de odio...

El soplo de esta noticia me vino gracias al grupo de facebook: Defend Free Speech in Canada - The Case of Mark Stein.

En los comentarios del post de Dust My Broon, se señala claramente que dijo: "Quiero millones, en serio. Sé que suena a avaricia, pero me da igual. Quiero millones por lo que los niños han sufrido y por lo que hemos envejecido durante el proceso".

Ya que en el artículo de Nuevo Digital se menciona el documental "Undercover Mosque", lo pongo otra vez, para que la gente pueda juzgar por sí misma. El vídeo es del blog francés Insoumission y no lo he encontrado en español, aunque Nuevo Digital escribió dos posts (1, 2) de resumen sobre la cuestión. Google Video lo censuró pero puede verse gracias a Daily Motion:

Enquête dans les mosquées - 1/3
by Tazda

Enquête dans les mosquées - 2/3
by Tazda

Enquête dans les mosquées - 3/3
by Tazda

Pero claro, siempre hay algún mentecato y capitidisminuido que se imagina lo bien que se viviría en un Londres musulmán... lo que ya comenté en su momento [link in English]

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From Spanish on-line newspaper NUEVO DIGITAL, thanks to Harto through our Spanish Google Group "Por la libertad de expresión en la blogosfera" (Supporting freedom of speech in the blogosphere):

In the United Kingdon, the police from the English region of the West Midlands gave last year a disturbing step: they denounced Channel 4, not because of a concrete alleged crime, but because of what they considered it was a bad journalistic practice in one of their reports, "Undercover Mosque", in which the TV channel showed images they had recorded with a hidden camera the brutal downloading of hate from the Imams behind the doors of the mosques. Considering themselves the regulators of the ethic and the journalistic deontology, policemen have had to retract themselves from the accusations, having transformed themselves in sad puppets of the Muslim groups, who are very comfortable while the agents are doing the dirty work of "journalistbusters". But in other parts of Europe, politicians, prosecutors and policemen are beginnin other harrasment activities. Now, again a cartoonist is in the center of the Islamist typhoon in the Netherlands. But this time, Islamic organizations have learned their lesson. They are leadering from the rear front. Because in this case it is the Dutch Government the one who is leadering the hunting party.

Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven is a Dutch convert to Islam who denounced in 2005 the satirical cartoonist, Gregorius Nekschot, to the police because of "Islamophobia" and "stirring racial hatred". Last Thursday, within a policial operation more proper of an antiterrorist operation to dismember an imminent terrorist attack, the police entered Nekschot's home at night, when the cartoonist was sleeping in his bed, and took him to prison with all the computer material he had in his home. Finally, after the accusation from the convert, the General Prosecutor of the country has ended succumbing to the pressure of a self-called "Center for Denounces of Discrimination" that, from Internet and partly public financing, assured it has received more than a hundred complaints from Muslim groups about the cartoonist works.   So the authorities executed the convert's accusation, sheltering the constant protests and accusations from the Islamic organizations musulmanes por la labor del viñetista. So the authorities executed the convert's accusation, sheltering that way the constant protests and accusations that Islamic organizations and every other guy who wanted to point the cartoonist from their homes' comfortableness, made at that time.

One more time, the extreme violence of the Muslim converts in Europe -emitters of some of the most hateful speeches against Western societies where they were born-, Abdul-Jabbar van de Ven is a man that, on TV and some time before accussing the cartoonist, congratulated himself on the murder of Theo van Gogh and stated openly his hope of someone killing Geert Wilders the same way. Today Van de Ven continues free and active working as an imam in an organization with Saudi funding, while Nekschot has fallen into an apocalypsis of investigations and potential processes that's not less than the huge jihad of death threats who had been directed towards him, after the Dutch Prosecutor's office began the process , even if he works with a pseudonym, Nekschot, "shot in the neck", in Dutch. 

But when Nekschot was still in prison (he was two days detained), the Dutch Government saw himself in the middle of a political tornado with similar accusations from different political positions, both from far-right and far-left and from centered positions. The political accusations included the Labour party, one off the members of the coalition which forms the Government. Even the leftist newspaper, like De Volksrant, screamed in earnest against the harrasment to free speech, a harrasment that unites European Governments with Islam, which is extremely succesful in its gagging efforts in European lands.“In Denmark, they protect the cartoonist; in the Netherlands, the police arrest them”, De Volksrant said alluding to the case of Mohammed cartoons.

In fact, the most acid critics of the Government's action are this time the Dutch leftists, including those who are forming the coalition in the Government, like radical socialists, who said that "persecuting an artist because of his work is absurd". What is more, it has been a center-right party, the Demo-Christian CDA, the one who has stated that "probably the Prosecutor's office has good reasons to act the way it has acted", an attitude which  contrasts with the words of a Labour MP, who said that "prosecuting a cartoonist is going too far". The scandal has been so great that the Justice Minister has begged the pardon of the Parliament, stating his intention of investigating if there has been committed any unlawful acts in the process.

The Nekschot case was happening as the police from British West Midlands was obliged to apologize and to pay a considerable amount of money in concepto of indemnification to Channel 4, after accusing the TV channel of "spreading an ideology of intolerance and hate". In another uncomprehensive case of Western judicial systems' auto-prosecution, the Prosecutor's office and the Police united last August to accuse Channel 4 of "having distorted completely" the agressively incendiary sermons of the Imams recorded by the TV reporters with a hidden camera and which were aired with the name of "Undercover Mosque", revealing the massive charges of hate and menaces against United Kingdom and the Western way of life promoted by the Imams who, in a "surprising" double speech, were speaking outside their mosques about their moderated role and of Islam as the "Religion of Peace". After investigating the rabid statements of the Islamic clerics shown in the report, the police concluded that, even if they were "ofensive", there was nothing illegal in them. But they found allegedly criminal illegality in the role played by the journalists who had made the report, so they sent a report to Ofcom, the UK regulator of MSM. 

Ofcom, by the way, has considered that the report was impeccable in its edition of the statements, which shows that, after having to pay a considerable amount of money in concept of damages to Channel 4 because of the police activity in the case, the taxpayers have seen West Midlands' police making a formal apology, because they began the persecution against the TV Channel. But they did not and have not begun ANY action against the extremelly agressive imams and their teams who, from inside the mosques, were shouting for the destruction of the infidel in the Western world. Precisely, the Association of the Muslim Policemen of the UK was created at the beginning of this year, whose objective, just as the one created in Scotland, is to "fight against Islamophobia" of the societies in which they are serving for as agents. At the same time, there is no trace (and there is neither proof it would be tolerated) of an "Association of Christian Policemen", which would proclaim openly an activist view of their role inside the Police, as the Muslim agents are doing.

Just the same as what happened with a Belarus journalist who was condemned some months ago because of republishing the Danish Mo-toons, the situation was even aggravated from Brussels, when, in the middle of the persecution against the journalists in the name of "the fight against Islamophobia", the European Union decided a month ago to pass a Directive to fight against "hate" and "racism", terms in which the critics to Islam are included and, potentially, any other information like the one of Channel 4's report, that is not of the policial (or other type) bureacrat's liking. The new Directive passed by the Interior Ministers, which should be sanctioned by the national parliaments, considers a crime of European range any activity of this characteristics, but is seeings by many as a new and potentially devastating attack against the freedom of expression in Europe. This has to be considered inside the normal pressure from groups like the self-named "European Net against Racism", which considers the Directive text as very soft.

Germany considers the text also as "soft", because there is no express mention to the Holocaust, one of the Berlin's obssesions who is not, as should be, worried with the same intensity about German Muslim community, one of the most incendiary ones in Europe, severely excited and supported from Ankara, their home country, and with Islamic organizations totally silent because they see that the European policemen, prosecutors and politicians are doing their dirty work to crush any critical or merely descriptive voice about what is happening inside or outside their mosques.

But not only Europe is suffering from prosecution against cartoonist: Canadian bloggers and cartoonists are also suffering a huge and frontal persecution. 

From Canadian blog Dust my Broom:

This cartoon from the Chronicle Herald newspaper was drawn by Bruce MacKinnon and is supposed to reference the wife of one of the Toronto 18 - Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal. Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal if you recall was featured in a Globe and Mail article back in 2006 titled Hateful Chatter Behind the Veil.  She praises the Khadr (Canada's al-Qaeda) family and even fundraises to help Ahmed Said Khadr's widow, Maha. Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal and her friends hate Canada, hate jews, hate gays, hate fellow Muslims, and in general just hate us - but apparently this cartoon, is a possible hate crime.

Among other things this woman and Co said:

May Allah crush these jews, bring them down to their kneees, humuliate them. Ya Allah make their women widows and their children orphans

Let them call you a terrorist, let them make you look like a savage, but know that THIS is the filth of the earth, the uncivilised destroyer of humanity.

Who cares? We hate Canada.

Wow, her words are peace at their core... ehh, no, wait,  this is a perfect language for a total HATER... But the cartoon has its own reason. The Canadian newspaper the Star reported she actually said:"I want millions, seriously," Cheryfa MacAulay Jamal told a Halifax newspaper yesterday. "I know it sounds greedy, but I don't care. I want millions for what the kids have suffered and how much we've aged in this process." 

Yeah, after saying they actually hate Canada, surely she wants the money for the kids...

Above in the Spanish part, I have posted the three videos of Undercover Mosque,  for you to see them and judge for yourselves. And after seeing that, there are imbeciles and retarded who dare to imagine the "magnificent live" in an Islamic London... 

For information about the Toronto 18, click here and here. For a timeline of what happened, click here.

Nuevo ataque a la libertad de expresión por las caricaturas de Mahoma (+)

Ahora es en Canadá. Me entero gracias al blog inglés Eursoc:

A couple of years ago, Levant published the famous Danish illustrations of Mohammed (which sparked the cartoon jihad) in his Canadian newspaper the Western Standard.

A Saudi-trained iman, who has called for sharia law to be introduced in Canada, complained to a "human rights officer". Levant was called in for interrogation. After negotiating that the session be filmed - and republishing the cartoons, this time on his weblog - Levant attended the hearing last Friday. He was clearly determined to use his interrogation to address some broader issues. Don't miss his response to the accusation that Muslims feel particular under attack since 9/11 - the only house of religion to be torched since then was Levant's own synagogue, attacked by a Jordanian fanatic!

Hace dos años, Levant publicó las famosas ilustraciones de Mahoma que dieron lugar a la jihad de las caricaturas en su periódico canadiense The Western Standard.

Un imán educado en Arabia Saudí, que ha pedido que se introduzca la ley sharia en Canadá, se quejó a un "oficial de Derechos Humanos". Levant fue citado para interrogarle. Despu´s de negociar que la sesión fuera filmada -y republicar las caricaturas, otra vez en su blog- Levant fue a la audición el pasado viernes. Estaba claramente determinado a usar dicha interrogación para referirse a otras cuestiones más extensas. No os perdais la respuesta a su acusación que los musulmanes están bajo ataque desde el 11/S - ¡la única casa de la religión que fue quemada desde entonces, fue la propia sinagoga de Levant, atacada por un fanático jordano!

A Tangled Web: O Canada! Freedom of Speech on Trial.:

In his opening statement, Mr. Levant cites the 1215 Magna Carta, 800 of British Common Law, and 200 years of Canadian Law in support of free speech and his right to offend. He draws attention to peaceful, free societies and he notes that peaceful, free societies depend on free speech for political consensus and political change, rather than violence and involuntary cohersion.

En su declaración de apertura, Levant cita la Magna Carta de 1215, 800 de Ley Común británica y 200 años de Ley canadiense de apoyo a la libertad de expresión y de su derecho a ofender. Apunta a las sociedades pacíficas y libers y nota que estas dependen de la libertad de expresión para el consenso político y el cambio político, en lugar de basarse en la coherción violenta e involuntaria.

Los vídeos de los interrogatorios los tiene Wolf Howling.

LGF postea un link a un artículo que escribió el Imán educado en Arabia Saudí, de nombre Syed B. Soharwardy, justo después del 11S.

Majority of the Muslims believes that Muslims could not commit these heinous crimes because of the sophistication and precision in the planning and execution of these terrorist attacks. In the midst of the attacks on WTC and Pentagon, people are being led to believe that this kind of operation has been launched by someone from the dark corners of the world putting the whole American intelligence apparatus at bay.

La mayoría de los musulmanes creen que los musulmanes no podían cometer estos odiosos crímenes por la sofisticación y precisión en la planificación y ejecución de estos ataques terroristas. En relación a estos ataques en el World Trade Center y el Pentágono, la gente está siendo conducida a pensar que este tipo de operación ha sido realizada por alguien en las esquinas oscuras del mundo poniendo en marcha a toda la inteligencia americana.

Teoría conspirativa en estado puro...

Mark Stein, uno de los mejores articulistas del mundo anglosajón, escribe sobre la cuestión en The Corner h/t Angel. Y cita un párrafo del libro Londonistan, de Melanie Phillips:

Minority-rights doctrine has produced a moral inversion, in which those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a 'victim' group, while those at the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because they belong to the 'oppressive' majority.

La doctrina de los derechos de las minorías ha producido una inversión moral, en la que aquellos que hacen mal están excusados si pertenecen a un grupo "víctima", mientras que aquellos que son los receptores de su comportamiento son considerados culpables porque pertenecen a la mayoría "represiva".

En su post, comenta Muslims Against Sharia:

1. Muslims Against Sharia says:
   January 13th, 2008 at 3:04 pm

   Proceedings against Ezra Levant are nothing short of ridiculous, but let’s consider the implications for moderate Muslims. This “investigation” will further divide Muslims and non-Muslims in Canada. It will give credence to radicals’ claims that the West is at war with Islam. It will antagonize non-Muslims and radicalize moderate Muslims. Regardless of the outcome, once again Islamists skillfully manipulated Dhimmi justice system and came out as clear winners. Thank you, Human Right Commission!

Los procesos contra Ezra Levant no son más que ridículos, pero consideremos las implicaciones para los musulmanes moderados. Esta "investigación" dividirá aún más a los musulmanes y no musulmanes en Canadá. Dará aún más credibilidad a la posición de los radicales de que Occidente está en guerra con el Islam. Incrementará el antagonismo entre los no-musulmanes y radicalizará a los musulmanes radicales. Cualquiera que sea su resultado, otra vez los islamistas manipularon el sistema de justicia dimmi y terminarán como los ganadores claros. ¡¡Gracias, Comisión de Derechos Humanos!!

Como resumen, una caricatura:

(+) Resulta que el imán está meditando si poner una demanda a Ezra Levant por los comentarios en el sitio web del periodista. Ezra Levant lo califica de "imán radical educado en Arabia Saudí", así que el imán piensa que le está difamando y que él o su familia van a ser atacados. "Estoy 100% seguro". Jajajaja. Vamos a reírnos un rato.... Esto lo dice alguien que quiere que la Sharia sea introducida en Canadá...

h/t The Canadian Sentinel.

Otros ataques a la libertad de expresión recientes:

1. Lionheart: ahora llegan los problemas entre los anti-jihad.
   
2. La página de Foehammer suspendida por su proveedor.
   
3. Inspectores municipales chinos asesinan a palos a bloguero por filmar una protesta.
   
4. Phylis Chesler entrevista a Lionheart.
   
5. Censorship in the blogosphere (II).
   
6. Actualización sobre Lionheart (II).
   
7. Actualización sobre Lionheart.
8. ¡¡¡ALERTA!!! BLOGGER INGLÉS ANTIJIHADISTA VA A SER ARRESTADO POR INCITAR AL ODIO RACIAL.
9. Presión en la blogosfera (I).
10. Breve nota sobre la censura.

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Another case of "what were the security services doing?"

British bombers and the lost links to 7/7-News-UK-Crime-TimesOnline

Mohammad Sidique Khan’s name featured twice in MI5 anti-terrorist operations more than a year before he went on to lead the 7/7 suicide attacks on London. The revelations can be reported for the first time after yesterday’s conviction of Omar Khyam, a close associate of Khan, for plotting to build a 1,300lb bomb to blow up a crowded nightclub or shopping centre.

Far from being a “clean skin” Khan had been photographed, followed and bugged by intelligence officers more than a year before the July 2005 bombings that killed 52 innocent people and ranked as Britain’s worst act of mass murder. Security sources told The Times that they had identified a “Sidique Khan” in 2004 as the owner of a mobile phone called by an alleged al-Qaeda financier and of a Honda car which was tailed from the SouthEast to Yorkshire by investigators. Despite those leads, which placed Khan firmly in the company of high priority terrorist suspects, he was not investigated further.

[...] The jury was not told that two men who met Khyam four times when he was under surveillance in early 2004 were Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, his right-hand man in the 7/7 cell. About 16 months later Khan, Khyam and two other men detonated suicide devices on three Tube trains – at Edgware Road, Aldgate and King’s Cross – and on a London bus.

Nor did the jurors know that Khan joined Khyam and other members of his bombing team at an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan in July 2003.

The two men were part of a group of young Britons who trained under and took orders from Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, the al-Qaeda leader who was transferred to Guantanamo Bay last week after being caught by American forces in Iraq.

Hmm, it's striking at least.

More from the Star.com:

The fresh revelations showed that Omar Khyam -left with Anthony Garcia, both of them condemned-, leader of the so-called fertilizer bomb plot, also met with the second-in-command of the July 7 suicide bombers while under MI5 surveillance but that the links between the two groups were never followed up.

The disclosure of the multiple connections to the 7/7 bombers, which starkly contrasts with the widely held belief that domestic terror cells operate in almost total isolation, sparked opposition calls last night for an independent inquiry into why the security agencies failed to use their knowledge to prevent the July 7 attacks.

From The Guardian, the punishment:

Omar Khyam, 25, Waheed Mahmood, 35, and Jawad Akbar, 23, all from Crawley, West Sussex, were convicted of conspiring to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or injure property between January 1 2003 and March 31 2004. Anthony Garcia, 24, from Ilford, Essex, and Salahuddin Amin, 32, from Luton, were convicted of the same offence. Amin, who has repeatedly said he was tortured after being arrested in Pakistan, is planning to appeal.

Khyam and Garcia were also convicted of possessing 600kg of fertiliser for the purposes of terrorism, and Khyam was found guilty of possessing aluminium powder for purposes connected with terrorism.

The judge, Sir Michael Astill, said Khyam, Garcia and Mahmood should not be considered for parole for at least 20 years, and Akbar and Amin should not be considered for parole for 17 and a half years.

[...] It also emerged yesterday that one of the gang's associates, Kazi Rahman, 29, was jailed for nine years last year after he admitted a charge of trying to purchase weapons.

By the way, they have been sentenced for life. And they actually did not kill anybody... Looks like we should have this kind of criminal code here for people like De Juana Chaos.

Of course, they do not mention Abd al-Hadi... even if he was again planning to attack UK...

More in LA Times:

Testimony from an American Muslim who was involved with the defendants in Pakistan revealed that two of the men said they were reporting to Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, whom they identified as the No. 3 representative of Al Qaeda. U.S. authorities revealed last week that Hadi had been taken into custody last year and has been providing information about Al Qaeda.

British MPs to probe MI5 actions.

Pressure grows for a 7/7 inquiry.

Babar: The Jihadi supergrass.

Khawaja: The Canadian connection.

5 Britons Guilty; tied to London 2005 Bombers.

More in The Jawa Report, The Lone Voice, O Insurgente, Expat Yank, Woman Honor Thyself, Gates of Vienna.

Very interesting: read the reflections on the subject by Benedict White at A Conservative's blog: Could the MI5 have stopped 7/7?. He really believes that not for blaming, but to consider what to do in the future a new investigation commission should be called upon. Just the contrary in Tangled Web, who considers that MSM are only thinking of the bad thinks and not of the good -being here the condamnation/punishment of these five ehhh.... peaceful guys.

Related posts: Al-Qaeda operative believed to be 7/7 mastermind, captured.

One only question: what are the "security" forces doing to ensure security???

Related news:

• Wanted: three more wifes for Islamist heckler: Omar Brooks -left-, who described the 7/7 suicide bombers as "completely praiseworthy" and heckled Home Secretary John Reid in a high-profile confrontation last week, has signed up to a Muslim marriage website. Although already married with three children and reportedly living off £700 a month in state benefits, the 31-year-old is seeking more wives, with the intention of fathering more than nine children. There has been a demonstration in London to support him. Britain's Muslim Public Affairs Committee representative, Zulfi Bukhari believes that Abu Izzadeen is not a radical extremist.

• Another British Muslim jailed because he had allegedly tried to buy missiles to shoot down airliners h/t El Opinador Compulsivo.
• Controversial Sharia courts have been set up in major towns and cities to impose Islamic law and enable Muslims to shun the legitimate British legal system. Last night religious leaders and politicians expressed outrage that Sharia law is gaining an increasing foothold in our society. Critics insisted that the Govern­ment is allowing a two-tier legal system to flourish in the name of political correctness and that the authority of UK justice is being undermined.h/t Yahel.

Marvellous hein???

It is really depressing that the people who should be defending citizens, are instead, defending and protecting this kind of ...prehistorical warriors.

• Britain is becoming Big Brother society h/t O Insurgente. Well, certainly not for terrorists...
• oh, and I was forgetting about the bonds h/t EN.
  

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La policía investigó a Sidique Khan uno de los terroristas del 7/J, un año antes del atentado. Se le pinchó el teléfono, se le siguió... ¿La causa? Habían identificado a Sidique Khan como el propietario de un móvil en el que fue recibida una llamada de un presunto banquero de Al-Qaeda y la policía siguió la pista a su coche Honda desde el sudeste hasta Yorkshire. Pero, a pesar de todo ello, no se le siguió investigando.

Pero es que los dos hombres con los que se reunió Siddique Khan fueron Khan y Sheezah Tanweer, sus colaboradores en el 7/J, que habían sido entrenados por Abd al-Hadi, que hace pocos días se anunció que estaba preso en Guantánamo, y que quería volver a atentar en Gran Bretaña.

El descubrimiento ha tenido lugar en el curso de las investigaciones que se siguen contra los acusados -y condenados- por el caso de la bomba hecha con fertilizante. El jefe de esta última Omar Khyan -el morenito de la foto de arriba con cara de exaltado, el otro, Anthony García no parece muy inteligente- se había reunido en varias ocasiones con Sidique Khan, lo que prueba que las células terroristas no actúan solas.

Esto de que no se sabía que no actuaban solas es una idiotez: Al-Qaeda está formada como una franquicia -término mercantil- y no hay nada más mercantil que unirse para alcanzar sinergias. Así que ¿por qué no van a actuar conjuntamente?

Sin embargo, lo que nos deberíamos preguntar es: ¿realmente las fuerzas de seguridad están preparadas para encarar el terrorismo? Y, en segundo lugar, ¿qué es lo que deberían hacer para estarlo?

En español podeis leer el Opinador Compulsivo que señala que los explosivos que querían utilizar eran básicamente los mismos que iban a usar los que querían volar el Parlamento de Ottawa y degollar al presidente canadiense en directo.

China: not progressing on Human Rights

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According to the new report from Amnesty International, China has not fulfilled its promise to protect Human Rights for the Olympics Game of 2008:

The report catalogs a wide range of persistent abuses, from extensive use of detention without trial to the persecution of civil rights activists and new methods to rein in the domestic media and censor the Internet.
The London-based group welcomed the new rules for foreign journalists and the referral of all death sentences to China's Supreme Court since the start of the year. "Disappointingly, they have been matched by moves to expand detention without trial and house arrest of activists, and by a tightening of controls over domestic media and the Internet," Catherine Baber, deputy Asia-Pacific director of Amnesty International, said in a statement.
China's Foreign Ministry in a statement Monday rejected the report, saying the government was improving its legal system and promoting democracy. "We are conscientiously fulfilling our promise for the Olympics. ... The progress China has achieved in human rights cannot be slandered by a report from an individual organization with political prejudice," the statement said.

What is more AI denounces China is using the Olympics to increase its pressure on dissidents:

A report by the group welcomed some reforms, but criticised China's detentions without trial and tightened control of the media and the internet.

Precisely the limits imposed on freedom of speech are one of the more worrying. And internet is precisely one of the places were it is more limites. MySpace is already on in Chinese internet... with some restrictions:

Attempts to post on topics that are deemed inappropriate by the Chinese Government will result in the message: "Sorry, the article you want to publish may contain inappropriate content. Please delete the unsuitable content, and then try reposting it. Thank you." Even searching for blacklisted keywords results in the same warning.

Anyway, Chinese evident lack of progress on Human Rights has had some benefits: Chinese Censorship Chief receives French Highest Honor.

Long Xinmin, rewarded with the Légion d'Honneur at the French Embassy in Beijing, is a dignitary of the Chinese regime. He is the chief of the censorship administration, an administration that controls all newspapers, television and, of course, the Chinese Internet. It does not hesitate to send to prison those who do not respect the strict rules of the propaganda. Officially, Mr. Long has received the medal for being a francophile. But even inside the communist party, he's considered as a hardliner, a conservative that has recently been harsher with Chinese bloggers.

Canada has been assured that China had not tortured Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil, a Canadian citzen accused by Chinese authorities of "separating China" and "organizing, leading and participating in terrorist groups, organizations". I wonder if they would be soooo worried if this Canadian citizen was Christian, Jewish or Buddhist...

We will also see if Al Gore sells any of his videos to China, as the pollution there is growing rapidly: it will be this year the more important polluter:

Currently, 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China, and it is the second largest emitter of energy-related carbon dioxide after the United States. China relies on coal for 70 percent of its energy needs, and discharges a large amount of pollutants into its rivers. The increase of the economy's energy demands is also the cause of higher greenhouse gas levels, as many Chinese companies build coal-fired plants and operate them without the government's consent.

In the same link there says that AlGore has spoken about Chinese environment... in USA. It would be very good to try to speak about this with Chinese authorities...

Other news:

Rich Chinese fancy expensive cars. The most exclusive car brands are among those experiencing the fastest growth. Jenny Zheng, Rolls-Royce's general manager for greater China, says the company's China sales jumped more than 60% last year from the year before. She says China overtook Japan for the first time in 2006, though she declined to cite actual figures. Globally, the brand has sold 805 cars, each one tailor-made to the owner's demands, she says. Well, this is logical considering that China is communist... or not?

China moves to restrict lending.
Thousands of Chinese mines and cement workers are dying each year from breathing of coal and cement dust. "The lung disease known as "black lung" or pneumoconiosis accounts for three quarters of all occupational deaths, health officials said. China's coal mines are the most deadly in the world. An average of 17 miners are killed in mining accidents each day, the official People's Daily newspaper reports. Independent labour groups believe the death toll is much higher". "Of 677,000 occupational disease cases reported in China since the 1950s, more than 90% were pneumoconiosis cases, health ministry spokesperson Su Zhi said. Last year alone, the black lung disease accounted for 76% of the 11,000 new occupational disease cases reported. 621 of the pneumoconiosis cases reported last year involved workers under the age of 18".
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Un informe de Amnistía Internacional vuelve a denunciar que China sigue sin respetar los derechos humanos, a pesar de haber prometido hacerlo para la inauguración de los Juegos Olímpicos. Entre otras cosas, el informe denuncia las detenciones sin juicio y las restricciones a la libertad de expresión, así como que parece que se está aprovchando precisamente los JJOO para incrementar la presión sobre los disidentes.

Por supuesto, China lo ha negado diciendo que "los evidentes procesos en materia de Derechos Humano van a ser dismiuidos en importancia por una organizacion con prejuicios políticos".

Sin embargo,las restricciones en Internet continúan: ahora es MySpace la que tiene un filtro que impide postear material considerado "no apropiado", de tal forma que si no lo quitas el post no puedes postearlo.

Eso sí, Francia ha concedido al censor mayor de ... la Republica Popular China la legion de Honor, porque es "muy francófilo". Y mientras Canadá está muy aliviada después de que las autoridades chinas hayan asegurado que no han torturado a un ciudadano canadiense, acusado de intentar separar China y de "pertenecer a organizaciones subversivas, terroristas o semejantes". El ciudadano en cuestión es musulmán, y, considerando loable que defiendan a sus ciudadanos, habría que preguntrse si hubieran mantenido la misma postura, si Husiyen Celil hubiera pertenecido a otra religión.

Asimismo, China -al igual que EEUU, pero ya veremos quién es más criticado- consideran poco fiable un informe sobre la contaminación, al convertirse China este mismo año en el mayor contaminador del mundo. Ya de las 2o capitales más contaminadas, 16 están en China.

Y, para terminar, a los chinos ricos les molan los coches caros (la firma Rolls-Royce ha anunciado que este año han aumentado un 60% sus ventas) mientras las 3/4 partes de los mineros o trabajadores del cemento mueren anualmente de "pulmón blanco". Sólo el año pasado, el 76% de los trabajadores con enfermedades han muerto por esta causa. 621 eran de menores de 18 años.

Chinese spies on Canada and silence on Chinese HR abuses

Government vows to curb Chinese spying on Canada



Canada's foreign affairs minister says he wants to crack down on Chinese spies who are stealing industrial and high-technology secrets at a tremendous cost to the economy. "It's something that we want to signal we are prepared to address and continue to raise with the Chinese at the appropriate time," Peter MacKay told CTV. MacKay raised concerns of the release earlier this month in China of the RedBerry, an imitation of Canada's BlackBerry handheld device, made by Research in Motion based in Waterloo, Ont.

Daimnation, examinating the raise in military expenditure, also links to an article in the Washington Post in which they quote James Mann, the author of The China Fantasy, who maintains that foreign critics of China's abuses on Human Rights are told to be quiet:

After all, there is no point in hurting Chinese feelings or making the Chinese authorities dig in their heels. Mann is particularly scathing about what he describes as the "Lexicon of Dismissal." Criticism of China is dismissed as "bashing," "provocative" or "anti-China" (a favorite of the Chinese themselves), and any such censure always runs the risk of turning China into an enemy.

In his anger over this muzzling trend, Mann comes close to seeing a conspiracy by well-meaning but self-serving American elites -- with, of course, the happy acquiescence of the Chinese communists -- to keep the United States investing in and trading with China.

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El Ministro de Exteriores Canadiense John Kay, ha dicho que quiere perseguir y detener a los espías Chinos que están robando los secretos industriales y de alta tecnología con un coste tremendo para la economía. "Queremos señalarlo especialmente ahora que estamos preparados para dirigirnos e incrementar [la colaboración] con los chinos en el momento apropiado", dijo Peter McKay a la televisión canadiense. MacKay hizo que se incrementasen las preocupaciones como consecuencia de la presentación del Redberry, una imitación de la Blackberry canadiense, hecha por "Investigación en marcha", con sede en Ontario (Canadá).

Pero si esto es un crimen, aún lo es más el silencio que se impone sobre los abusos [muy graves] de los Derechos Humanos en China. Sobre esto -entre otras cuestiones-, trata el nuevo libro de James Mann, La Fantasía China, en el que su autor critica el que si se denuncian los abusos, se considera que se está usando un lenguaje anti-chino -je, je, ¿a qué me suena esto?...-, provocativo... Así, apunta también a que en un futuro próximo China será mucho más poderosa y mucho más rica que hoy, pero que es muy probable que también incremente su autoritarismo.

Fantastico, ¿ehhh?

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