Recently the news was that over the weekend vandals targeted five synagogues and a Jewish school in Montreal. Rocks were thrown and a window was broken. Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz, of the Tefereth Beth David Jerusalem Synagogue of Cote-St-Luc spoke to a journalist from a Canadian newspaper about the incident.

These attacks on places of worship are not the exception but the rule. An Anglican Church was vandalized and daubed with paint. Then a Roman Catholic Church belonging to the English-speaking community in MONTREAL was vandalized. Note that no Roman Catholic Churches belonging to the Quebecois is ever vandalized, which links the vandals with one part of the Quebecois community. The dislike for English Roman Catholicism was made evident when Quebecois Catholic priests in Montreal said that they would never permit Mass to be said in English in their churches. The archbishop of Montreal, a Quebecois himself took no action in the matter. Was he in cahoots with those priests?

A few days before two CUM Police Officers shot and killed 18-year old Honduran boy Fredy Villanueva in Montreal-North (August 9, 2008), 'anti-Jewish' incidents took place in the Laurentians, a place where many Jews have their Summer Cottages. There was vandalism and property damage, as well as incidents involving Quebecois youths roughing-up Jewish visitors from France. These incidents received such little publicity that one wonders if the news is being gagged.

All issues are linked to race, religion and language.

To conclude this article I quote from a speech given by Senator Robert F. Kennedy at Capetown South Africa on June 6, 1966.

"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustices, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

"When we fight the tyranny of ethocentricity we do so not as Christians, Jews or any other religion, we do so as human beings. That the measure which we are fighting for now are the rights of man, without any borders."

KENNETH T. TELLIS