Michael Devolin
Michael Devolin
Poll Taxes and a Palace Made of Wattle
The big question in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict, like that of Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland conflict, is who the real occupier is and who really has historical right to the lands in question.
Mar 13, 2010 - 12:20:41 AM
Michael Devolin
Benjamin Netanyahu and the Realm of High Audacity
Simeon Strunsky wrote in No Mean City (1944) that "People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people."
Feb 2, 2010 - 12:30:34 AM
Michael Devolin
Jews and Israel: An Incomprehensible Truth
It seems this world has refused, en masse, to acknowledge the real history of Israel and the Jewish people. It is as if this Israel had never existed.
Jan 19, 2010 - 12:28:58 AM
Michael Devolin
Ajai Sahni 2009: Contradictions and anti-Americanism
The majority of Muslims, on the other hand, who have "tended to passivity and conciliation" he accuses merely of lacking "courage and conviction"-rather than condemning their "passivity and conciliation" for what it really is: an approval of a Muslim minority who have reached that objective of Islam beyond the moderate plane.
Dec 15, 2009 - 12:14:40 AM
Michael Devolin
Radicalisation Process, or The Real Muslim?
Being an expert on Islam is not yet a prerequisite to being a Canadian citizen; being dedicated to my country's security and the safety of my community is not yet a crime in this country. It is the fault of Islam and the Muslim "radical" that many Canadians like me (although they are fearful of saying so publicly) view all Muslims as being suspect.
Nov 25, 2009 - 8:21:48 AM
Michael Devolin
The Most Urgent Question
Equating Islamists or Islamic terrorists with Nazis and Nazism is an imperfect juxtaposition simply because "at this moment in history" the religious ideology goading the Islamist, namely Islam, to acts of terrorism is regarded and harboured by Western academia and media as sacrosanct whereas Nazism, which drives the Nazi toward precisely the same degree of Jew hatred and genocidal ends as does Islam the Islamist, is generally regarded by Western academia and media as absolute evil.
Nov 16, 2009 - 12:20:39 AM
Michael Devolin
A Bad Exuse Is Worse Than None
One hears the words "Islam" and "Muslim" and "Koran" quite often in her delivery, but never once does she connect Islam with the devastating effects found wherever this religion takes root and begins to motivate its adherents.
Nov 13, 2009 - 12:16:04 AM
Michael Devolin
Haroon Siddiqui's Magical Kingdom of Iran
He accuses Israel of being in violation of 'several council resolutions for decades,' as though those successive governments of the State of Israel foolishly imagined their tiny country will ever see the day when they are not the UN Security Council's favourite nation state for throwing mud at. How to placate an implacable enemy? Haroon Siddiqui's recent mud slinging is not something the Jewish people have never heard before.
Oct 4, 2009 - 11:10:06 PM
Michael Devolin
Eye for an Eye
If you read the essays of Rabbi Kahane, it is apparent in all of them, or most of them, that he was not too fond of Gentiles. I can't say I blame him. History is proof of the condemnatory fact that Gentiles have never been too fond of Jews either.
Sep 17, 2009 - 10:11:39 PM
Michael Devolin
As Far As the East Is From the West
History is witness to the fact that everyone outside of Orthodox Judaism-Christians, Muslims, and the United Church (whatever they are) - have arrogated themselves as being the sole authority for defining what should be, or not be, true Zionism.
Aug 21, 2009 - 12:45:33 AM
Michael Devolin
New-Age Conservatism
New-age conservatives, as I label them, always, no matter how sincere their intentions, get it wrong about Islam: they obfuscate the fact that Islam does not teach tolerance, it teaches intolerance—as a virtue. Hence George Weigel's suggestion that Muslims "who seek an Islamic case for tolerance and pluralism" are deserving of our accomodation of their abstract, nonexistent brand of Islam (as opposed to the violent, veridical Islam he writes about otherwise) within a Western Judeo-Christian society is, essentially, and to his discredit, a sophisticated imprudence.
Apr 11, 2009 - 1:41:51 PM
Michael Devolin
Islam the Package
In my last article to the Magic City Morning Star I pointed out, for the express sake of Haroon Siddiqui and other apologists for Islam who are wont to accuse Canadians like me of Islamophobia that the religion of Islam as evidenced in the Middle East, Indonesia, and Africa is the Islam ordinary Canadians are afraid of. Ours is not Islamophobia but common sense. The term "Islamophobia" was created by those journalists who, subjugated by the tyrannical advocates of Multiculturalism, wish to hide the stark reality that veridical Islam - the real Islam, the Islam that created the terrorism we read about in the papers every day - casts a frightening image to all honest and thinking human beings.
Oct 1, 2008 - 10:43:00 AM
Michael Devolin
Islam on Trial
Myles Kantor has written, "A people's true character emerges as a majority. And when they lived as majorities over Jews, the peace-loving adherents of the Koran distinguished themselves with repeated viciousness and persecution." I have written elsewhere that a religion cannot be accurately judged by the behaviour of its exceptional personalities but only by how it manifests itself within the masses of those that adhere to its tenets.
Jun 23, 2008 - 11:53:50 AM
Michael Devolin
Jimmy Carter and Democratic Anti-Jewish Hatred
It's no surprise to me that former president Jimmy Carter has met with the Muslim terrorists of Hamas. I could list the obscurantisms that come to light immediately one looks into to the views this man has recently disseminated to the world, but may it suffice here for me to say that these same views are merely indicative of a widespread phenomenon that has existed for years within Western culture.
May 5, 2008 - 2:31:54 PM
Michael Devolin
Canada: A Country Deceived
"Everything that deceives may be said to enchant," wrote Plato. It was reported in Canada's National Post this week that certain Muslim terrorist suspects in this country being "monitored" by our security and intelligence service (CSIS) have had "human rights groups, celebrities and MPs" rallying behind them. It's always amazing to me that the politicians who always boast the loudest of having our country's safety as their top priority are always the same politicians attending fundraising dinners and marching down the streets of our cities in support of the Tamil Tigers or Hamas or Hezbollah, or as regards matters closer to home, in support of suspected Muslim terrorists being shadowed by CSIS. But isn't that the way of politicians? If they're going to mess up, they mess up big time.
Mar 6, 2008 - 12:07:38 PM
Michael Devolin
Canada's Weakest Link
It was reported in the Globe and Mail recently that Mr. Justice Edmond Blanchard of the Federal Court of Canada refused to grant a warrant to CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) which would have enabled them to "carry out overseas electronic intercepts". Apparently the Federal Court of Canada is now become predominantly expert on the issue of Islamic terrorism abroad, as though Islamic terrorism without Canada is in no way connected to the threat of Islamic terrorism within Canada.
Feb 25, 2008 - 10:11:05 AM
Michael Devolin
Islam: The Real Culprit
It is written in the Jewish Torah that Jacob, after wrestling with an angel, inquired of him, "Divulge, if you please, your name." Jacob wanted to know with whom he was wrestling. Afterward, he asked the angel to bless him, and the angel, it is recorded in the Torah, blessed Jacob. There is a lesson here for the Western world today: Know with whom you are wrestling, and know also whether your opponent, after you make peace with him, can benefit you.
Feb 7, 2008 - 12:15:41 PM
Michael Devolin
Islam Is Not an Island
Immediately I read in the National Post about a young Muslim girl being strangled by her Muslim father, I anticipated the usual laboured efforts of Islam's apologists and Canada's many obtuse multiculturalists to exculpate the religion of Islam and instead blame it all on bad old human nature.
Dec 14, 2007 - 11:22:07 PM
Michael Devolin
Christopher Hitchens: Secularist Fundamentalist
I used to enjoy Christopher Hitchens and his articles critical of Islam. I assumed at the time he could discern the difference between the barbarities of Islam-barbarities no different in this 21st century than they were in the 7th century-and the benignant tenets of Judaism and how these same tenets have proven to be as beneficial to mankind today as they were before, during, and after the Hellenic age. To equate the long ago defiant independence movement of the Maccabee Jews and their adherence to the nationalist aspirations of Judaism with the expansionist and anti-Jewish ideologies of both Christianity and Islam is to blame the Jews for the genocide of Adolph Hitler's Holocaust and the bloodlust and violence of Osama bin Laden's jihadist terrorism. What Hitchens fails to mention in Bah Hanukkah is that the Maccabean revolt was not the only nationalist movement the history of that era records for us.
Dec 8, 2007 - 10:48:43 PM
Michael Devolin
Things About To Happen
I had no idea at the time that her political party, the Parti Quebecois, had previously marched shamelessly down the streets of Montreal waving Hezbollah flags during the recent war between this Lebanese terrorist group and the Israeli Army.
Nov 29, 2007 - 6:15:48 AM
Michael Devolin
Canada's Unlikely Heroine: Pauline Marois
George Cabot Lodge pointed out that, "When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it." It seems to me that Canadians, in our presumed duty of bending over and accepting the most contrary types into our society-even those whose religion demands of us that we relinquish at their behest all vestiges of our Judeo-Christian culture (except those indicants which demand the submissive act of bending over)-have become disjointed from the disturbing consequences of what has altered into, since Pierre Trudeau's pernicious gift of "multiculturalism," this nation's acquiescent behaviour toward those immigrants refusing to assimilate into what little remains of our Canadian identity.
Nov 7, 2007 - 6:59:36 PM
Michael Devolin
Crazy Aunt in the Attic.
All political and military assaults on the State of Israel and the Jewish people by non-Jewish personages and nations I view as an attack on the veracity of the "choseness" of the Jewish people.
Sep 28, 2007 - 1:27:01 AM
Michael Devolin
Democracy Without Islam
In her book Infidel, Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes, "Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war." This is a point of truth Islam's apologists will not touch with a ten foot pole.
Sep 12, 2007 - 8:31:16 PM
Michael Devolin
Christiane Amanpour: An Accomplice to Lies
As a rebuttal to those who questioned her professionalism after witnessing her emotional outbursts during her coverage of the siege of Sarajevo, Christiane Amanpour replied, "There are some situations one cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice."
Aug 23, 2007 - 6:28:08 AM
Michael Devolin
Jihad TV
It seems Vision TV is determined to denigrate Jews and Israel, no matter the public outcry against such programming. Yet again they have given air time to another anti-Jewish bigot from Dil Dil Pakistan's dark repertory of angry Muslim clerics. I am not surprised.
Aug 13, 2007 - 10:18:50 AM
Michael Devolin
There Is No Locus of Terrorism
Ajai Sahni writes, "There is no locus of terrorism. The locus of terrorism is wherever the ideologies of terrorism penetrate, wherever they find supporters and sympathizers." Since the Muslim invasion of the West and Islam’s exploitation of our accommodative culture, there is no geographical centre of operations for Islamic terrorism.
Jul 8, 2007 - 9:00:16 AM
Michael Devolin
Sheep in Credulity, Wolves for Conformity
How ironic that, shortly after receiving notification from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission of Ottawa of their decision to grant McMaster University a renewal of their licence to operate a nuclear reactor on its campus for another seven years, I read in Canada's National Post that some of the British Muslims detained after the attempted car bombings in England and Scotland are doctors, one of them regarded by his colleagues as a "brilliant" neurosurgeon.
Jul 5, 2007 - 10:51:56 AM
Michael Devolin
Islam in Profile
I've never understood the meaning of the term 'profiling' in the negative context as bandied about by the politically correct, especially when this same politically correct crowd is defending the millions upon millions of supersensitive Muslims of this world from those of us who, driven by conscience, voice publicly our concerns about the self-evident patterns of violence constantly associated with the religion of Islam.
Jun 29, 2007 - 7:34:09 PM
Michael Devolin
Cognition
I really hate religious colloquies. I really do. Especially with Christians, who learned their sophistic art of debate from one of the best in the business, Paul of Tarsus. But when I read such simplistic drivel as that written by Mr. Swank in his recent submission to the Magic City Morning Star, I am driven by my conscience to rebut such shameless blandishment.
Jun 21, 2007 - 9:37:10 AM
Michael Devolin
Gaza: Another of Islam's Reality Shows
Islam has no moderates. Islam represents only Muslims, which includes those who are transiting away from that congenital humanity they inherited through nascency-a humanity that, properly motivated, defies the insensate culture bequeathed them from the Koran-and those who have already protruded beyond that humanity, having made the journey to veridical Islam, which now includes the blood-for-blood reality show presently being played out in Gaza by Muslim terrorists belonging to Hamas and Fatah.
Jun 20, 2007 - 8:26:25 AM
Michael Devolin
The Balloonist's View
I was admonished recently by a seasoned writer who told me that confessing to a friendship with Jews in my articles would surely preclude them from publication. Ironically, the article in question was all about the absurdity and imprudence of political correctness.
Jun 12, 2007 - 7:57:21 AM
Michael Devolin
Soap and Education
One of my Jewish friends warns me continually that political correctness is going to kill us all. The West, that is. There is no such thing as political correctness in the Middle East. If you hate Jews, you kill Jews. Like the Jews of Sderot, Israel. The Palestinian Muslims hate Jews, as do most Muslims, whether secretly or otherwise, and so, without a word, they fire Kassam rockets into the tops of Jewish houses and schools in Sderot.
Jun 3, 2007 - 10:36:36 AM
Michael Devolin
The Deification of Daniel Pipes
I remember reading the White House announcement of August 22, 2003, which stated that Daniel Pipes had been appointed by President Bush to the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace, thinking then that Daniel Pipes, by virtue of this political birdlime imparted to him by an American president, was no longer in the running as a defender of Israel and an unbiased critic of Islam.
May 11, 2007 - 9:06:34 PM
Michael Devolin
A Question of Civility
Charles Dickens wrote, "My ideas of civility were formed among heathens." Similarly, the Western governments now accommodating Islam’s followers are faced with the encroaching dilemma of discerning publicly and with appropriate civility between the so-called "moderates" and the "terrorists" of this loud religion. Who to condone and who to condemn?
May 8, 2007 - 10:30:59 AM
Michael Devolin
To: Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
I’m writing this letter as an ordinary Canadian citizen, to officially voice my objections to McMaster University’s application for a seven-year renewal of its operating license for its nuclear program.
Apr 22, 2007 - 1:56:35 PM
Michael Devolin
The Secret Of Mastery
The Canadian poet David Solway wrote, "Not many people get to see in their lifetime a civilization coming to pieces before their very eyes, like a star going supernova." These are the words of a man who for the greater part of his life held to the views of what the journalist Barbara Kay described as his "default identification with the leftist ideology," an ideology he repudiated after the Islamic terrorist attack of 9/11 on the World Trade Centre in New York City. What I find most admirable about David Solway is the fact that he found the courage within himself to publicly oppose the intransigence of the Leftist system of rules, one of which is that once you’re in, you are not welcomed to the option of refuting their shibboleths.
Apr 17, 2007 - 10:26:41 PM
Michael Devolin
What A President Believes
I've always maintained that Christianity precipitated the Holocaust. There are many Christians who are uncomfortable with this interpretation of history, but the fact remains that much of Germany hated Jews precisely because of what they had been taught for centuries by Christian clerics, long before Germany became Nazi Germany.
Apr 1, 2007 - 10:15:15 AM
Michael Devolin
Islam: An Egregious Culture
Steven Stalinsky, the Executive Director of the Middle East Media Research Institute, wrote in the National Review (May 2004) that, "As the war on terror continues, the voices from the Arab and Muslim world celebrating death over life have been heard more often than those criticizing this philosophy." Judging either by the silence or the non-committal voices of the so-called "moderates" of Islam, we the inexperts-on-Islam, non-Muslims of this world can only surmise that Islam has fixed itself upon the course set out for it by the violent and bloody-minded of this religion.
Mar 18, 2007 - 9:29:09 AM
Michael Devolin
Minority my Foot!
I've been reading Haroon Siddiqui's column in the Toronto Star for years, more for the laughs than for anything I might have learned from his weekly dissemination of apologia in support of Islam (and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and his exculpation of Muslims who carry out terrorist acts. His article 'India's Muslims deemed to be in dire straits' is one of the most blatent examples of the deviousness he exercises in blaming others for the sins of Islam.
Feb 18, 2007 - 1:38:47 PM
Michael Devolin
A Fear of Danger
In his illuminating book America Alone, Mark Steyn writes, "Meanwhile, we fight the symptoms - the terror plots - but not the cause: the ideology. The self-imposed constraints of this war - legalistic, multilateral, politically correct - are clearer every day."
Feb 7, 2007 - 11:13:29 AM
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