22 October 2014

Ottawa shooting: Harper’s pro-US agenda has turned Canada into a target – and divided society

The safest country in the world is no longer a safe place and many Canadians will be asking today whether this is because the Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper pushed Canada into joining the US-led war in the Middle East.

A multicultural society which prided itself on tolerance became divided when the Conservative government put a number of Muslims on a “watch list” in addition to announcing three weeks ago that it would send 600 special forces members along with fighter jets to support the US effort in their fight against Isis in Iraq.

Two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car on Monday near Montreal – one of them died later. The attacker was shot dead and identified as a Muslim convert influenced by “radical Islamists”.

[A COMMENT] Pardon me, but how can you claim to be a "journalist" when you're so clearly absolutely uninformed or willfully lying about the subject matter which you write about? I think it's time you shut up and let the grown ups handle things.

[ANOTHER] "Are you actually suggesting that Canadian Muslim's, as a group, will be radicalized and turn to terrorism because the Canadian government is responding a request for assistance from the Iraqi government?"

That is exactly what he is suggesting, which in turn basically translates as we should allow our foreign policy to be dictated to us by murdering terrorists.

Yeah, that'll work.

[ANOTHER] So ISIS started buying space in leading new papers too? [The Independent] Read more