Is it true?
Does this really reflect a “broad strata of Canadian society”?
Not to pre-judge, because fair is fair, and accusations don’t add up to proofs. Three hundred pounds of suburban ammonium nitrate or no. But for the arrest list below to be trumpeted as a “broad strata” of Canadian society, it just seems to me, you know: Otherwise.
From the several times I’ve been up there. See for yourself:
Zakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga
Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga
Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga
Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston
Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto
Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto
Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga
Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga
I don’t know, gentle reader – it’s late, and I’m tired. But there’s a common thread in there, if only I could tease it out.
Pretenses aside: Good Lord, but the world has become a deeply silly and unserious place. When earnest public servants can stand in front of the microphone in a high functioning democracy and say – without an apparent trace of irony – that the arrests of the people named above reflect “a broad strata of Canadian society” then we’ve come to a very bizzare junction. But when everyone in the press nods their heads and agrees, yes, of course: Very broad. When that happens?
Snakes on the plane, man. Snakes on the plane.
But maybe it’s just me. Maybe things have changed since last I visited.
Who can say?
Oh, Canada.
it’s a mother-lovin’ mystery!!! what is the connection?! what could it be?!?!
Heh. They even all came from the same Mosque, but God forbid we awknowledge that!
I read each profile. I can sort of see the point about saying they represent a “broad strata of Canadian society”. Immigrants from at least 3 countries, a few born in Canada, one convert to Islam. They are students, employees, mentors, criminals, etc. They come from large and small families. So in that regard, I guess they could represent a broad spectrum of just about any society.
Except that they are terrorists…no matter what their friends, neighbors and co-workers might think.
Near as I can figure it’s the “Bizzaro World” Superman would sometimes find himself in…..
re -”…snakes on the plane..”
Is it this?: http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/06/03/snake_pilot.html
Or this:
http://www.avweb.com/newswire/12_23a/briefs/192393-1.html
Just one correction…the news reports I have read state 3 tons, which is 6K pounds instead of 300.
I see nothing, nothing.
Broad strata. A little off-topic, but I can’t help thinking back to a spoof recruiting piece in my college’s humor magazine:
“…Our faculty represents a great diversity of intellectual viewpoints, from neo-Marxism to classical Marxism.”
I’ll think on it and maybe by next week I can come up with the answer you require.
Political Correctness is the most stupid thing anyone ever came up with. Whatever happened to Common Sense?
from the Blues Brothers…
“we play both kinds of music here: country and western!”