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		<title>By: One Almighty Leap of Faith &#187; Pursuing Holiness</title>
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		<dc:creator>One Almighty Leap of Faith &#187; Pursuing Holiness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] We can, as long as you&#8217;re not a blind person looking for a taxi, or some godless heathen trying to buy a pepperoni pizza or people running a website who choose to display drawings of Mohammed or a publisher under the impression that you enjoy the right to free speech. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42245</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Reply to Lamy from Montreal - 

Actually I&#039;m still deciding whether to let your propaganda exist on my website.  Although it is clearly refuted by the evidence all around us - for one thing, the mainstream media protects, not attacks, radical Islam, or everyone would have heard of quotes like this:

&quot;Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.&quot; 
-- Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council, Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977

Everyone would know that Yassir Arafat was gay and had AIDS, and they would know he faked his blood donation on 9/12.  They would have repeatedly shown the photos of &quot;Palestinians&quot; dancing in the streets and handing out candy.  They would know that the basis of the intifada, al Dura, is a lie.  CAIR would not have representatives on reputable news programs unless they were being interviewed about their own unindicted co-conspirator status in a terror investigation or the fact that they folded like a house of cards in the anti-cair-net.org lawsuit.  Everyone would know about the female genital mutilation, the &quot;honor&quot; killings, the bondage women live in, and the fact that homosexuals are executed.  They would know about the poison regularly on display at MEMRI that is growing another generation of hate filled radicals.  People would know the words dhimmi, taqqiya, and jizra.  People would know these things and a whole lot more, if the media stopped protecting Islam.  As it is, few people do know them, generally only people who rely on the internet for news. 

What do those things have to do with your personal practice of Islam?  Maybe nothing... except you defend it, if not actively then with your passivity.  If Islam is such a great religion, why do you permit these things to be done in your name and in the name of your faith?  You and millions of others can only blame yourselves for Islam&#039;s reputation.  If you don&#039;t like it, root it out, because you are in a far better position to do so than the rest of us.  The failure of &quot;moderate&quot; Muslims to do this is only guaranteeing a generation or more of war.  

As for your comment, I haven&#039;t decided yet whether to publish it and answer it, or if it&#039;s even worth the time.  

You might want to read this post, though - 
http://pursuingholiness.com/2006/08/15/islamic-neighborhood-watch/

And this one - 
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/192489.php

And by the way - just to enlighten you, because you clearly don&#039;t understand how freedom of speech works - you don&#039;t have freedom of speech on MY property.  You&#039;re free to say whatever you want on your own, i.e. get your own blog if you&#039;re feeling oppressed.  That&#039;s how it works in America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Reply to Lamy from Montreal &#8211; </p>
<p>Actually I&#8217;m still deciding whether to let your propaganda exist on my website.  Although it is clearly refuted by the evidence all around us &#8211; for one thing, the mainstream media protects, not attacks, radical Islam, or everyone would have heard of quotes like this:</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Zuheir Muhsin, late Military Department head of the PLO and member of its Executive Council, Dutch daily Trouw, March 1977</p>
<p>Everyone would know that Yassir Arafat was gay and had AIDS, and they would know he faked his blood donation on 9/12.  They would have repeatedly shown the photos of &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; dancing in the streets and handing out candy.  They would know that the basis of the intifada, al Dura, is a lie.  CAIR would not have representatives on reputable news programs unless they were being interviewed about their own unindicted co-conspirator status in a terror investigation or the fact that they folded like a house of cards in the anti-cair-net.org lawsuit.  Everyone would know about the female genital mutilation, the &#8220;honor&#8221; killings, the bondage women live in, and the fact that homosexuals are executed.  They would know about the poison regularly on display at MEMRI that is growing another generation of hate filled radicals.  People would know the words dhimmi, taqqiya, and jizra.  People would know these things and a whole lot more, if the media stopped protecting Islam.  As it is, few people do know them, generally only people who rely on the internet for news. </p>
<p>What do those things have to do with your personal practice of Islam?  Maybe nothing&#8230; except you defend it, if not actively then with your passivity.  If Islam is such a great religion, why do you permit these things to be done in your name and in the name of your faith?  You and millions of others can only blame yourselves for Islam&#8217;s reputation.  If you don&#8217;t like it, root it out, because you are in a far better position to do so than the rest of us.  The failure of &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslims to do this is only guaranteeing a generation or more of war.  </p>
<p>As for your comment, I haven&#8217;t decided yet whether to publish it and answer it, or if it&#8217;s even worth the time.  </p>
<p>You might want to read this post, though &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://pursuingholiness.com/2006/08/15/islamic-neighborhood-watch/" rel="nofollow">http://pursuingholiness.com/2006/08/15/islamic-neighborhood-watch/</a></p>
<p>And this one &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/192489.php" rel="nofollow">http://ace.mu.nu/archives/192489.php</a></p>
<p>And by the way &#8211; just to enlighten you, because you clearly don&#8217;t understand how freedom of speech works &#8211; you don&#8217;t have freedom of speech on MY property.  You&#8217;re free to say whatever you want on your own, i.e. get your own blog if you&#8217;re feeling oppressed.  That&#8217;s how it works in America.</p>
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		<title>By: We have the right to not obey Islamic law. &#187; Pursuing Holiness</title>
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		<dc:creator>We have the right to not obey Islamic law. &#187; Pursuing Holiness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Ezra Levant refused to go to the secondary crime scene, his attacker has retreated.  The probability is that Mark Steyn&#8217;s attackers will as well, [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Paradigm shift: Will McCain will do what it takes to win the war? &#187; Pursuing Holiness</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paradigm shift: Will McCain will do what it takes to win the war? &#187; Pursuing Holiness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] The Media Matrix: Pursuing Holiness [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Flea</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42056</link>
		<dc:creator>Flea</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is a brilliant summary of the problem; chilling.

&lt;i&gt;We have the right to not obey Islamic law or customs.&lt;/i&gt;

This should be obvious. It is obvious. And yet in Canada, today, it is not true. Disobey Muslim proscriptions against representing their prophet and you will taken before a mock court, fined, even imprisoned. We are, right now, dhimmis. This is not acceptable and whatever happens we cannot allow ourselves to go without a fight.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a brilliant summary of the problem; chilling.</p>
<p><i>We have the right to not obey Islamic law or customs.</i></p>
<p>This should be obvious. It is obvious. And yet in Canada, today, it is not true. Disobey Muslim proscriptions against representing their prophet and you will taken before a mock court, fined, even imprisoned. We are, right now, dhimmis. This is not acceptable and whatever happens we cannot allow ourselves to go without a fight.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Morris</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42055</link>
		<dc:creator>Paul Morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for this interesting perspective - love the title (Pursuing Holiness) fo the blog- it&#039;s so true and I spend a fair bit of time talking to my fellow Canadians about why they should care about these issues and why they should pay some attention to the political scene (because that&#039;s where the laws are enacted that will govern Canadians&#039; lives). I was told by a somewhat intellectual teacher who&#039;s Liberal (I refer to the party as Fiberal) that Ezra Levant is not exaclty a sumpathetic figure, that he&#039;s quite polarizing - I replied that is what happens when you make a stand- you polarize people based on whether they&#039;re in agreement with your stand or not</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for this interesting perspective &#8211; love the title (Pursuing Holiness) fo the blog- it&#8217;s so true and I spend a fair bit of time talking to my fellow Canadians about why they should care about these issues and why they should pay some attention to the political scene (because that&#8217;s where the laws are enacted that will govern Canadians&#8217; lives). I was told by a somewhat intellectual teacher who&#8217;s Liberal (I refer to the party as Fiberal) that Ezra Levant is not exaclty a sumpathetic figure, that he&#8217;s quite polarizing &#8211; I replied that is what happens when you make a stand- you polarize people based on whether they&#8217;re in agreement with your stand or not</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42044</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for the link, David!

And Deborah, thanks for your kind words.  :-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the link, David!</p>
<p>And Deborah, thanks for your kind words.  <img src='http://pursuingholiness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: The Media Matrix &#187; Pursuing Holiness</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Media Matrix &#187; Pursuing Holiness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Free Mark Steyn!: LEVANT, STEYN AND THE SECONDARY CRIME SCENE: Don&#8217;t go there &#8230;. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Free Mark Steyn!: LEVANT, STEYN AND THE SECONDARY CRIME SCENE: Don&#8217;t go there &#8230;. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: David M</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42035</link>
		<dc:creator>David M</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 16:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the - &lt;a href=&quot;http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/02/web-reconnaissance-for-02062008.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Web Reconnaissance for 02/06/2008 &lt;/a&gt; A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day...so check back often.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the &#8211; <a href="http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/02/web-reconnaissance-for-02062008.html" rel="nofollow"> Web Reconnaissance for 02/06/2008 </a> A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day&#8230;so check back often.</p>
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		<title>By: Free Mark Steyn!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Free Mark Steyn!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] LEVANT, STEYN AND THE SECONDARY CRIME SCENE: Don&#8217;t go there &#8230;. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Deborah Gyapong</title>
		<link>http://pursuingholiness.com/2008/02/ezra-levant-mark-steyn-and-secondary-crime-scenes/comment-page-1/#comment-42031</link>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Gyapong</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post, Laura. Thanks for giving us a new, thought-provoking angle on what is THE biggest story in Canada though curiously underreported. Thank goodness that columnists and editorialists and bloggers like yourself are keeping it alive.

Right now a snowball, as Ezra said, is rolling and in the snowballing, rocks and saplings are being caught up as it grows in size. Expect boulders and trees and houses as this snowball turns into an avalanche.

Deborah</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post, Laura. Thanks for giving us a new, thought-provoking angle on what is THE biggest story in Canada though curiously underreported. Thank goodness that columnists and editorialists and bloggers like yourself are keeping it alive.</p>
<p>Right now a snowball, as Ezra said, is rolling and in the snowballing, rocks and saplings are being caught up as it grows in size. Expect boulders and trees and houses as this snowball turns into an avalanche.</p>
<p>Deborah</p>
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