Blogger Beats Mainstream Journalist to the Punch

From Damian Penny, who blogs at Daimnation, I found out about a fisking by Bob Tarantino, who blogs at Let it Bleed, of an article by Paul William Roberts in the September 10th Globe and Mail. The fisking was done on September 11th. And now in today's, September 14th, edition of the National Post Jonathan Kay fisks the same article.

Both take the Globe and Mail editors to task for publishing this tripe. Sorry the Kay article is behind their subscriber firewall. So here is what Tarantino says of the Globe.

"I had always suspected that a newspaper which would publish the hatescreeds of a Heather Mallick and the dribblings of a Rick Salutin was something less than respectable. But wasting ink on an incoherent and fact-hampered rant like Roberts' lowers it into the nether regions of tripe like the Spartacist. It's a shame, really: there was a time when you could point to the Globe as representing a respectable standard in journalism. No longer."

And here is what Kay says of the Globe.

"What a wasted mind is Roberts'. And what a disgrace to the Globe and Mail that its editors let this hateful, error-littered screed stain the newspaper's otherwise respectable pages."

I tend to side with Tarantino's opinion.

Dalton McGuinty Does Something Right

I never have high expectations of any Liberal government. But occasionally they do something right. Today it was announced that Ontario will not introduce Sharia Law. And what's more they did it the right way by getting rid of that piece of NDP idiocy called the Arbitration Act where religion was used for legal rulings.

I believe in one system of laws for all. This is a step forward.

The Editors of National Post Don't Get Sharia Law

The editors of the National Post come out today in favor of allowing Sharia Law in Ontario. They just don't get it. Here is the section of the editorial which shows that.

"To listen to protesters, such a move will leave Muslim women victimized by the overtly sexist principles encoded in centuries-old Islamic law. According to the most breathless accounts, women will be kept as virtual slaves, denied divorces, separated from their children, cheated out of inheritances and devalued as witnesses.

None of this will happen. To begin with, as with all forms of voluntary arbitration, Canadian Muslims must opt in before they are bound by Sharia. The majority of women will not do so if it would mean being transported back to the Middle Ages."

Italics are mine. When you say majority you are also explicitly saying there is a minority. This minority will be the vulnerable new immigrant women who have no idea of their Charter Rights and that they do not have to go into this Sharia system which they describe as Middle Ages.

What about them? Obviously the editors don't care. Marion Boyd didn't care. I fear Sharia law is coming to Ontario.