Conservative candidate in the making - all the Right stuff

Dawg's Blawg: The Right stuff
Julian Fantino is being pressured to run for the Conservative party in the next election in Vaughan. Let's look at his recent accomplishments that make him an outstanding Conservative party candidate - read the link.

Religious people more likely to be racist, study shows

Love Thy Neighbor? Not If He's Different | Miller-McCune Online
No surprise here.

Excerpt:

This “religion-racism paradox,” as University of Southern California
social psychologist Wendy Wood explains it, is deeply embedded in
organized religion which, by its very nature, encourages people to
accept one fundamental belief system as superior to all others. The
required value judgment creates a kind of us-versus-them conflict, in
which members of a religious group develop ethnocentric attitudes toward
anyone perceived as different. The study, “Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A Meta-Analytic
Review of Religious Racism,” appeared in the journal Personality
and Social Psychology Review.

“Religion creates a very strong sense of a moral right and wrong
within the group,” says Wood. “When you do that, members of the group
will be more likely to derogate anyone who is not part of it.” And
because religion in America is practiced largely along segregated lines
(just 12 percent of U.S. congregations report even a moderate level of
diversity, one study shows) that derogation, and the sense of
superiority that drives such diminishment of others, can extend beyond
religious differences to race, class and ethnicity.

Frank Klees - let's have more racism in Ontario

Bouquets of Gray: Are Whites-Only Signs part of the Conservative vision for Ontario?

This is why the Conservatives won't be winning any elections in Ontario anytime soon.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Speech at the UN Conference on Racism

Full Text of President Ahmadinejad's Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism | Foreign Policy Journal

After reading many of the news stories in Western MSM about this speech, you may be surprised at what Ahmadinejad actually said.

Click the link for the full speech.

The UN conference on anti-racism

How many people actually read Ahmadinejad’s speech? « Paulitics

... Why the white, wealthy, European world would be unwilling to talk openly about issues with which they’ve long had a checkered past is obvious.  The U.S. has long bristled at even the suggestion that the victims of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are owed reparations.  The far-right Italian government is currently in the process of rounding up and “tagging” Gypsies once again and thus obviously does not want to participate in the Durban discussions on Gypsies.  The Canadian, Australian, American and New Zealand governments were the only governments in the entire world to reject the UN declaration on the rights of Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples and thus did not want to be a part of Durban’s discussions on Aboriginal peoples.  And the Israel government doesn’t want to talk about a whole host of issues on which it has long been in violation of UN declarations and Geneva Convention rights (notably the injunctions against acquiring land through military conquest, the right of refugees to return to their homes, nuclear weapons, the slaughter of refugees and engaging in illegal warfare). ...

There is some truth in what Ahmadinejad says

Bill Longstaff: Is Ahmadinejad entirely wrong?

Yes, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad does shamelessly grandstand, and yes, once again he has set the cat among the pigeons on the racism front, but is much of what he says not true? In his tirade at the UN anti-racism conference, he is quoted as calling Israel a "cruel and repressive racist regime."

Let's parse that phrase in terms of Gaza. Wasn't the slaughter of 400 children during Israel's invasion of the strip earlier this year "cruel"? Is not the continuing blockade of Gaza "repressive"? And is denying the one million Palestinian refugees in Gaza the right to return home simply because of their race and religion not "racist"? So where in that phrase is Ahmadinejad wrong or anti-Semitic? ...