My hero is a Muslim named Faraz Hossain
Quote, from the New York Times:
In the coming days – when ISIS et al. commit yet more mass murder (as they did on an extraordinary scale in Dhaka and Baghdad), and as Donald Trump et al. actively recruit for ISIS (as they do every single day, by whipping up hatred against moderate Muslims) – remember that name: Faraz Hossain. I have been thinking about him all weekend. He left me in awe.
He was a Muslim, and he was free to go. But he stayed to die with two women who the killers hated, simply because they wore Western clothing, and because they came from somewhere else. He stayed with them, knowing he was going to die.
Remember him, not just because he was extraordinarily brave. Remember him because Faraz Hossain is quite literally the kind of person we need if we are ever going to save the world from itself.
Let his memory be for a blessing, my Jewish friends always say. I’ll bet Faraz Hossain would be okay with that.
One. Per. Cent.
Pride
Useful visual summary of all the insane shit Donald Trump says
Did Donald Trump rape a child?
Mike Robinson
Sad to hear about his sudden passing.
Last time I saw him was on election night at Global TV in Toronto. He got up and shook my hand and was very friendly. Those who know the back story will know why I remember (and appreciated) that.
My condolences to his family.
Adler-Kinsella Show: Brexit, Conservatives and Franklin the Turtle
The former Minister of Curry in a Hurry should Worry
…because his prospects are blurry.
Jason Kenney, who I genially detest, is apparently heading back to Alberta, because he knows his flavour of conservativism – socially, fiscally and politically antediluvian conservativism – is dead as a proverbial doornail in Ottawa.
He apparently thinks that his political future is found in Alberta. I think he’s wrong about that. Reasons:
- Pretty much everyone – even political adversaries – agree Rachel Notely is doing a good job with a bad hand. Her performance during the Fort Mac fire, in particular, shows that only a fool (cf. Kenney, above) would underestimate her.
- Stephen Harper – and, later, Justin Trudeau – have moved Alberta into the mainstream of Canadian politics. My home province is far, far more diverse and progressive than it was when I was growing up there. Kenney’s style of politics is retrograde everywhere – and in urban Alberta, too.
- The yawning chasm on Alberta’s Right shows no sign of repairing itself anytime soon. The PCs and Wildrose detest each other. How will Jason Kenney bridge that gap that in one election cycle? More to the point, which party does he intend to run? The corrupt, discredited one? Or the one with lumbering dinosaurs in it?
- He’s been in politics a long, long time. People – and people in Alberta in particular – now know who he is in his essence. The defeat of the Conservative Party in 2015 wasn’t Stephen Harper’s alone – it was also a defeat for Kenney and his ilk. Canadians, in Alberta and everywhere, wanted no more of Jason Kenney-style politics.
Will he run anyway? Of course he will. He’s never held a job in the real world, and he thinks he’s a genius.
I therefore look forward to his humiliation in the next Alberta provincial election.
Impressed
I’m not naming names. But I can tell you one ministerial office in Ottawa received one ticket to Obama’s speech.
And you know who they gave it to? Not the Chief of Staff. Not the head of comms or the LA.
They gave it to the Summer intern.
I cannot tell you how great that is. It says plenty about that Minister’s staff – all of it good.
Impressed.