Angry in the Great White North

Here is the news report of Farhan Chak's nomination win in Edmonton-Mills Wood-Beaumont:

EDMONTON - Farhan Chak became the Liberal candidate Saturday in the federal riding of Edmonton-Mill Woods-Beaumont.

"I could never do this if it was for me," said an exhausted Chak after Saturday's vote. "I honestly think we have a mission to gear this country in a new direction."

Chak defeated hopeful Sital Nanuan in the two-way race. Riding president Sophia Yaqub said about 1,000 people cast votes.

Chak, 33, was born in Toronto but has lived since he was a baby in the Mill Woods area. A graduate of the University of Alberta, he recently finished a doctorate in political science at the University of Durham in England. He has worked for former MP David Kilgour in Edmonton and Ottawa.

Chak decided to run for the nomination after attending last year's Liberal leadership convention, where he was a supporter of Stephan Dion.

"People don't trust politicians anymore and I want honesty back, and integrity," he said.

"Our campaign was run around one theme, that kindness should never be equated with weakness. In contemporary society, the focus ... is on the stick rather than on consultation and sharing."

Chak expects a federal election to be called soon.

"The word in Ottawa is that they are itching for a spring election."

The Liberal Party offers congratulations!

Kindess is not weakness. Stephen Harper uses a stick instead of consultation and a sense of sharing.

I can almost see the hummingbirds and butterflies dart to and fro behind Chak as he says these words.

Well, let's queue up the Imperial March from Star Wars and get to brass tacks.

The crisis in the Middle East? The Western media is entirely at fault for completely misreporting the whole thing:

Palestine

By Farhan Mujahid Chak,
PbD Candidate
Edmonton, Canada

The outlandish analyses by the 'Western' media of the Palestinian crisis mirrors a cyclic travesty of justice for the Palestinians. The grotesque partisanship deflects Israeli complicity in the ongoing violence towards a poor, penniless and persecuted Palestinian people. Media distortions of reality paint wrong images of equality between Palestinian children armed with `stones' and Israeli militia cowering in 'tanks.' Palestinians are held in contempt for wanting equality, resisting brutal occupation, and dying at the hands of their oppressor.

The butcher of the Sabra and. Shatila refugee camps, the notorious Ariel Sharon, has been elected Israel's Prime Minister and has shamelessly withdrawn all pledges grudgingly granted. The Palestinians have been reduced to slaves, thrown into squalor in a land they once inhabited. To add insult to injury, the Israeli government insists on `showing restraint' by murdering children, raping women, and torturing an entire populace labeling this all as Palestinian' 'collective suicide.'

Violence whether direct, structural or cultural, is rightly condemned; yet, there exists colossal difference between aggression and defense ? Palestinians fight to survive and the Israeli government, along with its military apparatus, fights to crush. Similarly, St. Augustine tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great who asked him 'How he dares to molest the sea.' 'How dare you molest the whole world?' The pirate replies. 'Because I do it with a little ship only, I am called thief you, doing it with a great navy, are called an Emperor.'

Murdering children and raping women? What next? Matzas made from children's blood?

And what about Stephen Harper's attempts to destabilize Poland and visiting terrible consequences on the Polish community in Canada with his agenda of racial superiority. Poland?

Today, Canada is at a unique crossroads with two paths in opposing directions. These two paths have strikingly different visions of Canada, and our place, as Canadians of diverse ethnic backgrounds, in it.

The road being paved by the Conservative party is for those that oppose the basic Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ridicule our multicultural heritage and believe in coercive homogenization. This wayward way refuses to acknowledge climate change, is attempting to eradicate judicial independence, wishes to alter Canadian peacekeeping with war-mongering and is upholding the failed Bush administration's neo-conservative agenda as a model. It is a dreary road, pockmarked with intellectual pot-holes, exclusiveness, racial superiority, injustice and arrogance.

Two paths, two destinies - the Canadian Polish community should passionately engage themselves in the political process or risk terrible consequences. More clearly, the Conservative agenda conflicts directly with the cherished wishes of the Canadian-Polish community by discontinuing the development of civil society in Poland through the work of CIDA. Together, we can prevent the right-wing Conservatives from further trying to destabilize Poland.

And Chak has an opinion about the GIA (the French acronym of the Armed Islamic Group), which through the nineties slaughtered thousands of civilians in Algeria, depopulating entire villages, in its quest to form an Islamic state.

So how does a Muslim deal with the fact that Muslims are slaughtering other Muslims in order to create a fundamentalist Islamic state ruled by Sharia law? Not by condemning the terrorists, but by blaming the West, of course:

An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres

Youcef Bedjaoui, Abbas Aroua, Meziane Ait-Larbi, eds. Geneva: Hoggar Books, 1999. 1,473 pages.

Reviewed by:
Farhan Mujahid Chak
Ph.D. Candidate - University of Durham
Durham, United Kingdom

The book under review offers a monumental, exhaustive and judicious account of "who are the agents behind the 'horrendous violence' that has followed the consolidation of the military over incumbent authorities?" The answer provided by the victors, those with the power to institute their choic - es and interpretations, is that the paroxysm of "Islamic fundamentalism" is exacting grisly, gratuitous and ghastly violence on a society they have been unable to conquer. On the contrary, scholars insist the beneficiaries of the resource rich regions of Algeria, largely unscathed in the carnage, are indicative of the faceless murderers behind the monstrosity. Moreover, the primary importance of these resources to foreign states and corporations indicates complicity. Amidst this confusing scenario, An Inquiry into the Algerian Massacres provides a clear analysis of the beastly culprits.

The beastly culprits are foreign (read Western) states, and their corporate interests. In order to keep us from getting confused, Chak renders "Islamic Fundamentalist" in quotes throughout, to ensure we understand that the concept is an artificial construct created by the media and shadowy Western intelligence agencies. There is no such thing as an "Islamic Fundamentalist", he seems to suggest over and over again. Indeed, the terrorists (or is that "terrorists"?) are really proxies of the French secret service:

Major international human rights organizations and outstanding journalists have not found the "Islamic fundamentalist" argument compelling and continue to raise the same question: "Who is behind these grisly atrocities?" The evidence unearthed strongly suggests that the unseen hands, responsible for the bloodbath, belong to the Algerian army. In addition, striking corroboration has come from defectors and victims which incriminates the Algerian military apparatus and such foreign co-conspirators as the French government. This allegation is firmly supported by the environs of the savagery, taking place in close proximity to military and police installations, yet raging for long periods with no interference.

Indeed, the GIA is guilty of nothing, not even the attacks on French soil. Remember those?

The Algerian state pursued a number of strategies against the GIA. One was to encourage France to take an active part in the fight against the networks of the GIA in France, and thus to cut off its principal means of support abroad.

In an unsuccessful attempt to keep France out of the struggle, the GIA hijacked Air France Flight 8969, which was en route from Algiers to Paris in December 1994. The GIGN stormed the plane, preventing it from being crashed into the Eiffel Tower, reportedly its intended target.

The GIA conducted a series of bombings in France from 1995 to 1996. Analysis of a bomb with a failed trigger mechanism made it possible to identify a conspirator, Khaled Kelkal, who was shot and killed by French gendarmes on September 29, 1995. In late 1999, several GIA members were convicted by a French court for the 1995 bombing campaign.

In 1998, prior to the World Cup in France, in collaboration with the other European countries, launched a vast preventive operation against the GIA. About 100 alleged members of the group were arrested throughout Europe. In Belgium, security forces seized weapons, detonators and forged identity papers. On June 11, 1999, the GIA announced a jihad on French territory in a threatening letter addressed to the media.

The truth is, of course, that the French spy services were behind those too, and not "Islamic Fundamentalists", including the hijacking of Air France Flight 8969, during which three passengers were executed by the hijackers, and over a dozen more died when police stormed the plane and the hijackers exploded a grenade in the passenger cabin:

Noam Chomsky, in his insightful foreword to the book, collaborates this damning reality with the testimonies of defecting secret agents, who insist that not only were the massacres in Algeria organized and undertaken by the Algerian army and secret services, then attributed to the "Islamic Fundamentalists," but so were the bombings in Paris in 1995, with the covert collusion of French authorities. Clearly then, although the belief that the "GIA, Groupe Islamique Arme, an Islamist insurgent group, is widely accepted as responsible for the bloodbath, this belief will be shown to be actually false (B. Izel, J.S. Wafa and W. Isaac, "What is the GIA?")

In conclusion, the chapter alleges the paternity of the Algerian military hierarchy over the GIA. The focus is on the identity of the mysterious and murderous GIA, stating that it is a counter-insurgency group controlled by the Algerian military with covert assistance by French secret services.

This section of the population collectively favors the establishment of an international commission of inquiry into the massacres and violations of human rights so that the perpetrators may be unambiguously identified. Sadly, the Algerian authorities continuously refuse an international inquiry to corroborate their claims of an "Islamic fundamentalist" connivance.

A comprehensive study with careful documentation and thorough analysis provides a powerful damnation of the Algerian military junta, their co-conspirators within French intelligence services, and all who turn a blind eye to the haunting scenes of bloodshed.

Well, if Noam Chomsky says in the foreward that the Algerian massacres and the related attacks on French soil were in fact the work of the French government, then it must be true.

Love those quotes on "Islamic Fundamentalists"!

Hey, if the Liberals should come into power, and if Farhan Chak should be elected, who thinks he would be a great fit for Foreign Affairs Minister, or maybe Multiculturalism? No wait -- Public Safety!

He can keep an eye out for French secret agents disguised as "Islamic Fundamentalists".

Western media in cahoots with Israel. Stephen Harper's plan to destabilize Poland and his pursuit of a philosophy of racial superiority through his warmongering. Algerian massacres being the work of French secret agents and their proxies in an attempt to maintain control of North Africa on behalf of their corporate masters. "Islamic fundamentalism" a myth concocted by Western governments to hide their own actions, including attacks on their own citizens.

Wow. Someone should ask Chak what he thinks really happened on 9/11.

Remember what Chak said:

I honestly think we have a mission to gear this country in a new direction.

Anyone feeling like following Farhan Chak, newest team member of Stephane Dion's Liberal Party and a Dion supporter, along the direction his mind works?

One more thing. Chak's middle name is Mujahid. It means "holy warrior", a fighter in the Jihad. Cute.

Amusing follow-up: Is anyone wondering whether a reporter will ask Canadian Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion, who is very proud of his French citizenship, what he thinks about Farhan Chak's theory that assigns the responsibility for the slaughter of innocent Algerians and for attacks on French citizens on French soil to the French government and not to "Islamic Fundamentalists"?

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Updated: Removed a reference to "Farhan Chak" found in a message board because I felt that I could not establish it was the same person to a level that satisfied me.