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Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, July 29, 2009 - 8:58 PM Share

I about fell off my chair when I read this lead on a story in the National Post of Canada:

The Ottawa university professor accused of killing four people in the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue will not be returning to work.
Hassan Diab's lawyer told a court on Monday that his client had expected to resume teaching a sociology class this week at Carleton University.
But in a terse statement released yesterday afternoon, the university said that a full-time faculty member "will immediately replace the current instructor, Hassan Diab."

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ROMONA

2:33 AM ET

July 30, 2009

What was it about the story that made you. . .

State this:
"I about fell off my chair when I read this lead on a story in the National Post of Canada:"

I am interested in your views as to why this caused you to about fall off your chair. I am interested in your angle on this story as a past student in University Committees, I'd like to hear your views.

Thank you,
Ramona

TOM RICKS

2:46 AM ET

July 30, 2009

As a general rule

As a general rule, I think it is a bad idea to have murderers of any kind teach one's youth, but especially terrorists.

KENNETH SORENSEN

6:01 AM ET

July 30, 2009

I noticed the word accused

But I also notice that this blogpost could have been initiated just because Mr. Ricks thought that he should write about something, and here I would genreally recommend fewer - and hopefully then higher quality -- blog-postings. It would also save us a lot of time, when we do not have to comb through all these less important ones.

The story surfaced in the notorius Canadian press, which is under great influence from Jewish pressure groups, almost to an extent so that it curbs Canadian democracy. Immediately when you read the story you realise that indeed it is Jewish pressure groups that have in effect demanded that this gentleman -- who haven't been before a Judge and whose guilt therefore is unproven -- should not be allowed to teach. I firmly believe that he could give students valuable inputs on the Middle East situation, which would help them see things from another perspective and then help them to form their own mind. And it is this that the Jewish pressure groups wants to prevent. They want the Middle East situation to be portrayed only from Israels point of view.

Canada used to share the sound based british common sense approach, but as I mentioned, much of its media have now been taken over by people without the inheriated credentials that is the hallmark of western democracy.

WALKING WOUNDED

5:57 PM ET

July 31, 2009

The real news there...

is that N. America is (j'accusé) seen exporting terrorism to old Europe. This is maybe not so chair-tipping when you consider that expat Arabs were being recruited and sent as canon fodder to Afghanistan from NYC, back in the 80's, with blowback in the 1994 Tower bombing.

Think of Prince Nayef and the Egyptian SSS position in that 'covert' play: Educated and upscale Arab dissidents in the West are gathered and sent to the happy hunting ground by way of Peshawar. By all accounts, bin Laden's first war was a children's crusade, a slaughter, a culling if you will. The Pashtuns and Tajiks lost villages and took the Rooskie scalps, while the arab men least satisfied with their own regimes stood and died for a wahabi fund raising effort.