Muslims had complained that the idea that someone would go to Israel to learn counter-terrorism techniques was outrageous! Insulting! As if the Israelis had ever had to combat terrorism! They demanded apologies, sensitivity training, the whole nine dhimmi yards. This time, they lost.
But the anti-dhimmi victory is not complete. Chief Armand La Barge said: "We insisted on the opportunity to meet with Palestinian officials as well. We didn't go in with the perspective of getting one side of the story." Yes, those Palestinian officials can tell you a great deal about how to ward off those Israeli suicide bombers. "Board rejects complaint on chief's trip to Israel," from the Toronto Star, with thanks to Romy:
The talking lasted an hour, but the decision took less than a minute.After seven speeches from Palestinian-Canadians, a response from the Canadian Jewish Congress, and warnings to both sides to stay on topic, York Region's police services board dismissed a complaint yesterday by a citizen over a trip Chief Armand La Barge made to Israel in March.
"The board was obvious in its decision," said board chair David Barrow. "We are in favour of professional development. The history of the conflict in the Middle East is not an issue the board has the purview to deal with."
Khaled Mouammar of Richmond Hill and several supporters addressed the board during its monthly public meeting in Newmarket. Mouammar filed a 54-page complaint in July.
La Barge was one of 30 Ontario politicians and police officials who toured Israel for a week in March. The trip, organized by the Canadian Jewish Congress, aimed to let participants learn "best practices" from Israeli police....
Mouammar's complaint included 46 pages of "supporting documents." He cited United Nations and Amnesty International reports that said Israeli police practice racial profiling and torture. Mouammar filed a "policy complaint" against the board, arguing that it should not send officials on professional development trips to countries where police abuse human rights.
"(Israel) is not an example that should be emulated by law enforcement officials," Mouammar told the meeting.
His complaint is one of several he and community groups have lodged against local police services across Ontario, including Hamilton, Toronto and Ottawa, and against the OPP.
In his letter to York's board, he urged them to apologize to the local Arab and Muslim communities, pay back all public money spent on the trip, undergo sensitivity training and change their policy on official trips abroad....
During a break in the meeting, La Barge said he would meet with members of the Arab and Muslim communities before taking a similar trip, but stood by his decision to travel in March.
"I certainly do support the mission," he said. "We insisted on the opportunity to meet with Palestinian officials as well. We didn't go in with the perspective of getting one side of the story."
So freakin' infantile. Like a child who tries to keep you from finding a mess they made, and, as in dealing with a protesting child, the protests are what make you suspicious.
"The imam dost protest to much, methinks".
The mere fact that Muslims feel strong enough, are emboldened enough, to presume to make such a protest, interfering with decisions of the security forces at every level, from the supposed "racial" (not racial at all) profiling at airports, to the decision to learn from the Infidel country that, fighting off a relentless Jihad for the past half-century, has the longest experience in dealing with Muslim terrorists and Muslim psychology, is disturbing. Immigration of Muslims must halt if the wellbeing of Infidels is to matter, in Canada as in France and Italy and Belgium and Spain and Germany and the United Kingdom, and in the United States as well.
Do the nation-states that are the creations of a certain kind of civilization, not one of whose assumptions or understandings, about the nature of Man, about the rightness of free and skeptical inquiry, about the importance of protecting the individual and not only "the group," about above all protecting the freedom of conscience which means the freedom to choose any or no religion at all, about the absence of the kind of totalitarian Total Regulation of Life and Complete Explanation of the Universe that alone among the world's major belief-systems, Islam offers and not merely offers, but insists upon -- do those nation-states not owe a duty to themselves, to their Infidel citizens, to their own histories, to those who created them and would not have lasted for a minute under Islam? Is there nothing owed to ourselves? Not a minimum of self-defense of our civilization against those who would, if they could, despite taking full advantage of the freedoms it offers (and forthright about it, about how if those freedoms recognized and offered by Infidels can be exploited to undercut everything those Infidels have built, well -that merely is one more illustration of the stupidity of Infidels, not of the perfidy of forthright Muslims).
This is not the first attempt at civilizational suicide by the West. The other attempts were aborted in time. This one, which is greater in scope, and which is being unwittingly abetted by incomprehension and innocence among the Infidels, has to be stopped -- and if one wishes to avoid mass casualties, quite soon.
They said the same after the London bombs.
"We don't think Israeli forces are the right people to be teaching British police how do deal with suicide bombers"
Oh yes they are, they are damn good at it.
And what counter-terrorism strategies and tactics could the Palestinians offer to Canada or to anyone else in the world? While they are at it, they may as well look up some old Nazis and ask them how to combat genocide.