Canada: Pro-Taliban rapper gets taxpayer subsidies

We might as well just all cut our own throats and be done with it. There needs to be a wholesale housecleaning at the top in both Canada and the U.S.: not just an electoral turnover, but a thorough cleaning-out and replacement of the entrenched bureaucracies, unaccountable to anyone, that are working toward our own destruction. Does any candidate have the courage to call for that, or to undertake it once in office?

"Pro-Taliban rapper gets taxpayer subsidies," by Daniel Proussalidis for the Toronto Sun, June 29 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

OTTAWA - A video glorifying Taliban attacks in Afghanistan and the slaughter of Canadian soldiers disappeared from YouTube and other sites Friday, mere hours after QMI Agency began questioning taxpayer subsidies for the francophone rapper who made it.
"The enemy approaches," rapper Manu Militari declared in the video. "I recognize Canada's colours."

Later he says, "In a few seconds they'll understand how much I hate them."

The rapper has said he tried to "humanize" Islamists by presenting a sympathetic view of Taliban fighters detonating a roadside bomb and killing Canadians.

Manu Militari says a "disproportionate" response to the video convinced him to remove it from the Internet, though on Friday afternoon his website continued to promote its official September 11 release.

Meanwhile, questions persist about taxpayer subsidies for the rapper.

"Why are we funding this garbage that gives comfort to Canada's enemies?" National Citizens Coalition director Stephen Taylor asked.

Between 2008 and 2013, Manu Militari will have received $110,000 in grants for various projects from MusicAction - a francophone arts-promoting body that gets 75% of its $8 million annual budget from taxpayers through Heritage Canada....

Shameful.

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Kinana of Khaybar | June 30, 2012 11:25 AM | Reply

Manu Militari is denying that in the "song" he is supporting the Taliban, and claims that he was portraying someone else's perspective. However, despite these denials, based on my initial impressions it does appear that he does sympathize with the Taliban or any Afghans who kill Canadian soldiers. These appear to be his views as expressed outside of the "song" in question.

He is also either ignorant of or is lying about the views and motives of Afghan militants (Taliban or not) when he has them saying "This is not about religion." Also, when he, again in the manner of using a hand-puppet, makes them say "I want to free my land," again, he is either ridiculously ignorant of what Afghans actually want (i.e., full strict sharia, with all the totalitarian oppression, violence, and terror that that entails, and wherein non-Muslims are either subjugated, enslaved, expelled or killed), or he knows what they want and is trying to deceive people by equivocating on the word "free."

One way or another, it seems to me based on my initial impressions that he is using Afghan militants in his portrayal as hand-puppets through which he can express his own anti-Canadian, anti-western views.

While leeching off the Canadian taxpayers, who are forced to pay for this dubious and sinister posturing, Manu Militari is also trying to cash in on the September 11 date by releasing his album on that day this year.

Some of the lyrics from the rap/ hip hop "song" in question, quoted from a Quebec newspaper (excuse the google translate):

""I expect the one who should have stayed home," says the chorus. "I'm ready. I shut the fuck up weapons of effective arguments. I want to free my land. This is not about religion. So, why turn off your TVs, I've never hijacked airplane. My outlook on life has taken a toll. The aggression of my country made me legitimate""

Another Quebec newspaper reports:

"The singer wanted to show some of the reality of the Afghan conflict, leaving it to the public to form their own idea. "In a song or video clip, we can not say anything either," said the winner of the Félix for best hip-hop album in 2010.
"I have not sought to explain the conflict in all its facets. I have not tried to show that war is an absurdity even if I show it in part. It was not understood by everyone. I'm the kind of person who is able to challenge. If it was not understood by everyone, it is perhaps in the manner explained. In one work, one can not explain everything either. "
He deplored the strong reaction of some members. "We have the right to discuss," he says. "This is the strength of our country and we should not change that."

Sources for the above quotes:
http://tvanouvelles.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2012/06/20120628-232848.html
http://www.lapresse.ca/le-soleil/actualites/societe/201206/27/01-4538557-des-soldats-choques-par-un-clip-de-manu-militari.php

George | June 30, 2012 1:36 PM | Reply

Let's see...he's pro-Taliban? And...he's a rapper?

Two time loser!

Clare | June 30, 2012 4:44 PM | Reply

I became a member of the United States Patriots Union when Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely (Ret.) and other military men and women released A Declaration to Restore the Constitutional Republic National Call for Untied Action march on Washington D.C. 11.11.11. Canada Free Press covered it and so did Frontpage. This was a call for action “upon all who have taken an oath to protect and defend, to take appropriate measures:”

Namely, “We the people hereby demand; One, The immediate and unconditional orderly resignation of Barack Hussein Obama…Two, and of Joseph R. Biden. Three, The immediate and unconditional orderly resignation of the entire Obama Cabinet, including but not limited to:”...and what follows is a list of of “all of whom have committed treasonous acts against the people, the states and the U. S. Constitution.”

So Mitt Romney instead of Paul Vallely, Newt Gingrich and tens of other qualified and/or military patriots, is our candidate for President. We know who would clean house; I have spent the last year associating myself with same. The enablers have to go. Will Romney do it? You tell me. I’m voting for him. I’m voting a straight Republican ticket, but with grim unhappiness because I don’t know for sure. I know what Gingrich would do, I know what Allen West would do as well as many other Republican representatives who are being elected from many States who have stood shoulder to shoulder with Spencer and Geller.

“Cleaning House” may yet happen. Exercise your First and Second Amendment right, align with patriots, and “draw the line in the sand”.

Look at what Pamela Geller just accomplished in LA when she forced the issue into consciousness for many people; thanks to freedom fighters, more United States citizens are becoming aware of that line and of the side they are on. It ain’t over yet.

gravenimage | June 30, 2012 8:46 PM | Reply

"The enemy approaches," rapper Manu Militari declared in the video. "I recognize Canada's colours."

Later he says, "In a few seconds they'll understand how much I hate them."
........................................

What a vile Jihadi creep. Besides receiving taxpayer subsidies, his vicious ejaculations have garnered a number of Canadian awards.

Suicidal madness.

"Manu Militari" is Latin for "With a military hand"—in other words, using the force of arms. In more Islamic terms, this would be "By the Sword"

The fuller phrase is ""ipso facto et manu militari" meaning "immediately and with all necessary means".

So—idiomatically, this translates as "By any means necessary".

While this phrase was coined by another Francophone—French Existentialist Jean Paul Sartre—it was made famous by Muslim Malcolm X, where "By Any Means Necessary" is taken to mean up to and including violence.

"Manu Militari's" raps include "Crime D'Honneur", "Revolte", and "Montrealistan".

I don't believe any translations are needed for the above.

Alyn Starkman | July 3, 2012 4:07 AM | Reply

During World War 2 Quebec opposed Canada's efforts to liberate Europe from the Nazis.

Then for the last 30 years Quebec promoted the idea of separating from Canada (but still keeping all the government money they were getting from Ottawa).

With this history it is no surprise to see a Quebecer slamming the efforts of Canadian soldiers.

Ottawa clearly needs to keep a closer eye on how the money is is being spent that is going to our rogue province.

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