by Diane Bederman | Jun 19, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
What happens when a culture loses the meaning of the sanctity of life? A seventeen year old Dutch GIRL, Noa Pothaven, is allowed to end her life. Suffering from mental illness. More like mental anguish. She was not assisted in her death by some injection; she...
by Diane Bederman | Jun 11, 2019 | Politics, Religion / Spirituality
In 2015 Czech MP Jiri Kobza suggested that all ideologies that promote hatred and violence should be banned. One of the ideologies is Islam. And then we have fascism and Nazism, he says. He points out that Muslims neither want nor will integrate into...
by Diane Bederman | Jun 7, 2019 | Ethics, News, Politics
Is it any wonder that consumers of news no longer trust main stream media outlets? Take a look at this click bait from the venerable Globe and Mail, 175 years old. In an editorial, June 3, the author, unknown; I presume someone at the paper as it...
by Diane Bederman | Jun 6, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer announced Saturday, June 2, 2019 that Conservative MP Michael Cooper would no longer serve on the justice committee after he had lashed out at a Muslim witness earlier in the week during a hearing on online hate....
by Diane Bederman | Jun 4, 2019 | Politics
I can tell you what happens when governments and police have an irrational fear of Islam, or Islamophobia. They permit hateful parades targeting the Toronto “Zionist community” and calling for the destruction of the Jewish state, the one and only homeland of...
by Diane Bederman | May 31, 2019 | Ethics, Politics
We are in terrible trouble when publishers kow-tow to those who want to prevent free speech under the rubric of not wanting to put out books that “cross the line into spreading harm.” The only books that seem to meet that criteria are books that put Islam...
