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Steve Janke recently blogged a David Suzuki column in which the unhinged eco-fanatic good doctor admits some uncertainty as to whether global warming is caused by human activity. David Suzuki confesses doubt about the role of human activity in climate change? This I gotta see.

So, I clicked over to the column, posted at the Georgia Straight’s website, and before I could read beyond the first two sentences:

I admit: we aren’t 100 per cent sure that human activity is causing global warming. So let’s all go home in our SUVs and join an “axe the tax” campaign.

an animated advertisement ran across the screen, momentarily blocking my view of the text.  I burst out laughing when I realized it was an ad for a new Nissan SUV called the Rogue.  David Suzuki’s bafflegab got run over by an SUV.  Poetic justice, I'd say.

I replayed the ad to collect a few screen shots.  (Click on images for enlargements.)  The SUV takes off from the left hand side of the screen.

It drives toward the coffee shop on the right.

As the vehicle comes to rest, we find out its name.

Any SUV that runs over David Suzuki’s latest drivel is worth considering for purchase.

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Two years ago, Dimiana Makram Hanna, a 23-year-old Christian woman in Egypt, was kidnapped, forcibly converted to Islam, and compelled to marry a Muslim.  She finally had enough of his abusive behaviour and ran away last month.  Local Muslims went on an anti-Christian rampage, destroying businesses and homes, and demanded the poor woman’s return.  Coptic Christians were beaten in the streets, and twenty Christian-owned shops and the village church were vandalised.

On Friday 20 June rioting erupted in Nazla as Muslim villagers went on a looting and destruction rampage against Copts’ homes, businesses, and cars following news that Dimiana—known as Dalia Mohamed since she converted—together with her 10-month baby Seif al-Islam, had run away from her husband a day earlier while on a visit to Cairo.

The rioting started on Friday afternoon when Muslims roaring Islamic slogans began to attack Copts’ houses and shops. Although local security officials had anticipated the rioting and called for extra forces from the neighbouring village to stop any attack, they could neither prevent the attack nor stop it once it started. They finally resorted to the use of tear gas to disband the rioters, and were able to control the main streets but not the side streets.

Even the village church and the priest’s home were attacked. The rampage lasted until the early hours of dawn of the following day. Security officials imposed a day-long curfew and attempted to hold a reconciliation meeting after they had found Dimiana and returned her to her husband. But the Copts refused to reconcile without the payment of indemnity for their lost and damaged property.

The mob of 4000 Muslims shouted “Kill the infidels” as they ran amok. Only 15 rioters were arrested, 11 of whom were quickly released by prosecutors.

It is common knowledge that Dimiana had fled a husband she did not wish to live with. She stayed away for some two days then, hearing of the riots in her village and the great harm inflicted upon the Copts, and that her uncles had been questioned by the police, she handed herself in on Friday evening.

Dimiana unexpectedly went missing from her home two years ago.  Her family was later informed that she had become a Muslim and been married to a Muslim and that they could have no further contact with her.

h/t: International Christian Concern

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The Canadian “Human Rights” Commission has finally deigned to issue a decision in the complaint against Catholic Insight and its editor, Father Alphonse de Valk, for publishing Catholic moral teaching.  Mirabile dictu, there will be no prosecution.

Ezra Levant points out that the CHRC “investigation” was conducted by a particularly shady individual.

[S]peaking of lawless bullies, wouldn't you know it: The CHRC's investigation into Fr. de Valk and Catholic Insight was done by none other than Sandy Kozak, the rogue cop drummed out of the Carleton Place Police force for dating a criminal who was under investigation by that same police force.

Ezra has more on the disgraced former cop-turned-CHRC apparatchik here and here.

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This came up on Page-A-Day Online Calendar this morning.  I didn’t even know the apostles had gem emblems.

My street is named for the gem emblem of St James the Less.

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The collect for today, the 7th Sunday after Trinity, from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer:

Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things; Graft in our hearts the love of thy Name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

The Epistle: Romans 6:19-23
The Gospel: St Mark 8:1-9

Artwork: Pedro Orrente, The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes, 1605. Oil on canvas, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.