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If racism is America’s original sin, then its redemption lies in anti-racism. For liberal theologians, Christian and Jewish, who no longer believe in the traditional biblical sins, racism is a godsend. It provides the moral drama of damnation and redemption, confession and absolution, in a way that is compatible with the larger secular culture and their own political ambitions.
We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
—Golda Meir
Send in the clowns. Canadians are always the Liberal’s lowest priority.
The federal government tells us there are some 60 people who have returned to Canadian soil after waging jihad abroad.
There are reasons to believe the number may be higher than that. But, regardless, it’s a big number.
So far we’ve been talking about this mostly in the abstract. It’s more a statistic than anything else. We have no names. No pictures. No personal stories.
Not until now. A man who claims to be a returning ISIS fighter walking about freely in Toronto appeared in a recent New York Times podcast to tell his tale.
“He made his way back to Canada without being arrested under its antiterrorism laws,” the paper reports.