...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

Animal lovers: Over in that other courtroom—the one where some devout lads are in the dock for allegedly plotting acts of terror—the talk isn’t about the malign influence of Mark Steyn’s Maclean’s article. It’s about the malign influence of…well, you know who. Here’s Christie Blatchford’s colourful account in the Globe and Mail:

BRAMPTON, ONT -- Killing rats. Now that they fretted about.

The alleged leader of the alleged Toronto 18 terror bomb plot had just broken the news to one of his alleged co-conspirators that the house they were thinking of renting as a base had a rat problem.

"I don't like wanna live with rats," the leader said.

The co-conspirator, who clearly was still pining and pushing for the house rental, inquired rather timidly, "It's permissible to kill rats?"

The leader thought about it, and concluded, a bit reluctantly, that rat-killing was probably allowed by the Koran.

"Is there any good about rats?" the co-conspirator asked.

Well, said the leader, a little anguished because such matters are not so simple, only that the rat "is a creature of Allah."

Jews, not so much. There was no such hand-wringing about Jew-killing.

Jews, the leader had told this same co-conspirator and two others a month earlier, you can kill with abandon. Because of what they had done to Palestine and "stuff like that, they're all our enemies. It's not enough to say they're only my enemy in a certain part of land, they're your enemy everywhere you see them....every single Jew is your enemy."

One of the co-conspirators asked if by that, the leader meant that Jews here, in Canada, could be attacked.

Yes and no, said the leader. You weren't compelled to attack them or anything, but if one was boldly walking down the street with a sign that read "pro-Zion, pro-Zion, whatever," or if he "wears a big Jewish thing" (what that would be, whether yarmulke or the Star of David or something else he didn't say), well, you should think about it.

Why? Because "Now, you are a target, and you would be rewarded for it, because he is your enemy...and if you were to do it, you wouldn't be held accountable" in the eyes of Allah…

How can Blatch write this stuff?!?  Isn’t she worried that some sock thingy will accuse her of “stereotyping” Muslims and haul her to the west coast to face some ‘roos?

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