Are you a terrorist?

And while officials maintain Project Thread was about immigration fraud, the men say hours of questioning by immigration and RCMP officials during their detainment had little to do with the bogus school.

"They asked us where Osama bin Laden is," Mohammad Akhtar, one of the accused men, recalled, shaking his head. "Then they said, `Is he alive or dead?' I mean, how do I know where he is? I've never even been to Afghanistan."

Other questions included: What is your definition of jihad? What do you think of (U.S. President) George Bush? Do you approve of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. and what do you think of the war in Iraq?

There were also religious questions: What mosque do you attend? How often do you pray? Do you give money to the mosque and what charities do you support?

"It's part of the new national-security paranoid method of investigating," offered Toronto immigration lawyer Lorne Waldman.


Is this how they fight terrorism?

Mirha-Soleil Ross

So when we hear animal rights activists say they want to reach out to diverse communities, we say to them that they need to rethink the way they present animal rights issues to these communities. You need to have different strategies and you need people who have roots within these communities to do the work. Unfortunately, it appears as though there isn’t much interest in learning about these kinds of successful educational tools and campaigns. We tried over and over again to get “G-SPrOuT!” screened at animal rights and vegetarian conferences and it was never accepted. Lifted from this good interview with Mirha-Soleil Ross.

What the hell. G-SPrOuT is a really fun videos. These AR people sometimes are irritating.

ANYWAY, I am posting this because I have become the first person to add Mirha-Soleil to my interests and I am kinda surprised. Am I the only one? Really? (The intro of the article contains a short profile for Mirha-Soleil.)

I saw two of Mirha-Soleil's short films on Friday at OISE, and they were pretty interesting. Firoza didn't like them as much but I suspect that's because there was a heavy layer of Québécois speech in both videos, despite being accessible to English speakers.