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To: LindyBill who wrote (168892)	6/7/2006 6:14:10 AM
From: frankw1900	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

The three network news last night ran without ever using the "M" word. What networks are you talking about? The Canadian ones did after they realized what a mess the thing could have been. Jihadists all day. Not that anybody in the MSM or in the Canadian Press will call them that I don't know what canadian press you've been reading: Generation jihad: angry, young, born-again believers Headshot of Margaret Wente MARGARET WENTE From Tuesday's Globe and Mail When a handsome teenager named Saad Khalid graduated from his Mississauga high school last year, he wrote an unusually fervent message in the yearbook. Invoking the name of Allah, he asked, "Do you really believe in it? You do? Then prove it." It's not hard to guess that these questions were really directed at himself. Until recently, the 19-year-old was not religious. His family came to Canada when he was 8. Popular and good at school, he seemed like a million other kids on their way to becoming an immigrant success story. Today he's behind bars, one of the 17 suspects arrested in the alleged plot to blow up Canadian landmarks with fertilizer bombs. Now everyone in Canada is asking the British question. What makes young Muslim men, often born here and seemingly well-assimilated, turn radical? What is it in their psychology or environment that causes them to embrace violent jihad? More at theglobeandmail.com Note Mope and Wail's front page for yesterday: theglobeandmail.com National Post headlines for yesterday: canada.com Today's Post front page: canada.com Bill, I don't know what you've been looking at but Canada's national newspapers have given up PCism - for the time being anyway. The whole thing's just too in your face. There's another thing. We now have a conservative national government and all this stuff is making it more and more popular. Things are changing here. With regard to canadian political change, the US spinmeisters are behind the curve.