Princess Basma (formerly Basma Hasan) is third from left in this handout photo. Photograph by: Canadian Press, Handout

Princess Basmah al Hussein, formerly Basmah Hasan of Stratford and Prince Hamzah Al Hussein of Jordan at their wedding ceremony in Amman. BALKIS PRESS…

Daredevil Canadian acrobatic pilot becomes member of Jordan’s royal family
By: Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press 
Posted: 3:02 AM | Comments: 1 (including replies) | Last Modified: 6:39 AM

OTTAWA – A barnstorming Stratford, Ont. woman with a daredevil streak and a passion for adventure has quietly become a member of Jordan’s royal family.

Aerobatic pilot Basmah Hasan became Princess Basmah in January after she wed Prince Hamzah of Jordan’s Hashemite royal family.

Hamzah is the son of the late King Hussein and his American-born wife, Queen Noor, and a senior officer in Jordan’s armed forces. He is the half-brother of the current King, Abdullah II, and for a short time had been Crown Prince before being replaced by his nephew in 2004.

Terror in the heartland?
A rash of attacks on Jews, pro-terrorist graffiti and schools teaching hatred of America indicate that the battle against Islamic terrorism has arrived in Alberta
Shafer Parker – May 3, 2004

In Arab countries, it is in mosques where the anti-Western education continues for adults. Though not all mosques are hives of incitement and hatred, orientalist scholars have expressed a particular concern about the ones funded by Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd. The North West Calgary Islamic Centre and Mosque on the outskirts of Calgary is one of the more than 1,500 mosques, 210 Islamic centres, 202 colleges and almost 2,000 schools for educating Muslim children around the world, financed by Saudi money, to spread the militant Wahhabi ethos worldwide. The highly respected Washington, D.C. based Foundation for the Defence of Democracies reports that Fahd is a major propagator of Wahhabism, an 18th-century fundamentalist variant of Islam that calls for spreading Islam throughout the world by means of jihad. A grade 8 Wahhabi textbook, for instance, teaches that God punishes Christians and Jews for being polytheists by turning them into apes and pigs. The hijackers who crashed planes into the World Trade Center on 9/11 were products of the Wahhabi strain of Islam, inculcated in their hatred for the West by imams preaching at mosques also funded by Saudi oil money. Ali Al-Ahmed, director of the Saudi Institute, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to facilitating the advance of democracy and freedom in the kingdom, has said that in many mosques funded by Fahd, “you have a disciple of al Qaeda who is an imam.”

The Ummah Mosk gets provincially-funded gymnasium

Finishing touches on new Halifax Mosque delayed again
Provincially-funded gymnasium will be open to the public when complete
CBC News Posted: May 8, 2012 4:57 PM AT Last Updated: May 8, 2012 6:39 PM AT
The Ummah Mosque should be complete by the fall. (CBC)

The Halifax Ummah Mosque and Community Centre is facing more delays as it tries to finish the final stage of construction.

The building on Chebucto Road is nearly complete except for the basement, which will be the home of a provincially-funded gymnasium.

Worshippers fundraised most of the $6.2 million project, but the province chipped in $700,000 to pay for the gym.

The project is already two years overdue.

The project manager is struggling to find a bricklayer to finish the gym. (CBC)

The project manager is struggling to find a bricklayer to finish the gym. (CBC)

“Most of it is already wired and ready to go,” said Project manager Peter Scott. His biggest hurdle right now is finding a bricklayer to complete the stage. He said he’s desperate to find a contractor to finish the project.

“I think at the moment it’s just the time of year everybody’s busy on housing, all are committed to contracts,” he said.

(…)
The latest deadline for completion was this month, but Scott estimates it will take up to six weeks to finish the work once he finds a contractor.

Scott says he expects the building to have its official opening in the fall.

Tory MPP Rob Milligan said Wednesday that the East End Madrassah (EEM) should lose its permit to rent from the Toronto District School Board until a York Regional police investigation into a lesson allegedly containing hate language is wrapped up.

Yank Islamic school’s permit: Tory MPP
By Terry Davidson, QMI Agency

Tory MPP Rob Milligan

Jewish group says Islamic school needs to do more
Islamic school probed for teachings about Jews

TORONTO – An Islamic school that has been renting space at a Toronto public school to allegedly teach its students to hate Jews should have its permit revoked until a police investigation is finished, says Ontario’s PC education critic.

Tory MPP Rob Milligan said Wednesday that the East End Madrassah (EEM) should lose its permit to rent from the Toronto District School Board until a York Regional police investigation into a lesson allegedly containing hate language is wrapped up.

The Islamic school rents teaching space on Sundays at David and Mary Thompson collegiate in the city’s east end.

Credit card ring A Quebec Provincial Police officer shows some of the confiscated credit cards and technology at a news conference Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press

Quebec debit card ring defrauds 22,000
Montreal-based ring linked to Vancouver, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Tunisia
CBC News Posted: May 9, 2012 7:13 AM ET Last Updated: May 9, 2012 10:04 PM ET

Investigators allege the suspects altered pin pads in commercial businesses and captured customer’s data. (Radio-Canada)

Related Stories
How do you protect your credit card information?
The goods police seized
Canada’s gangsterism law
Global debit card fraud raid worth $100M2:53
Quebec debit card fraud2:24

Police in Quebec have arrested 45 people and seized more than 12,000 counterfeit bank cards in raids on an international fraud ring that cloned cards and pilfered cash from victims’ accounts.

“We believe that we’ve put an end to a significant operation that was in operation here in the province,” said Supt. Guy Pilon of the RCMP.
AUDIO: Tech expert Terry Cutler has tips for avoiding fraud

“Internationally, it is a reality that is obviously evident in all countries today. The advent of the technology creates opportunity for the public, but also for criminal organizations that want to defraud individuals.”

The network was based in Montreal, but worked with accomplices in Vancouver, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Tunisia and the United Kingdom.

Man charged in rooming house stabbing

Vidya Kauri

Toronto police have arrested a 28-year-old man accused of stabbing his roommate and landlord in a rooming house near Finch Ave. W. and Humber College Blvd.

Police said the incident happened at about 10 a.m. on Monday when the accused allegedly went into his bedroom and stabbed his 44-year-old roommate in the face and stomach with a broken beer bottle.

He then allegedly broke into his landlord’s room in the house, stabbed the 62-year-old landlord near the head and then hit him on the head with a brick.

The victims managed to flee the home and call police. They were taken to hospital with injuries that are not life-threatening.

The accused, Ahmed Abdurahaman Ahmed, was found a short distance from the home and charged with break and enter, two counts of aggravated assault and assault with a weapon, possession of dangerous weapons and threatening death.