Conspiracy corner

I was very disappointed with your article regarding 9/11 conspiracies [News, “A day of conspiracy,” Oct. 19]. I share Mr. Pengue’s belief regarding the official story of 9/11 [being “outrageous”]. Perhaps you do as well, but chose not to lend any credibility to the truth movement in your article.

Perhaps you could lend the same burden of proof placed upon Mr. Pengue to the official story of events. The evidence relating to the 9/11 events is indeed so weak that Osama Bin Laden is not wanted for the 9/11 crimes by the FBI. Please see FBI’s most wanted list. Please watch “Loose Change” and other 9/11 documentaries. Go visit www.st911.org, www.911truth.org,www.mujca.com and other sites dedicated to 9/11 truth.

» Patrick Biron

The major “platform” of the CAP is to make Canadian citizens aware that Canada’s sovereignty is at risk, not 9/11 conspiracies. This wasn’t mentioned once in your article.

» Annonymous

It is not so much the 9/11 thing in itself—false flag that it was. It is, rather, what falling down the rabbit hole does to all the other things you thought you knew and now you realize you didn’t know. Very sobering.

» Dr. Richard Welser

Two sides of injustice

Mike’s altruistic compassion for all victims in the Arab-Israeli conflict ignores the stark difference between suffering injustice and committing it [Letters, “Down with division,” Oct. 19]. Native-born Palestinian farmers in the West Bank cannot feed their families because Israeli authorities forbid them to dig new wells to irrigate their fields, while almost within sight newly arrived Jewish settlers splash about in swimming pools as no such restrictions apply to them. Palestinian men—their economies strangled by Israel—are subjected to the ultimate degradation of having to work as labourers building Jewish-only settlements on their own expropriated lands.

Pregnant Palestinian women have given birth in cars because Israeli soldiers at checkpoints choose to finish their game of backgammon rather than allow them to get to a hospital. Cluster bombs daily maim and kill Lebanese civilians while Israel still refuses UN requests to provide their location.

Considering these obscene conditions, what is surprising is not that there is the occasional act of terrorism against Israelis, but rather that there is so little.

» John Dirlik

I really liked last week’s Letters section.

First of all, the guy Mike who really said it like it is and had a way with words. In particular, his mention of the “U.S. military-industrial complex,” which among a select few other high-level mechanisms is responsible for so much of the madness that we have seen and continue to see in the world today. (Let’s not forget the British Machine as well—as powerful and influential as the U.S. Machine, if not more so, and in cahoots when mutually beneficial from the moment the U.S. was formed.)

Secondly, the pumpkin cartoon by Rosen, it really speaks to me.

Thank you for your time.

» Michael V.

Respect sarees this Halloween

When looking for a costume for Halloween this year, please cross saree and salwar kameez (traditional South Asian dress) from your list.

Yes, these are beautiful clothes, and rarely does one outside this culture get to wear them. However, choosing an evening where witches, ghosts and axe murderer victims appear throughout the city is inappropriate and insulting.

A saree is not a costume, it is a traditional dress. Indian, Sri Lankan and Pakistani women are not the same as witches and ghosts.

If you would like to sport a saree, have a saree dinner party, get invited to an Indian wedding, or wear it around the house. Showing up at a Halloween party and saying that you’re an Indian girl is the same thing as putting shoe polish on your face and telling everyone you’re black for Halloween. I’m willing to bet the same applies to other traditional dresses from various cultures. So please, show some respect.

» Sadia Mahmood

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