Canada is going insane: Parabolas and posters are the proof Updated
posted at 1:43 pm on January 21, 2008 by Bryan
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Story #1: Chinese Christian rejected on asylum because her interrogator is an illiterate. Or intentionally tried to confuse the asylum-seeker during her interview process. The woman, who had converted to Christianity and attended an unregistered church, had fled to Canada from China fearing both religious persecution and consequences of violating the country’s one-child policy. During her interview to determine whether she was a legitimate asylum case, her interrogator asked about Jesus’ “parabolas.”
“What is your favourite parabola?” Ms. Xin was asked by Ms. Oddie, the IRB adjudicator, according to the certified transcript of her refugee admission hearing.
“I beg your pardon?” Ms. Xin replied, through a Cantonese interpreter.
“What is your favourite parabola?” Ms. Oddie repeated. “There are parabolas in the Bible. Have you read about them?”
“Yes,” Ms. Xin said. Ms. Xin did not seem to understand what a “parabola” was, however, saying: “I’m so confused. May I write it down in Chinese? I have not learned that.”
Ms. Oddie then offered an example: “Okay. The shepherd and the lost sheep would be a parabola. Do you know what the message is from that story? Do you know the story, first of all?”
Ms. Xin then summarized the parable from the Bible’s New Testament: “That a shepherd has 100 sheep and one lamb got lost, and the shepherd tried his hardest to find the lost lamb. That means God prefers that 99 lambs be his children, but he would feel very sad losing one.”
Ms. Oddie also asked about Jesus and his disciples. Ms. Xin correctly stated that Jesus had 12 disciples but could name only eight of them.
Ms. Oddie was unimpressed.
“Parabola” wasn’t a transcription error — it even confused Xin’s Canadian lawyer at the time. The IRB decision was reversed and Xin did receive asylum. If the decision hadn’t been reversed, the confessed Christian would likely have ended up back in China having confessed to attending an unregistered church.
Story #2 concerns the Canadian Human Rights Commissions. Last week we learned that one HRC investigator posts on Stormfront’s racist web site, as an agent provocateur or so he says. Now we learn that there’s a second HRC investigator posting on racist web sites. His name is Richard Warman, and his posts fit right in with the site’s vibe. Either he’s very good at impersonating racists and misogynists, or he is in his element. Here’s a sample of what the HRC’s man on the net wrote.
“Not only is Canadian Senator Anne Cools is a Negro, she is also an immigrant!
And she is also one helluva preachy c*nt.
She does NOT belong in my Canada. My Anglo-Germanic people were here before
there was a Canada and her kind have jumped in, polluted our race, and forced
their bullshit down our throats.
Time to go back to when the women nigger imports knew their place…
And that place was NOT in public!
Small Dead Animals has more on the HRC’s Richard Warman. As things go in the north, any Canadian who quotes Warman even to give him the derision he deserves could wind up facing the wrath of Warman’s HRC.
Update: Kathy Shaidle updates her Warman post to include the words “claimed” and “alleged” regarding whether Warman wrote the offending post. I likewise view the allegations against Warman as allegations, not yet proven facts.
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Did she think Ms. Xin was a Tool fan?
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM
Let me get out my graphing Biblical calculator.
CABE on January 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM
And don’t forget all the cross burnings going on in Canada.
What a bunch of maroons.
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 1:51 PM
I think he speaks of the compitice of love.
Don’t let illiteracy get in the way of being overly judgemental of others!
stonemeister on January 21, 2008 at 1:58 PM
Canada is actually doing us a favor here. We get front row seats to the circus without having to pay the price of admission.
Of course with the number of clowns running around….
Oh never mind
sweeper on January 21, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Well, she was a Chinese Christian, not a radical muslim, so Canaduh wouldn’t give her asylum.
Mazztek on January 21, 2008 at 2:00 PM
…did they think she was a quadratic Christian?
Holy f’ing God. Where’s Garfield when you need him to kick Oddie off the table?
MadisonConservative on January 21, 2008 at 2:02 PM
I’ve been a Christian my whole life and I could only come up with seven off the top of my head. Unless you count “James” and “Simon” twice.
locke on January 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM
“Time to go back to when the women nigger imports knew their place…”
Which begs the question: What’s worse, immigrants who don’t assimilate or natives that don’t welcome them?
Tony737 on January 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Never has my hate for Canada felt more vindicated.
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 21, 2008 at 2:05 PM
I celebrate Christmas but I can’t name all of the reindeer. :(
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 21, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Yet more evidence that a liberal dominated, government run monopoly does not produce the best effects.
Yet more evidence of the need for competition in education where schools are judged based on the students that school produces.
Yet more evidence that parents need a choice in which schools their children will attend.
rockhauler on January 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM
‘Zactley right, Mazztek, as usual. Had she been a jihadi, she’d given the key to the city, but a Christian? Well they’re all just a bunch of troublemakers!
Tony737 on January 21, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Euclidean theology?
Nosferightu on January 21, 2008 at 2:09 PM
Mines, y = ax^2 + bx + c, what’s yours?
TheBigOldDog on January 21, 2008 at 2:11 PM
A lot of people think that any u-shaped curve is a parabola, not realizing that a parabola is actually the locus of points on a plane that are equidistant from the focus and the directrix.
I’ll bet you anything that’s where the lady got confused.
SteakRules on January 21, 2008 at 2:11 PM
ROFLMAO!
TheBigOldDog on January 21, 2008 at 2:16 PM
JayHaw Phrenzie
You hate Canada? Is it cause we are all smarter and better looking than you HeeHaw?
BL@KBIRD on January 21, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Now, now there’s no reason to bring Hee Haw into this. They’re just a pickin’ and a grinnin’.
KelliD on January 21, 2008 at 2:18 PM
Richard Warman? Seriously? Go Read this article by Mark Steyn (Found via LGF) that explains how Richard Warman is running his own Inquisition–almost all the cases brought by the Canadian Human Rights star chambers have him as the plaintiff.
And now we find he’s posting all sorts of racist stuff? Do tell!
Vanceone on January 21, 2008 at 2:19 PM
More to do with the fact that while Canada prospers under an American military and trade umbrella, their citizens have a repugnant anti-American attitude.
JayHaw Phrenzie on January 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Perhaps he works under the “It-Takes-One-To-Know-One” theory.
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 2:25 PM
I hope Ms.Xin gets her asylum. If not she can just sneak down here, nobody will kick her out then…
liquidflorian on January 21, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Here is an interesting note: “parabola” is “parable” in both Portuguese and Spanish. So…could it be that the asylum-seeker was being interviewed by someone who herself was not fluent in English?
Kind of reminds me of the day my Brazilian wife and I went to the immigration office to renew her green-card, and spent a good amount of time chatting in Portuguese with the Homeland Security agent at the door–who was himself a Brazilian.
brazilnut on January 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM
This is what a french influence on a country can do.
Can they even field a frigate or destroyer anymore?
jukin on January 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM
First off, Canada’s headed by an assimilated black immigrant woman whose picture is probably in that bureaucrat’s office. She’s his nominal boss. That he would write crap like that is vaguely treasonous.
Second speaking of refugees - here’s a related story of a refugee, under deportation order in Canada, that is being sheltered by extremists with terrorist links.
rjjago on January 21, 2008 at 2:35 PM
I used to love Canada, until my friends all told me how the US was asking for 9/11. Never went back and have no plans to.
The Canadians seem to have a love for disaster in terms of letting trouble into their country, and turning away everyone else. Back in the 90’s Quebec would take anyone that could speak French from anywhere, and toss in a 10K bonus. That’s how you populate a tundra that is still fighting the battle for the fields of Abraham.
Hening on January 21, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Of course we can. Just not very many of them.
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 2:40 PM
Welcome to the wild and wakey north………
I am an athiest and even I noticed the error without prompting. Parabola? It is to weep.
Jim708 on January 21, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Brazilnut,
have you been
here yet? I highly recommend it!!
ColtsFan on January 21, 2008 at 2:45 PM
Are the French influenced ships like the tanks? One forward gear and fifteen in reverse?
Hening on January 21, 2008 at 2:47 PM
Lotsa fraudulent asylum applications come from Chinese nationals. The woman may have had a bad interviewer, but that doesn’t mean she had a good claim.
NorthernCross on January 21, 2008 at 2:49 PM
And you shouldn’t be able to get any more unless you study. The remaining disciplines aren’t fleshed out with stories. Further, if you don’t agree with Biblical inerrancy, it sure looks like the different lists of names of the disciples contradict each other. Of course, anyone can make up a story to justify any apparent contradiction.
thuja on January 21, 2008 at 2:49 PM
HMCS Toronto just returned from a circumnavigation of Africa with the NATO fleet, HMCS Charlottetown is currently attached to the Truman Carrier Battle Group in the GOO/PG and HMCS Iroquios is currently ramping up to head over that way.
Any more questions?
Jim708 on January 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM
There were indeed two of each. One James was Zebedee’s son and John’s brother. The other was the son of Alpheaus and is known as “James the Lesser”. One Simon was a Zealot. The other Jesus renamed Peter.
That was from off the top of my head, anyway.
Bigfoot on January 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Canada loves illegal aliens, pays for everything for them puts out a huge magnet for even Islamist radicals or anyone to just drive across our northern border and they can’t bring themselves to grant asylum to an obviously persecuted Christian trying to escape from a communist country?
That warrants the incredible flying hypocrite Equus asinus award.
Speakup on January 21, 2008 at 2:54 PM
Christian refugees = undesirable
Radical Islamist = can we waive the application fee, sir?
/headshake
Techie on January 21, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Don’t upset the Canadians…we need their inexpensive prescription drugs.
tlynch001 on January 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM
On a good day there indeed are as many tards by ratio in Canada as there are in the US.
BL@KBIRD on January 21, 2008 at 3:02 PM
Ever feel like you need to unwind?
Do you feel like you’re just going to explode?
Need a place to get away from it all?
Come up to Cannuckistan!
Cannuckistan, where you can get away from the rigors of planning suicide bombings. Cannuckistan, where you can live without fear of harassment so you can truly relax. Cannuckistan, where hate speech is illegal unless you are Muslim, or an HRC employee.
Come up and take a load off. Come up to Cannuckistan!
(Paid for by the Cannuckistani Tourism Bureau and your local chapter of the Islamic Jihadists for Change Council.)
Brass Pair on January 21, 2008 at 3:03 PM
Heh!…apple cores and old Chinese newspapers…
BL@KBIRD on January 21, 2008 at 3:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sLJVRvLNKI
ronsfi on January 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM
They are both just as bad because they suffer from the same mentality. No wait, I mean persontality. No wait men are bad so mentality is kewl.
- The Cat
P.S. ‘Just as bad’ are for those that won’t accept those trying to assimilate. Not accepting those that won’t assimilate is ok by me.
MirCat on January 21, 2008 at 3:13 PM
So, being Chinese, she thought he was talking about a pair of bolos. I can see where the misunderstanding took place.
right2bright on January 21, 2008 at 3:21 PM
Yeah, because there must be some nefarious story to explain why one person would have two names. It’s not like we do that these days.
I mean sure, I say that call my husband David, his middle name, even though his first name is James. But that’s really just a cover for my secret affair. I’m actually married to James and sleeping with another man altogether.
Also, just so it’s clear, the “contradictions” are about two of the twelve, unless you count Simon, the man Jesus renamed Peter. It’s not as though every apostle had a second or third name a gospel writer knew him by.
Esthier on January 21, 2008 at 3:52 PM
Speak Engrish dammit.
Just A Grunt on January 21, 2008 at 3:56 PM
The names of the twelve disciples are totally unimportant.
It would be better to ask them about how and why they became a Christian and what it means to be one since any Christian should be able to answer that. Only the more educated ones would know random bible trivia like that and there are plenty of non-Christians who do too.
Having a Christian ask questions about theology seems fairer than having some secularist asking about biblical literacy.
Baraka on January 21, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Canada: America’s Hat!
Neo on January 21, 2008 at 4:22 PM
But his motives are pure.
Make Canada American Again!
Akzed on January 21, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Let’s see, I think I can name them. Sleepy, Dopey, Doc, Grumpy, Sneezy, Goofy, and Mickey! Maybe not. Guess I’m not a very good christian. Oh well, back to China for me.
Masscon on January 21, 2008 at 4:43 PM
This is what happens when you have a government employee conduct an interview where the subject is Christianity.
As it happens, a parabola with coincident loci* is a perfect representation of the IQ of the questioner.
*- A circle, for those of you in Rio Linda…
landlines on January 21, 2008 at 5:07 PM
I find that statement silly, and self-fulfilling. If one hates a thing, a country, a person or whatever, their perception will be such that any evidence is likely to reinforce their opinion, regardless of how silly it is.
I think Canada has issues - too many of their citizens didn’t pay close enough attention until it was too late. In some ways their form of government might make it easier to turn the tide. But not likely.
In any event, I have served with Canadians many times. My only “criticism”? You better get to the club early, because they might drink all of the beer.
darkpixel on January 21, 2008 at 5:33 PM
And what fine beer it is, too.
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 5:45 PM
A parabola is a complex math chart that involves lines making an annoying little “V” shape. A PARABLE is a Biblical story using metaphors.
I have lost all faith in the Canadians.
Capitana on January 21, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Lord Tuderin’ Jesus!
TheSitRep on January 21, 2008 at 5:53 PM
Tunderin’, if you please.
Frozen Tex on January 21, 2008 at 6:07 PM
locke on January 21, 2008 at 2:04 PM
For the record, I’ve been a Christian for many years. Between my son-in-law, my daughter and myself, we could only name 7. (Daughter and her husband are both graduates of Liberty University)
For the full roster, see Luke’s Gospel, chapter six, verse 12.
oldleprechaun on January 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Canada
is goinghas gone insane:Horse, barn, door….
AUINSC on January 21, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Oh, and I meant to add, the US doesn’t seem far behind England and Canada…we all seem to be headed down the same road. If you have said this particular Canadian idiot was actually a State Department employee, I would have been shocked not at all.
AUINSC on January 21, 2008 at 7:16 PM
AS a Canadian I can’t wrap my brain around this idiotic thinking of some,and it almost seems all Canadians.
I know from experience that almost any part of our government agency’s,MNR,Ministry of Labour,etc,these
people are literally on a power trip.
I’m located in the great lakes,we are a border town with are twin sister Sault Ste Marie,Michagan.It almost seems
the further Canadians get from an American border,the stupider they become!
canopfor on January 21, 2008 at 7:38 PM
What do you expect? Canada is like 75% French, eh?
jgapinoy on January 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM
I’m not sure if it’s way too much beer, or getting hit in the head with hockey pucks, but Canada is on a downward parabola. Or something like that…
NNtrancer on January 22, 2008 at 1:27 AM
How many Moslem refugees could name all of Mahomet’s wives?
Tzetzes on January 22, 2008 at 2:54 AM
Just another sign that it is the libs who are the racists, bigots, communists, ignorant and truly dangerous among us.
JellyToast on January 22, 2008 at 7:36 AM
This was further into the story. Find me Christian that hasn’t lied and I’ll show you a liar.
Luckedout on January 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Yeah, yeah, 12 disciples. That’s the easy one.
Now for the “Bonus” round -
How many “Apostles”, and who were they?
mojo on January 22, 2008 at 1:44 PM
This story is just pure hyperbola.
Pro Cynic on January 22, 2008 at 3:35 PM