{"id":368,"date":"2006-08-09T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2006-08-09T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2006-08-10T01:54:09","slug":"montreal-borough-gets-it-right-nixing-moment-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Borough Gets It Right Nixing Moment Of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Montreal borough <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/topics\/news\/national\/story.html?id=1f1c3821-8ce3-418b-a81a-ce9401e6e341&#038;k=56039\">denied having a moment of silence<\/a> for a Lebanese Canadian family killed when the recent war in Southern Lebanon broke out a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians got it right this time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The mayor and council in Cote-des-Neiges\/Notre-Dame-de-Grace rejected two requests from the public to recognize the tragedy during their meeting earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was refused for political reasons,&#8221; said Wissam Moussa, a member of the Lebanese Muslim Youth Association who made one of two requests for a moment of silence.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Marcel Prud&#8217;homme, a former Liberal MP with a long-standing interest in the Middle East, called it hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s unbelievably sad that (the council) did not see fit to keep a minute of silence,&#8221; Prud&#8217;homme said.<\/p>\n<p>But Mayor Michael Applebaum said Wednesday the tragic deaths have been hijacked by Hezbollah supporters who are bringing the war home to Canadian soil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The council has held only one moment of silence in the past, a motion brought by a council member after the death of late Pope John Paul II.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ironically, the same group did not ask for a moment of silence for:<\/p>\n<p>-The Canadian who was killed in the original kidnapping of 2 IDF soldiers. (one of the 8 killed in the original action that sparked the current war)<\/p>\n<p>-The Canadian who was killed when the U.N. post was inadvertently bombed.<\/p>\n<p>-The Canadian IDF pilot killed when his helicoptor crashed<\/p>\n<p>Nor have they expressed any concern over the Canadian IDF soldier who is being held hostage at this time by Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to Jack&#8217;s Newswatch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Montreal borough denied having a moment of silence for a Lebanese Canadian family killed when the recent war in Southern Lebanon broke out a month ago. Politicians got it right this time. The mayor and council in Cote-des-Neiges\/Notre-Dame-de-Grace rejected two requests from the public to recognize the tragedy during their meeting earlier this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}