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A6 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday September 26, 2001 T h e O a k v il l e B e a v e r Ian Oliver Publisher Nei Oliver Associate Publisher Norman Alexander Editor Kelly Montague, Advertising Director Steve Crazier Circulation Director Teri Casas OfficeManager Mark Dills Production Manager Riziero Vertolli Director ofPhotography Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distributing Ltd.. includes: Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser. Alliston Herald/Courier, Arthur Enterprise News. Barrie Advance. Barry's Bay This Week. Bolton Enterprise. Brampton Guardian, Burlington Post. Burlington Shopping N ew s, C ity Parent. Cdhngwood/Wasaga Connection. East 'iferk Minor. Erin Advocate/Country Routes, Etobicoke Guardian. Flamborough Post. Georgetown Independent/Acton Free Press, Hamston Review, Huronia Business Times, Kingston This Week, Lindsay This Week, Markham Ecnomist & Sun, Midland/Penetanguishine Mirror, Milton Canadian Champion. 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Jinge Bell Fund ^ _ Canadian Community f^ C N A Newspapers A Association Newspapers of i S K \ Suburban TV AUCTION TH E B R O N T E B U T T E R F L Y JM am % ^he _ JTlvoard U oy K e V R I O O akville TOR BUSINESS EXCELLENCE 467 Speers Rd., Oakville Ont L6K 3S4 (905) 845-3824 Fax: 337-5567 Classified Advertising: 845-2809 Circulation: 845-9742 C fo / ftfin d O N T A | o a k v ille g a lle rie s | m a m OPINION E d ito r ia ls Warning signs O a C O jU C h ild r e n 's C h o i r mm T h e O a k v ille . M ilto n a n d D istrict REAL ESTATE BOARD Canadians have been giving money and aid to the U.S. following the Sept. 11 ter rorist attacks on New York City and Washington. But the real question is what this country can do to aid the Americans in their commitment to bring international terror ism to its knees. After all, what could Prime Minister Jean Chretien Unless Canada m akes . offer the president on Monday? The answer is pre changes to its cious little. Our military has been virtually emasculat im m igration and ed by a series of Conservative and Liberal govern border policies, look ments which means the best we. could provide would be a few select units and some aircraft. for economic What we can do is change our porous immigration consequences from policy that is long on loopholes and short on common the U.S. sense and research. Canadian passports can apparent ly be easily forged by any organized group. The situa tion is so farcical that one person who reportedly entered the country illegally not once, but twice, wasn't even detained and was only detected when he tried to enter the U.S. And it's cases like this one that has the most dire implications for Canada as both a nation and a friend and business partner of the U.S. Consider this: Toyota has already said it would likely not expand its Canadian facil ities in light of the terrorist attack because of the resulting long waits for auto parts car ried by truckers at the border crossings at Windsor and Sarnia. The same problem is facing Ford, which relies heavily on parts trade with the U.S. and its just-in-time manufacturing process. The company's Oakville truck plant here does not have a long term commitment for vehicle production and the more vigilant border posture could spell the death-knell for that plant and by association, the econo my of Ontario. So what does all of this mean? How about added pressure from the U.S. to up our military spending, improve our immigration and customs service and improve our spy systems. Unless some of these measures are taken, especially expanding our border person nel, look for a dramatic impact on our economy as our major trading partner becomes increasingly protectionist as a response to the terrorist threat. Letters to the Editor The Oakville Beaver welcomes your comments. All letters must be typed, signed and include the writer's address and phone number. Send to: Letters to the Editor, The Oakville Beaver 467 Speers Rd., Oakville, Ont. L6K 3S4 Islamic group urges understanding W hile the challenges o f our daily lives in h ib its o u r ability to com m unicate more frequent ly, re c e n t e v e n ts an d e x p e r i e n c e s d ic ta te th a t w e c o m e clo ser to g eth er as p eople who share the sam e aim and c o m munity. W ithout a doubt, the horrific event that took place on Sept. 11 in the c itie s o f N ew York and W ashington are beyond the co m p reh en sio n o f each o f us. We w ill pray for those lost. The m em bers o f o u r M o sq u e /c o n gregation have already collect ed and forw arded a donation in creato r, A lm ighty G od (A llah in Arabic, Dieu in French); The God o f Abraham , M oses, Jesus and M oham m ad may peace be upon all o f them. In the Holy Qur-an, which is the book with m essages for all o f us, verse 285 o f chapter II, s ta te s th e f o llo w in g : " T h e M e sse n g e r b e lie v e th in w h a t hath been revealed to him from his Lord, as do the men o f faith, each one (o f them) believeth in A llah, H is A ngels, H is books, and H is M essengers. We make no d is tin c tio n ( th e y s a y ) between one and another o f His M essengers. A n d they say: We hear, and we obey: (We seek thy fo rg iv en e ss, O ur Lord, and to To our A m erican friends C anada stands w ith the blood in a m agnitude o f 'tens o f thousands T h e e is th e e n d o f a ll j o u r you in its disdain for this evil attack on 'fortress o f A m ericans' instilling a cold rem inder to us all neys. " A m erica', th at trig g ered an u nnerving ev a c u a at the genesis o f a new Century. You s e e , in th is v e rs e , tion o f T oronto's m ajor office tow ers! W hether instigated by a bitter C hina after the Alm ighty God draws our atten W hy is this series o f strategically o rchestrat dow ning o f their fighter as a distraction on the tion to the fact that we are all ed, eco n o m ic a lly -d isru p tiv e, offen siv e attack s eve o f an invasion o f Taiwan, or by H ezbollah, ultim ately surrendering to him against the 'leader o f the free w orld' doom ed to o r w h a te v e r 'd a rk m e n ac e' to p eace th e re is, and to his m essages. This binds backfire? A m erica w ill now rev isit the R eagan-era doc: J e w s, C h ris tia n an d M u slim Well, we will now w itness the em ergence o f trin e o f "p e ac e-th ro u g h -stre n g th ", accelerate people to a com m on belief. The a united A m erica, strengthened in. her resolve, S.D .I. to m aterialize its full potential for neu Holy Qur-an calls them all the em boldened to d efen d the 'lib erty -lo v in g free t r a l iz in g n u c le a r te r r o r , a n d m o d e r n iz e people o f the book. The books dom s' o f her patriots, who w ill now rally togeth N .A .T .O .'s t e r r o r i s t - d e t e r r e n t c a p a b ilitie s c o n ta in th e m e s s a g e s fro m er as in the p ast w hen h er te rrito ria l integ rity throughout the world. Allah prescribing love and care was 'v io le n tly v io la te d '! T he U .S .A .'s u n fe t I envisage A m erica exacting a vengeance to all hum anity and extend the tered, uncom prom ised pursuit for a ju s t w orld w ith the 'ferocity o f a w ounded anim al' that will sam e to all creations o f A llah by A m ericans w ill be d em o n strated in a sw ift sen d a w a rn in g m essag e th a t w ill be e m b la w hether an anim al, insect, bird coun terstrik e o f deadly force, perhaps tactical zoned in the 'rotten m inds' o f terrorists every or vegetation. nu clear force if w arran ted , to vap o u rize these where! Now is the tim e to put our treacherous, sinister crim inals who have spilled David C. Searle b e lie f in to a c tio n . A t H alto n M osque we regularly host the in te r f a ith m e e tin g . It is o u r hope you w ill jo in us. You do O ur fath er, E dw ard P ow ell, our father. deserves the highest praise. n o t n e e d an in v ita tio n . T h e cherished husband of our mother The skill exhibited by the doc Let us m ake sure our health Charlotte, died on Sat. Sept. 15, tors and nurses gave us great confi care professionals, whether they M o s q u e is th e h o u s e o f 2001 after spending 37 days in the dence that our father was receiving are in m ajor or regional urban A lm ighty G od and you do not O ak v ille T ra fa lg a r M em orial the best treatm ent possible. The centres, have sufficient funding to need an in v itatio n to com e to your house. Hospital. staff's patience with our unending deliver the quality o f care they Dean El-Sedfy, P.Eng. Today, strong criticism of the questions as we searched for a way aspire to and are trained to pro President, Halton Islam ic quality of health care is the norm. to save our father or spare him vide. Association We would like to com m end the pain, meet every standard of exem David Powell 4310 Fairview St., staff of the OTMH for the expert plary care. Their personal kindness Jeff Powell Burlington care and loving attention they gave and compassion to him and to us Elizabeth Thorn s u p p o r t o f th e r e s c u e an d rebuilding efforts. W e, as C a n a d ia n M uslim s, c e rta in ly h av e b een a ffe c te d and shocked w ith such acts o f te rro rism as m uch as anyone. L et me assure you that we have no part o f such acts nor do we approve or condone them . Let me also say that am ong the vic tim s in N ew Y ork C ity, there h a v e b e e n m a n y M u s lim A m ericans. A few y e a rs ago, d u rin g a su m m e r v a c a tio n , my fam ily a n d I s to p p e d in N ew Y ork C ity . O n e o f th e p h o to s w e m ost adore o f that vacation is o f me holding my son in the air on th e to p o f th e n o r th e r n World Trade Center tower. You see, despite the seem ingly dif fe re n t faith , we are all living together and are all exposed to e x a c tly th e sa m e c ir c u m stances. P le a s e a llo w m e to sh a re with you some inform ation that may be a rem inder to all o f us. We assert that Islam is the reli g io n o f lo v e and c a re fo r all hum an beings. The word Islam depicts every m eaning o f peace and su rren d er to our. com m on Letter of the Week Waiting for the second shoe to drop My name is Annie W olfraim and I am currently in my OAC year at O akville Trafalgar High School. I wrote this piece for my W riters Craft class the day that A m erica was attacked by terrorists. It was bound to happen. As the years have gone by, the violence has increased to horrific propor tions. Ignoring pleas o f peace, people continue to act ferociously and barb arically tow ards com plete stra n g e rs, w hile c o u n trie s p ro c ee d to treat e ac h other viciously. The destruction o f the World Trade Towers and the attem pted depletion o f the Pentagon was so shocking because as a society we did not think that it could get any worse. A fter the O klahom a City bom bing and the shoot ings at Colum bine, it was hard to believe that an act even more devastating could occur - yet it did. This incident is by far the m ost atrocious and disturbing occurrence that I have ever seen in my short eighteen years on this planet. The footage o f people jum ping out o f windows, try ing to save their lives, to the im ages o f the many victim s bathed in blood. The scenes o f the packed hospitals with doctors, param edics and nurses scur rying around, trying to save as m any lives as possi ble. This footage is absolutely blood-curdling. After the fin a l c o lla p s e o f th e to w e rs, N ew York c ity looked as though it had been covered w ith a thin b la n k e t o f snow . The p ic tu re sq u e view w as than destroyed by a m iddle-aged man, drenched in his own blood, telling the story o f how he escaped death. Tues. Sept. 11th will forever be regarded as the day w hen our w orst nightm ares cam e true; yet what is even more disturbing is only im agining what event could possibly follow this alarm ing act. Suicide attacks doomed to backfire Health professionals need adequate funding Annie Wolfraim Hope tourney raised $49,000 On behalf of chair, Shirley Sveda and all of the organiz ers of the `2001 Tournament of Hope', held Sept. 13 at the Oakville Executive G olf Course, we would like to say a heartfelt thank you to the many people who came out to support this very special event. We are delighted to say that over $49,000 was raised. Proceeds will be directed to the Wellspring Centre and the Burlington Cancer Support Services. We would also like to say that serious consideration was given to cancelling this tournament in view o f the tragic events that unfolded in the U.S. on Sept. 11. However, on further reflection, it was determined that by going ahead we were making a statement about maintaining `hope' at such a dark time in the world's history. The diagnosis o f cancer is one o f those personal dark moments endured by thousands of Canadians each year. We are extremely grateful to all of the businesses and individu als who showed that they too have `hope'. Special thanks goes to our many sponsors who donated money, services and gifts. W ithout them we would have been unable to raise such a significant amount of money in a single day. The funds raised will provide help to the many patients and families struggling with this dreaded disease. Everyone who attended are to be commended on their caring spirit and their willingness to lend their support to our local community. Pud $ m ( ! ) J-fl- ~ v r. by steve nease You V JE R E . «g MYRd O M , LtSTEMlN&TD MY , ' scalded flound ® ' C X >, WEREN'T You?/ 2001 Tournament of Hope Executive