Sanity at UBC. Really

Further to Tarek Fatah,

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“Fuck Canada Day” fame Omar Chaaban who was “ashamed to be Canadian,” now wants to be president of UBC students

a reassuring message from a student there:

Don’t worry, the dude has no chance of winning. There’s three candidates in the race, and Omar is a distant third. Still though, it makes for hilarious debates; it’s fun having a controversial candidate in the running. The whole university knows about his fuck canada comments.

On the other hand there is insanity at this grove of academe:

A course at the University of British Columbia’s…

38 Replies to “Sanity at UBC. Really”

  1. Let’s hope the student who wins is A) Female and B) Jewish.
    That should send this little pinheaded jihadi wannbe into fits of rage.

  2. What a disgrace at my alma mater. 🙁
    Sadly, I think there’s a good chance he’ll get elected. Why? Because most of the academically geared students there don’t care one wit about the student government or anything related to it. And of those that do, most of them would undoubtedly comprise the Far Left of the Far Left of the NDP.
    Wither UBC.

  3. I think he’s disqualified from running because he didn’t have enough qualified signatures for nomination.
    Pretty sure. The Ubyssey.ca site is down right now.

  4. He looks like a cartoon character from the days when the song A-hab the A-Rab was popular.
    I think it was Ray Stevens who parodied those idiots and their camels … and their multiple Fatimas etc.
    Ray would be called a racist nowadays …

  5. Given her exhaustive list of academic achievements, one would think she would proof read her CV for errors. The use of the word “therefore” in the second sentence is unnecessary and obviously an error. She seems to favor the word “therefore” – she uses it again in her third sentence. I’m no expert, but IMO this is one poorly written paragraph:
    “Profile
    Personal Statement on Scholarship: Interdisciplinary research has been of fundamental importance to me, both at the substantive level and in terms of theory and methodology. From my initial training as a sociologist, therefore, I have gone on to draw extensively upon theoretical, conceptual and methodological insights deriving from, in particular, Continental philosophy, political science, cultural geography and history. I would therefore now best describe my intellectual position as that of an interdisciplinary cultural sociologist specialising in micro-cultural sociological and qualitative approaches in the study of social inequality.

  6. Here’s his campaign video, I note he’s supporting lower tuition fees, so taxpayers can pay a greater percentage of his tuition, and for certain under represented demographic groups, but not likely diversity including a certain group from Israel, and for more attention to exam hardship cases, which I think means lower standards for the perpetually offended / nervous or otherwise out protesting something or other instead of studying.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4_lAaV8tyk

  7. On the screen capture in the Tarek Fatah link, Omar Chaban states: “Canada day for the natives is a million times worse than the 1948 Nakba (disaster catastrophe) for the Palestinians. 🙂 ”
    So Nakba was only one-millionth as bad. As Canada day isn’t bad for natives, we’re talking somewhat less than pico-catastrophe.

  8. Ah, “the sheik of the burning sand”!
    http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=443
    “Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab
    The sheik of the burning sand
    He had emeralds and rubies just drippin’ off ‘a him
    And a ring on every finger of his hand
    He wore a big ol’ turban wrapped around his head
    And a scimitar by his side
    And, every evenin’, about midnight
    He’d jump on his camel named Clyde, and ride
    [Spoken] Silently through the night to the sultan’s tent where he
    would secretly meet up with Fatima of the Seven Veils,
    swingingest grade “A” number one USDA choice dancer in
    the sultan’s whole harem, ’cause, heh, him and her had
    a thing goin’, you know, and they’d been carryin’ on
    for some time now behind the sultan’s back and you
    could hear him talk to his camel as he rode out across the
    dunes, his voice would cut through the still night desert
    air and he’d say (imitate Arabic speech and finish with “Sold! American)
    which is Arabic for, “Stop, Clyde!” and Clyde’d say, (imitate camel
    sound), which is camel for, “What the heck did he say anyway?”
    Well, he brought that camel to a screechin’ halt (verbal screeching sound)
    In the rear of Fatima’s tent
    Jumped off Clyde, snuck around the corner
    And into the tent he went.
    There he saw Fatima layin’ on a zebra skin rug
    With
    [Spoken in falsetto and possibly with female backups] “Rings on her fingers and
    bells on her toes and a bone in her nose, ho ho.”
    [Spoken] There she was, friends, lyin’ there in all her radiant
    beauty, eating on a raisin, grape, apricot, pomegranate,
    bowl of chittlin’s, two bananas, three Hershey bars,
    sipping on a RC coca-cola listenin’ to her transistor,
    watchin’ the Grand Ole Opry on the tube, readin’ a Mad
    magazine while she sung, “Does your chewing gum lose
    it’s flavor?” Yeah, Ahab walked up to her and he say,
    (imitate Arabic speech), which is Arabic for “Let’s twist
    again like we did last summer, baby!” Ha, ha, ha!!
    You know what I mean! Whew! She looked up at him from off the rug,
    give him one of the sly looks,
    She said (suggestive giggles, then outright laughter) “Crazy, crazy, crazy baby!”
    (’round and around and around and around, and around and around and around)
    Yeah, and that’s the story ’bout Ahab the Arab
    The sheik of the burnin’ sand
    Ahab the Arab, the swingin’ sheik of the burnin’ sand”
    Don’t tell the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.
    Mark

  9. I am so thankful I get to pay for this guy’s education. Probably taking political science and getting staight A’s.

  10. And we’re paying to educate that flake? Jesus wept what have the tolerance and diversity crowd done to this great nation. That thang on his head just looks stupid.

  11. Ah yes, we know what he really thinks. The fellow is articulate.
    Are Libby and Jack campaigning for him?

  12. Well now, if little Omar is so disgusted with Canada that’s ok with me. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, no matter how fevered and freaky.
    I’d just like to know when he (or more likely his mummy and daddy) are going to return any student loans, bursaries, grants, scholarships etc. he may have got from Canada in the course of his lengthy edjicashun.

  13. No one 4:31. Translation ‘I’m studying to be a bigger victim than you. I’m sure there is head of a talky thingie for the government in it with a cut from the victims reparations.’

  14. Omar is not only disgusted with Canada. According to him “Canada is genocidal state” and he “couldn’t be more ashamed to be Canadian.”
    Now he wants to be president of UBC.
    IMHO, he is contemptible.
    But I support Phantom.
    Omar can think whatever he wants. But, he should return all his student loans, bursaries, grants, etc. he got from Canada.
    All of it.
    Immediately.

  15. If Omar is displeased with his current homeland, he is welcome to leave it.
    I am convinced that once someone gets into university, the stupidity is so set in that it would take a jackhammer to get it out. If any of these aspiring “conflict managers” wants to vote for this cretin, go ahead. They’ve only branded themselves as idiots.

  16. I say give Omar a black powder musket, a ceremonial dagger, and a pound of hashish and then drop him in Afghanistan.

  17. What an asshat! I will never understand why these wanabe Canadians are suckling from the same teat they themselves so despise.

  18. When we accept the idea of “student government” and “student unions”, we have to expect this. Students have always had the right to vote with their feet if they did not like a particular university. It is bad enough to have the socialists (non science professors) invade what used to be places of higher learning, but to compound it with granting the inmates joint control of the establishment is beyond reason.
    My children all entered the field of science at UB© to avoid the majority of agenda-driven brainwashing, and they highly resented being forced to fund the “student government” which did not speak for them. Any wonder why?

  19. Let him step into my world. He wouldn’t be returning. That thing would not survive a day in the circles I travel, not dressed like that.
    Come to think of it, I’m starting to feel a bit of shame too. My 8x great grandfather didn’t fight the yanks, clear land, and build a farm with his bare hands to have that lazy, stinking, sneaky, backward, inbred monkey even speak in public.

  20. If the previous was too direct…
    Followed all the links and posted:
    Omar Chaaban promoted quote “F*%k Canada day in 2009”.
    Says what he means, I guess.Good choice for president

  21. What an asshat! I will never understand why these wanabe Canadians are suckling from the same teat they themselves so despise.
    for a moment I thought I was on a Quebec thread

  22. When this sphincter graduates, I’d love to do some work for him.
    (And not break it down at $140.00 an hour.Lets call it a labour rate.Revenge/sweet.)

  23. syncrodox @ 1:04AM: That’s probably Jimi Heselden’s last thought as onlookers were warning him during those final moments before the cliff…
    Segue

  24. Dipsh!ts like towel-boy here run for student councils (in this case, U.B.C.’s Alma Mater Society) because the schools make membership in those societies mandatory for all students, and take a fee off them for the “privilege”. That means there is a nice fat budget for socialists-in-training to squander. And it’s nearly always lefties of some stripe that run for student council, because they are the ones that are enrolled in sure-pass Arts courses, and have the time to play at politics.
    Since universities are creatures of the Provincial governments, those governments could end this nonsense in a heartbeat by outlawing mandatory membership in, and funding of student councils, on grounds of freedom of association.

  25. Do we really need more loyal Muslims like this fine fellow? Too much patriotism can be dangerous.

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