Shut Down Iran's
Embassy in Canada
As a tight network of
Iranian terrorists expands as a "fifth
column" In Canada, there have been calls to shut down the Iranian
embassy there. The most influential Muslim immigrants are then
hand-picked to infiltrate and influence the Canadian government's image of the
Islamic regime, thereby affecting the political decision-making process and
affecting policies.
Department of Homeland Security: “Terrorists Enter America From Time to Time” - Napolitano
Rep. Ron Barber (D-AZ) asked the revealing question.
“As you know, Madam Secretary, there have been anecdotal reports about material
evidence of the presence of terrorists along our southern border. My question
is: is there any credible evidence that these reports are accurate and that
terrorists are, in fact, crossing our southern border with the intent to do
harm to the American people?”
“With respect, there have been…from time to time, and
we are constantly working against different and evolving threats involving
various terrorist groups and various ways they may seek to enter the country,”
she answered. To put it bluntly, Napolitano is lying.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/napolitano-terrorists-enter-america-from-time-to-time
HSBC and terrorist money laundering
HSBC is a leader in promoting sharia-compliant financial instruments. Such instruments, if truly sharia-compliant, require a percentage of their profits to be given as zakat to Muslim charities. Given how many Muslim charities in the past ten years have been linked to terrorism-financing, it is a virtual certainty that some portion of those zakat funds are ending up in the hands of terrorists.
Genocidal Sudanese
regime's appointment to UN human rights council all but certain, watchdog says
The election of a Sudanese warlord accused of genocide to the United Nations Human Rights Council is now virtually guaranteed, since he has the full backing of the world body's African delegation.
The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant for Omar Al-Bashir -- its first ever for a sitting head of state -- for crimes against humanity he allegedly committed in Darfur. Yet, his regime is set to take its place on the panel, in the latest bizarre appointment to make a mockery of the UN's human rights credibility, according to critics.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/08/08/sudan-election-to-un-human-rights-council-all-but-certain-watchdog-says/
VIDEOS
Tarek Fatah with Michael Coren speaking on the
Muslim Brotherhood
Erick
Stakelbeck with U.K. Islamist Anjem Choudary discussing a global
Islamist Caliphate
Robert Spencer of Jihad
Watch speaks at a Freedom Rally in Stockholm
last Saturday
Thank
you to the Hon. Irwin Cotler for his decency and his attempt to have the IOC
give one minute of silence to the murdered Israeli athletes at the closing
ceremonies.
Office of the Hon. Irwin Cotler, MP
(Critic for Justice and Human
Rights)
Montréal. Thursday,
August 9, 2012.
Count Dr. Jacques Rogge
President
International Olympic
Committee
Château de Vidy
C.P. 356 – CH-1007
Lausanne, Switzerland
Dear Doctor Rogge:
I am writing you as a Member of the
Canadian Parliament and mover of a parliamentary motion which was unanimously
passed by the Canadian House of Commons on June 13, 2012. The motion, which
called for a moment of silence at the 2012 London Olympics in memory of those Israeli
Olympians killed 40 years ago – where you yourself were an Olympic athlete -
read as follows:
That the House offers its
support for a moment of silence to be held at the 2012 London Olympics in
memory of those killed 40 years ago in the tragic terrorist events of the 1972
Munich Olympics wherein 11 Israeli athletes were murdered.
Indeed, civil society
groups, Parliaments and political leaders around the world have been calling on
the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold a moment of silence at the
London Games, with the Canadian Parliament the first to unanimously support
this call – an expression of our responsibility to remember – le devoir de
mémoire.
Nor is such a memorial,
as you best know, without precedent. Two years ago during the Winter Olympic
Games in Vancouver, the IOC, observed a moment of silence – over which you
presided, appropriately enough – in memory of the Georgian athlete, Nodar
Kumaritashvili, who died tragically in a training accident. Ten years ago, in
2002, the IOC memorialized the victims of 9/11, though that terrorist atrocity
neither occurred during the Olympic Games nor had any connection to them. The
duty of remembrance was justification enough.
In particular, after
eschewing a memorial for the murdered Israeli athletes and coaches at this
year’s opening ceremony, the IOC then – and again, rightly – memorialized the
victims of the 2005 London Bombings (as it happens, I was in London at the time
visiting as Minister of Justice), though this terrorist atrocity, as well, had
no nexus to the Olympic Games.
The refusal of the IOC,
therefore, to observe a moment of silence on the 40th anniversary of the Munich
massacre – the slaughter of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches for no other reason
than that they were Israelis and Jews – is as offensive as it is
incomprehensible. These eleven (11) Israeli Olympians were part of the Olympic
family, they were murdered as members of the Olympic family, they should be
remembered by the Olympic family at these Olympic Games themselves.
This steadfast reluctance
not only ignores – but mocks – the calls for a moment of silence by Government
leaders, including US President Barack Obama, Australian PM Julia Gillard,
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, and most recently by his Excellency the
Canadian Governor General David Johnston; the calls by various Parliaments
including resolutions by the US Congress as well as by Canadian,
Australian, German, Italian and UK Parliamentarians; and the sustained
international public campaign and anguished civil society appeals.
As well, the IOC decision
ignores that the Munich massacre occurred at the Olympic games not par
hasard, but precisely because the Olympic games provided a venue of
international resonance for such an attack; the decision ignores that, as Der
Spiegel put it, the killings were facilitated by the criminal negligence
and indifference of Olympic security officials themselves; and finally, and
most disturbingly, it ignores and mocks the plaintive pleas – and pain and
suffering – of the families and loved ones, for whom the remembrance of these
last forty years is an over-riding personal and moral imperative, as expressed
to you yet again in London this week.
Accordingly, it is not
hard to infer – as many have done - that not only were the athletes killed
because they were Israeli and Jewish, but that the moment of silence is being
denied them also because they are Israeli and Jewish. Professor Deborah
Lipstadt – a distinguished historian of antisemitism and one normally
understated in her attribution of anti-Jewish or anti-Israel motifs - makes the
connection. In her words:
“The IOC’s explanation is
nothing more than a pathetic excuse. The athletes who were murdered were from Israel
and were Jews—that is why they aren’t being remembered. … This was the greatest
tragedy to ever occur during the Olympic Games. Yet the IOC has made it quite
clear that these victims are not worth 60 seconds. Imagine for a moment that
these athletes had been from the United States,
Canada, Australia, or even Germany No one would think twice
about commemorating them. But these athletes came from a country and a people
who somehow deserve to be victims. Their lost lives are apparently not worth a
minute.”
As Ankie Spitzer, widow
of the murdered Andre Spitzer put it, regretfully, “I can only come to one
conclusion or explanation: This is discrimination. I have never used that word
in 40 years, but the victims had the wrong religions, they came from the wrong
country.”
Dr. Rogge, you, as a
bearer of memory as a Belgian Olympian yourself in the 1972 Munich Games, have
poignantly remarked just days ago, “the Munich
attack cast terrorism's dark shadow on the Olympic Games. It was a direct
assault on the core values of the Olympic movement.”
This Sunday, when the
London 2012 Olympic Games conclude, let us pause to remember and recall each of
the murdered athletes. Each had a name, an identity, a family – each person was
a universe:
Moshe Weinberg
Yossef Romano
Ze’ev Friedman
David Berger
Yakov Springer
Eliezer Halfin
Yossef Gutfreund
Kehat Shorr
Mark Slavin
Andre Spitzer
Amitzur Shapira
Dr. Rogge, it is not too
late for the IOC to remember these murdered Olympians as Olympians at the London Olympic Games this
Sunday – it is not too late to be on the right side of history.
Sincerely,
Irwin Cotler, P.C., O.C., M.P.
Former Minister of Justice & Attorney General of Canada
Professor of Law (Emeritus), McGill University
“A minute of
silence refused.
A lifetime
of shame achieved.”
ACT! FOR CANADA/Quebec Chapter
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