“I disapprove of what you say,
but I will
defend to the death your right
to say it”
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Free Speech Under Fire in Canada
Pamela Geller was
scheduled to speak at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue in Thornhill, right outside
of Toronto's city limits, on May 13. But now Islamic supremacist groups in
Canada, with willing aid from the Canadian police, have succeeded in getting
the event canceled under police pressure. It is being relocated.
Toronto, Canada: Sharia 1, Free
Speech 0
Commenting on the police
action, Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, said, “What this
incident shows is the depth of infiltration of Islamists in the police forces,
both in Toronto, York Regions as well as the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted
Police]. One may disagree profoundly with Pam Geller, but the police have no
right to shut down speaking events citing hate laws when hate against
non-Muslims has become institutionalized in many city mosques where clerics
pray for the defeat of non-Muslims at the hands of Muslims.”
Excluded by the Inclusion Cops By Mark Steyn
Pamela Geller, tireless campaigner
against Islamic imperialism was scheduled to give a speech at a Toronto
synagogue on May 13th. Miss Geller is not a convicted terrorist or
terrorism-supporter or someone who argues for the execution of all homosexuals.
If she were, she could speak at any Canadian venue with impunity.
Terrorists can speak
in Canada – Pamela Geller can’t
Very powerful letter written to York Regional Police
Department by Salim Mansur, Vice-President of Council of Muslims Facing
Tomorrow
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From:
Salim Mansur <smansur@uwo.ca>
Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Cancellation of Pamela Geller's speaking engagement
To: 271@yrp.ca
Dear Sir,
Date: Thu, May 2, 2013 at 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: Cancellation of Pamela Geller's speaking engagement
To: 271@yrp.ca
Dear Sir,
I am writing to you this letter on
hearing pressure applied to Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo
Synagogue in Thornhill to cancel an event with Ms. Pamela Geller.
I am a Muslim, a tenured professor in
a prestigious Canadian university, the University of Western Ontario in London.
I am appalled that in this day and age we continue to hear regularly how the
liberal democratic tradition of Canada and the West is being systematically
shredded by institutions sworn to protect it. Free speech is the most
fundamental right of a free society; constrain it, strip it, shred it, and then
let us not be surprised our society will be turned into a society such as one
from where I fled as a young man to find freedom in the West, and I remain ever
grateful that Canada took me in and gave me the opportunity to pursue my own
dreams.
I pray you consider any decision you
make that ends up taking another step in undermining the tradition of free
speech that made the West, and Canada as a part of it, the most flourishing,
open, and free culture in the entire history of mankind. Each one of us are
responsible that this tradition is preserved, protected, and passed on to the
unborn generations what we inherited.
I submit your intentions might very
well be of some merit as a guardian of law and order. But those pushing for
preventing Ms. Pamela Geller from speaking by putting pressure on Rabbi Mendel
to deny the use of his synagogue for holding her event are people I know very
well. These are people, Muslims as I am, who come from cultures that have no
respect for individual rights and freedoms enshrined in our constitution, and
while making home here in Canada have no respect for the culture of this
country. They need to learn the culture of a free society, of a society that is
open to debates and discussions however painful this might be to someone
else's sensibilities. But if you concede to their demands, all that you would
be doing is indulging them, heeding their wishes and threats, and slowly,
intentionally or not, bending Canada's tradition in the direction of the ruined
cultures of these people which they have brought with them and want to push
into our society.
I hope you will think hard and think
clearly given your responsibility and defend the tradition of liberal democracy
based on rule of law, individual freedom and free speech. I might just remind
you that it was in defending this tradition that time and time again your
compatriots went across oceans to distant places and were prepared to make the
ultimate sacrifice so that freedom there might take root by defeating the
forces of tyranny. It often takes immense courage to do what is right, whether
to refuse going to the back of a bus in a segregated society or protecting the
right of someone to speak, especially when one disagrees with what might be
spoken.
I pray God gives you the courage to
do what is right in this instance.
Sincerely, Salim Mansur, PhD
WE URGE ALL MEMBERS TO WRITE LETTERS AS WELL. GRASSROOTS
PRESSURE MAKES A DIFFERENCE – DO IT!
York Regional
Police: 271@yrp.ca
Sample letter:
From: Janice Fiamengo
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 3:39 PM
To: 271@yrp.ca
Subject: Apologize to Pamela Geller and to Rabbi Kaplan
Dear Chief Jolliffe,
I was horrified but not surprised to hear of the decision
by your department to put pressure on the rabbi who was scheduled to host
anti-Islamist freedom fighter Pamela Geller when she came to Toronto. Have you
ever heard Pamela Geller speak? She is a heroic person who stands up for the
values of western society that have made Canada great: free speech, individual
rights, freedom of religion, separation of church and state, women's
self-determination, and minority rights. Radical Muslims do not like what she
has to say because she challenges their vision of society, a vision in which
all non-Muslims, and especially unveiled women, Jews, and homosexuals, are
considered 'unclean' and treated as second-class citizens--that is, if they are
allowed to live at all. Such people can be very vocal in defense of their
rights not to be criticized or offended, and in your actions you have
demonstrated that you are willing to comply with their demand that their
'sensitivities' and conviction of cultural superiority take precedence over
others' free speech rights. Shame on you for that. You should immediately apologize
to Ms. Geller and to the rabbi you threatened, and should tell your Muslim
contacts that Canada is a country in which individual rights trump their sense
of entitlement and that they'll have to get used to that if they want to
continue to live happily in Canada.
But I don't suppose you will do that because you have
obviously decided that appeasing bullies, especially Muslim bullies, is the
best way to appear progressive and to have an easy time of it. You know that
hordes of angry Jews and libertarians will not soon be causing trouble for your
force. What is happening, however, is that many ordinary people such as myself
are losing faith in the police. I now believe that the police force no longer,
by and large, exists to protect the rights of law-abiding citizens. I was once
a huge supporter of the police; and I still feel a great deal of respect for
individual officers who risk their lives in the line of duty every day. But for
you, with your expedient political decisions, I can have only contempt.
Attached is an article detailing the spread of
anti-Semitism across Europe and the United States that Pamela Geller is
attempting to resist. Perhaps you should educate yourself on the serious issues
we now confront in our society as a result of Muslim radicals before you
criticize an event in the (laughably misguided) name of 'tolerance.'
Sincerely, Janice Fiamengo
Raheel Raza and Salim Mansur, president and vice president
respectively of the Council of Muslims Facing Tomorrow, weigh in
on the latest terrorist plots, arguing that these “confirm the pattern of
penetration by Islamists into the West for executing mass terror
attacks.” The West, they conclude, needs to take seriously the war declared by
Islamists against infidels, Zionists, Israelis and Muslims opposed to Islamism.
Terrorism: Follow the Money
Terrorism
requires money. Money does not grow on trees. Cut off the money, we cut
terrorism off at the knees.
Mosques
are the battleground of the war between Islam and the West
What are
mosques? Gavin Boby from the Law and Freedom Foundation in the U.K. answers as
follows : “Mosques are not like churches or synagogues: they are far more
than houses of worship and contemplation, many of them are centers of jihadist
activity that indoctrinate to commit and support violence against infidels. In
America, as many as 4 different studies have independently come to the same
conclusion that 80 per cent of US mosques "were teaching jihad, Islamic supremacism, and hatred
and contempt for Jews and Christians.”
Recently
the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), released an 18-point platform for defending freedom. It called for
"surveillance of mosques and regular inspections of mosques in the U.S.
and other non-Muslim nations to look for pro-violence materials. Any mosque
advocating jihad or any aspects of Sharia that conflict with Constitutional
freedoms and protections should be closed."
VIDEO:
I implore you to watch
this powerful video. I believe Judge Jeanine Pirro speaks for us all.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/27/judge_jeanine_pirro_slams_jihad_mom_lady_you_shouldnt_be_allowed_here.html
“Serene” Farahmandi Ferri
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