One of the chief weapons that American Muslim advocacy groups use to control the public debate about Islamic terrorism is argument by slur: those who dare to defend the equality of dignity of all people against the threat posed by Sharia and jihad are routinely called "bigoted," "hatemongering," "reckless," etc. This is a very clever tactic on their part, for the mortal sin of American politics is bigotry; by employing such language the groups can effectively render many people of good will too afraid to examine the genuine arguments of those so tarred. But here is one instance in which those tactics backfired. From "An Islamist Apology?" by Daniel Pipes in FrontPage:
Something possibly unprecedented has occurred in the battle with radical Islam. A leading Islamist organization has retracted its slurs against me and issued a public apology. This offers a small but important step in blocking the advance of Islamic extremism....Wahida Valiante of the Canadian Islamic Congress, an Ontario-based group, took this step on April 29, 2005, writing in her organization’s weekly bulletin that I am a follower of Hitler, that I use the tactics of Hitler, and that I want “to ethnically cleanse America of its Muslim presence.”
Did I really need to point out that this representation of me is, in the words of a National Post editorial, “a vicious calumny that Ms. Valiante plucked from thin air”? Must I insist that I really do execrate Hitler? Aver my horror of genocide? Protest that I never espoused expelling or murdering Muslim Americans?
I thought not. Rather than take these demeaning and surely futile steps, I took a different route. Backed by the Heenan Blaikie law firm of Toronto and the CanWest Global Communications Corporation, Stan Fisher of Heenan Blaikie sent a libel notice in early May to each of Valiante, the CIC, and CIC chair Mohamed Elmasry.
On June 10, the CIC published an apology and retraction: “The Canadian Islamic Congress and Ms. Valiante apologize without reservation and retract remarks in the column that suggest that Dr. Daniel Pipes is a follower of Hitler or that he uses the tactics of Hitler or that he wants to ethnically cleanse America of its Muslim presence.” The CIC also sent funds for my legal expenses and made a donation in my honor to a Canadian charity.
The CIC’s action is, to the best of my knowledge, without precedent.
Western Islamist organizations until now have relentlessly attacked, successfully extracting apologies from media figures like Paul Harvey and Mortimer Zuckerman, from businesses like Amazon and Nike, from pastors, columnists, and even from state politicians, a top U.S. general, and the president of the United States.
Never before have they apologized for having libeled a person. The CIC retraction breaks the Islamists’ spell of privilege and their miasma of immunity. It establishes, at least in Canada and at present, that Islamist groups do not have impunity to fabricate lies about their opponents. The rule of law does prevail and it applies even to them.
For those who fear the growth of radical Islam, this episode offers encouragement that its forces can be contained and defeated. I hope others will join me in standing up to the new totalitarianism.
And that is precisely what it is.
Great news and about time.
Also, recently there was this piece of news about this courageous female journalist in NY who refused to back down against allegations made against some billionaire sheikh in London in her book "finances of evil" or something like that.
Each such story should be brought out and widely publicized. Islam's big strength has been this seeming immunity to criticism in western lands. Demolishing this myth is public service o high order indeed.
The tide is turning, folks, hopefully!
Yes...what better way to lull the victims back into clamn before the slaughter - than by using the very slippery 'taqiya' tactics to -temporarily- assuage them by SILENCING the most knowledgeable of the intended victims - one most capable of alerting fellows to the lethal dangers confronting them.
This attempt is revealing in that even the jihadis - who wish to maintain their narcissitic psychopathic enabled totalitarian control over all at any costs - nevertheless- instinctively feel/understand that what they do is WRONG.
Admit it jihadis - Why else is the preservation of the evil ways to be maintained and by all means (obfuscation at all levels-against any intended victim, rape, murder, extortion, all manner of evil deed) to be hidden from plain view??? Because you know -somewhere in your dark soul - that it is wrong.
Jihadis - your nefarious plans are daily being exposed to more and more -worldwide. Instead of running behind women, children, innoncents, and invoking righteousness of the "religion of peace" - stand up -this time-like the men you claim to be. Face your selfcreated hell on earth - You've had 1500 years to do so and chose not to thus far. Don't fail the world this time. Stand up - fight and die for what you want if it is really worth it - or you are not "men" as you claim to be!
I agree with PC kills, just taqiyya tactics. Retreat and await another day. Some taqiyya doesn't work and backfires, as this one case with Pipes shows. But rather than continue, they recognized a different tactic (withdraw from this single front of the taqiyya battle), is best. Unlike our leaders who have foolishly taken one strategy (Bush's 'war on terror' and all the strategies and tactics of that 'war on terror' that we have all seen) and blindly followed it without question. The 'war on terror' is a failure. The 'war on Islam' is not even on the drawing boards.
Way to go Daniel Pipes. You turned the tables on these meshugana Muhammedans. There are so many fine Jewish lawyers, you could be suing these Islamic libelers 24/7/365. This one has me smiling and laughing!
I tend to put this down to just how over-the-top the unvaliante Ms. Valiante's remarks were and the difference between Canadian libel laws and US libel laws. Cdn law is similar to Brit law and puts an extremely heavy onus on the person who makes these statements.
Voletti: you are referring to Rachel Ehrenfield who was being pursued in the UK courts by a Saudi who himself operates out of the US, but has taken her and many others to court in the UK for reasons alluded to above.
Ehrenfield has taken the unprecedented tactic of seeking a declaratory judgment that her assailant could not prevail against her in the U.S. on libel charges arising from her 2003 book, Funding Evil.
More people ought to use libel, slander, and hate crime laws to start going after groups like CAIR, CIC, and others. Pretty soon, when the immoderate left and Islamofascists see themselves up a creek, we might get free speech back again when they start suing against the unconstitutionality of the laws they themselves pushed for.
Ala-sux, any comments?
Why not repeal the laws and the let the voices sing on both sides, accusing each other and let the readers and viewers decide?
Dr. Pipes might not be urging North America be purged of Moslems, but I know lots of people (including myself) who do.
Kepha :
Here's 2 links that may show that this conversion on the road to Demacus may be a ruse
since the CIC and Elmasry are giving evidence at a Canadian inquiry on "Islamophobia" and "Racism"
which they make subtle claims of a Zionist-controlled Western media.
The CIC posts a "Islamophobe" of the year report and has a legion of followers that scour the papers and TV to write down any word that is "Anti-Muslim" ,oddly it is the Canwest-Media
entity that tops the list each year and just happens to be owned by a Jewish family (as if CIC feels only non-Jews should own businesses) that
produces what many Canadians feel is a diverse
based platform with closet Antisemites given exposure on their outlets to opine at will.
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You'll note that the CIC has standing at the
inquiry and it re-starts July 27th,CAIR is also on the list and Sheema Khan threw out bogus hate-crime numbers from CAIR's own web-form survey.
Transcripts are put online and posted by the date of the hearings,some of the claims to the Judge after swearing in on a Quran are laughable
and do more damage to Islam than good.
http://www.ararcommission.ca/eng/11d.htm
Here's a link that uses a Arabic veneer when entering but I noticed the English selection from the "Editor's pick/Opinion's menu gives different
lead stories and photos,I hope a DW user out there is well versed in Arabic to see if this is
a separate version of the news for non-Arabic speaking Canadians.
http://arab2000.net/
Below is a English selection and Muhamad Elmasry and Sheema Khan are taken to task by
a Arab/Muslim that makes me proud to be his fellow Citizen, Elmasry denounces the London attack on 7/7/05 but in the next breath opines about the fear of "Backlash" to Muslims in Canada.
The hate-crime facts show the Jews were the major victims after the 9/11 attack and I'm not surprised since Islamic websites claimed it was "The Jews" that did it because 4000 of them didn't show up for work that morning knowing the Massad had planned the attack to blame the Muslims .
http://arab2000.net/wnewsDetails.asp?id=24453&cid=25
The above site also posts articles by Elmasry and I pointed out in a email to one of Mr.Pipes friends that Elmasry's exact comment was posted on Arab2000 and was still spewing the garbage for almost one week after the CIC pulled the article from their Mainstream English based home page , kinda like Arafat using English media to condemn suicide bombers and then
in Arabic among a selected group praising the killers as freedom-fighters.
Since we're on the subject of Ms.Khan , she
explained away the bombings with the usual "BUT"
and called Canada a Occupier in Afghanistan that's murdering Muslims along side the USA that is also in Iraq killing Muslims and is the root cause for the London suicide bombers.
Last week Canada announced our JTF2 teams will head to Afghanistan to root out the "Scumbags" that are hiding in the mountains and still harbour Taliban views about females and non-Muslims.
Why this angry hateful Whahabbi Muslim gets to stay in Canada I'll never know , there are no
chains on her feet to stop her from leaving this evil Christian nation that the Al-Qaeda and her hate so much.
I'll even pay for her flight and sex-change
to finally help with the anti-female spirt she has,misogynists are welcome in Islam and Muhammed would be proud of her.
More Kitman & Taqyya:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,15988222%255E601,00.html
A hatepreacher calls for his own deportation. Or does he?
Hilarious comment, Terminator.
You will have a double punishment.
Geoff