I just got in from speaking at Penn State, kicking off the David Horowitz Freedom Center's Stop the Jihad On Campus week that will take me tomorrow to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, then to the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and next week to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (where I hope to say hello to Carl and Omid) and to points beyond: SUNY at Stonybrook and Binghamton, and maybe even a few other universities as well.
Courageous members of the Young America's Foundation chapter at Penn State sponsored my talk there tonight. Courageous? Certainly. Not only do they have to deal with ostracism, ridicule, and abuse on a more or less regular basis, but tonight one of the attendees at my talk told the YAF student organizer that he better be careful to "walk a narrow line."
I know a threat when I hear one. That such threats, however veiled, would be uttered in an American university in 2008, does not reflect well on Penn State, or on the state of higher education today in general, or on the health of the social contract of civility that used to be taken for granted. But that has been breaking down for a long time now.
In my remarks tonight I delineated the Muslim Brotherhood's "grand jihad" aimed at "eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" so that "Allah's religion is made victorious over other religions," explained the Islamic supremacist statements that many Muslim leaders and spokesmen in America have made, and detailed how this "grand jihad" is proceeding.
I made it clear at the beginning of my talk that this was a program being pursued by some Muslims, not by all, but this became a point of contention throughout the evening. One woman showed up in the middle of the talk and didn't wait for the question period to begin berating me, and talking over my answers to her questions. Another man started shouting, "I'm a terrorist! Arrest me!" -- brushing aside what I said about defending the equality of rights of all people before the law and the principle that everyone is innocent until proven guilty, as well as what I said about the plain fact that many Muslims are not on board with this supremacist program. This aggressive willful ignorance climaxed in the question from a gentleman who insisted that I was saying that all Muslims were terrorists. When I pointed out to him that I had explained just the opposite at some length, he began to excoriate me repeatedly for denying him his freedom of speech after I had spoken about defending free speech (I had explained the attempts by the Organization of the Islamic Conference to destroy this freedom), and finally walked out ostentatiously, to applause from his allies. They did not seem at all impressed by the fact that he was manifestly claiming that I had said something I had not said -- that all Muslims are actively involved in the Islamic supremacist effort.
But when truth is not interesting or useful, for all too many people nowadays it must fall by the wayside in favor of myths that have the advantage of serving one's agenda. The Muslims and their allies in the audience acted according to the tried-and-true playbook: they affected wounded indignation that I would suggest that any Muslims are pursuing jihad violence and Islamic supremacism, as if I made up the fact; challenged my credentials, as if my lacking a Ph.D. means that the Brotherhood is not engaged in what it describes in its own words as a "grand Jihad" to destroy Western civilization; accused me of ignorance and of dishonesty, although without refuting a single specific point I made; and claimed victim status, as if to discuss the reality of the Islamic supremacist agenda puts them all in imminent danger from redneck vigilantes; and accused me of "hate" and "bigotry," as if the Poles and Czechs only imagined Hitler out of their fanatical hatred for all things German.
It's a strategy I have seen again and again, and I am sure I will see it tomorrow and Thursday at the two UWM campuses as well. These groups wouldn't say these things if they didn't work, although they actually do nothing to establish that there isn't an effort to bring Islamic law to the West. In any case, it doesn't speak well of the intellectual environment at Penn State or anywhere else that students can get away with actual threats, and with trying to shout down a speaker with canned propaganda instead of engaging in actual dialogue. The atmosphere on campuses today is very closed and the ideological conformity is strictly enforced -- and that's why my hat is off to the Penn State students who dared to buck the ideological straitjacket and have me come in to speak. I doubt that anyone of good will could come away from that discussion thinking that the MSA apologists had a case, after they behaved so thuggishly and boorishly. Maybe, just maybe, a few cages were rattled tonight.
A report just posted at The Investigative Project about the Stealth Jihad (Political Division) in Canada:
Report from the Northern Front: Montreal Redux
by David B. Harris
Special to IPT News
October 14, 2008
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/789
Canada's awakening to radical-Islamist penetration of its political, bureaucratic and social infrastructure, reached a watershed moment this month.
Quebec's new French-language anti-Islamist website, Point de Bascule – "tipping point" – sponsored a dramatic press conference in Montreal Oct. 2 on the dangers of hard-line Islamist penetration of Canada. But this was consciousness-raising with a powerful difference.
All three panelists were moderate Canadian Muslims. All three face death fatwas. And all three spoke unsparingly – some giving names and startling specifics – of the Sharia surge and stealth jihad in Quebec and the rest of Canada. Indeed, detailed allegations were heard about Islamist inroads into the federal New Democratic Party (NDP), Canada's social democratic party, and about infiltration of a government commission with power to define and silence "hate" speech. These were momentous claims in the context of Canada's national election campaign – the national vote takes place today. As evidenced by the number of journalists in attendance, the Quebec media were galvanized.
India-born Dr. Salim Mansur of the University of Western Ontario opened by calling on Canadians to end the political correctness and self-censorship that has muffled efforts to debate the stealth jihad – the gradual radical-Islamicizing of Canadian society. Like other speakers, he distinguished between moderate Muslims and Islamists, and warned of accelerating fundamentalist efforts "to establish a parallel society within Quebec and within Canada, as they are doing in Europe, that will be administered on the basis of Sharia."
Mansur cited Islamist demands, "in our multicultural society," "for gender exclusion ... for legal arbitration on the basis of Sharia in Ontario and Quebec, the promotion of Sharia finance." He pointed to demands for the right to have "veiled voting" in elections, complete with male-free zones in voting stations and female-only government cadres to verify veiled-voters' identity.
Professor Mansur warned stirringly of increasing radical penetration of Canada's political and social infrastructure. In the midst of the election, he turned his guns on Canada's social-democratic New Democratic Party (NDP). The Party and its leader, he said,
"have gone to bed with Islamists, operatives of the Canadian Islamic Congress, and other organizations, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations Canada, the Muslim Student Associations in our universities, ISNA – the Islamic Society of North America ... for reasons of sheer political opportunism at the expense of the security of our citizens, and defending the fundamental values of our democracy."
(For those unfamiliar with Canada's radical scene, the hard-line Canadian Islamic Congress was revealed to have given a media-excellence award to the founder of a Canadian-Islamic newspaper said to have had as its editorial line the assertion that 9/11 was a success, that Iranian-style theocracy should spread worldwide, and that Canada is a "fully paid-up member of the Anglo-Saxon mafia, which is responsible for most of the recorded genocides in the world." The Canadian Arab Federation (CAF), mentioned below, also recognized this individual with a special anniversary award.
During the first Gulf War, the CAF portrayed Canadian Arabs as victims of unnecessarily-aggressive interviewing by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), a portrayal that the independent, nonpartisan CSIS watchdog Security Intelligence Review Committee, found baseless. More recently, the CAF became notorious for campaigning against the outlawing of Hezbollah in Canada. For its part, the Canadian Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR-CAN] is the Canadian chapter of the Washington, DC-based, Saudi-funded Council on American Islamic Relations [CAIR], an unindicted co-conspirator in the US Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial. Like its American parent, CAIR-CAN engaged in unsuccessful lawsuits against media and other commentators who raised questions about its background and links; and, like its parent, CAIR-CAN is a defendant in the New York 9/11 lawsuit, Estate of John P. O'Neill, Sr. et al. vs. Al Baraka Investment and Development Corporation.)
Pakistani-Canadian Raheel Raza, a noted cross-cultural and interfaith facilitator and author of Their Jihad, Not My Jihad, rose to damn the radicals. She condemned Islamist grievance-mongering and attempts to alienate Muslims, particularly Muslim youth, from the mainstream. Noting that she was Number 5 on a radical-Islamist list of the world's most hated Muslims, she said she aspired to reach the Number 1 position.
But it was Pakistan-born pro-Palestinian socialist author, Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, who put a discernible chill through the assembly. A former senior official and candidate of the New Democratic Party (NDP), he declared that the NDP was the target of an Islamist takeover bid. This campaign was having success, he warned, and risked suborning the federalist party with the third largest number of seats in Canada's House of Commons.
Fatah highlighted the case of Dr. Samira Laouni, the NDP's veiled Moroccan-Canadian fundamentalist candidate for the Montreal constituency of Bourassa. A Canadian Islamic Congress Quebec operative, she had recently organized a visit to the city by British Taliban-apologist Yvonne Ridley. That event caused upset in Quebec, especially when it emerged that the federal NDP's Quebec "lieutenant," Thomas Mulcair, had rolled into the hardcore CIC session, yet continued to support Laouni despite her outlook. And all this came on top of the resignation of Laouni's Muslim campaign manager, when he was fixed with authorship of a published poem that contrasted the purity of veiled Muslim women with – as journalist Barbara Kay captured it – his idea of non-Muslim Quebec women as "promiscuous drunks."
But, according to Fatah, all this was only part of his concern about his former party. The 17-year veteran of the NDP, looked back with dismay on the Party's apparent unraveling by radicalism, and took careful aim:
"But slowly, I saw the Party open its doors to Islamists – first under [former NDP leader] Alexa McDonough, when supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah managed to join her personal legislative staff; and later, under [current leader] Jack Layton, when the doors were flung open. One Hezbollah supporter even managed to become the Ontario NDP's vice president."
Fatah claimed that "in the last NDP leadership campaign, I was witness to an attempt by a group of wealthy Islamists, to back one Member of Parliament for the leadership, with the stated objective of controlling the Party." He spoke of "six or seven" business people "who were advised that, of all the parties in Canada, the NDP was the easiest to take over and make to serve the Islamist agenda."
Fatah asserts that he "was present when this meeting took place," and would be prepared to "point out the people" who raised about $100,000 for the Islamist leadership campaign. The author of Chasing a Mirage and now a supporter of the Liberal Party, said he "informed Jack Layton of the scheme" including the radicals' attempts to portray Layton as "pro-Israel."
"But," Fatah added, "by 2006, I had come to the conclusion that the Party was up for grabs, and noticed a countrywide recruitment in the NDP by pro-Hamas and pro-Hezbollah activists," and withdrew from the NDP. "Today, the NDP is running Islamist candidates and its discourse is dominated by support of terror suspects in the guise of a defense of human rights."
Fatah expressed particular concern about certain Muslim NDP candidates' waging of a "relentless campaign to portray Canada as essentially anti-Muslim, and to instill a sense of forced victimhood among Muslim youth." He took to task one such candidate – a lawyer – for reportedly proclaiming that the judge who recently convicted the first of the alleged "Toronto 18" terrorists, did so because of anti-Muslim bias.
"Thia is a practicing lawyer accusing our judiciary of being anti-Muslim," Fatah declared. Practically demanding a professional-conduct investigation by the Ontario attorneys' governing Law Society of Upper Canada, he added, "Can you imagine what effect this [claim] is going to have on 10- or 12- or 15-year-old young men who are consistently told that this is a war against Islam?"
Infiltrating and Silencing
Depicting the NDP travails as a reflection of the broader international jihad by "political Islam" against the liberal-pluralist values of the West, Fatah then turned to the campaign against free speech. He reminded the audience that the Organization of Islamic Conference is pushing at the UN and elsewhere for Sharia-oriented "blasphemy" laws that would silence efforts to define and describe the enemy. He pointed to the way that the Canadian Islamic Congress had used Canada's human-rights' commissions, and their complaint mechanisms, to lay siege to publications such as Maclean's, Canada's leading newsmagazine. Then his focus narrowed to one illustrative aspect of this campaign.
Earlier this year, Commission chief Barbara Hall, handed down a decision that dismissed a complaint against Maclean's for publishing an excerpt from Mark Steyn's bestseller, America Alone. The CIC had complained that the publication was anti-Muslim hate literature.
Free speech advocates would have been satisfied with the dismissal, and this should have ended the matter. But Hall, in a virtually unprecedented departure from acceptable conduct, went on to proclaim that Maclean's had been guilty of anti-Muslim prejudice. Indeed, as though writing from the CIC's playbook, she even pelted Maclean's with that rather contrived construct, "Islamophobia." Few understood at the time, how such extraordinary and damaging conclusions could have been reached without benefit of hearings, evidence, or any opportunity for Maclean's to cross-examine or make a defense.
After the release of the Commission's statement, the middle-of-the-road Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC), an organization originally founded by Mr. Fatah, spoke for many in its official April 2008 response:
"... in editorializing and coming out to bat for Canada's Islamists, the OHRC is sending a very dangerous message to moderate Muslims who reject Sharia and do not take inspiration from overseas Islamic countries or groups.
On the one hand the OHRC criticizes Macleans for "portraying Muslims as all sharing the same negative characteristics," but then does the same thing by perpetuating the Islamist myth that Muslims in Canada are a persecuted group. Those of us Muslims who do not share this addiction of victimhood, seem to have no resonance with the OHRC.
....
The OHRC decision must be cause for celebration in Osama Bin Laden's cave and among the soldiers of the world Jihadi movement that love to spread the falsehood that Canada is at war with Islam and that Muslims in Canada live under a cloud of racism and persecution. Nothing can be further from the truth."
But how could a Commission of the Ontario Government have erred so seriously? At the Point de Bascule press conference, Mr. Fatah offered an answer:
"... if you're scratching your heads, reading the outrageous attacks on Maclean's magazine by Barbara Hall, ... let me share with you the news that the Ontario Human Rights Commission is itself infiltrated by Islamists, and I say that on the record. One of its commissioners ... is an admirer of Ayatollah Khomeini and has close links to the Canadian Islamic Congress. This is the CIC that filed the complaint against Maclean's, and this man was sitting as judge and jury. Another Commissioner also has close links to the CIC and is a former President of the Canadian Arab Federation – again, closely linked to the Canadian Islamic Congress. But how many Canadians know this is happening?
And, [as] if that was not all, let me assure you that the senior policy advisor at the Ontario Human Rights Commission who wrote the document that Barbara Hall signed, is openly supportive of Sharia law – in fact, he comes to work dressed in Saudi attire."
At the Montreal gathering, a small handful of hard-liners eventually made itself known during the event's question period. One mature, head-scarfed woman challenged the speakers' portrayal of Samira Laouni's involvement with Taliban proxy Yvonne Ridley – until the questioner was forced to admit that she, herself, was implicated with Laouni as an organizer of the radical forum. Neither was her case helped by a journalist at the back of the hall, who, offended by the attempt to spin the audience, declared that she – the journalist – had personally witnessed the Ridley performance. A few days after this, and the NDP hierarchy's unappetizing connections seemed beyond doubt.
Days after the Montreal event, on October 6, several controversial Muslim groups – including the Quebec wings of the CIC and Canadian Arab Federation – convened a candidates' debate in an Islamic community center in the Montreal-area constituency of Brossard-La Prairie. Heeding the Islamist summons, the Liberal, NDP and Green parties' candidates reported for duty, as did the incumbent Member of Parliament, the separatist Bloc Québécois' Marcel Lussier. Only the candidate for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's governing Conservative Party failed to show up. The others were in a close, multi-party fight to the finish for the four percent of the vote that would be Muslim.
As though determined to prove the accuracy of the earlier Mansur, Fatah and Raza warnings about betrayal by political elites, the politicos turned the "debate" into a reverse auction. Desperate to win over radical voters, candidates out-pandered and outbid one another, going farther than some of their jihadi audience in condemning counterterrorism, humoring altogether undemonstrated victimhood claims, and generally feeding radicals' propagation of persecution fears.
In the face of this, none of the candidates came to the aid of their country. None of them have argued, like Fatah, that Muslims have more freedom, rights and prosperity in Canada than in virtually any "Muslim" country. No one reassured those who were unnecessarily worried or alienated. No one mentioned that the real victims of racial and religious abuse in Canada were statistically the same as always – black Canadians and Jews – or that American statistics suggested that the extent of abuse of Muslims in the United States, while unacceptable, was only marginally greater than the combined level of abused Protestants and Catholics.
Instead, the candidates accepted without demur questions from their audience incorporating counterfactual premises about rampaging racial profiling, immigration restrictions, persecution and – according to one spectator – the need for "special laws" against such things.
Racial profiling – "le profilage raciale" – was "inacceptable", thundered incumbent Bloc MP Lussier. "[U]ne tolerance zero" for "Islamophobie," exclaimed Liberal Alexandra Mendes.
On the no-panderer-left-behind principle, the NDP's entrant, Hoang Mai, declared that Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act, the country's fundamental counterterrorism measure, should simply be "abolished." Sniffing the wind, Member of Parliament Lussier flashed his trump: the Hamas movement, he said triumphantly, is the legitimate government of the Palestinian people.
Canada is in trouble.
David B. Harris is a Canadian lawyer, Director of INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc's International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, and former Chief of Strategic Planning of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).
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As a Penn State alumnus myself, I am angry that intolerant, totalitarian types would try to drown out or distort in the shadow of Mount Nittany what Robert Spencer attempted to convey about radical Islam's threat to the West and to the world at large. Central Pennsylvania (you know, where bitter people cling to their guns and religion), Pennsylanvia in its entirety, all of America and all of the West will in no way be bettered by Islam in their midst.
Islam has an agenda which bodes ill for freedom, tolerance, democracy and other wonderful things that the Islamic world has never known or produced. Shame on the rubes in State College who mindlessly and ignorantly tried to shut up Robert Spencer. None of them could comprehend the truth he wished to convey nor the fact that mosques arising in Centre county and other Pennsylvania counties will not make Pennsylvania a better place in any way whatsoever. My disgust is complete, particularly because this specific incident occurred in my backyard. Damn the bastards. I'm mad as hell.
your average Westerner is rotting from the inside out, Robert. Don't feel bad. There are just too many Westerners that need to believe PC mythologies to pacify their fears about what actually might be true. Oh well. At the very least, you tried.
You are very brave!
It is revolting that 7 years after 9/11 we are facing such a dilemma. There should be thousands of Robert Spencer's out there and not one place where Musulmanic thugs can mouth off.
GWB has a lot to answer for.
Paging Isabellathecrusader -
over the next week Mr Spencer has a truly punishing schedule of appearances at five different university campuses (thanks to the Terrorism Awareness Project, I know which universities in which states).
Does ACT! for America (who are, I am sure, in contact with the TAP) have branches on those campuses and/ or in those towns? If so, I would assume people are going along to Mr Spencer's talks a. to hear him speak in person (always instructive and quite enjoyable) and b. to provide moral support and contribute intelligently to the discussions.
As you know, I live in the land of kangaroos and wombats and am in no position to attend gatherings in the USA.
However: Mr Spencer (and the other speakers who are doing the rounds, for example, Ms Wafa Sultan) may rest assured of my most fervent prayers for their protection and for the success of their presentations.
It will be very interesting to hear Mr Spencer's reports on the situation at each of the campuses he is visiting.
Robert, I have to admire you and David Horowitz, and Pipes, and Stilwell, and many others who are carrying the battle directly into the devil's dens - the universities of America. You folks deserve the nation's thanks, medals and honors. Sadly they will not come from the governing class in Washington. And as you noted, the Young America Foundation students are as well engaged in a great battle, a "jihad" but one in our behalf. There is a parallel with the Concord militia that "fire the shot heard around the world".
These college dens of iniquities are increasingly under the thumb of the Saudi-financed MSA, which acts in consort with the intellectual far left that permeates the university system. They both have their long-time objective of bringing down America and the West and see that coincidence as a unifying force.
I could not tell well from your description but I would bet that at least half of the troublemakers were leftist puke. Sounded like the Berkeley rentamob.
Thanks Hugh for the post of the investigativeproject report of David B. Harris. It is a warning from Canada that shows the need for the work of Robert and the others engaging at the university devil-dens. We have got to bend the minds of our youth towards the America of the founders, of Toqueville; sounds like the American Youth Foundation is making some headway here.
You have my thanks for doing what you do. That sounds so inadequate when I think of what we owe you.
We who are aware of the physical danger that you place yourself in for our benefit, salute you.
I blame the MSM for the vast majority of the problems that the US now faces. It has been taken over by aging hippy douche bags, that cant' see the danger in and of the various causes and people they support.
They destroy us from within with multiculturalism, tolerance of any and everything...no lines drawn anywhere. (Tolerance of bestiality is next...it began at the last Sundance film festival with the film Zoo.)
The concept that the US is sick and needs to be rehabilitated in some way. The notion that there is some evil in us, the American people, that must be eradicated.
Demeaning patriotism, supporting directly a candidate who wants to redistribute wealth to "those less fortunate" as those who work hard to have something to pass on.
This country has been bamboozled and hoodwinked by the press and the media in general in to thinking there is something wrong with them that must be changed...and that hope will do the trick.
The same assholes that ignore the 12,000 plus terrorist attacks made in the name of Islam since 9/11. The twits that call Islam the religion of Peace, when we all know it's the religion of pieces.
For the first time in my 52 years, I fear for the Republic. Who causes me to fear for my country? The Press, who are supposed to guard my country and our Constitution.
Instead, we're handed a new generation of self hating Americans. Subject to the radical views of their leftist Professors and the continuing bullshit from the press what else can one expect?
As long as there are brave men like Mr.Spencer, I can have hope. Thank you again sir, and may God bless you and keep you safe.
Tolerance?
Here's the song:
http://sheikyermami.com/2006/12/20/tolerance/
"I doubt that anyone of good will could come away from that discussion thinking that the MSA apologists had a case, after they behaved so thuggishly and boorishly." --Robert
The contrast between the Islamic supremacists' staged tantrums and Spencer's reasoned, substantive, evidenced-based approach is clear. I commend Mr. Spencer for standing up to these thugs--the Islamists and their fellow travellers--time and time again. By standing up to those bullies, Spencer sets a good example of intellectual courage for the honest students in attendance.
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Most university students are too busy with academic work and their social lives to pay too much attention to campus politics. What generally happens in universities is that the more fervent leftist activist students end up more involved in campus politics. The views of these highly vocal and aggressive leftists activists are quite different from those of the much larger percentage of "ordinary students" who are closer to the center of the political spectrum.
Kudos to you for standing up to the Muslim/left Sturmabteilung and braving the odious climate of intolerance they have created on American campuses. The depth to which things have sunk is illustrated by the attitude of an interlocutor of mine; an associate professor of political science at a major state university. This person -- who does have a Ph.D. and whose field, God help us, is international relations -- refuses to even open a copy of the Qur'an for a look at the malign exhortations therein, despite my repeated entreaties to do so. She has asserted that rather than consult such an original source, she trusts the judgment of "experts in Islamic studies" with "many years of experience" and "impeccable credentials" -- e.g., Karen Armstrong. When, in exasperation, I told her that this made it pretty hard for me to respect her as an intellectual, she angrily responded that that was a "terrible thing to say."
What it is, of course, is a terrible thing to be. It is well to remember that when books were burned in Germany after the Nazis took power, it was university students who perpetrated the outrage. A similar dark age appears to be upon us.
I recently contacted the organiser of a proposed TAP event at Leiden University in Holland and was looking forward to hearing Dr Hans Jansen talk this week. Unfortunately, the organiser at the university was 'advised' to cancel the meeting as the safety of the participants could not be guaranteed. The threat stemmed from the Left student faction and, of course, Muslims. Thug culture on campus seems to be on the rise in Holland too.
I don't know how you continue to deal patiently with all of the idiots you encounter at your speaking engagements - but, Thank You.
Continue with the good work: Jihad on Campus week will become increasingly relevent with the revisionist text books fed to our children.
At least people are "getting it" now, and even in Europe - http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3590
Though we, the people need to define words properly to defend ourselves e.g. Islamophobia - it is NOT an irrational fear to be afraid of a politic/religion which wants to kill us for not converting. In the UK for instance, Lord Khan (what's he doing as a Lord? it's unconstitutional) wants Islamophobia to become equivalent to racism, however the racism towards the indigenous law abiding Brits (of whatever colour) is never seen as racism.
The only thing I can say about this, is what I said above:
... but I also think an intelligent, not yet depraved leftist, is every bit as hard to find as a truly moderate Mohammadan...
Watch your back...
Yea, what Darcy said. And Swami.
Too many in the audience were "hearing" instead of truly "listening".
But for those who were listening, I believe that Robert has sparked their minds for further inquiry - which bodes well for the truth eventually being unveiled.
It's difficult to deprogram people in a very short time after years and years of pc indoctrination. But if the seeds of inquiry have been planted, we can consider this a win. Thanks for all that you do Robert.
"But it was Pakistan-born pro-Palestinian socialist author, Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, who put a discernible chill through the assembly."
Tarek Fatah might have two faces himself:
http://www.canpalnet-ottawa.org/fatah.html
A claim that Omid Safi and Pamela Taylor who are co-chairs of the Progressive Muslim Union North America sometimes "use" Tarek Fatah:
http://pmunadebate.blogspot.com/2005/07/tarek-fatah-problem.html
"his own MCC website has his condemnation of the RCMP for deporting 19 illegals that just happened to be Pakistani/young/male/Sunni's from a know terrorist region , he cited "Racial-Profiling"
and "Islamophobia" which Dr.Sheema Khan agreed with duriing her reign at CAIR"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012518.php#c251011
Worst of all:
Tarek Fatah, communications director of the MCC said, “It is ironic that Muslim extremists are portraying themselves as anti-imperialist, when in fact Al-Qaeda and the Taliban are nothing more but a creation of the CIA.”
http://www.muslimcanadiancongress.org/20060603.html
DenverRodeo...I looked at the MCC site...
It's amazing to me the huge elaborate structure that has been built on a foundation of lies.
The people at MCC are apostates as far as I am concerned, which is partially good. The bad part is that they won't drop the basic lies...
duh swami, "The people at MCC are apostates as far as I am concerned, which is partially good."
Maybe that's exactly what they want us to think.