This is as predictable as it is noteworthy. The outraged Muslims claim that Delic is moderate, yet his Canadian Islamic Congress advocates for Hamas and Hizballah; publishes work by an antisemite; and is involved in the distribution of antisemitic election fliers. It is an enemy of the freedom of speech. More here.
So in a sane world, Muslims in Canada would be denouncing Delic and thanking MacKay for disinviting him. Instead, they're "riled." More on this story. "Muslims riled by MacKay's gag order on moderate B.C. Imam," from Vancouverite, October 3:
VANCOUVER - Canadian Muslims are riled by a decision by Canada's defence minister to yank a speech by a B.C. Imam that was scheduled for Monday.Zijad Delic was to address Islamic Heritage Month celebrations in Ottawa on Monday. The Imam is an academic and a moderate and is known for his resentment of radicalism.
"Canada's Defence Minister Peter MacKay has cancelled an appearance by executive director of the Canadian Islamic Congress Imam Zijad Delic who was scheduled to address Islamic Heritage Month celebrations at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa on Monday," said Haroon Khan, a trustee with the Pakistan-Canada Association.
"It appears that the current Government of Canada has again succumbed to pressure from interest groups dedicated to shutting out articulate and passionate voices of reason and clarity that Imam Zijad Delic most definitely represents as head of the Canadian Islamic Congress," he said.
"Imam Zijad Delic and the Canadian Islamic Congress stand accused of promulgating extremist views. Remarks made by the Imam's predecessor regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been taken out of context and are being attributed to the Imam and the organization - A charge the Imam calls 'baseless' and 'unfounded'."
"Imam Zijad Delic served with honour and distinction as the Imam of the Richmond Jamia Masjid leading a congregation representing a United Nations of Muslims from all corners of the globe who came to the Mosque to practice their faith, perform their daily prayers and hear his talks on Islam. His warm and generous personality distinguished him as an Imam and community leader who remains active in Multiculturalism and inter-faith initiatives," Khan said in a statement.
"As a Muslim iof [sic] Bosnian descent he recently wrote eloquently about the need for truth and reconciliation to heal the wounds arising from the bloody conflict in his ancestral country, something that he feels should be applied to all the conflicts we face today. Imam Delic was a signatory in a recent Fatwa originating from Canada prohibiting Terrorism as an affront to Islam.
"As a Canadian he continues to build bridges of tolerance and understanding emphasizing the shared values of Muslims and those of all religions and cultures and has expressed the need for more engagement of Muslims in all parts of life in Canada," Khan said about the Imam who is considered to be an academically inclined and who has advanced the cause of moderate Islam.
"Imam Delic has served in many capacities as a spiritual leader, an advocate for the community and as a clear voice in bringing about a greater understanding of Islam and its traditions. I consider Imam Zijad Delic a Brother and true Friend and I am proud to stand with him," Khan said.
"Defence Minister Peter McKay has yet to give a good reason why he has uninvited the Imam. A public enquiry into what prompted this embarrassment to all Canadians should be called to strip the layers of rhetoric and misinformation being levelled at the Imam and Canadian Islamic Congress....
Yes, let's get a bright line shone upon the Canadian Islamic Congress. That sounds like a terrific idea.
On a side note...
Be sure to notice the make up of your local security guard companies...
Just sayin...
IDF soldiers convicted of using 11-year-old as human shield in Gaza. Two soldiers forced Palestinian child to open bags, feared to have been booby trapped, during Operation Cast Lead.
Are these soldiers Muslim? LOL
Yes, let's not assume that Islam is quiescent on its Canada front:
"Winnipeg students said to have joined jihad"
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/Winnipeg+students+said+have+joined+jihad/3613386/story.html
"So in a sane world, Muslims in Canada would be denouncing Delic and thanking MacKay for disinviting him. Instead, they're 'riled.'"
In a sane world Muslims wouldn't be in Canada because Islam wouldn't exist.
in a sane world we would not have any islamic institution in Canada or Western country! why is it necessary to have Islamic Heritage month in the first place, this PC crap has got to go, october is also breast cancer month, perhaps we can put islamic and cancer together and say islamic cancer month to be declared time to eradicated now!
Note the usual excuse: 'remarks taken out of context.' But yes, I agree totally with Mr. Spencer, a big public inquiry would shed a great deal of light on the evils of islam that even they wouldn't be able to hide - bring it on !
I don't want a "clearer" understanding of the death cult. I want all adherents of the death cult out of my country.
Every month, week and day the evidence mounts that there is NO SUCH THING as a moderate muslum!
The insidious propaganda in this story that appeared in The Vancouverite begins with the title:
"Muslims riled by MacKay's gag order on moderate B.C. Imam."
So we are told, right away, that the government has produced a "gag order." There was no "gag order." The government cancelled the appearance of an Imam, about whom there are many reasons to worry (see the commentary above). He has not been silenced, not prevented from speaking out elsewhere, or at his own mosque, or other mosques.
And then, the title tells us, bullies us into thinking, that this is all about a "moderate B.C. Imam." How do we know he is a "moderate"? Should that epithet not be withheld, until we can find out, among other things, what he has said or not said about various terrorist groups, what he has said or not said about the duty and goals of Jihad, what he has said or not said about Sharia, and its desirability in Canada or elsewhere in the West? What makes the editors of The Vancouverite so sure that this man is a "moderate"? Is this simply to be taken on faith by readers?
And then just look at the first two paragraphs of the story:
"VANCOUVER - Canadian Muslims are riled by a decision by Canada's defence minister to yank a speech by a B.C. Imam that was scheduled for Monday.
Zijad Delic was to address Islamic Heritage Month celebrations in Ottawa on Monday. The Imam is an academic and a moderate and is known for his resentment of radicalism."
And only then, once the newspaper itself has instructed its readers that Zijad Delic is "an academic and a moderate and is known for his resentment of radicalism" do we come to the story proper.
Readers are told, not allowed to discover for themselves, whether or not Zijad Delic is "a moderate." Nor are they allowed to think even about what that word "moderate" might or should mean, if it is to be -- as it is intended to be -- of any real comfort.
This constant bullying of readers, of making up their minds for them, is most obvious in the Homeric use of the epithet "right-wing" or "far right-wing" which is simply affixed by many newspapers, or other forms of media, to any mention of anyone, no matter how conceivably centrist or left-wing such people may be -- who, as part of what he believes, is alarmed by and wishes to halt, and reverse, the islamization of his own, or of other, countries not yet in thrall to the power of those who take Islam to heart.
But there are other ways, as this example illustrates. Just insist that someone is a "moderate" and put in right at the beginning of the story, so that few will question it.
It's akin, of course, to the tendentious phrases used in covering the Arab war on Israel, where land that was clearly assigned to the Jewish National Home by the League of Nations becomes, in the retelling, "occupied" Arab land. And few notice the violence done to history and the truth, and fewer still take the time to understand the history of the area, the legal, moral and historic claims of the Jews that were not extinguished by the seizure of parts of Judea and Samaria by the Jordanian army in 1949, and then renamed, preposterously, the "West Bank" -- and even more preposterous is the way that Western reporters now take "the West Bank" as the natural, the right, name for the area, and dismiss the toponyms "Judea" and "Samaria" as "the biblical names" -- an example of this is in today's New York Times, in a story by Ethan Bronner.
The dice are loaded. Everything is loaded.
It is up to readers to be wary, to read about anything to do with Islam and its adherents very carefully, with great vigilance, as Cleanth Brooks, and Theodore Baird, and Reuben Brower, used to teach students to read, until a new world came along where vigilant reading became less important, and what counted was the racial, sexual, religious, ethnic background of the writer, while the words went off by themselves.
Now the Art of Close Reading is not only the proper focus of literary training, as it always was, and important as that is, but has become the chief means of self-defense, and aide-de-camp of common sense, in the Western world, among those who see that something is terribly wrong with Islam and its adherents -- they look around the world, they take in the day's news, they refuse to deny the evidence of their senses -- and refuse to be passive victims of the reportorial and editorial bullying that a different group of people, who remain wilfully ignorant of Islam and are the true Podsnaps of the Age, people "don't want to hear about it [the texts, tenets, attitudes, atmospherics of Islam]...for it offends them," and they are scared of what they might find out, which might require them to think at a level of seriousness and detail of which they are not capable.
"Canadian Muslims" is a misnomer. They may be Muslims. They may physically be located in Canada, but they are not "Canadian". By their own definition, they are Muslims. They are mandated by the immutable ravings of a psychotic murderer, rapist, pedophile, robber NOT to become part of any other nation than the umma. In fact, they are obligated to destroy Canada to expand the caliphate.
Robert,
there is a revealing connection to this news item. Peter MacKay has evidently lashed back at Delic in retaliation for CIC's succesful court challenge to the Conservative government's banning of the notorious scumbag George Galloway to enter Canada.
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Terrorist+supporter+allowed+into+Canada/3615721/story.html
http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2010/09/canadian-islamic-congress-supports.html
Galloway is to speak in Toronto next week. So, I would not see in this any kind of 'victory'. Hats off to Peter though for a gutsy response to CIC's legal jihad.
There is no such thing as a MODERATE muslim. They are all islamists at heart. They may not be physically engaged but they are most definitely ALL intellectually engaged in the jihad and cheering from the sidelines for death to the infidel.
"articulate and passionate voices of reason and clarity"
The above phrase can in no way be applied to Islam, no matter how much certain people try to make it so.
"Imam Zijad Delic served with honour and distinction as the Imam of the Richmond Jamia Masjid... His warm and generous personality distinguished him as an Imam and community leader who remains active in Multiculturalism and inter-faith initiatives," Khan said in a statement.
Uh oh, this sounds a warning bell, when they present this imam as "active in Multiculturalism and inter-faith initiatives". I see taqiyya written all over it. Who cares about his "warm and generous personality"? It's his message that matters, not his 'smiles and wiles'.
Imam Delic was a signatory in a recent Fatwa originating from Canada prohibiting Terrorism as an affront to Islam.
Fast Jihad is no longer working, so better switch gears to 'slow jihad' (smiling graciously). The infidels are wising up, which itself is an "affront to Islam". Imam Delic's 'bridge building' of tolerance between Western and Islamic cultures, built upon clever "Yes No" taqiyya footings is no more than a tactical move to unbalance the infidels as to Islam's true goals, to make the whole world "Sharia international".(TM) How is that our "shared values"? 'Warm personality' is merely an Islamic tool to undermine Western freedom (taking his 'smiles and wiles' out-of-context), just facade. Glad they turned him away.
Maybe Canada is waking up? I can smell the tide turn... hmm... smells good.
Thank you for mentioning that they were CONVICTED. The difference between Israeli society, which disapproves of such acts, and most Muslim societies, lies in the rule of law and respect for human rights.
And YES, some of the soldiers who have been tried HAVE been Muslim Beduins, or Druze, who do serve in the IDF.
Congrats to Peter MacKay. He did the right thing by disinviting of Imam Delic. Imam Delic is communal, islamic supramist who should have been allowed in Canada in very first place. Before he churns out more terrorists he should be asked to leave Canada.
I'm Canadian and embarrassed that we have an Islamic Heritage Month. For 2% or less of our population! Golly, they must be very special people. My part of town is nicknamed "Little Lebanon". It's more than 2% around here. If there's a cash register and/or lottery terminal involved; there they are. What a special contribution to our country by a special people. /sarc off.
I'm Canadian too. When was the last time we had a Canadian Heritage Month? What heritage has islam brought to Canada? A heritage of violence, hatred, honour killings......
Just to clarify, all Canadian muslim groups are not up in arms. Just thought that point should be made. I've included a part from Blazing Cat Fur's page below:
Press Release October 2, 2010
OTTAWA - The Muslim Canadian Congress (MCC) has strongly welcomed the decision by Minister Peter Mackay to bar an Imam from the Canadian Islamic Congress from speaking at an internal event at Department of National Defence headquarters Monday.
"In the past few years we have seen the so-called Islamic History Month turned into a propaganda machine for the Islamists in Canada who wanted to introduce Sharia Law and who wish to hide behind the cover of teaching history to infiltrate the highest levels of government in Ottawa," said Salma Siddiqui, Vice President of the MCC.
Another "moderate" Bosnian Muslim.
He and the other Imams signed a peace fatwa against violence in Canada and the United States. Why just there? Why not everywhere and all the time?
Let me quote Sam Soloman:
“Religion is part of life, in Dar al-Harb. Life is part of Religion, in Dar al-Islam.”
“Islam is not simply a religion. Islam is a socio-political system. It is a socio-political, socio-religious, socio-economic, socio-educational, socio-judicial, legislatic, militaristic system cloaked in, garbed in religious terminology.”
Adding the definition of taqiyya to that, how can Delic be trusted as an advocate of “non-violence” and assimilation?
Delic is a propagator of false victimization of Muslims in Canada and bandies the world "Islamophobia" to much to make him the false moderate that he is claimed to be.
My peeps are not fooled.
At least Israel has the laws and will to convict such wrongdoings. Now, tell me islamic scum which muslim country would do this if muslim soldiers had used a Jewish child in the same way?
"Moderate" Muslims should be on notice.
If you can't seek to control or reform Islam, we WILL reform it for you.
Reformed Islam may not be the Islam you revered when we are done with it.
We may seek in the end to put Islam into the dustbin of History if it cannot be reformed.
From the article - "...layers of rhetoric and misinformation being levelled at the Imam and Canadian Islamic Congress."
'Projection', thy name is Islam.
Assuming that the Muslims are projecting, that is, claiming that their perceived enemies, the Infidels, are doing to them (the Muslims) precisely what it is that they, the *Muslims* are in fact doing to the *non-Muslims*, let's see what happens if we make a trifling little alteration in the wording of that clause:
"...layers of rhetoric and misinformation being produced by the Imam and Canadian Islamic Congress."
Now that sounds much more probable.
"ImNoDhimmi "
You took the words right out of my mouth. The only thing islam has ever "contributed" to any non-muslim country is evil & murder & mayhem.
A few quotes in that order:
""But on the path of Islam, even the trees have died".
14th-century Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologos: "He said, I quote, `Show me just what (Islamic Prophet) Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.'
" Islam has bloody borders"-Samuel Huntington
"...ordering an 11-year-old Palestinian to search bags suspected to have been booby trapped"
What's the problem with this? If the bags aren't booby trapped, there's no problem, if they are, then why should the soldiers sacrifice their lives to save a future suicide bomber? We won't ever submit to your filthy religion, you pig!
"On a side note...
Be sure to notice the make up of your local security guard companies...
Just sayin..."
Nooo kidding! Glad somebody pointed that out!!!