Canadian National Archives cancels Iran documentary after threats

Why do we keep seeing threats and incidents of terrorism? Because they work. And until we grow enough spine to resist them in all their manifestations, we will keep seeing more. "National Archives cancels screening of documentary on Iran after threats," by Sarah Boesveld for the National Post, January 18 (thanks to C.):

After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Iran's nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers questioning the national library's autonomy.

The Free Thinking Film Society's showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints -- some of them from the Iranian Embassy -- that staff thought it necessary to close the entire building at 396 Wellington St. in Ottawa, just steps from the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill at 4:45 p.m., said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.

"Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high," she said....

As Patrick Henry said, "Give me liberty unless the risk associated with it is a little too high."

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Andrew Klavan in PJTV said it perfectly - the only weapon the left has against the Truth is... "Shut Up!" And the apologists for Islam use the same tactic.

It's just too risky to speak out, as we sit here with silver spoons in our mouths enjoying the freedoms that our parents' generation actually had to fight and die for.

Like the spoiled inheritors of a fortune, we have squandered the achievements of the previous generation. While embracing the fuzzy ideologies of utopian and magical thinking, most of us have never had to fight for anything and as a result we cannot recognize threats, let alone find the motivation to protect our society from them. We hide behind "stop war" (surrender) banners, wave our candles and parrot the lyrics to Lennon's "Imagine" (the philosophy of a cow), confuse good with evil, all the while feeling good in our ignorant righteousness, too naive to believe that there are real enemies out there who want us dead. In fact, Iran spells it out regularly in government-led hate fests, teaching such caustic hatred to their children, who grow up knowing nothing else.

PM Stephen Harper gets it right in some ways and in others he folds just like the rest of our leaders. C'mon Stephen, most of us really aren't afraid to take a stand. If the National Archives won't play the film let's find other venues. Stand up to the Iranian mafia tactics. They can't kill us with their peacock feathers. We mustn't cower at the sight of them.

And please everyone, let's never "Shut Up".

Apparently the cancellation of the film screening in a government venue, which was announced less than 29 hours before the planned viewing, has been rescinded.

More at Tundra Tabloids
http://tundratabloids.com/2011/01/free-thinking-films-screening-of-movie-iranium-cancelled-at-government-sponsored-venue.html

Canadian FTFS: Just yesterday – and only a phone call from the office of the Minister of National Heritage, led to its re-instatement.

Here's a very incomplete list of organizations or people self-censoring, hiring bodyguards, going into hiding, or taking other measures after receiving death threats from Muslims following the example of Muhammad, who said there would be no punishment for murdering someone who had insulted him. Here's the list:

National Archives of Canada, 150 Austrian Coptic Christians; see also 100+ Canadian-Arab Christians; artist Molly Norris; the producers of South Park; journalist Lawrence O'Donnell; cartoonist Lars Vilks; philosopher Robert Redeker; filmmaker Theo Van Gogh; authors Hirsi Ali and Salman Rushdie; Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten; and again Jyllands Posten; atheist Sabri Husibi; lyricist Javed Akhtar; cartoonist Kurt Westergaard; the Yale University Press; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; director of the museum in the Hague, Wim van Krimpen; the director of the film 2012; the comedian Penn Jillette; the British potter Grayson Perry; lawyer Majed Moughni; author Taslima Nasreen; disc jockey/musician Jakub Rene Kosik; Coptic Orthodox priest Zakaria Botros, pop star Deeyah, politician Shiria Khatun, Christian minister Dr. Peter Hammond; actor Omar Sharif; artist Sooreh Hera; artist Sarah Maple; Beatle Paul McCartney; and Volvo and Ikea, and countless others.

The growth of Islam means the death of civil liberties. It's time to resist, limit, and contain it in every legal way possible.

oops, wrong place :)

Here is the link for the Prime Minister's office.
http://pm.gc.ca/eng/contact.asp?featureId=10

I am writing a letter to PM Stephen Harper to protest this cancellation.
We cannot and MUSY NOT be intimidated by these Mafioso thugs.
A small minority should not be allowed to rule us.

In Vancouver, Canada we are coming up to the fifth anniversary of our Covenant Zone public meetings held each Thursday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the atrium at the public library downtown. You are welcome to join us for coffee and discussion of topics relevant to Jihad Watch readers. My name is Dag, and I will sit waiting for you to join me and my colleagues for an evening of quiet talk and friendly discussion. Or whatever.

If you can't come to Vancouver, then, as I have been writing here for close to six years, you could arrange to meet your friends and fellows in your own town or city and do something similar, a public meeting of people interested in freedom and human rights.

Hope to see you Thursday evening at VPL outside Blenz coffee bar.

Yalla, Dag Walker.

It's all about Islamic mob rule and if we continue to allow Islamists to dictate to us this way we are doomed to sharia law.

Im signed up for the free screening of Iranium, next month. I can hardly wait:)

"Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high...

'Public' threats to the right of me, 'public' threats to the left...What to do, what to do??? Wring hands, pace a lot, comply...Or move, give up your life and take on another identity (Molly Norris)...The way to deal with a bully is what again?

the way to deal with a bully is to: FIGHT BACK DO NOT GIVE GROUND,STAND UP AND SHOUT FROM THE ROOFTOPS AND CORPORATE TOWERS THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS EVIL CALLED ISLAM!

This topic is receiving lots of coverage this morning on talk radio here in Ottawa. To obtain a copy of "Iranium," you can go to www.freethinkingfilms.com. I will be calling Fred Litwin of the Free Thinking Films Society to suggest he also screen "Islam: What the West Needs to Know." That the bureaucrats at the National Archives saw fit to be cowed by such threats is reprehensible.

One caller just stated that upon arrival, there were no protesters nor RCMP at the venue. This is just another example of Islamic scare tactics. I expect alot of uproar regarding this decision, and I'm betting that due to the backlash, this film will eventually be shown.

I would also point out that this was NOT a decision made by PM Harper, and I expect that if he does weigh in on it, he will support the screening.

Long live freedom of speech!!!


Ima

Good ole 580 CFRA in Ottawa is airing info about the film, and I think we should all email Harper about this-Canadian and American alike.

@ Dallas99 (a Texan with an IQ of 99 I presume and probably a Bush supporter)
What a pain in the ass to open Jihadwatch mail to sse what's what only to read in the first comment of the first JW post another idiot conflating the "left" with dhimmitude.
You and other fools like you who demonize the "left" do a great disservice to the cause of consciousness raising about the inherent evil of Islam. To the extent RS and other more studious minds do the same, they are shooting themselves in the foot. Most people here who denounce the "left" as dhimmies could not even cogently define "left."
p.s. Being anti-war may or may not be a leftist depending on the circumstances, but one can oppose Islam without necessarily being in favor of classic warfare.

I am also listening to CFRA, and I believe that this cancellation is actually good as it's drawing attention to Islam and its evil adherents, something at which the MSM (in particular, the Ottawa Citizen) is failing miserably. This can only be good for freedom-loving Canadians nationwide. Hopefully, the "dhimm-whitted" lefties and apologist MSM will finally get the message that our freedoms are being increasingly threatened by Islamists and stealth jihad and that we will no longer sit idly by and watch as our freedoms erode just to placate politically correct multiculturalists. While I'm at it, I recommend Lowell Green's (CFRA host) book, "Mayday, Mayday." It is a must read for anyone concerned about the unabated mass-immigration into Canada and the erosion of our personal freedoms.

Ima

“Once we started to receive threats from the public and threats of public protest, we deemed the risk associated with the event was a little too high,” said archives spokeswoman Pauline Portelance.

The Canadian counterpart to America's Paul Revere who is essentially proclaiming:

"Give us Canadians liberty or forget it if upsets some threatening Muslims, cause they own our craven asses".


As a Canadian, I am embarrassed beyond belief at the craven failure of our National Library and Archives to defend free speech. When people threaten to protest a free-speech event, the correct response is beefed-up security, not cancellation of the event.

What is particularly galling is that the Archives is the repository of the service records of the million-plus Canadians who put their lives on the line to defend freedom in the World Wars and Korea. More than 100,000 of them made the supreme sacrifice. Bowing to the wishes of the mad mullahs of Iran, as this institution did, is a gross betrayal of that proud heritage.

Dag,

I'm in Van on business this week and would love to come but don't know that I can. I'll try to make it at least long enough to drop by and meet though.

See you then,

Jim

Why is it that the stoic rectal orifices of the right always want to blame the liberals or the left for all the worlds problems. Plenty of us lefty liberals are just as vehemently opposed to giving in to the islamists. The fact of the matter is that the reason we give into them is the ultra rich oil barons are unwilling to piss off the arab oil shieks,and most of them are ultra conservatives. We all Know if it weren't for arab oil we would have let Israel turn that area into a greasy spot in the sand. Left and right should come together and force our government to become arab oil independent and then we can tell the islamists to go pound sand

exactly what is the evil your gonna have crazies n every contry and if the u.s. would learn to mind their own bussiness we wouldnt be in this mess.

Progressive universalism = the Left (and bahai)

If you insist on including mohammad as a prophet of god, islam will only get stronger.

Face it. It's not universalism if islam is included. That's like saying a Republic can exist with communist elements.

Eventually the evil grows stronger and suffocates the country. Like what is happening to America now

The Canadian Government has ordered Archives to screen the film.http://www2.canada.com/story.html?id=4132764

Hi, Jim. It'll be good to meet you. You'll see me wearing a black baseball cap with an Israeli flag patch on it. Some of our friends will be there to meet you as well. Looking forward to seeing you then.

Best regards,
Dag.

Canada's Heritage Minister James Moore has reversed the cancellation of film and ordered Library and Archives Canada to show the film,"Iranium." In this case, democracy trumps islamofascism.

I'm quite sorry to tell you that your ad homonym attack on Dallas99 in no way changes the fact the effect of political correctness in regards to describing Islam and linking it to a civilizational threat is a major hurdle for anyone to counter in combating this threat. Not only are those that wish to describe Islam in this context hamstrung, but the enemies of the free world use your mnemonic devices to empower themselves. You liberals have hamstrung the free world, and if it is destroyed it will be due to you. It is not up to us to deconstruct the speech codes that will probably end up enslaving our children, it is up you.

The only real effect we get from the left on this issue is that "multiculturalism" is a human right, and since Islam is a culture you are a fascist if you think its inclusion on a massive scale in our societies is averse to future stability of the western world. There was a time when a liberal could describe such a reality, but those days are over.

It is not Dallas99's fault that this is the reality we live in, nor is he bound to you in any way in regards to describing you and your ilk for what you are, just to make you comfortable. This is another one of your speech codes we reject. You and your ilk are the ones that created the mess, the least you can do is live with your apt descriptions until they no longer apply.

One last thing, had Bush been able to accurately describe the link between Islamic doctrine, history and verse abrogation in relation to world events without breaking any number of liberal speech codes or thought laws invasion would have been impossible. The best Bush could do was in effect, "The bad Muslims misinterpret the Quran."

I'm on the fence as to whether or not the invasion of Middle Eastern nations will help or hurt the future of western nations.

If it were not for the invasion then real debate on these issues would not have happened for perhaps decades, and way too late to make a difference. On the downside we are involved with creating Islamic States and meshing human rights, nation building, and Constitutions at a societal level. At this point the worse thing that can happen is some sort of success, this would have disastrous effects at home in regards to how we allow Islam to be melded into our systems, and immigration. Only through honest discussion about the outcome of this will we be able to apply what we need for our society.

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