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"An American evangelist's television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred," according to World Net Daily.
Program Manager Rob Sheppard wrote "a letter of apology" to the Canadian branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations, even though there wasn't any incitement in anything pastor John Hagee actually said. "It was a tonal thing," Sheppard explained. "You could see what he was trying to do by his tone and body language. . . . I listened to the people who contacted us, and they perceived his tone to be demeaning. It is subjective, but there were a lot of people who contacted us who were upset."
Hagee has evidently had this kind of trouble before: "A program in which Hagee played video of Muslim imams in both the United States and overseas preaching hatred and violence against Jews and Israel upset Muslims and resulted in complaints filed with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, or FCC."
Now let me get this straight. It is incitement to speak about Islam with a tone of voice that Muslims don't like? It is incitement to play a video of Muslim imams preaching hatred and violence? But does CAIR have anything to say about the imams themselves? CAIR's website features plenty of mechanisms for reporting discrimination and hate crimes, as well as for protesting against FBI investigations, but I never have found there any way for a moderate Muslim to report terrorist activity that he may witness at his mosque or Islamic center.
Also: so the imams preaching hate aren't shown, and Canadians aren't incited to rise up and form gangs of Canadian bullies to terrorize peaceful Muslims. But that wasn't going to happen anyway. The other effect is that Canadians who don't see these videos are that much less aware that there are Muslim imams preaching hatred and violence, and that some of them are quite close at hand. So they're that much less aware of the need to take legitimate steps to defend themselves against terrorism. But CAIR doesn't seem to be concerned about that.
Even worse: sailing by on Canadian television without any concerns about "incitement" was a "documentary series comparing the U.S. to the Hitler regime. [Canadian network] Vision's six-part series charged the U.S., in collaboration with its 'CIA-trained partner' Osama bin Laden, planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a pretext for attempts to gain world dominance. The U.S. is going about this, Vision said, in much the same way Nazi brownshirts torched the Reichstag, or parliament, in Berlin in 1933 and blamed it on Adolf Hitler's enemies to provide a pretext for a crackdown propelling Hitler into power."
This is not just Canadians modeling cringing, subservient dhimmitude, pulling shows because of their tone. This is Canadians acting as a mouthpiece for full-blown radical Muslim hate and paranoia.
Posted by Robert at November 5, 2003 12:16 PM
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What was once a national sport only slightly less popular than hockey...bashing the colossus to the south...has morphed into an ideological Taliban which has taken aim at what's left of free speech in Canada. Witness the recent attempt to classify as hate speech verbatim Biblical quotations condemning homosexuality uttered from the pulpit.
Regime change in Ottawa!
So now it is islamophobic to quote muslims accurately.
Posted by: The Law Student at November 5, 2003 5:28 PMI've never heard of the controversy (and I live in Toronto). The station in question is CTS (a Christian television network) that few people watch. For what it's worth, within the past month or so the CBC (Newsworld) has aired two superb documentaries dealing with Islamism. CBC Newsworld is the all news channel that has a regular program called the Passionate Eye which airs various independent documentaries. One was In Search of Al Qaeda (I think the title is correct) filmed by the Algerian author/journalist who wrote a book detailing his infiltration of the Islamist network in France and Britain. He also used a hidden video camera to record the meetings. Superb work. The other documentary was on madrassas in Pakistan. I only caught part of it and missed the title but again - amazing footage just letting the little Jihadis display their stunning and dangerous ignorance.
I haven't yet seen that type of coverage on CNN - they are too busy covering Kobe and Laci Peterson.
Posted by: John B at November 5, 2003 6:35 PMInteresting. I have found that religious stations tend to show THE most worthless shows (hence them being absent from my personal list) but this takes the cake. (Perhaps that was the wrong thing to say since it could be taken as agreeing with the statement that I made, but I am trying to make it agree with the post by Robert Spencer.)
This situation is bad, just like ESTEBAN said at the top. We have been poking fun at Christianity for ages now, why not Islam? I suppose that it just goes to show that if Muslims and their "partners in crime"->Dhimmis who call the shots can't take a little fun/bashing/laugh, then they do not have what it takes to become part of the human race.
Perhaps Canada (me) should think of getting its own Rura Penthe like the USA and Britain (used to) have? USA has Guantanamo Bay, Britain had New Zealand (not anymore), where should ours be? Baffin Island?
Posted by: Ibn Rushd at November 5, 2003 7:33 PMSocialist governments have always needed scapegoats to explain away their economic failures as well as their restrictions on personal liberty. The Canadian intellegensia has made a point of blasting the evils of American capitalism at least since the sixties.
I suspect...but can't prove...that the Left's hatred of Christianity stems in part from the Biblical admonitions against coveting (demonizing the rich) and stealing (confiscatory taxation). Not to mention murder (abortion) and sexual immorality.
Do I think Islam provides an acceptable substitute in the eyes of the Left. Not at all; just a bit of "the enemy of my enemy..."
Canada has been so open-minded for so long that their collective brain fell out some time ago.
Posted by: longhunter at November 6, 2003 5:55 PMJohn B's comments re CBC Newsworld: CBC/CBC Newsworld are notoriously left-leaning, anti-semitic and anti-American. They have recently come under increasing criticism regarding this fact. (They won't even use the T word (terrorism) for crying out loud!) If CBC Newsworld has recently shown any "balanced" programming, I suggest this is why. One of the worst examples of their bias was a so-called documentary that aired during the war in Iraq. Titled "Children of Hate" it was so bias and offensive, it was impossible for any reasonable person to sit through. Their program Counter-Spin is another garbage spewer. As far as the Passionate Eye goes, check out their three-hits-in one moderator. She's black, female, and French! Talk about a hat-trick, EH?
Canadian taxpapers are footing the bill, ditto for the Brits with their BBC.
The question is, how long are we going to put up with this?
The entire Canadian identity can be summed up as "We are not like those Americans." Anti-Americanism is our whole identity. I am sickened by the nonstop racist anti-Americanism of smug, self-righteousness Canuckistan mentality.
I'm afraid I have to agree with longhunter, the maple syrup has finally taken its toll.
It's time we Americans played "cowboys and Arabs" with the Saudis.
Posted by: Ricky D. Calhoun at February 27, 2004 3:49 PM
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