In “Islamist Showdown,” Pamela Geller in the American Thinker today discusses the latest attempt by Islamic supremacist foes of freedom to shut us down:
I am scheduled to speak in Markham, Ontario along with my colleague Robert Spencer Tuesday evening. Apparently the opposition couldn’t get the police to do their dirty work this time, as they did last spring, when members of the York Regional Police force strongarmed a rabbi into canceling my scheduled talk at his synagogue. That talk went on as scheduled in a different venue, and now that those cops are under investigation, Muslim Brotherhood proxies are trying to get Spencer and me banned from Canada now.
In connection with my earlier police-induced cancellation, Mark Steyn pointed out that Canadian officials have turned a blind eye to real preachers of hate: “Pamela Geller, tireless campaigner against Islamic imperialism (and a lady I had the honor of being introduced by at CPAC a few years back), was scheduled to give a speech at a Toronto synagogue on May 13. Miss Geller is not a convicted terrorist or terrorism-supporter or someone who argues for the execution of all homosexuals. If she were, she could speak at any Canadian venue with impunity.”
As always, the media eagerly carries water for Islamic supremacists and Sharia thugs. Nevertheless, every time it happens, it’s astounding. The Huffington Post carried a Canadian Press story about this “controversy” over the upcoming talk, with the headline “Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer Toronto Talk Flagged By Canadian Muslim Leaders.” The story said: “The National Council of Canadian Muslims worries Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer will spread ‘hate and misinformation’ about the Islamic faith when they speak at a Toronto-area hotel Tuesday evening, the group’s executive director said.”
Our talk has been “flagged by Canadian Muslim leaders” who are worried that we will spread “hate and misinformation.” “Canadian Muslim leaders”? “Hate and misinformation?” Actually, the group that is complaining, the National Council of Canadian Muslims, was up until recently known as CAIR-Canada. It is still the Canadian branch of the Hamas-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). The NCCN is not “Canadian Muslim leaders,” it’s Hamas-CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood front group, named an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding trial.
And even if they were legitimate “Muslim leaders,” what moral authority does that give them? Osama bin Laden was a Muslim leader, as was Anwar al-Awlaki, and as are Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohamed Morsi, and Anjem Choudary. It is not Spencer and I, but “Muslim leaders” like these who are the ones who are really spreading hate. Their bigotry and racism is real, the human toll incalculable.
Truth is now hate. And what misinformation exactly do I spread? I merely quote devout Muslims. Fighting for freedom, equality for all and individual rights is “hate and misinformation?” Only under the Sharia. But that’s how far down the rabbit hole the media and the culture have crawled.