Apparently there is no jihad threat, and those who say there is must be silenced. My latest in PJ Media:
“A prominent synagogue in Toronto,” reports the Canadian Jewish News, has pulled out of a controversial event that it was scheduled to host in March.” The conference was set to focus on three threats to freedom: “[T]he radical left, radical Islamists and the radical right.” However, “after the event was criticized due to some controversial figures who were scheduled to speak at it, the congregation withdrew, citing security concerns.”
Toronto’s Beth Tikvah Synagogue has provided yet another example of the fact that speaking about the jihad threat today is the last taboo: It simply isn’t allowed in polite society.
The conference has not been canceled, but it will not be held at Beth Tikvah Synagogue. Reportedly this was because there were not only “security concerns” — which is bad enough, as kowtowing to violent intimidation only invites more violent intimidation — but there were also charges of “Islamophobia” from Michael Coren, the ex-Catholic author of Why Catholics Are Right.
Maybe one day the establishment Leftists whose favor Coren is so assiduously courting will forget that one of his other books is entitled Hatred: Islam’s War on Christianity. Coren has become much more enlightened since the days when he featured me weekly on his Sun TV show. Now Coren knows there is no jihad threat, only one of “Islamophobia,” and he has joined the fascist ranks of those who believe that dissent from his views should be denied platforms and forcibly silenced. It’s an odd position to take for someone who has shifted sides as often as Coren has.
Coren does have the residual decency in his hit piece to omit any comment on one of the featured speakers: Jihad Watch writer Christine Douglass-Williams, his former colleague at the Canadian Television System. He likely knows that charges of “bigotry” against her are even more ludicrous than the charges that he did include in his article against others who were scheduled to speak at this conference.
Note this passage: “Also slated to speak is broadcaster Christine Douglass-Williams, who last year was fired from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation’s board of directors over comments she made about Islam.” The Canadian Jewish News conspicuously fails to mention what exactly Christine Douglass-Williams said about Islam, inviting the reader to imagine lurid “fear-mongering” and “hate speech.” In reality, she was fired for writing for Jihad Watch, and for warning about false moderate Muslims, who manifestly exist.
The fact that she was fired, and that this synagogue has refused to host this conference after the “Islamophobia” charges were published, are two more indications that any critical word regarding Islam, no matter how accurate, is denounced as “Islamophobic” nowadays. No matter how genuine the jihad threat, Leftists endeavor to silence it forcibly.
As far as the Left is concerned, there is no jihad threat. There is no reason to be concerned about the elements of Sharia — the denial of the freedom of speech, the denial of rights to women — that are incompatible with Western laws and principles. Any such concerns are simply manifestations of “Islamophobia,” and must be ruthlessly stamped out.
This assumption sits comfortably in Leftist brains next to “security concerns,” i.e., the fear that if anything critical of Islam is said aloud, Muslims will murder innocent people. Such cowardice is pandemic today. No one seems to remember what we all learned in fifth grade: that giving in to bullies only encourages more bullying. But no one, of course, will come out and say “I’m a coward,” so instead the cowards say things like what Daniel Bordman, author of an article about the controversy, recounted:
Rabbi Grover said something interesting to me. He said “I’m not Pam Geller”. To explain, Pam Geller hosted a draw Mohammed contest, and as a result two armed Islamists attacked the event. Rabbi Grover meant that he was not willing to put the lives of his congregants in danger to prove a point.
It would have been more accurate, albeit self-incriminating, if Rabbi Grover had said that he didn’t have the courage to stand in defense of the freedom of speech, whatever the risks….
Read the rest here.
Emilie Green says
Toronto’s Beth Tikvah Synagogue, the latest candidate for this year’s Profile in Putty Award.
mortimer says
THE HECKLER’S VETO has crushed the freedom of expression at Beth Tikvah.
Heckler’s Veto Definition: -“A heckler’s veto is an IMPERMISSIBLE content-based RESTRICTION on speech where the speech is prohibited due to an ANTICIPATED DISORDERLY or VIOLENT reaction of the audience.” – Justice Dolores Sloviter
Charles says
Grover is likely another of those self-loathing Jews who will not support Israel.
jule says
I know this is not the reason. Jews need help and cannot set themselves up as suicide bombers even verbally. They just can’t and won’t. Please understand. It has to be others. Until the world gets Educated on what Islam is (most US Jews don’t even know) They could not stop Hitler either but no one else would even try until France/Brits were falling. I am so ashamed of humanity in general. We did wrong then and until Trump we have done wrong (and I do not even like Trump but the alternative policies at present are unthinkable)
Renate says
Michael Coren changes his mind too often to be taken seriously anymore.
Roland Tours says
I talk to people in the Jewish community. A lot of them opinionated, but ignorant and confused about Islam. They’re stuck in an intellectual rut, like we’re still in 1970. They don’t want to believe that Islam is coming for them and Israel.
mortimer says
Bravo, RT. That is a very fair assessment … Jews who are left-of-center DESPERATELY want to hold onto their NAIVE ASSUMPTION of a HAPPY-CLAPPY IT’S ONE WORLD AFTER ALL !!! They do not WANT to factor in Islam as a SUPREMACIST, ANTI-SEMITIC CULT … so with sometimes great hostility, these Leftist secular Jews will CONDEMN anyone who knows the JIHAD DOCTRINE, the ISLAMIC APARTHEID DOCTRINE and the TAQIYYA DOCTRINE as mindless bigots.
There is a DETERMINED, even SMUG, WILFULL IGNORANCE GENERALLY AMONG SECULAR LEFTIST JEWS. They are STUCK IN RUT OF THINKING that ended in 1979 with the Iranian Revolution … if they had PAID ATTENTION TO WHAT THE MULLAHS WERE SAYING ABOUT ISLAM and if they had INVESTIGATED THE TRUTH of the what the mullahs said!
These Leftist, secular Jews are LEADERS OF THE OSTRICH BRIGADE.
dan christensen says
These days good oldfashioned common sence and decency is being replaced with attitudes directed by political expendiency. Political beliefs are fast becoming general commodities to be bartered in the globalistic MSM bazaar, with prostitute journalists as middlemen.
Nobody trusts the opinions of MSM any more. Instead we ask which oligarch or religious mafia is planting the political correct opinions in MSM; only to promote some insane islamic globalistic worldview.
Thank God for Jihadwatch and all the other decent alternative homepages – they reveal all the dirty business behind the Elites’ agitprop.
mortimer says
DC, the globalists at MasterCard and Visa are TARGETTING THE ONLY REMAINING FACTUAL SOURCES OF NEWS ABOUT ISLAM. The globalists have made an UNHOLY ALLIANCE with SALAFISM.
mortimer says
MESSAGE TO THE CONGREGATION OF BETH TIKVAH:
Most American and Canadian politicians today are unable to understand that free speech is the foundation of both countries, since both were founded through free discussions and free assembly. They do not realize that the government does not ‘GRANT’ free speech, because God is considered by both the American and Canadian constitutions to be the source of that freedom.
The ‘heckler’s veto’ is nothing but VIGILANTE LAW or the LYNCH LAW imposed by a MOB. No group attempting to administer a self-made law which vetoes the freedom of expression of others enshrined in the constitution should be tolerated. The heckler’s veto is a crime against the majesty of the law in the constitution which is the supreme, dominant authority controlling the conduct of everyone, however exalted or high his power.
The heckler’s veto is an attempt to overthrow free speech which is the law of the land, and in its place to set up mob law, lynch law, and to substitute lawlessness for the law enforcement which obtains in civilized countries.
jule says
Even our speech has restriction laws and I am firm the teaching millions of people that the Qur’an/Hadiths are Allah/Gds will is one of the Criminal restrictions like slander, libel, Inciting wars and genocide, apartheid and other things Anti-Freedom. Those things remove freedom and safety. They cannot be allowed to grow in our country. A free country is suicidal if it lets in the trojan horse. Nazi/Islam/Supremacists/KKKlan are trojan horses carrying Death to the Freedom of USA.
revereridesagain says
This kind of pernicious nonsense shut down an excellent speakers’ program at a temple here in Massachusetts where I was privileged to hear Robert Spencer and many other outstanding experts on the dangers related to Islam. Scores of us used to show up despite the kind of “security concerns” that keep Rabbi Grover and his ilk hiding under the bed. (Our security was excellent.) I see the rationalizations, inaccuracies, lies, and cowardice continue to spread unabated, alas.
If that “Now” publication is LBQTblahblahblah (and why would I think that…?) I assume they have been drinking the “religion of peace” kool-aid and may consequently be found at the local zoo feeding the crocodiles right next to Michael Coren when he isn’t trying to throw former colleagues who retain their integrity under the nearest bus.
I rarely quote the execrable Aleister Crowley, but his comment (regarding L. Ron Hubbard as it happens) that “I get fairly frantic when I contemplate the idiocy of these louts” just seems to fit these people so well.
Lydia Church says
In other words, to them the threat is from those who warn about the threat!
That has been the bottom line for so long. No matter how illogical it is.
And that is interesting that some platforms that used to host Robert have backed down, as the threat has only increased! It does remind me of things during the nazi days. People were slowly sucked in to that whole sick mindset. Seemingly overnight government officials were all sold out to hitler and his agenda as if by hypnosis. They did a one-eighty and turned into hitler robots and began falling like dominoes from what I read. Sort of like a spooky fog slowly rolls in and swallows up all sanity. There were heavy occultic, demonic influences at work in all of that too, as again today. It will only get worse.
Lydia Church says
Also, daily I get updates from Morning Star News about the unending persecution of Christians by muslims. There has been a lot of activity lately in areas like Uganda, like the most recent story.
I highly recommend it for reading as it epitomizes islam’s ideology and approach in a nutshell.
“We will kill you if you do not worship as we do!” And then they proceed to do so…
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer, PJ Media: Toronto Synagogue Backs Out of Hosting Conference on Threats to Freedom: ‘Islamophobic’
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Wait–opposing threats to freedom is “Islamophobic”? Don’t they realize what this says about Islam?
jule says
Agreed!
Elizabeth Thorne says
Syed Abdul Ala Maududi, founder of the Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami said: NON-MUSLIMS HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT TO SIEZE THE REINS OF POWER IN ANY PART OF GODS EARTH NOR TO DIRECT THE COLLECTIVE AFFAIRS OF HUMAN BEINGS ACCORDING TO THEIR OWN MISCONCEIVED DOCTRINES. IF THEY DO, THE BELIEVERS WOULD BE UNDER AN OBLIGATION TO DO THEIR UTMOST TO DISLODGE THEM FROM POLITICAL POWER AND MAKE THEM LIVE IN SUBSERVIENCE TO THE ISLAMIC WAY OF LIFE ………
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
NO MAN ESCAPES WHEN FREEDOM FAILS, THE BEST MEN ROT IN FILTHY JAILS, AND THOSE WHO CRIED APPEASE! APPEASE! ARE HUNG BY THOSE THEY TRIED TO PLEASE.
MEP, MARCEL de GRAFF, THE UN GLOBAL COMPACT FOR SAFE, ORDERLY, REGULAR MIGRATION SAID; CRITICISM OF MIGRATION WILL BECOME A CRIMINAL OFFENCE.
Shy Guy says
Robert. take your message to Torah observant Orthodox shuls, which Beth Tikvah is not. Those running the Conservative and Reform Jewish sects are keeping their fingers in their ears.
UNCLE VLADDI says
People who succeed in group or gang settings must have no integrity – they must be literally thought-killing psycho-paths (a Greek word which means “thought-killers”) who are such masochistically paranoid hypocrites that they are always willing to Submit to the merest hint of a threat, TO GO ALONG (with criminal lies) TO GET ALONG (with all the other lying criminals). Gang settings these days are: Academia, Corporations, Government, and Media. And since such cowardly people also instinctively always want to join the largest most threatening gangs, they all naturally gravitate towards the treason to all sovereign nations, individual self-defense, property, and free-association rights known as “GLOBALISM.”