Toronto police block speech by anti-Islamist activist but allow terrorists and Islamists to speak freely.
Toronto police have threatened a rabbi that if he allows a speech to be given in his synagogue by a well-known anti-Islamist activist, he will lose his job as a chaplain with the force. What the cops don’t protect our free speech laws anymore?
Inspector Ricky Veerappan, who ironically is a member of the police force’s “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau”. He and other officers from the hate crime division met with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill. Kaplan had rented out space in his synagogue as a venue for a speech to be given by Pamela Geller.
The Toronto Sun quoteD Veerappan as saying that the speech, scheduled for May 13, “would not be endorsed by York Regional Police.” Futhermore, Veerapan said that he told Kaplan, “If he did (host Geller), then we’d have to reassess our relationship with (Kaplan).”
This not so subtle blackmail caused Kaplin to cancel. I guess he figured his job was more important then allowing a free speech meeting and I can’t say i blame him. What I would like to know is when the police actual began using subtle ‘extortion’ to stop someone from exercising free speech. What the hell is goin on?
Geller is an outspoken critic of radical Islam. Although she is careful not to speak negatively about Muslims or Islam itself, she is known for vocally pointing out the deceptive tactics of Muslim Brotherhood front groups, raising their ire.
This visit from the police was promptedby a Muslim who notified the police of this scheduled talk. What the f@#k, one Muslimcomplains and the police kiss his ass and curb a free speech meeting. When the hell did you as a regular Canadian ever have that power. I guess all other Canadians not of Middle East origin no longer have the same rightsas Muslims. Did these idiotpolice not see what they were doing, or do they just think the rest of the Canadian people are to stupid to see what and whose ass they are kissing. Anyway the group is locating another venue to hold the meeting.
Commenting on the police action, Tarek Fatah,Tarek Fatah founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress, said, “What this incident shows the depth of infiltration of Islamists in the police forces, both in Toronto, York Regions as well as the RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police]. One may disagree profoundly with Pam Geller, but the police have no right to shut down speaking events citing hate laws when hate against non-Muslims has become institutionalized in many city mosques where clerics pray for the defeat of non-Muslims at the hands of Muslims.”
Salim Mansur, author of Islam’s Predicament: Perspectives of a Dissident Muslim, criticized the police’s move saying, “Islamists are gleefully pushing multiculturalism and political correctness, while western societies intentionally or otherwise in the name of tolerating the intolerant are doing irreparable damage to the tradition of free speech that made the West the most flourishing culture in all of human history.”
Veerappan explained the move, saying, “We serve the needs of the entire community. Some of the stuff that Ms. Geller speaks about runs contrary to the values of York Regional Police and the work we do in engaging our communities.” What the F#%K??? What does have to do wit anything. Their values as apolice force is unimportant in this matter. They are police they are to protect people’s legal free speech, not curtail it.
Ironically, Canadian police had no similar complaint against Tariq Ramadan, who was allowed to speak at the University of Toronto just two months earlier than the scheduled talk by Geller. Ramadan has been described by Fatah as “a man committed to the goals of worldwide Islamic jihad, as laid out by his mentor Sheikh Qaradawi, and his father, the ‘Trotsky’ of world Islamism, Said Ramadan.
Oh yeah, Ramadan’s grandfather, Hasan Al-Banna, was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2004, the United States revoked Ramadan’s visa citing the “ideological exclusion provision” of the USA Patriot Act. Later, the U.S. formally denied Ramadan’s visa based solely on his actions, which included providing material support to a terrorist organization. (In 2010, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton facilitated a visa for Ramadan and he was allowed to enter the U.S.)
In addition, on May 4, convicted terrorist Leila Khaled wiwas given a platform to speak at the University of British Columbia. Khaled, a notorious member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a listed terrorist organization, is famous for her airplane hijackings in 1969 and 1970.
Toronto has been the site of a number of violent, demeaning and organized incidents against Jewish students by Muslims, with authorities doing little to stop them. In fact, the situation became so bad that a formal complaint was lodged with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal against York University alleging that the university had actively legitimized an anti-Jewish atmosphere on campus fomented by Islamic elements.
This whole matter has become an insult to the Canadian citizen. Shame on these disgraceful law enforcers, and I use the term loosely.