Time Immortal

I have funny readers indeed. Blazing Cat Fur remarks thusly regarding Ali Mallah of the Canadian Arab Federation:

Ali Mallah Tete. Man Oscar Wilde, look out

Quite.

Thanks for the chuckle, BCF — I needed that.

Ezra Levant draws attention to an interesting coincidence:

Here is a letter in the Toronto Star from Ali Mallah of the Canadian Arab Federation, supporting human rights commissions and their arrogation of the powers of political censors. It’s signed by the vice-president of the Canadian Arab Federation.

…

Say, that wouldn’t be the same Canadian Arab Federation that, at the last Liberal leadership convention, smeared Bob Rae because his wife was Jewish? Or the same Canadian Arab Federation that denounced Gerard Kennedy when he criticized the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah? The same Canadian Arab Federation that supports boycotts against Jewish businesses in Canada?

So a hater named Syed Soharwardy uses the Alberta Human Rights Commission to persecute the Western Standard;

A hater named Mohamed Elmasry uses the Ontario, B.C. and Canadian Human Rights Commissions to persecute Maclean’s magazine;

And now the hateful Canadian Arab Federation weighs in to defend these commissions as necessary.

Anyone see a pattern here?

Not that this really comes as any surprise. Islamism does have a very appreciable ability to adapt its tactics to the “lay of the land,” and in this case the Islamist agenda is being advanced in part through the human rights commissions (HRCs) in Canada.

It’s a known fact that when a majority of society aligns against some tenet of sharia law, the advocates for that Islamic bigotry will beat a hasty retreat (as CAIR recently did down in the States over the issue of Muslim cabbies refusing to give service to blind persons and their “unclean” guide dogs). It is to the advantage of the Islamists, then, if it is made illegal and punishable by fines to criticize Islam or the various barbarities of Sharia law — into the sudden silence, the radical imams and politically-minded advocates can inject all the misogyny and cruelty of their beliefs without any fear of opposition.

Update: Welcome Steynians!

The irony is too good to miss:

The Canadian Arab Federation has come out strongly against the Canadian government’s decision, supported by the NDP, to not participate in any way with the upcoming UN-sponsored Durban II conference on Racism. The position of the Conservative government, supported by the NDP, is that Durban II is shaping up to be an exercise in the most vile and repellent Anti-Semitism, as was experienced by the Canadian delegation that attended the Durban I conference in 2001.

The CAF has every right to take a different position. But to call Jason Kenney an Islamophobe who is contemptuous of Arabs and of Islam?

But then CAF president Khaled Mouammar, who has all sorts of links with the , declares anyone who sympathizes with Israel to be guilty complicit in war crimes.

…

Mouammar was embroiled in the Liberal Party  leadership campaign, when in an attempt to derail Bob Rae’s campaign, Mouammar was linked to the infamous “Jew flyer”:

…

In addition to targeting Bob Rae, Khaled Mouammar went after Gerard Kennedy for being too friendly to Jews:

…

Kennedy criticizes Hizbollah and Hamas, and so earns the enmity of Khaled Mouammar.

Only leadership candidates Michael Ignatieff (who declared Israeli actions during the 2006 war in Lebanon to be war crimes) and Stephane Dion were spared being called stooges for Israel by Mouammar.

The bottom line is that anyone who expresses support for Israel is a criminal, according to Khaled Mouammar, as he explained in a letter to the Globe and Mail in December 2006.

As noted previously, I couldn’t be happier that Canada is skipping out on the next Durban conference. Although in theory, Durban is supposed to be about combatting racism on a global scale, in practice it became (back in 2001) an exercise in the very thing it supposedly existed to condemn, and there’s little doubt that it will once again turn into just that sort of shameful UN farce.

And if Canada’s refusal to participate in Durban annoys and/or angers the likes of Khaled Mouammar, then that’s just icing on an already delicious cake.

Update: Welcome, BlazingCatFur readers!