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Anti-Semitic preaching
Hatemongering Muslims should be fully prosecuted
EZRA LEVANT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH BULLETIN
CalgaiY
Years ago, Jim Keegstra was chai:gDd with and convicted of the crime of spreading hatred. It was a seemingly endless case, working its way up to the Supreme Court It cost millions of tax dollars and, more than that, was an energetic expression of the government's opposition to racial and religious discord. Libertarians were rightly upset that speech -no matter how vile — could be criminalized. But a precedent was set, along with a message.
Fast forward to the present: News out of Vancouver is that the imam of a major mosque there, one Younus Kathrada, has been whipping up his congregants each week with anti-Semitic hatred that would make Keegstra sound positively like a Zionist.
Like Keegstra, Kathrada called Jews names - "we are dealing with a people ... the brothers of the monkeys and the swine... whose treacheiy is well known."
Calling Jevra brothers of monkeys and swine sounds like a schoolyard taimt more than high argument, but his point was clear. And just in case it wasn't, Kathrada made it dearer still: His sermons repeatedly called for the killing of Jews.
Poor old Keegstra. All he ever did was call the Jews power-hungry money-grubbers, and he was convicted of a crime. Kathrada whips up his congregants into a Jew-baiting frenzy - and tells them to go and actually kill someone - and he remains free.
There's some evidence that his Muslim acolytes actually followed his instructions, too. Rudwan Khalil Abubaker, who attended Kathrada's mosque, was in a fire-fight with Russian troops in Chechnya earlier this year. At least he took his violence outside ofVancouver.
The question remains: Why was Ket^tra's offensive but nonviolent anti-Semitism taken to the Supreme Court, but Kathrada's is tolerated with impimity?
Kathrada doesn't just call for the death of Jews; he slams Muslims who dare to believe in peaceful co-existence - you know, Ottawa's dream of multicultur-alism Kathrada claims that such Muslims aren't real Muslims, and no truce with Jews can ever be had.
Kathrada also uses his tax-exempt mosque to trumpet the cause of Hamas, a notorious terrorist group responsible for countless suicide bombings. Earlier
this year, he lambasted Israel over the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
Why hasn't Kathrada been chai;ged with a hate crime? Why haven't he and his mosque been charged under Canada's new anti-terrorism laws for promoting and aiding terrorist groups like Hamas? (To date, not a single charge has been laid under this law.)
The answer is obvious. It's easy to pick on a politically incorrect coimtiy bumpkin like Jim
Ahmed Yassin
Keegstra. Some dumb white guy making dumb remarks about Jews - go get 'em. There's not a well-funded, politically correct Dumb Guy Defence Committee ready to roll for his defence.
But ever since 9/11, liberals throughout the West have decided an anti-Arab backlash would be worse than Arab terrorism itself. So true risks like Kathrada are ignored, in the name of not making a fuss. The liberal thinking is that charging someone like Kathrada would only give a bad name to all Muslims.
Of course, it would do the opposite — it would point out that not all Muslims are in league with such terror tactics, and that the few who are wiU be rooted out
Not charging the handful of Muslims who are haters is like not charging the handfrd of Italians who are part of the Mafia - it is a misguided act of political correctness. The nugority of Muslims -we hope - do not support Kathrada. He should be made an example of, not have excuses made for him. Justice calls for it □
Ezra Levant is the publisher of the Western Standard. This article was originally published in the Calgary Sim and is reprinted with permission.
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