Salim Mansur: more needed from Muslim leaders in Canada. Mike Adams: follow his lead.

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[…] But, then, I decided to write another editorial lambasting my university for making any reference to my attendance at departmental meetings. That was because I had been told by the university police to avoid a certain faculty member who seemed to think I was poisoning her with tear gas.

I discussed the absurdity of the situation with one of America’s most famous defense attorneys who practices in Boston. He characterized it as a classic Catch-22. “You had better attend those department meetings with your fellow professors, Dr. Adams” and “You need to stay away from that delusional professor (who attends department meetings), Dr. Adams” were incompatible demands. I think that after three and a half years, it’s time for the university to make a call one way or the other.

And that was another dilemma. If I wrote a critical editorial, I would risk getting no pay-raise. If I didn’t respond and just signed off on the evaluation, I couldn’t live with myself. So I wrote the editorial, of course. […]

today, Salim Mansur says that more leadership needs to be shown by the Muslim community in Canada.  And after the deafening silence from them since 9/11 and in London more recently, they’ve got a lot of explaining to do, he says.  I agree.

[…] Some mosques in Canada, as in Britain and elsewhere, have provided a haven for the ideology of political Islam to be nurtured, extolled and proselytized.

For more than 30 years in Canada, I was not the only one who listened during Friday prayers to Imams intemperately preaching bigoted sermons laced with anti-Semitism.

Since September 11, 2001, in refusing to remain silent, I stopped going to those mosques.

Imams bear great responsibility for shaping the psychology of young Muslim men, such as those bombers born in Britain, offering themselves as sacrificial pawns in an al-Qaida inspired war against the West. […]