Canadian Muslim leadership is taking a stand against our western values, joining Canada’s liberal-left in doing so. So it’s all good to Canada’s liberals.
I’m not comfortable with it though—what with me and my wife being labelled a terrorist. How do you feel about that, liberals? Please email me or join our discussion forum and let me know if you think me and my wife are “terrorists”, and those who we normally think of as terrorists, like the Islamist asshat terrorists, are not terrorists but angels. And tell me that half of Canadians are “terrorists”. And America and the U.K. and Australia and Japan and dozens of other countries too, are “terrorist” countries.
Pick a side. I know who’s side I’m on.
Anti-war MP to headline Muslim fundraiser
Maverick British MP George Galloway is bringing his unsparing anti-war message to Toronto this weekend, an appearance that the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress said yesterday will be “very popular” with local Muslims.
Mr. Galloway said that [Canada] deploying soldiers to Afghanistan and ships to the Persian Gulf, while all the while pretending to be a bystander to the Iraq war, is unprincipled and transparent.
[…] Mr. Galloway, who was ejected by the British Labour Party for his anti-war rhetoric and ran successfully in the most recent election as the standard-bearer for a new party called Respect, will speak tonight at the University of Toronto, an appearance organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War that is expected to pack Convocation Hall.
He is to appear tomorrow at the joint annual conference of the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim Association of Canada. Tomorrow evening, he will be the main draw at a fundraising dinner organized by the Canadian Islamic Congress.
[…] But he has also alienated many with his uncompromising stand against the war in Iraq, his characterization of Western political leaders as terrorists and, most recently, his descriptions of Baghdad and Jerusalem as “beautiful Arab daughters” suffering “rape” in the hands of foreigners.
[…] Mohamed Elmasry, the head of the Canadian Islamic Congress, said that the presence of Mr. Galloway has helped move hundreds of tickets for the fundraiser and that there should be as many as 500 in the room by the time the British MP takes the stage tomorrow night. He shrugged off the idea that a group trying to win mainstream acceptance might want to choose a less divisive figure for its event.
“Are all of the Canadians who oppose the war, which is more than 50 per cent, considered radical?” he asked last night.
“[Mr. Galloway is] very popular among Canadian Muslims because he tried to go outside the arena of the rich and powerful in politics,” Mr. Elmasry said. “He’s a colourful politician and he has a certain conviction . . . There [are] few of those around.”
“I’m surprised that he was not invited to go to Ottawa to talk sense to our politicians,” he added.
What on earth are they going to do with all that money they’re going to raise at the fund-raisers?
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