Islamic Supremacists Crush Free Speech in Canada:
Srdja Trifkovic, author of Sword of the Prophet, barred from Canada

Srdja Trifkovic, author of Sword of the Prophet, barred from Canada

Palestinian jihadists' fabrications of Israeli atrocities are amply documented now, although the mainstream media still retail them; less well known is that the jihad in the Balkans also has a busy propaganda arm. Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, author of the excellent book on Islam and jihad, The Sword of the Prophet, ran afoul of it yesterday, as he was barred from entering Canada. The Serbian Youth League (thanks to George) explains this latest Freedom of Speech Death Watch Alert:

February 24, 2011 (SYL) – Serbian-American professor Dr Srdja Trifkovic was denied access into Canada after being accused of holding a senior position in the Government of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian war by the Vancouver airport immigration authorities. Srdja, who was a foreign affairs expert with links in the Bosnian Serb Government, never held any position in that Government, let alone a senior one. The fabricated reason for deportation was likely the result of lobbying by the extremist organization "The Institute for Research of Genocide in Canada", which is notorious for inventing stories, such as the disproven lie that Canadian General MacKenzie raped a Bosnian woman at a time when he wasn't even in Bosnia, as well as denying the Holocaust in Yugoslavia during World War II. Also, there are strong indications that higher factors in the Canadian government are involved in this scandalous and dark chapter in Canadian history, the investigation is under way.

Story continues below advertisement

Jihad Watch reader Joe Serb sent this in:

Srdja Trifkovic was scheduled to speak at a Serb-sponsored gathering at the University of British Columbia. About 60 of us waited outside of Room 222, Swing Space Bldg last night, only to hear that Prof. Trifkovic had been stopped at the airport, and was under questioning for his ideas. He writes on the Muslim danger to Europe and the world. I witnessed a small group of Muslims celebrating the delay, which was likely a cancellation (I waited for 45 minutes after the start date, but most left when we learned that the Professor was still in custody. He was accused of "hate speech" in a student newspaper.

I strongly believe that we have to reply energetically to all such charges; the "hate speech" weapon is increasingly used by the thuggish Leftist/Islamic supremacist axis to silence its opponents, and if we ignore the false charges made, they will be assumed true by those who are naive and unaware of what game is being played.

Julia Gorin sent this as well:

Related to this is a short article by Canadian former ambassador James Bissett below, exposing the Bosnian group that’s going after Trifkovic. On top of everything, they’re genocide deniers themselves—except not of fabricated genocides but of actual genocides.
 
I’m preceding it with an even shorter note that I found to be poignant. It comes from a list member of the lady who circulated the Bissett item (Liz); the respondent is identified as “M”:
 
No word more raises my hackles than "genocide" with respect to Srebrenica.

I do not know how we can ever remove this horrible word used in conjunction with Serbs.

It is the WORST STAIN on us and the WORST LIE!

It is the sledge hammer that Serbs are beaten with again and again in order to make them SUBMIT to Western diktats.

It is the one word that gives cover to every evil and every justification that has been committed and used against us by Western powers covering all their own crimes along with those of their Muslim, Croatian and Albanian proteges .

It is the one word that will keep us on our knees!

We cannot submit to this word and we MUST find a way if it takes FOREVER to remove it!

“The Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada”: Genocide Deniers, Hypocrites, Character Assassins By Ambassador James Bissett
 
Former Canadian Ambassador in Yugoslavia James Bissett, Chairman of The Lord Byron Foundation, unveils some disturbing facts about a gauche Bosniak outfit that has tried to “ban” Dr. Srdja Trifkovic from speaking at UBC Vancouver next week. It's an eminently postmodern, grimly amusing little story…

A Bosnian-Muslim propaganda front, calling itself The Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada, has tried to have Dr. Srdja Trifkovic “banned” (South African Apartheid-style) from speaking at the University of British Columbia next Thursday, February 24. What is outrageous is that, over the years, the “Institute” has indulged in World War Two genocide denial of the sort that would make David Duke blush. It has also attempted to blacken the reputation of one of Canada's most highly respected soldiers, and to make patently false claims about its standing in the “Bosnian-Canadian” community.
 
GENOCIDE DENIAL – Before the “Institute’s” director, Emir Ramić, and his cohorts remove the incriminating material, please take a look at their featured article “Examination of Serbian Deaths in Jasenovac Camp” – a nauseating piece of Holocaust denial – and then contrast it with an authoritative source, such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Contrast the “Institute’s” hate-filled ravings with the entry on “Jasenovac” by Menachem Shelach, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990, p. 739, which says, “Some six hundred thousand people were murdered at Jasenovac.” The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team estimated “that close to 600,000 … mostly Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, were murdered at Jasenovac."
 
"A historical revisionist like Trifkovic should not be allowed to lecture in an academic context,” says the “Institute.” This is the moral and intellectual equivalent of David Irving demanding measures against the Yad Vashem Center (at which Dr. Trifkovic, incidentally, delivered the keynote speech at a symposium on the Holocaust in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Yugoslavia in June 2006). Historical evidence clearly suggests that the magnitude of the crimes that were committed at the Jasenovac death camp during the Second World War exceed anything that happened at Srebrenica in 1995 by not less than thirtyfold. In nature those crimes were unspeakably more gruesome.<?xml:namespace prefix = o />

SELECTIVE MEMORY — What happened to the Armenians during the First World War constitutes a genuine case of "genocide," unlike what happened to any one side during the Bosnian war of 1992-95.  Nevertheless, I am not aware of the "Institute" seeking to ban or castigate as "genocide deniers" those Turkish government officials — meaning ALL Turkish government officials, from Prime Minister Erdogan and foreign minister Davutoglu downward — who are adamant that what happened to the Armenians is NOT a genocide.

CHARACTER ASSASSINATION – An indication of the lengths this disreputable organization will go to misrepresent the facts and slander the name of anyone who might take a different (i.e. more objective) view of the events that took place in Bosnia in the early 1990s is the item posted on their web site on December 26, 2010, entitled “The Shocking Account by Raped Bosniak Women and Criminal Undertakings of Lt. General (Ret.) Lewis Mackenzie.”
 
During the war in Bosnia, the Muslim leadership in Sarajevo became furious when General Mackenzie – who was representing the United Nations – was not deceived (as many journalists were) by the blatant propaganda generated by the Muslim side and by his insistence at remaining impartial. In an attempt to have him replaced, the Muslims concocted false charges of rape and misconduct against him. These charges were so obviously fabricated they were summarily dismissed by responsible authorities. As the general was able to prove, he was not even in Bosnia when many of the alleged offences took place.
 
Despite the facts, the “Genocide Institute” continues to slander the good name of General Mackenzie. Its web site contains a long list of so-called rape victims who relate in lurid detail how they were raped – sometimes seven or eight times – by the Canadian officer. They even claim that during some of these rapes the general was “protected ‘– not by UN troops but by heavily armed “Chetniks.” The stories are so obviously fabricated that to those who know the General personally – as I do – can only wonder at the seriously psychotic nature of individuals who would repeat these lunatic charges.
 
MISREPRESENTATION – Outrageously, Emir Ramic purports to speak “on behalf of more than 50.000 Canadians of Bosnian origin” when demanding a “ban” on Trifkovic. Bosnia is primarily a geographic term, and people of “Bonsian origin” are in fact Serbs, Croats, or Muslims (who have taken to calling themselves “Bosniaks” in the 1990’s). Statistically, of those 50,000 Canadians some 22,000 are Muslims, 17,000 Serbs, and 9,000 Croats. It is to be hoped that the Bosnian-Muslim community in Canada has enough common sense not to allow Mr. Ramic to claim to speak on its behalf. As for the Serbs and Croats, the claim is patently preposterous. It is the equivalent of the IRA claiming to speak on behalf of all Northern Irishmen, Protestants included. It is the equivalent of Hezbollah claiming the authority to represent all people of “Lebanese origin,” Christians and Druze included.
 
HYPOCRISY – When it suits its peculiar agenda, the "Institute" wants to promote the decisions of international bodies, such as The Hague Tribunal (ICTY), as sacrosanct and final: after the Tribunal’s verdict is pronounced, for instance on Srebrenica, no debate is allowed – the issue is no longer a matter of opinion. At the same time, its activists demand the revision of the 1995 Dayton Accords and in particular they clamor for the abolition of the Republika Srpska established under Dayton. This demand is in clear contravention of a key political decision of the highest international body of them all, the United Nations… the body which is the founder of The Hague Tribunal itself. A subsidiary is to be kowtowed to unthinkingly, but its originator is to be defied, as it suits the political needs of the “Institute” and its abettors.
 
AS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, let me note that the UBC powers-that-be have not responded directly to the call for Trifkovic’s “ban,” but rather by re-circulating the 2009 “Respectful Debate” memorandum to students and staff by the University President, Professor Stephen Toope. Written in the context of the controversy surrounding an event related to the Middle East, it reiterated the University’s respect for free speech and its demand for respect for opposing viewpoints. Only indirectly does it address the attempt of one group to prevent another from articulating its views, thus thwarting “discussion across boundaries and across preconceptions” that Professor Toope asserted the UBC favours.
 
Personally, I would have preferred a more specific answer to this issue. The reaction to a specific wrong should include, but should not be limited to, a blanket condemnation of all similar wrongs. Pope Pius XII has been criticised, rightly, for using oblique and indirect language to condemn real and present wrongs. While not of the same order of moral magnitude, the reaction by USB authorities is not qualitatively different.
 
JUST A COINCIDENCE? – Let it be noted that the “Institute for Research of Genocide of Canada” uses for itself the acronym “IRGC.” That acronym is more commonly associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. While conceivably accidental, the coincidence is not altogether inapt.

The Truth Must be Told

Your contribution supports independent journalism

Please take a moment to consider this. Now, more than ever, people are reading Geller Report for news they won't get anywhere else. But advertising revenues have all but disappeared. Google Adsense is the online advertising monopoly and they have banned us. Social media giants like Facebook and Twitter have blocked and shadow-banned our accounts. But we won't put up a paywall. Because never has the free world needed independent journalism more.

Everyone who reads our reporting knows the Geller Report covers the news the media won't. We cannot do our ground-breaking report without your support. We must continue to report on the global jihad and the left's war on freedom. Our readers’ contributions make that possible.

Geller Report's independent, investigative journalism takes a lot of time, money and hard work to produce. But we do it because we believe our work is critical in the fight for freedom and because it is your fight, too.

Please contribute here.

or

Make a monthly commitment to support The Geller Report – choose the option that suits you best.

• $25.00 here
• $50.00 here
• $75.00 here
• $100.00 here
• $250.00 here

0 0 votes

Article Rating

7 Comments

Oldest

Newest Most Voted

Inline Feedbacks

View all comments

armaros

13 years ago

Funny they ban him now. During the war he was in Canada and the UK often arguing the Serb side in TV debates.
The government he represented has been recognized as the part forming the Dayton agreements. In other words, individuals and militias were charged/convicted of war crimes but not the Serb Republic of Bosnia which is still in existence.
This is a dangerous precedent.
As for UBC, well they spent hundreds of thousands of $$s to install Muslim foot baths on campus. Despite the fact that even among the foreign student body, Muslims represent a small minority.

0

Always On Watch

13 years ago

Trifkovic’s book The Sword of the Prophet is the one book I read early on that awoke me to the grave threat that Islam poses to the West.
Of course dhimmis and Islamophiles won’t let Trifkovic speak! **sigh**

0

Jefferson

13 years ago

What the Arabs are to the World, those are the Serbs for Europe. It takes a lot of study and personal time to understand this. It’s nice to see, finally, that Serbian propagandists like Trifkovic, finally get what was deserved. Genocide is attempt to eliminate whole nations, their culture and history, not just killings. Serbs are the masters in all of it. Trifkovic was public figure and official spokesman for genocidal regime, whose leaders are denounced by entire world.
I don’t see the reason for mentioning WWII in this context. But, if we are going there it’s necessary mentioned that Serbs first used gas-trucks for GENOCIDE against own population and the fact that Belgrade became first “Judenfrei” city in entire Europe, thanks to successfully elimination of all Jewish population in Belgrade through the camp at “Sajmiste”.
Also, it needs to be mentioned incredible successful military and all other cooperation with Saddam Husein, col. Qaddafi, PLO and other World terrorist organizations all around Globe, who were operating from Belgrade and Serbia for a years.
I am really disappointed to find such inaccurate text on this respectful blog.

0

eib

13 years ago

Quote:
Genocide is attempt to eliminate whole nations, their culture and history, not just killings.
end quote.
Sounds like the objectives of Islam.
You have presented only one side of a case, and you have referred to no sources specifically.
Without sources, your rant is just a rant.
This professor has, in fact, been vetted by many organizations. There is nothing he says that has been discredited.
He remains respected in the academic community.
So the refusal to allow him to speak is silencing him. You cannot practice democracy and advocate the silencing of the individual.

0

Mac-101

13 years ago

It’s unfortunate that you have Jefferson’s name. Second it would be even more rediculous if you are a JEW and still fightin NAZIs when these people pray for the day “the rocks and trees will cry out, ‘Oh, nobel Muslim warrior, there’s a Jew hiding behind me, KILL him'”!

0

Redneck Woman

13 years ago

Perhaps jumping to conclusions is not a good thing. Perhaps he didn’t have his passport updated….it doesn’t really say why he was not allowed in.
The letter was sent to UBC…not any Government officials.
I’m sure there is a logical explanation. If there was any chance that the Canadian Gov’t had some questions concerning him…he wouldn’t be allowed in.
This is the new way of things in Canada. Tougher restrictions on crossing the border. The USA would have it no other way ….remember they accused Canada for letting in the 9/11 terrorists, which was a lie! So now this is what we must put up with! It’ll be getting a lot tougher to get across the border soon!

0

Elaine

13 years ago

Redneck Woman, I agree!
Harper is cracking down to keep “any” and “all” threats from Canada. Canada has also been the Watch Dog for U. S. Soil. I have a great deal of respect for Harper in his efforts to not only keep Canada free from Terrorists, but keeping the U.S. Citizens informed and watching out for Her.
I only wish the U.S. President would follow Harper’s example. When Geller and Harper have the right amount of time to schedule an appointment and follow through to have a conversation, I know all of us would be very interested.

0