Mark Steyn on Geller Cancellation: “giving the old-school fascists a laugh at their Monday-night poker game in hell”

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Steyn has hit the fascists again:

The Bureau of Diversity Compliance Mark Steyn, National Review, ay 4, 2013 11:10

On Thursday, I wrote here about a Canadian police department’s attempt to shut down a Pamela Geller speech in Toronto by threatening the rabbi hosting it. The Ottawa Citizen editorial on the matter begins:

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The York Regional Police department should be ashamed.

Indeed,
they should. Thanks to the York Regional Police’s creepy and Orwellian
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau”, Canada is now a land where cops are sent round to synagogues to threaten rabbis
– all in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion”, which must give the
old-school fascists a laugh at their Monday-night poker game in hell.
Jewish organizations north and south of the border ought to be up in
arms about this. According to Brian Sibley,
Inspector Ricky Veerappen, the head of the Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion Bureau, is himself Muslim – which may or may not explain why
he’s strutting about like the Ontario branch of Saudi Arabia’s Mutaween.
Dig this example of a 21st century policeman’s thinking:

Veerappan apparently told Kaplan Geller’s speech “would not be endorsed by York Regional Police.”

(Since when is it up to the police to “endorse” speech?)

It’s
not. And the fact that the York Regional Police think it is testifies
to how deep runs the spongey, insinuating soft-totalitarian rot of
“diversity”. In response to the controversy, the YRP issued a press
release, full of the usual pansy evasions but revealing nonetheless:

Free
speech is the right of every citizen and York Regional Police
recognizes that. However, some of Ms. Geller’s previous comments clearly
conflict with the values of our organization and our continuous work to
enhance all relationships in our diverse community.

As
I wrote on Thursday, it is not the job of a police force to enforce its
“values”, but to uphold the law – without favor. If you want an
ideological police force that enforces “values”, try Riyadh or
Waziristan.

The York Regional Police should not have a “Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion Bureau”. And, having no understanding of the
proper role of a police officer in a free society, Inspector Ricky
Veerappan should be compelled to seek alternative employment.

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ROSENBERG
ROSENBERG
10 years ago

Pamela Geller’s Talk at Toronto Shul Scrapped in ‘Hate Speech’ Flap
Did Police Threaten Rabbi Over Anti-Islam Firebrand?
I am chaplain OF EDISON TOWNSHIP, THE POLICE PROTECTED US WILL FULL SECURITY. SHAME ON THE CANADIAN POLICE. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERB
Read more: http://forward.com/articles/176008/pamela-gellers-talk-at-toronto-shul-scrapped-in-ha/#ixzz2SS6INT6S

Edward
Edward
10 years ago

Too much shameful british “values” have infected the York PD.

TorontoAntiJihadist
TorontoAntiJihadist
10 years ago

All is well and good with suggesting he seek alternative employment, but what action can actually be taken, and by whom? A commenter on another post already thought that Veerappan didn’t do anything illegal and that the Rabbi is to blame, but would the Rabbi have to give testimony if a lawsuit were filed?

BULLOMETER
BULLOMETER
10 years ago

Thinking themselves wise, they become fools.

canadianmohamhater
canadianmohamhater
10 years ago

This happened in Canada…so it’s very likely Veerappen will be promoted for this. That is what Canada is like now. The Liberals had control for decades. There is a clear separation of Christian church and state. There is no separation of Islam church and state because Islam is not a religion, it is a militaristic ideology that has Jihad as its battle strategy.I would question why there is even a Rabbi and other holy leaders even on staff of a police department? That’s effen nuts…. no matter how hard they try they will never make multi culturalism work.

Harvey
Harvey
10 years ago

(Re: police officer Ricky Veerappan)
Address all correspondence to:
Police Chief Eric Jolliffe
York Regional Police
17250 Yonge Street
Newmarket, Ontario Canada
L3Y-4W5
1-866-876-5423
Email: [email protected] (This email is monitored during business hours and is for non-emergencies only)

rosenberg
rosenberg
10 years ago

. SHAME ON THE CANADIAN POLICE. WHERE ARE THE RABBIS WITH BATZIM. I am not afraid to speak out, I AM NOT A COWARD. I HAVE SERVED AS A POLICE CHAPLAIN FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS AND NOW HAVE RANK OF CAPTAIN. Pamela Geller was invited by me to speak in my synagogue and I did not back down when threatened. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG

Ripley
Ripley
10 years ago

Meanwhile, another YRP chaplain, Abdul Hai Patel, attends a conference held by the Muslim World League (widely recognized for its support to terror groups) in KSA. Any chance of Patel losing his job?
http://www.canadiancouncilofimams.com/2012/11/council-imams-return-from-hajj/
Patel, although he has an impeccably interfaithily moderate public persona, is of course in the thick of the Islamist movement in Canada,

Gary
Gary
10 years ago

The new Bigotry of Lowered-expectation for muslims because Veerappen presupposes that muslims are prone to violence and terrorism. Thus, since jews in canada aren’t plotting to bomb Via trains or use truck-bombs like the Toronto-18 muslim terrorist tried, Veerappen joined in the jew-hatred by these muslims group and knew it was safer to attack the anti-jihad/Human Rights speaker rather than tell the muslims to counter pam’s message with their Mosque meeting and prove pam wrong.
But alas, the islamofascists in canada don’t dare try to use a quran to prove the quran doesn’t have hatred in it.
Since Ricky Veerappan now exposed himself as siding with CAIR and the other pro-hamas thugs in canada, lets see how he likes it whe he tries to enter the USA and gets BANNED for his pro-Jihad jew-hatred.
BTW, he won’t lose his job because when this crap happens from minority members they get transfered to another job and get a raise.

cizi
cizi
10 years ago

Rabbi Rosenberg,
Perhaps you can get in touch with Mr.Frank Scarpitti, Chair of the York Region Police Services Board, or its Executive Director Mafalda Avolino (tel:905-830-0303 ext.7906) to advise them about your role as a long-serving Rabbi Chaplain who successfully hosted Pamela Geller without being threatened with dismissal from the position. They are the body to which the police department reports and who are ultimately responsible to assess its performance.
Certainly it is bizarre as a personnel matter that the police department superior could threaten Rabbi Kaplan for activities that are off hours…his position is said to be volunteer,and thus certainly part-time…it’s ridiculous that his superior officer felt himself authorized to dictate his off-the job activities.

Coffey3C
Coffey3C
10 years ago

I’m sorry. I saw the editorial in the Ottawa Citizen, but how did we confirm that Ricky is a Muslim?
Has anyone seen a contact with the Rabbi? I would think that he might reconsider. If all the inspector said was that they would reconsider his volunteer position, I find it hard to believe that the Rabbi would not feel more empowered at this point. I have to wonder if there was a more visceral threat.

Coffey3C
Coffey3C
10 years ago

Rabbi Kaplan:
Given the extent of the condemnation regarding the inspector’s implied threat, is it in any way likely that it might be carried out? I know that there is much more at stake than I can be aware of, and I hope that there were no other threats made; but, even thought this event was rescheduled, I can’t begin to tell you how much I would hope that you would reconsider issuing another invitation.
The safety of yourself, and of your community is very important – just as with the Great Neck Synagogue. But… Where are we, Rabbi, when despite all the times people say ‘Never again,’ when confronted by thuggery, they do it again? Are we really safer if we capitulate to the actions of one man, or one local community group, when it can still be managed; or, are we just waiting till the threats are being carried out?
They can’t keep anyone you are helping from talking with any Rabbi they might choose to consult, regardless of the chaplain position.
I’m sad, I’m sickened, and I just don’t understand, unless another threat was made.
Be safe,
CoffeyC

Hamid
Hamid
10 years ago

“…it’s ridiculous that his superior officer felt himself authorized to dictate his off-the job activities….”
Though it’s perfectly understandable. If Pamela Geller was going to give a discourse on how the Chinese kill, maim and maltrwat ethnic Tibetans when they get in the way, Veerapan would not have any issues. The cop who threatened the rabbi is a muslim. Therefore to him he’s just being a more devoted muslim, getting brownie points from allah – by hindering anybody who might conceivably threaten his ideology is just doing dawa.
The issue of course is that he’s abusing the power that is invested in him by a secular state – at the taxpayers’ expense.

martin potashner
martin potashner
10 years ago

try and reach anyone at that police dept I figured that cop must have been a muslim and we in the west our stinking politicians want to turn Americas into the middle east

Kufar Dawg
Kufar Dawg
10 years ago

It’s not just the middle east, Indonesia, Pakistain, Somalia, Malaysia all have enforced islamic blasphemy and heresy laws and Bangladesh isn’t far behind, if at all. And let’s not forget the Canadian citizen who has been arrested, handcuffed and jailed twice for publicly criticising jihad in Canada:
http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/03/23/oh-canada-follow-up-on-the-man-who-was-arrested-in-toronto-for-peacefully-protesting-islam/

Sarai
Sarai
10 years ago

This is further proof that when muslims, as in the case of this policeman, come to our non-muslim countries they are so indoctrinated in their suppressive (and often violently enforced) thinking that they see no issue on our part when trying to override our laws and customs with their own. He was merely trying to enforce the way things would have happened in his own country and it’s not acceptable. This is the big danger in muslim immigration, and exactly the thrust of what Pamela so bravely tries to point out, to much derision against her I might add.

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