News VIDEO: “Terrorists Can Speak in Canada, Pamela Geller Can’t”

Terrorists Can Speak in Canada, Pamela Geller Can’t | Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Magazine
Every Western country is falling under the same mandate that conflates national security with not offending Muslims.

The Canadian reality is still different than the American reality.
And the Canadian reality is different than the European reality. But the gaps between the three are shrinking.

York Regional Police threatened to remove a rabbi as one
of the force’s chaplains if he hosted a controversial anti-Islamist
speaker at his Thornhill synagogue.

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Insp. Ricky Veerappan, of the force’s diversity, equity and inclusion
bureau, confirmed he and officers from the service’s hate crimes unit
met with Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue on
Tuesday.

Veerappan said he told Kaplan that Geller’s speech “would not be
endorsed by York Regional Police” and that the rabbi’s role as a force
chaplain would be thrown into question if he were to permit the event.

“If he did (host Geller), then we’d have to reassess our relationship
with (Kaplan),” Veerappan said. “We serve the needs of the entire
community. Some of the stuff that Ms. Geller speaks about runs contrary
to the values of York Regional Police and the work we do in engaging our
communities.”

Veerappan said a member of York Region’s Muslim community, whom he
wouldn’t identify, brought Geller’s scheduled talk to the attention of
police.

In March, the University of Toronto hosted controversial Muslim
lecturer Tariq Ramadan, who has also spoken in Toronto at the annual
Islamic faith conference, Reviving the Islamic Spirit. In October,
Pakistani politician Imran Khan, a controversial critic of the U.S. war
on terror, spoke in Brampton. Leila Khaled, a Palestinian revolutionary
from the 1970s, is set speak at University of British Columbia on May 4.

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The rules are fairly straightforward. Muslims are allowed to do
anything they like because interfering with them might rile them up. And
non-Muslims are only allowed to praise Islam because otherwise Muslims
might get riled up.

There is no standard of behavior. Only a security concept that stakes
everything on not riling Muslims up.  And that means free speech goes
by the wayside.

Obama officials have engaged in similar efforts to silence and even
imprison those who burned Korans or made movies offensive to Muslims.
Every Western country is falling under the same mandate that conflates
national security with not offending Muslims.

In the name of that inoffensiveness, Muslim speakers who promote
terrorism are tolerated in order not to offend the Muslims who might
otherwise turn to terrorism. And non-Muslims who oppose terrorism are
silenced because if they speak, Muslims might turn to terrorism.

This is the upside down world that appeasement has given us where black is white and good is evil.

Blazing Cat Fur has Salim Mansur’s letter which makes the same point……(read the rest here)