[ April 25, 2024 ]
Remember the sharia cop in Canada who strong-armed a rabbi into cancelling my talk at his shul? You didn't think I was going to just let it go, did you? Inspector Ricky
Veerappan of the York Regional Police force’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Bureau, is currently under investigation for threatening Chabad Rabbi Mendel Kaplan into canceling my speech. I will be giving testimony the second week of August.
DEFENDING THE WEST
Fighting back! Police intimidation in Canada
Exclusive: Pamela Geller declares, 'This outrageous double standard has to end'When a policeman uses the full force of the state to enforce the
Shariah at the cost of our constitutionally protected inalienable
rights, the West is in trouble. But that’s what happened last May in
Canada, when I was scheduled to speak at the Chabad Flamingo Synagogue
in Thornhill, right outside of Toronto’s city limits. Two of York
Regional Police’s “finest,” Chief Eric Jolliffe and Inspector Ricky
Veerappan of the force’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Bureau, threatened Chabad Rabbi Mendel Kaplan into canceling my speech.Story continues below advertisementOther Canadians wouldn’t stand for this, and my speech went on as
scheduled in another venue. And now I have even more good news. The
intrepid Canadian freedom fighter Ezra Levant was determined not to let
this police intimidation stand. He encouraged me to file a
complaint, and now our complaint against Inspector Veerappan has been
accepted for investigation. Our complaint against Chief Joliffe has been
forwarded to the York Regional Police Services Board for further
consideration – since he is chief of police, there are extra procedures
to go through.Veerappan richly deserves to be investigated for his persuasion of
Rabbi Kaplan, who serves as a chaplain for the York Regional Police.
Back in May, he announced that if Kaplan hosted my speech as planned,
“then we’d have to reassess our relation with (Kaplan). 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.”Values? The “stuff” that I speak about includes gender apartheid,
creed apartheid, Islamic Jew-hatred and honor killing. That runs
contrary to their values? What exactly are their values? Imposing
Shariah? Because that’s exactly what they’re doing. My value is life.
What’s theirs?The Ottawa Citizen said
in an editorial, “The York Regional Police department should be
ashamed. … Whether the job threat was real, and whether anyone agrees or
not with Geller’s views, Veerappan’s conduct is appalling. Canadians
expect police to respect Charter provisions protecting freedom of
speech. They are not supposed to act as censors at the behest of a
particular community.”And the incomparable Mark Steyn wrote:
“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.”Steyn also pointed out the double standard:
“Pamela Geller, tireless campaigner against Islamic imperialism (and a
lady I had the honor of being introduced by at CPAC a few years back),
was scheduled to give a speech at a Toronto synagogue on May 13. Miss
Geller is not a convicted terrorist or terrorism-supporter or someone
who argues for the execution of all homosexuals. If she were, she could
speak at any Canadian venue with impunity.”It’s true: The superb Canadian blog, Blazing Cat Fur, reported
at the time that my talk was canceled that “Imam Abdul Hai Patel, is a
chaplain with the York Regional Police. Patel, along with other members
of the Canadian Council of Imams in 2012, attended a conference in Saudi
Arabia sponsored by the Muslim World League.
The Muslim World League, as detailed below, has a long and sordid
association with terrorists. Do note well that the Muslim World League
operates WAMY – the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. WAMY was stripped of
status as a Canadian charity last year after it was discovered to have
funded terrorists.”And the convicted terrorist and airline hijacker Leila Khaled, who is
known as the “poster girl of Palestinian militancy,” spoke via Skype in
early June at the University of British Columbia. Khaled has been
convicted of terrorism for participating in airline hijackings for the
Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist group.
She spoke at a conference hosted by a group supporting the Palestinian
jihad.This outrageous double standard has to end. It is good
that Veerappan is going to be investigated. Free people must not stand
idly by while our most basic, fundamental freedoms are silently seized
and destroyed.
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17 Comments
10 years ago
Pushback against imams who instigate, perpetuate and inflame hatred of Jews, Israel and the west is needed. No more imam imports from Saudi Arabia or anywhere the evil screed of islam is mainstream. I have Israels back even though our President (INO) does not. They removed the very nasty Morsi. We need the removal of the equally odious Obama.
10 years ago
Bravo Pamela (and Ezra Levant)!
Now we shall see if these “accommodating” Canadians have the cojones to stand up to police thuggery, or if they simply want to paper over the degree of their capitulation to police thuggery in service to shariah law.
10 years ago
Well done Pamela, keep up the good work.
10 years ago
You have just made my entire month never mind my day with this posting, Pamela!! Bravo!!! I am not sure of the outcome of all this but balls you have and good for you!!!
10 years ago
You one tough mama grizzly. Glad you’re on our side.
10 years ago
… Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau.
Name ONE non-Western country that has one of these. Sick.
10 years ago
Good on ya girl (and Ezra Levant). @ John Kerry…..hear hear. Couldn’t agree with you more!!!
10 years ago
Good on you! The best defence is offence!
10 years ago
Great to hear this news but nothing concrete will come of this. Veerappen will keep his job regardless of the findings because that’s the way things go in the union shops of Canada. He has to have numerous black marks before dismissal or even reprimands. Just the police investigating the police…
10 years ago
So happy for you Mrs Geller. The intrepid Canadian freedom fighter Ezra Levant, yes he is. Just love this man for his honest work!
10 years ago
Pamela Geller spoke in my shul in Edison NJ and was extremely well received. SHE WAS WELL SPOKEN AND VERY INTELLIGENT.. What PAMELA AND I SHOULD DO is find Muslims that will join with Jews to fight the POLISH GOVERNMNET WHICH HAS FORBIDDEN SLAUGHTERING ACCORDING TO KOSHER PRACTICE. Let us go to POLAND AND PROTEST. RABBI DR. BERNHARD ROSENBERG
10 years ago
Thank Goodness you will be testifying in August. And thanks to Ezra Levant as well. You should have heard him today on SunTV going after President Obama and his lying idiocy about the pipeline. I am sure SunTV which has Robert Spencer on weekly will keep everyone apprised and up to date on the goings on regarding Little Ricky. This will no doubt help in your ongoing battle with Theresa May and the UK. Keep fighting, you will win. I never doubted that you would “battle” for a minute.
10 years ago
Good for you Pamela! There are no non-combatants in the fight for freedom of speech.
10 years ago
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/05/03/sharia-1-free-speech-0-york-regional-police-indulge-in-censorship/
The behaviour of a Muslim officer with the York Regional Police has, it seems, not only embarrassed the department, but also offended at least some in the Muslim community.
YRP Insp. Ricky Veerappan, who’s in charge of the force’s so-called diversity, equity and inclusion bureau (who dreams up this ridiculous agencies and their self-righteous titles?) apparently didn’t like the idea of a department chaplain, Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, inviting controversial American commentator Pamela Geller to address a local synagogue.
10 years ago
Veerappan shouldn’t have to be investigated at all – in a sane world, ISLAM would have been investigated at least once by now, and once should have been all it took to collate all the massive reams of evidence which prove it is not a “religion” (at all, much less one “of peace”) nor is it a “race” (at all, much less one of “Poor, Oppressed, People Of Colour”)!
Obviously, from all the evidence garnered from only their own most official, muslim-vetted islamsic sources, islam is ONLY an ancient, ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate, and the only “religious” part in it, is where they say:
“God told us to commit these crimes!”
(Capisce?)!
😉
We should long ago already have simply BANNED ISLAM – because everything the moslems pretend to consider “holy” is already a crime! Veerappan and his ilk should have never been allowed to ‘police’ the rest of us in the first place, because they should all have been deported or put in jail long ago!
10 years ago
I think most muslims in the west are holding these positions to become control freaks. Our society should not be tolerating these people, they are against freedom. If they don’t like it here they can go back and enjoy the freedom their country provide them.
10 years ago
Congratulations, Pamela and all people working to hold people accountable! As it says, “tt is good that Veerappan is going to be investigated. Free people must not stand idly by while our most basic, fundamental freedoms are silently seized and destroyed.”
