A Rabbi, A Conservative and a Community Outreach Officer Walk into a Bar…
… the community outreach officer tells the conservative bitch to shut up, or the rabbi gets it
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.
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.
They expressed concern about an upcoming talk to be given by Pamela Geller, a vocal critic of radical Islam…
When the York Regional Police Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Bureau show up thwacking their truncheons against their palms and saying, “Nice little multifaith advisory committee gig you got going, Rabbi. Shame if anything were to happen to it”, a prudent man gets the message
So the paramilitary arm of the Toronto Star (with apologies to Messrs. Steyn and John O’Sullivan) gets to decide what communities deserve outreach. I would have been much happier if the story ended with Rabbi Kaplan saying, “stick your multi faith advisory committee, I’ll take my freedom over your lousy sinecure every day of the week and twice on Saturday.” However, I can’t blame a guy for flinching when he’s staring down the barrel of a bully. In lieu of the right thing happening, second best is a new location for Pamela Geller’s speech:
Toronto Zionist Centre
780 Marlee Avenue
(Lawrence just west of the Allen Expswy.)
Tickets are $20 for general admission
$36 for reserved VIP seating.
(you can purchase tickets directly from the link above).
Meanwhile, Blazing Cat Fur has an open letter from Salem Mansur:
I am a Muslim, a tenured professor in a prestigious Canadian university, the University of Western Ontario in London. I am appalled that in this day and age we continue to hear regularly how the liberal democratic tradition of Canada and the West is being systematically shredded by institutions sworn to protect it. Free speech is the most fundamental right of a free society; constrain it, strip it, shred it, and then let us not be surprised our society will be turned into a society such as one from where I fled as a young man to find freedom in the West…
Geller herself will be on The Source with Ezra Levant today.
Ontario police forces just a bunch of cowardly scumbags. If any of their members want to prove me wrong then let me hear you telling your leader to eff off.
A rabbi , a conservative and a community outreach worker walk into a bar and see an Imam sitting there. The Imam files a complaint with the human rights commission. The human rights commission then walks in. The bar owner is fined for serving alcohol, is forced to make his waitresses wear hijabs and remove any femininely suggestive visual material from the walls. The bar owner is then demonized in the government funded media (CBC) as a racist and islamaphobe.
Police deny pressuring rabbi to cancel speech by controversial U.S. anti-Islamist blogger Pamela Geller
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/02/pamela-geller-appearance-cancelled/
But if you read the article he was warned